Peter Chawaga

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The United Nations has launched a probe into 35 cyber attacks linked to North Korea, including cryptocurrency exchange hacks and “cryptojacking.”
Business

Paxful: Hacked User Data Offer Is “Fake”

Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has invested $250 million dollars into bitcoin, accumulating about 0.1 percent of the total supply.
Business

MicroStrategy Is Paying Its Board Of Directors In Bitcoin

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Cryptograffiti Launches Bitcoin Micropayment Plugin For DJs And Music Producers

Cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin has pledged to donate up to 1,000 BTC to developers of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV.
Business

Square Crypto Grants $100,000 To Mempool.Space

Regulation - Coinbase Renews Money Transmitter License in Wyoming
Business

Coinbase Reports $1.8 Billion In Revenue, 6.1 Million Active Users For Q1

A forthcoming Bitcoin Improvement Proposal could greatly reduce the bandwidth required to run a full node.
Business

@NVK Launches PaysBitcoin.org To Track Companies Offering BTC Compensation

Payments - Breez Wants to Make the Lightning Network More User Friendly
Business

Breez, Voltage Partner To Offer Lightning Nodes To Podcasters

An importer of cryptocurrency mining gear is reportedly under investigation for dodging $1.2 million in Russian customs fees.
Business

Former Chainalysis CTO Selected To Lead FinCEN, Signaling New Bitcoin Regulations

Payments - Bitfury Is Implementing Lightning Into Crypto Payment Platform Paytomat
Business

Azteco Now Offering Lightning Network Vouchers

Strike Launches Public Beta
Business

Strike Launches In El Salvador

Brink, a nonprofit founded by John Newbery and Mike Schmidt, will offer fellowship and support to Bitcoin and Bitcoin-adjacent developers.
Business

Brink Awards Three Bitcoin Development Grants

Privacy & security - Blockstream Open Sources Development of Its Proof of Reserves Tool
Business

Blockstream Launches Bitcoin Mining Hash Rate Token

Bitcoin Price Analysis
Markets

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood On Bitcoin: "$1 Trillion Is Nothing"

New Zealand’s Māori haven’t held economic sovereignty in the past or today. But does Bitcoin offer a chance to change the future?
Business

New Zealand Retirement Fund Invests In Bitcoin

Payments - Bitcoin Accepted as Payment Option by Major US Electronics Company
Business

Tesla Now Accepting Bitcoin As Payment

Investing - Bitcoin Surges Above $5
Markets

First Bitcoin ETF Approved In Latin America

Bitcoin Price Is Up
Markets

Bitcoin Market Cap Breaks $1 Trillion As BTC Price Surges Again

A super PAC established for 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, an outspoken proponent of bitcoin, accepts Lightning Network donations.
Technical

OKCoin Provides Grant To Lightning Developer Antoine Riard

The Human Rights Foundation has launched a fund to support development that makes Bitcoin more private. To start, $50,000 will go to the developer of CoinSwap.
Technical

Human Rights Foundation Announces $70,000 In Bitcoin Development Grants

The cryptocurrency exchange says a ban of users in Hong Kong, Bermuda and the Seychelles is to avoid conflict of interest with its operating company.
Markets

BitMEX Operator Continues Support Of Bitcoin Core Maintainer Fanquake With $100,000 Grant

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Technical

FastBitcoins Gifting Customers 50 Percent Of On-Chain Transaction Fees For Using Lightning

Bitcoin Mining in Africa: What Can Be Done to Encourage Mining?
Business

Bitcoin Mining Group Luxor Technologies Announces Pre-Seed Fundraising

Bitcoin Price Analysis
Culture

What Pushed Bitcoin Past All-Time Price Highs This Week (And What’s Next)?

Lessons from some of the worst bitcoin scams to have hit the African continent — scams that have slowed the adoption rate for bitcoin in Africa.
Culture

Acknowledging BTC Sovereignty, Nigeria Becomes Bellwether For Hyperbitcoinization

By comparing bitcoin’s available for trade vs. traditional markets, it’s apparent that the digital asset is much more mature than many think.
Markets

Swan Bitcoin Launches Service For High-Net-Worth Clients And Institutions

The new free wallet service from Casa is built on its premium security technology while offering private key management education and encrypted recovery phrase storage.
Markets

Bitcoin Custody Provider Casa Announces $4 Million Raised In Seed Funding

Investing - Gemini Exchange Announces Full Adoption of the SegWit Protocol
Markets

Gemini Launches Interest-Earning Program For Bitcoin

After Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, changed his Twitter bio to “bitcoin,” attention and the price surged.
Culture

After Elon Musk Changes Twitter Bio To “#Bitcoin,” BTC Price Surges

To deliver bitcoin purchases with credit cards and BTC-to-fiat conversions without requiring KYC user data, Edge has partnered with Bity.
Markets

Soteria To Launch Bitcoin-Backed, USD-Pegged Stablecoin

After its head of research expressed optimism, the Bitwise bitcoin ETF proposal has been rejected by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Markets

Coinbase Announces Intention To Go Public With Direct Listing

The latest version of the Blockstream Green bitcoin wallet includes a Tor integration that can be leveraged to obfuscate a user’s IP address.
Business

Blockstream Buys $25 Million Of Bitcoin Mining Hardware From MicroBT

Op-ed - Debunking Bitcoin Myths: "It’s Only for Criminals"
Business

Stop The Bitcoin FUD: Criminal Cryptocurrency Transactions Are Falling

Over 30 percent of Chinese cryptocurrency investors think the bitcoin price will surpass $30,000 in the next 12 months, according to a recent survey.
Markets

CoinShares Offers Institutional On-Ramp With Physically-Backed Bitcoin ETP

Investing - Gemini Exchange Announces Full Adoption of the SegWit Protocol
Technical

Gemini To Launch Bitcoin Rewards Credit Card

The Human Rights Foundation has launched a fund to support development that makes Bitcoin more private. To start, $50,000 will go to the developer of CoinSwap.
Culture

Human Rights Foundation Provides Grants To Specter, Lot49

Blockstream has launched an atomic swap tool for its Liquid Network sidechain, enabling transaction of digital assets between blockchains.
Technical

Blockstream Adds Six Members To Liquid Federation

A report from the Blockchain Transparency Institute indicates that wash trading by cryptocurrency exchanges has dropped significantly this year.
Markets

Bitcoin Magazine’s Guide To Exchange Scaling Support

As waves of investors FOMO into Bitcoin, our FOMOmeter keeps tabs on the most influential new HODLers and their sentiments about the asset.
Culture

The Bitcoin Magazine FOMOmeter

A recent survey commissioned by Blockchain Capital found that Americans are increasingly convinced that Bitcoin is the future.
Culture

Reader Survey: Bitcoin’s 2020 And 2021

FinCEN Files, Bitcoin And Money Laundering
Business

FinCEN Proposes KYC For Withdrawing Cryptocurrency To Private Wallets

A recent survey commissioned by Blockchain Capital found that Americans are increasingly convinced that Bitcoin is the future.
Culture

Blockchain Capital Finds Americans Are Moving Toward Bitcoin Conviction

Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has invested $250 million dollars into bitcoin, accumulating about 0.1 percent of the total supply.
Markets

MicroStrategy Offers $650 Million Of Convertible Notes To Buy More Bitcoin

Cryptocurrency mining software provider Titan today announced Titan Pool, an effort to contribute more Bitcoin mining hash rate from North America.
Business

Titan Announces North American Bitcoin Mining Pool

According to data from Bitstamp, the USD price of 1 BTC has eclipsed its previous all-time high of $19,666 set on December 13, 2017.
Markets

Bitcoin Price Hits All-Time High

To help our readers celebrate Bitcoin Black Friday, we’ve compiled a set of articles on the importance of the Bitcoin circular economy.
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Celebrate Bitcoin Black Friday, Propel The Bitcoin Circular Economy

Bitcoin mining-focused media company HASHR8 has launched a series of insightful reports on the state of the industry from around the world.
Business

HASHR8 Assesses The World Of Bitcoin Mining With Launch Of Index Reports

CasSelle, who led several blockchain-based projects and invested in multiple Bitcoin ventures, has passed away at age 50.
Culture

Bitcoin, Blockchain Entrepreneur Malcolm CasSelle Dies At 50

Wyoming’s Cynthia Lummis is the most outspoken Bitcoin advocate ever elected to the Senate and she’s on a mission to ensure that the technology is protected.
Culture

Cynthia Lummis Is Bringing Bitcoin To The U.S. Senate

Bitcoin has reached its highest-ever market capitalization, the measure of the total supply’s value relative to USD, per publicly-available market data.
Markets

Bitcoin’s Market Cap Hits All-Time High

The peer-to-peer exchange has addressed an issue with Google’s CAPTCHA service that was blocking Chinese bitcoin traders from accessing its website.
Markets

Hodl Hodl Brings Non-Custodial, Bitcoin-Backed Lending Service To U.S.