You Can Now Get Paid (a Little) for Using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

TIA has outperformed the CoinDesk 20 Index this month by a large margin. There has been an increase in TIA hedging demand ahead of a Oct. 31 token unlock, Wintermute said. Bearish short positions, likely representing hedging, have been crowded out, funding rates suggest. TIA, the token of data-availability blockchain network Celestia, posted its best

Nov 27, 2020 at 9:18 a.m. UTCUpdated Nov 27, 2020 at 9:29 a.m. UTCChinese President Xi Jinping(Shutterstock)China’s Xi Asks ASEAN Nations to Join in Building of ‘Digital Silk Road’Xi Jinping took the chance to push for greater digital unity among Southeast Asian nations in a recorded keynote at the China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning, China, on…

Payments provider Cuscal, through its partner Zepto, has brought new banking restrictions on cryptocurrency exchanges in Australia, according to a statement criticizing the move from Blockchain Australia, the nation's industry body.Last month, Cuscal cut off payment services to Binance Australia. At the time, Binance Australia said that it will no longer be able to facilitate…

news The community behind the privacy-centric bitcoin app Wasabi Wallet recently brought together 100 people to collectively execute a “CoinJoin” transaction on bitcoin in what might be the biggest event of its kind. Some context: bitcoin itself is far from private, as users can, via the blockchain, see where coins are being transferred to and…

Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil's largest crypto exchange, was licensed as a payment institution by Brazil's central bank on Friday, Valor Economico newspaper reported.The company is now authorized to operate as a payment institution, under the status of an electronic money issuer."The central bank's approval is an important step, as it allows us to continue with our…

news Protestors set fire to paramedic-turned-bitcoin entrepreneur Sphelele “Sgumza” Mbatha’s home, following the collapse of his Ponzi-like “investment scheme,” according to Ladysmith Gazette. Mbatha’s company, Bitcoin Wallet, promised investors 100-percent returns by investing South African rand in cryptocurrencies. Before shutting down the operation on July 4, Mbatha was believed to have been taking in more…

news Court clerks across France will soon be recording changes in companies’ legal status on a Hyperledger blockchain built by IBM. The National Council of Clerks (NCC) project has already undergone tests involving four court clerks and IT providers, IBM said Thursday, and the system is planned to go into full-scale production in the first half of 2019. The…

Bitcoin traded in a choppy price range on Wednesday as traders reacted to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s plans to taper its $120-billion-a-month in bond purchases.The unprecedented amount of buying by the Fed as part of its monetary stimulus plan known as quantitative easing (QE) provided a tailwind for financial assets, such as cryptocurrencies, deemed by…

It's hard not to draw parallels between the general mood across parts of the planet last week, when people were jockeying to glimpse the solar eclipse, and the excitement building this week in the Bitcoin community, as the blockchain's quadrennial halving approaches. Based on the latest estimates, the halving would arrive sometime in the next