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Plan B Predicts Repeat Performance Post-Bitcoin Halving Amid Mixed Analyst Forecasts

19.4.2024
At block height 839,856, the Bitcoin blockchain stands a mere 144 blocks short of the forthcoming reward halving at block height 840,000. Historically, bitcoin’s price has seen substantial increases following prior halving events. However, there are speculations that this occurrence might...

Blockstream CEO Adam Back Criticizes MicroStrategy Short ETF as ‘Terrible Product’

8.4.2024
Blockstream CEO Adam Back chastised the recently released Defiance 2X Short MSTR ETF (exchange-traded fund). According to the SEC statement, the Defiance ETF, which was proposed on March 7, was filed under the TIDAL TRUST II financial organization. The post Blockstream CEO Adam Back Criticizes...

Roger Ver Rejects Blockstream CEO’s Invitation, Remains Loyal to Bitcoin Cash Over BTC

26.3.2024
Roger Ver, an early Bitcoin investor, has decided to continue supporting Bitcoin Cash (BCH) over Bitcoin (BTC) despite an invitation from Blockstream CEO Adam Back to rejoin the Bitcoin community. Ver criticizes layer two blockchain solutions, like Back’s Liquid Network, as centralized...

Satoshi Correspondence Revealed by Witnesses in Legal Clash Against Craig Wright

22.2.2024
In the unfolding lawsuit between the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) and Craig Wright, three key witnesses who had early interactions with Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, provided their testimonies. Among them were early Bitcoin developers Martti Malmi and Mike Hearn, as well as Adam...

Adam Back States ‘You Can’t Stop JPEGs on Bitcoin,’ Proposes Block Size Increase to Host Inscriptions

18.12.2023
Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream and legendary cryptographer, has acknowledged that inscriptions, media embedded directly on top of Bitcoin, cannot be stopped, stating that any action focused on this will only prompt users to do it in “worse ways.” Instead, Back proposed adding a new blob...

Blockstream CEO Adam Back: Bitcoin ETFs Could Propel Price to $100,000

18.12.2023
Image Source: LinkedIn Blockstream CEO Adam Back believes 2024 could mark a period of resurgence for Bitcoin (BTC), propelling the leading cryptocurrency towards $100,000. In a recent interview, the renowned cryptographer and the pioneer of the proof-of-work algorithm used in Bitcoin’s...

Adam Back Says ‘Suck That Truthoors’ as Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Reveals Company Holds Tether’s Treasuries

15.12.2023
Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, a Wall Street private financial services company, has recently confirmed that they lent their services to Tether, the issuer of the biggest stablecoin in the cryptocurrency market. On CNBC’s Money Movers, Lutnick stated that he was a fan of Tether...

Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson Clashes With Blockstream’s Adam Back Over Crypto Security Classification

28.11.2023
Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Input Output Global (IOHK) and the Cardano blockchain initiative, recently expressed his frustration in a video over the U.S. regulator’s decision to categorize the cryptocurrency cardano as a security. He’s perplexed and critical about the exemption...

Bitcoin white paper turns 15 as Satoshi Nakamoto’s legacy lives on

31.10.2023
“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party,” Satoshi said in an Oct. 31 email in 2008

Bitcoiner drops BitVM paper — bringing Ethereum-like contracts to Bitcoin

10.10.2023
The author of the white paper, Robin Linus, based BitVM’s architecture on Ethereum’s optimistic rollups with fraud proofs and recent Merkle tree developments

Bitcoin OG bets surprising sum on BTC hitting $100K before the halving

7.8.2023
Adam Back has joined a growing roster of market commentators who are bullish on the price of Bitcoin ahead of next year’s halving event

Venture capital's ICO gambits left Bitcoin ecosystem underfunded - Adam Back

4.7.2023
Venture capitalists have favoured ICOs in recent years, but Bitcoin-related startups are seeing renewed interest from investors

Bitcoin Transactions Without Internet? ZeroSync and Blockstream Make It Possible with Satellites in Space – Here's How

3.4.2023
Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has partnered with ZeroSync Association, a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, to broadcast Bitcoin zero-knowledge proofs via Blockstream’s satellite. Courtesy of this partnership, Bitcoin nodes will be able to sync from any location on earth...

Blockstream Founder: Bitcoin Market Cap Can Reach $200 Trillion by 2032 – Here's Why

13.2.2023
The market capitalization of Bitcoin (BTC) could reach as much as $200 trillion over the next nine years, if the legendary bitcoiner Adam Back is to be believed. “Early this year I was curious of the claim ‘bitcoin 2x's per year on average’,” the early Bitcoin user and founder of Bitcoin...

Debate Intensifies Over Significance and Implications of Ordinal Inscriptions on Bitcoin Blockchain

4.2.2023
During the past two weeks, members of the cryptocurrency community have discussed the non-fungible token (NFT) concept known as Ordinals. Since the 3.96 MB block (#774,628) was mined, there has been a significant increase in Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Ordinal Inscriptions...

Meet Ordinals, the New Bitcoin NFT Engine, and the Drama Surrounding Them

31.1.2023
Ordinals, a new way of using and getting content using Bitcoin, are enabling creators to harness the utility of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) directly from the blockchain, essentially creating native Bitcoin NFTs. This has stirred the pot in some circles, which are now discussing if this is the way...