Banking old wine in new bottles, as explained by Craig Wright
In a blog post, Dr. Craig Wright explores how companies like Coinbase and Square attempt to hijack Bitcoin and create a new banking system for personal profit.
Latest BTC News
UK man behind infamous Twitter hack charged with $784,000 BTC theft
Joseph O’Connor is facing charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud in connection with a series of SIM-swap attacks in which he allegedly stole BTC, ETH and LTC.
Ukraine and US authorities bust BTC-stealing and laundering ring
The Security Service of Ukraine busted the ring which they said laundered tens of millions of dollars for hackers and other criminals via the darknet.
Core maintainer Jonas Schnelli quits, highlighting BTC’s total lack of decentralization
The recent "resignation" of BTC Core code maintainer Jonas Schnelli from his role has once again shone a light on how few people have the power to alter BTC's software.
US overtakes China in terms of digital currency hash power
According to Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance’s BTC mining map, US overtook China as the country with the majority of the hash power supporting the BTC network.
Remember the 5th of November
We are about to have a potentially explosive early November event coming in Bitcoin, and it involves the oft worshipped anthropomorphized anti-hero of Bitcoin himself, Satoshi Nakamoto, Jerry Chan writes.
Mt. Gox creditors approve $9 billion payout
The trustee for the defunct Mt. Gox exchange has confirmed that creditors approved the plan that will eventually see over $9B paid out in the long-running digital currency saga.
Bitcoin: Every sat matters
The smallest individual unit in Bitcoin is often called the “satoshi” or the “sat” for short, but does every sat matter if not every sat can be used equally on the network?
BTC wallets of liquidated South Africa exchange iCE3 have $3.3M discrepancy: report
iCE3 went into liquidation in April, but according to a new report, there’s a discrepancy of 54 BTC, worth $3.3 million, as well as other digital currencies.
CoinGeek New York experts panel: Bitcoin and intrinsic value
At the day 3 of CoinGeek conference in New York, a panel with four experts dealt with the differences between BSV and BTC and Bitcoin’s intrinsic value.
Brazil eyes making BTC legal tender, allowing its use as payment for goods
Brazil’s parliament is expected to debate a bill that would officially recognize BTC as legal tender and allow citizens to use it as payment for goods.
Cooperate or compete?
With the protocol wars complete (and BSV handily ahead of the pack), the competition has moved up to business application and service level competition, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.