This is the sixth installment of bitcoiner Giacomo Zucco’s series “Discovering Bitcoin: A Brief Overview From Cavemen to the Lightning Network.” Read the Introduction to his series, Discovering Bitcoin Part 1: About Time, Discovering Bitcoin Part 2: About People, Discovering…
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The Fed Just Pumped $278 Billion Into the U.S. Economy: Here’s How
Last week, the Federal Reserve leveraged one of its tools for tinkering with U.S. financial markets — one that it hasn’t used since the Great Recession. The New York branch of America’s central bank financed some $278 billion worth of…
Bitcoin Magazine Week in Review
Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review brings you the most critical, interesting and popular news stories affecting Bitcoin this week. “Discovering Bitcoin” Understanding Bitcoin is something that thousands (if not millions) of people try to do every year. With so many…
CME Group to Offer Options on Bitcoin Futures in Q1 2020
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group plans to add options to its bitcoin futures contracts at the beginning of 2020. In an official announcement made on September 20, 2019, the company, which launched its first futures product in 2017, said…
Op Ed: Hear Me Out … In a Post-Area 51 World, Bitcoin Could Be Our Best Hope for Alien Interaction
Picture this: It’s a blistering, dry morning in the middle of the Nevada desert. Thousands of people line up, arms outstretched, ready to make their full-fledged sprint into the notorious, yet unknown U.S. Air Force facility known as Area 51…
Video Interview: Francis Pouliot on Liquid Network, Bitcoin Privacy
On the first day of the 2019 Baltic Honeybadger conference, prominent bitcoiner and Bull Bitcoin CEO Francis Pouliot spoke with Bitcoin Magazine just a few hours after Bull Bitcoin announced it would be joining Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain federation. “The first…
Zap’s Olympus Features Fiat-to-Lightning On-Ramp With Direct Wallet Deposits
Zap wallet will soon let you buy bitcoin in the app and deposit the sats directly into your Lightning wallet after each buy. “If you want, you can buy bitcoin inside of Zap with a bank account, debit card, Zelle,…
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Range-Bound Market Tests Macro Milestones
Summary: Amid an otherwise uneventful market structure, bitcoin seems to be making a consolidation pattern known as a “head and shoulders bottom.” The pattern is still forming and is not yet actionable, but if it manages to break to the…
Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous and Tor Users Are Forgetting This
Bitcoin is not an anonymous payment network. However, in practice, many people still appear to be forgetting this, even the most privacy-minded. A research paper from the University of Qatar reminds us that Bitcoin alone isn’t private. In fact, it…
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Deep Shakeout Rallies Off Strong Support
Summary: A deep test of support pushed the bitcoin market down $600 over the course of an hour. Ultimately, after testing weekly support, the market managed to retrace the entire drop and push a new high. At the moment, we are…