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Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency to successfully record transactions on a secure, decentralized blockchain-based network. Launched in early 2009 by its pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin is the largest cryptocurrency measured by market capitalization and amount of data stored on its blockchain. The Bitcoin software is free and available online to anyone who wants to run a Bitcoin node and store their own copy of the Bitcoin blockchain. As Bitcoin matures, engineers have designed additional protocols to improve the speed and privacy of Bitcoin transactions, including the Omni Layer, Lightning Network and Liquid Network. Only approximately 21 million bitcoins will ever be created. New coins are minted every 10 minutes by bitcoin miners who help to maintain the network by adding new transaction data to the blockchain.
Foundations - Consensus: Distributed
May 13, 2020
May 13, 2020
Bitcoin financial services firm Unchained Capital has released an “advanced business account” specifically targeting firms that want to hold BTC.
Bitcoin's "digital gold" narrative looks promising as ever, but the cryptocurrency's dominance is waning as Ethereum rides DeFi fever.
Some of the speculative froth continues to slip away from stocks in early action on Monday morning. DJIA futures are down 2.1%, S&P 500 down 1.7%, and Nasdaq 100 down 1.5%.Previous pandemic favorite, Nikola Corporation is off another 27% to $25, after its founder exits the company. The EV player was taken public via SPAC
Bitcoin is dropping alongside stocks as soaring cases of COVID-19 threaten economic activity in Europe.
Bitcoin - Take Advantage Of Any Dip Below $10K
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) as well as the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust ETF (COIN) are all trading about 12% higher since I published my last in-depth Bitcoin analysis here on Seeking Alpha. Not only did Bitcoin break out to the upside, it already reached US$12,500 and is
‘I Didn’t Buy It to Sell It. Ever.’ MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor on His $425M Bitcoin Bet
The CEO of publicly traded MicroStrategy (MSTR) shares why he started to feel like he was “sitting on a 500-lb block of ice” and how he came to bitcoin as a solution.
New on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: LND Adds Accounting Feature, c-lightning Gets an Upgrade
Lightning Labs made bookkeeping easier for node operators. Blockstream’s c-lightning 0.9.1 release improves channel opening and routing mechanisms.