Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is reportedly planning to jump on the DeFi bandwagon. There's a twist, however: Square is attempting to build its DeFi platform on the BTC blockchain.
Double spends do not necessarily make for a problem, as some of the quoted “experts” have pointed out, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.
Africrypt was a digital currency investment company targeting the rich and celebrities, until founders Raees and Ameer Cajee claimed earlier this year to be hacked and lost all the investors’ money.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) pointed to the recent volatility in the BTC price as a stark reminder that digital currencies aren’t a good store of value.
A Swiss bank UBS survey asked central banks around the world their thoughts on BTC replacing gold as a store of value. The answer was predictably and overwhelmingly one of skepticism.
Among the lineup of panel discussions and presentations at the CoinGeek Zurich Conference was a presentation from Hassan “Hash” Qureshi and Brian Beveridge, partners at professional services firm MNP.
BTC backers may come to rue the day they implemented their latest protocol change if certain governments conclude that a system that can be altered at will could also be altered by them.
CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. recently joined “Stocks And Coffee With Didi,” a show hosted by Yedidya Levy that frequently discusses a variety of topics—and coffee.
In his short film, CoinGeek Chief Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. walks around talking to people who are there taking part in the event, all about the “giant Frankenstein monster” that is BTC.
The Bank of Mexico and the Ministry of Finance have both issued statements warning that digital currencies, including BTC, aren’t legal tender.
Grayscale investors who purchased shares in its BTC Trust in late 2020 and early 2021 will be able to sell their shares in the coming weeks, and analysts expect many of those investors will opt to sell.
What looks like a progressive, innovative move at first glance is actually riddled with drawbacks that will most likely prevent BTC from being used as intended by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele.
