Curv, an institutional crypto asset custody provider, today announced that global investment firm Franklin Templeton and fintech-focused venture capital firm Illuminante Financial Management have joined its Series A funding round — which already included CommerzVentures, Coinbase, Digital Currency Group, Team8…
Category: Crypto Trends
Nigerian Protest Group Finds Sovereign Lifeline In Bitcoin
This article also appeared in our Down The Rabbit Hole newsletter. If you want our news and analysis straight to your inbox, make sure you subscribe now! Since mid-October, protestors across Nigeria have been demonstrating daily to bring attention to…
Introducing The Best Of Bitcoin Magazine
Since 2012, Bitcoin Magazine has been providing insight, analysis and thought leadership about the Bitcoin space — the first publication of any kind to commit to doing so. Thanks to some prescience about how truly revolutionary this technology would prove to…
Video: The Fed Considers CBDCs And Bretton Woods 2.0
Where to listen: Apple Spotify Google Overcast YouTube Libsyn The IMF panel on cross-border payments was a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) discussion in disguise, headlined by Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve. The CBDC narrative is the central…
PayPal Introduces Ability To Buy, Sell And Hold Bitcoin
Major online payments company PayPal today announced the launch of a service that will allow its customers to buy, sell and hold bitcoin, along with other select cryptocurrencies, directly from their PayPal accounts. This could create a brand new on-ramp…
The Rush To Own India’s Bitcoin Market Is Back On
While the volume and scale may not be huge by current industry standards, venture capital inflows into Indian Bitcoin companies have been hard not to notice this year. Long considered an obviously ripe market for Bitcoin adoption, the regulatory and…
Video: Fresh Competition Is Shaping The Bitcoin Mining Hardware And Pool Landscape
Always a sector to watch, the Bitcoin mining space is host to several narratives that are worth a closer look today, as fresh capital and competition enter the market. Among these are the geographic distribution of hash power, mining hardware…
Introducing CBPI: A New Way To Measure Bitcoin Network Electrical Consumption
There have been many claims in recent years that bitcoin and the miners securing the network via SHA-256 proof of work use an unconscionable amount of energy. But what data are these claims based on, are the source calculations using…
The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado: Bitcoin Core 0.21 Supports Tor V3
On this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss one of the biggest releases in Bitcoin’s history: Bitcoin Core 0.21. Specifically, they dive into how this release will add support for Tor V3 addresses, an important development…
New Civil Liberties Alliance Challenges IRS Collection Of Private Crypto Investment Data
If you’re a bitcoin trader or investor, you’ve probably traded on multiple cryptocurrency exchanges and, for the most part, trusted that those exchanges are keeping your data secure from unlawful data collection just like a bank or credit card provider…
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