Bitcoin inscriptions have been out for a few more weeks, so we follow up on the fee market and block usage to observe what’s changed after 100,000 inscriptions. 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…
Whether Bitcoiners like it or not, large-scale Bitcoin adoption is not coming this decade or next. It’s simply going to take a number of generations to filter into society. This is an opinion editorial by Aleksander Svetski, author of “The UnCommunist Manifesto,” founder of The Bitcoin Times and Host of the “Wake Up Podcast with…
After discovering Bitcoin, an elementary music teacher can see that some poor parenting habits are incentivized by the fiat system. This is an opinion editorial by Tim Niemeyer, co-host of the Lincolnland Bitcoin Meetup and an elementary school teacher. Source I’m a teacher by day and a rabid Bitcoiner by night. I currently teach elementary…
While FTX’s collapse last year rattled the Bitcoin ecosystem, nine years ago a bigger failure damaged it even more. What does that teach us? The fall of FTX, a crypto empire that defrauded investors, customers and employees to the tune of $8 billion, rattled the ecosystem, with many worrying whether the ecosystem would survive. However,…
DZ Bank – the second-largest German bank by assets – is all set to offer digital asset custody services. The BaFin-regulated financial institution and custody provider has joined forces with Swiss firm Metaco and orchestration platform Harmonize for its upcoming digital currencies to its institutional clients offering. According to the official press release, Harmonize is…
On February 22, Republican Congressman Tom Emmer of the US House of Representatives introduced a bill to ban the Federal Reserve (Fed) from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The “CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act” aims to protect the financial privacy of American citizens by prohibiting the creation of a CBDC by the Fed without…
Bitcoin’s price has been on a rollercoaster throughout the past seven days, and it has failed to chart any significant increase (or decrease) throughout the period. However, it was particularly volatile. Last week at this time, the price was hovering around similar levels, around $24K, but it quickly took for the skies and touched $25K…
This week, we take a closer look at Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Polkadot, and Chainlink. Ethereum (ETH) Ethereum’s price action was rather tame this past week and only booked a 0.5% increase. This highlights that this cryptocurrency is in a consolidation period at around $1,600. The key resistance is found at $1,700, and the support is…
[PRESS RELEASE – Zurg, Switzerland, 23rd February 2023] A fork of Bitcoin, known as Particl, has announced the completion of an eBay-style marketplace that’s been integrated into its wallet. Built using blockchain smart contracts, the marketplace is derived from an original concept first proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto. Particl’s latest release forms a trustless, unstoppable marketplace…
Bitcoin continues with its indecisive price performance and its inability to successfully overcome $24,000 as it sits inches below that level right now. Most altcoins are also slightly in the red today, with the most notable losses coming from Avalanche, VeChain, MATIC, Polkadot, and others. Bitcoin Beneath $24K The primary cryptocurrency went through a rollercoaster…