This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Inscription Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription. Click here to download a PDF of this article. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the cringiest of them all? Is it the JPEG People? Or is it the Laser-Eyed Maxis?Continue Reading
The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine’s premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now. Bitcoin’s revolutionary Lightning Network has seen two major rollout initiatives beginContinue Reading
Introduction As we approach the conclusion of the third epoch, the countdown to the next Bitcoin halving is firmly underway. The halving (also known as the “Halvening”) is one of the most important and innovative features of Bitcoin. Every 10 minutes, the Bitcoin network issues new bitcoin and approximately everyContinue Reading
Introduction Ninety-one years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled off the greatest heist in American history. Unlike most robberies, this one was entirely legal. No safe-cracking was required; no ski masks, guns, or getaway cars. Just a pen and some White House letterhead. On April 5 1933, FDR issuedContinue Reading
The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine’s premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now. With Bitcoin’s next halving set to take place this month, minersContinue Reading
Today, the US government sent a transaction that appears to indicate it may be on the verge of liquidating the remaining Bitcoin it confiscated from the online marketplace Silk Road. According to on-chain data, a 0.001 BTC test transaction, part of a larger stash of approximately 30,174 BTC worth $2Continue Reading
Last October Robin Linus from Zerosync dropped a bit of a bomb in the form of BitVM. One of the longest running criticisms of Bitcoin is that it is not possible to make arbitrary programs to control how money is spent or locked. Bitcoin only has a very limited amountContinue Reading
Today, one of the largest Bitcoin mining rig manufacturers, Bitmain, announced the launch of the Antminer S21 Pro at the Global Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) 2024, an event the company hosts. 💥ANTMINER S21 Pro Newly Launched❗️234T ❗️15.0J/T📈Create a New Level of Hashrate pic.twitter.com/wZyUv7pbOQ — BITMAIN (@BITMAINtech) March 29, 2024 TheContinue Reading
A U.K. judge ordered to freeze $7.6 million (£6 million ) worth of Craig Wright’s assets worldwide after finding that he falsely claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin. The order comes after Wright’s decisive loss in a landmark lawsuit against the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA).Continue Reading
“What underpins a world order is always the financial system. We are on the brink of a dramatic change where we are about to, and I’ll say this boldly, abandon the traditional system of money and accounting and introduce a new one. And the new one is what we callContinue Reading
