Cartoon: Crypto’s Different Faces

To earn a more reliable stream of income compared to mining solo, most Bitcoin miners today mine through mining pools. This option is enabled by the open-source “Stratum” mining protocol currently used by almost all mining pools, designed by Slush Pool and first announced nearly seven years ago. Now, Braiins — the company behind Slush…

Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG), a global trading, technology, and investment firm, disclosed that it holds over $1.8 billion in Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) through a 13F-HR filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), providing a detailed breakdown of SIG's investment portfolio.The filing reveals the investment firms biggest positions were in Grayscales Bitcoin

Taproot and Schnorr will be boons for bitcoin usability, allowing individuals to do much more with their UTXOs.The below is a direct excerpt of Marty's Bent Issue #1111: "Taproot activation is upon us." Sign up for the newsletter here. via Clark Moody's Dashboard It's been a minute since we talked about taproot in this weird…

With bitcoin price up around 70% over the last five weeks, Bitcoin's "coin days destroyed" metric isn't reacting as normal.The below is from a recent edition of the Deep Dive, 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…

Bitcoin miner Greenidge has partnered with Foundry Digital to buy 2,300 WhatsMiners and finance 6,000 Antminers, plus join Foundry USA Pool.According to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine, bitcoin mining company Greenidge Generation has announced a purchase of 2,300 WhatsMiner M30S mining rigs and a financing deal to acquire 6,000 Antminer S19 machines, both…

What is stopping Bitcoiners from banding together to create marketing campaigns that will help onboard regular, working-class people from all over the world?This is an opinion editorial by Maxx Mannheimer, a former sales account manager with a background in training and industrial-organizational psychology.These days, it seems like every preposterous blockchain project has a group of…

When users search for $BTC on Twitter, they will now be able to invest into bitcoin via eToro.eToro has partnered with Twitter to allow users to invest into assets with $Cashtags, in addition to expanding the number of financial assets that users can see real-time prices for when using the feature. Currently users can see…

Policy Division Financial Crimes Enforcement Network P.O. Box 39 Vienna, VA 22183 FinCEN Docket No. FINCEN-2020-0020, RIN 1506-AB47 January 4, 2020 Dear Sir or Madam, The proposed regulations on currency transaction reports and record-keeping seem to require that banks and money services businesses (MSBs) be able to prove that an identified counterparty to a transaction…

Bitcoin startup Chainway has taken a significant stride in the space with its introduction of the first Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) transaction on bitcoin. This is part of Chainway's continued efforts to implement ZK rollups on bitcoin, a move that may offer enhanced scalability and privacy features to bitcoin.Chainway's recent demonstration serves as a proof