This is an opinion editorial by Shawn Amick — all thoughts and recommendations are entirely the authors and not an official Bitcoin Magazine endorsement. Cryptotag recently allowed me to test one of their latest products, Odin, which is a unique product that means to secure self-custodied keys with a set of titanium, laser-etched hexagons that … Read more
The below is a full, free article from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine’s premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now. The purpose of this release in specific will be twofold; the first will be … Read more
Get the full book now in Bitcoin Magazine’s store. This article is part of a series of adapted excerpts from “Bitcoin Is Venice” by Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers, which is available for purchase on Bitcoin Magazine’s store now. You can find the other articles in the series here. “The wealth that ultimately sustains any … Read more
Sam Abbassi is Founder and CEO of Hoseki, the proof-of-assets Bitcoin service. De Soto Dreams Of Electric Money Countries in the Global South are not poor because of culture, collective IQ, a lack of entrepreneurial spirit or market orientation; they are poor because they lack formal frameworks around property rights. Hernando de Soto discusses these … Read more
This is an opinion editorial by Casey Carrillo, associate editor at Bitcoin Magazine. Bitcoiners have a certain penchant for taking things to the extreme. When it comes to privacy, I’ve never witnessed a group of people with a bigger vendetta against sharing information. If we’re talking about lifestyle, many Bitcoiners have entirely removed seed oils … Read more
Stripe, one of the largest payment processors in the world, just announced businesses will be able to convert any amount of payments into bitcoin. The functionality is available via a new app from Bitcoin Lightning Network infrastructure provider, OpenNode, on Stripe’s new app marketplace. Stripe simultaneously announced the launch of its app marketplace which allows … Read more
The Giving Block is partnering with Shift4 for a nonprofit donation campaign with the Miami Impact Index Fund. The campaign is called Caring With Crypto, and the CEO of Shift 4 will be personally matching the first $10 million in cryptocurrency donations. The fund allows donors to donate to all participating nonprofits in a single … Read more
CoinsPaid recently surveyed respondents from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia on their outlook of companies accepting bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Over 50% of Brazilians, 38% of Argentinians, and 35% of Colombians view currencies like bitcoin being accepted by companies positively or think it could be the future of money. After the Brazilian Senate passed a regulatory bill … Read more
Chris Stewart is the CEO and cofounder of Suredbits, a bitcoin-settled derivatives platform. Discreet log contracts (DLCs) are a way to do peer-to-peer betting directly on Bitcoin. You can make these contracts contingent on an oracle’s attestation about a real-world event. This real-world event could be the winner of a presidential election, the BTC/USD price … Read more
As of the date of this writing, block 737,000, Bitcoin is almost two-thirds into its 366th difficulty epoch. A difficulty epoch is a period in which 2,016 blocks are added to Bitcoin’s ledger, ideally in 20,160 minutes, or 14 days. If the epoch ends in less time, the network adjusts the difficulty of successfully mining … Read more