Venmo is following in the footsteps of its rival, Square’s Cash App, by introducing cryptocurrency trading. Payments app Square made headlines — and dollars — when it integrated Bitcoin trading into its mobile platform back during the crypto bull market of winter 2017. …
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Bitcoin transactions fees in US dollars near all-time high levels
The latest spike in BTC transaction fees comes amid a major decline in the Bitcoin network hash rate. Bitcoin (BTC) transaction fees measured in United States dollars are near 2017 levels amid a massive hash rate drop on the Bitcoin…
Nigeria Money Printing Controvesy: CBN Governor’s Remarks Attacked, Government Denies It Financed Deficit via Money Printing
The fallout sparked by reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) printed over $150 million for states’ funding continued a few days after the allegations were initially made. In the latest twist, the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) vice-chairman…
Bitcoin Sees Historic Levels Of Liquidation Across Multiple Exchanges
After a historic weekend of liquidations, where do the bitcoin price and investor interest currently stand? Late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, a selloff in the spot bitcoin market triggered a cascading number of liquidations across the derivatives market…
Bitcoin: The Separation Of Money And State Animation
This video takes us on an animated journey into Knut Svanholm’s Bitcoin Magazine piece about Bitcoin and the State. In this video, we examine how human societies managed to exceed Dunbar’s number. With the invention of belief in the supernatural…
OKEx Integrates The Bitcoin Lightning Network
OKEx has announced that it has integrated Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, allowing users to send and receive bitcoin in near real-time at almost no cost. OKEx, a world-leading cryptocurrency spot and derivatives exchange, has announced that it has integrated Bitcoin’s Lightning…
How To Establish Mobile Bitcoin Privacy With A Pixel 4a And CalyxOS
This step-by-step guide walks you through how to establish a privacy-enhanced mobile phone for use with KYC-free Bitcoin. This is a step-by-step guide on how to privately purchase a Google Pixel 4a mobile phone, flash it with the privacy-enhancing CalyxOS…
There Are Now Two Taproot Activation Clients, Here’s Why
There are now two different Taproot activation paths embedded in Bitcoin software clients. Here’s what this could mean for the Bitcoin protocol. Taproot, the proposed Bitcoin protocol upgrade for compact and privacy-preserving smart contracts, is getting closer to activation. The…
MakerDAO moves to expand collateral assets and upgrade liquidation engine
The new liquidation engine has been designed to offer Maker’s users greater predictability and security. Decentralized lending and stablecoin protocol MakerDAO has opened governance voting to allow new tokens as collateral. A number of new collateral types have been proposed…
Institutional XRP inflows surge as AUM nearly doubles
Institutional investors have rallied around XRP and other altcoins this past week, with nearly $33 million being injected in XRP investment products. Institutional investors have rallied around XRP this past week, with the assets under management, or AUM, or XRP…