Are Millennials and Gen Zers (post-millennials) driving the growth in adoption of cryptocurrencies? A growing amount of recent research suggests that the overall increase in society’s acceptance of the technology is exponential and is concentrated among the youngest cohort of the population. If you’ve been to cryptocurrency conventions or meetups, you’ll be aware that this Read more…
So you wanna be a Bitcoin whale? The amount of BTC you need to influence the markets in the future could be drastically smaller than today. A Bitcoin Whale Moves $1Bn (94,504 BTC) 10 days ago, a Bitcoin whale (yes, the mother of all Bitcoin whales) moved $1 billion of BTC in just one transaction. Read more…
Cryptocurrency trading platform Bakkt has announced that its physically-delivered bitcoin futures will be informally open to customers next month. On August 28, 2019, the platform took to Twitter to announce that Bakkt Warehouse, its qualified custodian arm, would begin providing storage services for customers on September 6, 2019, in anticipation of its forthcoming daily and Read more…
The Lightning Network has been subject to controversy since it’s rise to prominence in 2016. Championed as BTC’s solution to scaling, thousands of people in the Bitcoin community voiced their opinions on how it wouldn’t work. Now, nearly a year and a half later, it is still receiving criticism regarding its centralization, routing issues, and Read more…
New Survey Hints At Wide Crypto Adoption To most, crypto asset adoption hasn’t happened yet. You see, the aggregate value of all Bitcoin in circulation remains under $200 billion — making it smaller than dozens of companies in the Fortune 500. And, more interestingly, cryptocurrencies remain seemingly nothing but a fad in the eyes of Read more…
From Cash to Satoshi’s Vision, to Private, to Gold, to Atom and to Adult, the prefix Bitcoin has been used to depict and more commercially, sell and market a host of cryptocurrencies. Currently, there are 38 among the 2186 coins listed on CoinMarketCap, that sport the name “Bitcoin” as their introductory sell. This excludes the Read more…
Elon Musk, the face of Tesla and SpaceX, has always been a prominent figure in the cryptocurrency space. The founder of The Boring Company has publicly expressed his opinions on Bitcoin [BTC] and other cryptocurrencies in the market on several occasions. Musk also revealed that he held 0.25 BTC, which was sent by a friend, […]
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It’s all about Satoshi Nakamoto. The brains behind the world’s most valuable coin in Bitcoin. Exchanging hands at $5,423 and with a daily trade volume of $19,123 million while commanding a market cap of $95,792 million, everybody—even governments and detectives, but more so the blockchain and Bitcoin community want to know who the genius was. Read more…
It’s been over a year since the scaling upgrade known as segregated witness, or SegWit, was activated on the bitcoin network. Even so, only an estimated 36 percent of all bitcoin transactions are actually using it. Why the minimal adoption rate? It’s largely because, like any backward-compatible upgrade (otherwise called a soft fork), SegWit ensures participants in the Read more…
In an informative, entertaining, comical, and bitterly poignant tweet yesterday, What Bitcoin Did podcast host Peter McCormack explains how he amassed–and lost–his crypto fortune over the last two years. From $32K to Millionaire and Back He starts the Twitter post saying: So here is a thread on how I turned $32,000 into $1.2m and back to Read more…