Select altcoins continue to hit new yearly highs, while a bull flag on Bitcoin suggests traders are preparing for a run at $50,000. Growing institutional interest in Bitcoin (BTC) helped elevate the top cryptocurrency to a new record high on Feb. 9 and led to a total market cap value higher than the market cap […]

Digital and journalistic rights are at stake in the trial for Julian Assange’s extradition, say 24 major advocacy groups. A coalition of 24 press freedom, civil rights and internet defense groups have signed a letter asking Biden to leave Wikileaks founder Julian Assange alone. A Monday letter signed by the ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom […]

Open interest on Litecoin futures hit a record $584 million, a signal that institutional investors like Bitwise and Grayscale Investments are interested in the altcoin. Litecoin (LTC) might be 60% below its December 2017 all-time high at $420, but that hasn’t stopped its futures contracts open interest from reaching a record $584 million. This makes […]

Nick Boles, who served as a Member of Parliament from 2010 to 2019, believes the world would be better off without Bitcoin. Nick Boles, a former Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford from 2010 to 2019, took to Twitter Tuesday to criticize Bitcoin over its negative environmental impact. He retweeted a post from BBC […]

A state-affiliate cybersecurity expert warned about hackers exploiting the Russian government’s IT facilities to mine cryptocurrencies. The deputy director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents believes such threat actors have been very active in recent times. Global Cybersecurity Landscape Remains ‘Tense’ According to TASS, Nikolai Murashov pointed out that hackers managed to inject […]

We’ve made it. Kind of. A paper regarding decentralized finance—which surprisingly included the term “DeFi”— was recently published to the website of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, a branch of the United States’ central bank. Fabian Schär, a professor at the University of Basel who focuses on blockchain and DeFi technologies, wrote the paper. He […]

Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Overcast Libsyn This week for the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” host Christian Keroles sat down with CEO of Quontic Bank Steven Schnall to discuss Quontic’s recent move to offer a bitcoin-back debit card. The bitcoin-back debit card offer users 1.5 percent cash back on their purchases in the form […]

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“Physical Bitcoins are a rarity, they’re sort of like Picasso and Van Gogh paintings were back in those days. Nobody realized how rare they were.” Since 2011, a group of enthusiasts and collectors have been obsessed with the physical manifestation of Bitcoin. On the face of it, physical Bitcoin seems like a contradiction to the […]

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