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Japanese Firm Metaplanet to Add $659M in Bitcoin to Its Treasury, Shares Soar 90% in Response
9.4.2024
According to the latest figures, Metaplanet, a company listed on the Japanese stock exchange, witnessed its share price soar by nearly 90% in just one day. This significant jump came on the heels of the company’s announcement regarding its intention to incorporate 1 billion yen in bitcoin...
Maximizing Efficiency in High Fee Environments: A Guide to Bitcoin UTXO Consolidation
10.11.2023
In an era where bitcoin transaction fees can soar unexpectedly, managing your unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) is crucial for minimizing costs. Bitcoin users with multiple UTXOs can face hefty fees for future transactions, which depletes the value of their holdings over time. Understanding UTXO...
Bitcoin Ordinals creator Casey Rodarmor pitches BRC-20 alternative ‘Runes’
26.9.2023
Bitcoin Ordinals inventor Casey Rodarmor says a fungible token protocol like Runes wouldn’t leave as much “junk” on the Bitcoin network as that of BRC-20 tokens
Bitcoin's Short-Term Holders Are Again Selling at Profit
29.5.2023
Short-term holders' renewed profitability is a positive signal for near-term price action, according to on observer
Bitcoin could hit $10M in 9 years but more sidechains needed: Blockstream CEO
13.2.2023
If Back and Finney’s $10 million price prediction becomes true, the BTC market cap will reach approximately $200 trillion
Binance Reveals Incident That Forced It to Freeze BTC Withdrawals
14.6.2022
In a post-mortem issued shortly after it lifted the freeze on bitcoin withdrawals, Binance has identified the “repairing of several minor hardware failures on wallet consolidation” as the incident that ultimately forced it to pause withdrawals. To fix the problem and to stop this from...
Close to 250 Casascius Physical Bitcoins Were Redeemed in 6 Months, $1.9B in BTC Remain Active
5.4.2022
Since September 18, 2021, close to 250 Casascius physical bitcoins were redeemed over the last 198 days. On that day six months ago, there were 19,920 Casascius physical bitcoins left active and today, there are approximately 19,676 left to peel. 19,676 Casascius Physical Bitcoins Left to Peel...
Wasabi Wallet to Begin Censoring Coinjoin Transactions
15.3.2022
Wasabi Wallet, a privacy-oriented bitcoin-only wallet, has announced it will start introducing censorship methods into its mixing procedures. The announcement was made on social media, where the official account of Wasabi explained that a blacklist will prevent some UTXOs (unspent transaction...
Veteran Bitcoin hodlers are still selling record low amounts of BTC despite 70% gains in 2021
28.12.2021
It's "younger" BTC bought at the Summer $30,000 lows that's moving in Q4, data shows
Crypto Mixing Tools Tornado.cash and Cashfusion Obscure More Than $8 Billion in Transactions
25.12.2021
While blockchain monitoring has increased a great deal during the last few years, cryptocurrency mixers have seen significant use from those who don’t want their financial transactions tracked. Meanwhile, two mixing applications, Tornado.cash and Cashfusion, have helped crypto owners make...
Bitcoin's $1 trillion market holds for 10 days straight
6.4.2021
Bitcoin’s trillion-dollar market capitalization has held strong since March 26
Price Increase Drives 98% of Bitcoin Holders Into a State of Profit
22.10.2020
The price of bitcoin jumped significantly on Wednesday after the payment processor Paypal announced cryptocurrency support. The jump in value has pushed a large number of bitcoin holders into a state of profit, according to Glassnode “percent of UTXOs in profit” statistics. Based on...
Ledger wallet upgrade can prevent ‘dusting attacks’
18.9.2020
Cold wallet maker Ledger adds more privacy protection to its software suite
PSF Token Invokes the First Coin-Age Staking Protocol on Bitcoin Cash
11.8.2020
During the last six months, the Simple Ledger Protocol has grown immensely and there’s been 9,604 SLP tokens created since the infrastructure launched. Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on mistcoin, the mineable SLP token that can be mined with a CPU. Now software developer Chris...
How to Mix Your Bitcoins Using Coinjoin for Greater Privacy
4.3.2020
Mixing bitcoins using a noncustodial service increases fungibility without having to relinquish control of your coins. Bitcoin mixing services let you keep your coins and retain your privacy, for nothing more than a modest fee and the time it takes to mix them. The most popular noncustodial mixers...
There’s No Such Thing as Tainted Bitcoins
6.2.2020
All bitcoins are created equal. But in the eyes of blockchain forensics firms, some bitcoins are more equal than others. If these companies are to be believed, coins that have been used in criminal transactions are ‘tainted,’ destined to be forever linked with nefarious activity....
4 Bitcoin Mixers for the Privacy Conscious
16.1.2020
In an era of unprecedented global surveillance, it is unreasonable to expect the blockchain world to be any different. It is perfectly reasonable, though, to resist this surveillance through countermeasures that thwart the would-be surveillers. Digital privacy is a right that everyone is entitled...
This Startup’s Upgrade Code Can Be Used by Any Bitcoin-Based Blockchain
4.11.2019
Nexus says an upgrade that brings smart-contract functionality to its blockchain can also be used by any other bitcoin-based chain
EOS Gets ‘Bitcoin Type’ UTXO Focused On Enhancing Financial Privacy On The Blockchain
21.5.2019
EOS has been one of the most preferred platforms for dapp builders, and the transaction volume has grown multi-fold. With the transaction volumes per month increasing, financial privacy has been one of the major concerns for the network. To provide a highly secure and private transactional...