Bitcoin’s technical development is progressing full steam ahead. The leading cryptocurrency’s developer community, growing each year, is hard at work to improve the Bitcoin protocol and everything around it. Some of the bigger projects — Taproot, Stratum V2, OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY and…
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Op Ed: U.S. Cryptocurrency Regulation Faces Uncertainty in 2020
The future of cryptocurrency regulation in the United States remains uncertain. The lack of a clear regulatory framework makes it difficult for market participants to act without fear of reprisal. The guidance issued and actions taken by the U.S. Securities…
Math Research Suggests Six Confirmations Aren’t Really Needed for Bitcoin Transactions
In a recent research paper, European mathematicians Cyril Grunspan and Ricardo Pérez-Marco demonstrated through calculus and game theory that, thanks to the robust network security and relatively high BTC price, small bitcoin transactions may not need the six confirmations typically…
Podcast: Cryptoconomy’s Guy Swann on the Bitcoin Community
“In Bitcoin, some of the best ideas happen when somebody just sits down and really breaks down a concept in writing. The best are articulated in a 15- to 20-minute article.” Guy Swann In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine…
Chainalysis: PlusToken Is Dumping on Huobi OTCs, May Be Eating Into BTC Price
The most devastating cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme in history may be contributing to bitcoin’s 2019 price decline. That’s according to blockchain analytics company Chainalysis, which has been tracking funds from the roughly $3 billion PlusToken scam since the thing blew up…
Podcast: Cryptoeconomy’s Guy Swann on the Bitcoin Community
“In Bitcoin, some of the best ideas happen when somebody just sits down and really breaks down a concept in writing. The best are articulated in a 15- to 20-minute article.” Guy Swann In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine…
Op Ed: Waiting for Bitcoin Spring and the Next Bull Market
The bitcoin market has been full of “Black Swan” incidents in 2019, including Facebook’s launch of Libra in June and, recently, China’s state policy in favor of promoting the development of blockchain technology. After these two incidents, the price of…
BTCPay Server Is Bitcoin’s Open-Source Unicorn
At the beginning of December 2019, Balaji Srinivasan, the former CTO of Coinbase and a co-founder of Coin Center, listed Bitcoin as the most successful unicorn of the 2010s. As the decade ends, the biggest unicorn of the 2010s wasn’t…
Hodl Hodl Launches Exchange API
Hodl Hodl has launched the first part of the exchange’s API today, December 13, 2019. The new API release will allow any website or application to display offers from Hodl Hodl, best known for its peer-to-peer (P2P) structure that allows…
Review: Scorpion Case Is a Hardware Wallet Carrier That Over-Delivers on Protection
With self-sovereignty comes great responsibility. Being your own bank can be scary. After all, there’s a reason banks became a feature of modern society: they control the custody of assets, assume the risk of these assets and insure them for…