Posts by timi:

Valuing Bitcoin Using Credit Default Swaps With Greg Foss

In this episode of “Fed Watch,” Greg Foss discussed credit default swaps, central banks and the futures of debt and bitcoin. Watch This Episode On YouTube Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Fed Watch” podcast, Christian Keroles and Ansel Lindner spoke with ​Greg Foss, who “has […]

Russia Reportedly Plans To Track Bitcoin-To-Fiat Sales

According to local news reports, a Russian financial monitoring service will be tracking bitcoin-to-fiat transactions. Authorities in Russia are planning to track transactions involving the exchange of bitcoin for rubles, according to a report from the local news agency Regnum. Per the report, the country’s deputy head of Moscow’s financial monitoring service Rosfinmonitoring, Herman Neglyad, […]

Bitcoin Optech #141: Signature Delegation And Taproot Activism

This week’s Bitcoin Optech newsletter covers signature delegation, Taproot’s effect on Bitcoin’s resistance to quantum cryptography and more The Bitcoin Optech newsletter provides readers with a top-level summary of the most important technical news happening in Bitcoin, along with resources that help them learn more. To help our readers stay up-to-date with Bitcoin, we’re republishing […]

Skrill wallet expands crypto services to the U.S.

The specialized payments platform announced today that its Skrill digital wallet has expanded its cryptocurrency offering to the U.S. The expansion fulfills a partnership with Coinbase, a digital currency and cryptocurrency exchange platform. With the deal, Skrill will receive a new cryptocurrency white label solution provided by Coinbase, enabling the wallet to expand its services […]

Will Ethereum Moving To PoS Spark Another Ugly Split In Bitcoin?

Pierre Rochard, a Bitcoin strategist at Kraken and co-founder at Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, sparked an interesting debate on Twitter on a potential tiff emerging in the Bitcoin community. According to Rochard, Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) may trigger a potential future conflict in the Bitcoin community. “When Ethereum switches from proof-of-work mining […]

Unmarshal Announces Polkastarter IDO And Frontier Partnership

Unmarshal, multichain DeFi Data Network, has made the news for two important reasons. Firstly, the whitelist for Polkastarter IDO is now open, and second, their strategic partnership with Frontier, a chain agnostic DeFi aggregation layer.  Unmarshal recently closed its funding round and raised $2.6 Million backed by industry big-wigs such as Woodstock, Black Edge, GBV, […]

Vertis Aviation accepts 4 cryptocurrencies for payment

Based in Switzerland, Vertis Aviation now accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether and USDC as payment for all its services. This has become possible due to a partnership with London-based digital assets trader GlobalBlock.  Vertis Aviation announced the news on the Business Airport International web platform. The company stated that any of the 4 cryptocurrencies could be used in […]

Delchain boosts the Aleph.im network

Leading digital asset financial services provider Delchain Limited, has just announced that it has launched a core channel node on the aleph.im network. As well as validating the aleph.im network this will hasten full decentralisation of the entire DeFi ecosystem.  Traditional finance is eyeing the DeFi space keenly and banks especially are looking to connect with infrastructure providers in order to enhance their […]