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Bitcoin’s Smallest Unit ‘Satoshi’ Added to Oxford English Dictionary


Oxford University Press published its recent quarterly report which revealed the term ‘satoshi’ was added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) database. The word represents the “smallest monetary unit in the Bitcoin digital payment system,” according to the definition....

Why the Maximalist Narrative of Just Hodl and Wait Is Unsustainable


It’s encountered all over the crypto space these days — the idea that the only correct way to “Bitcoin” is to hold and not spend, and to desperately lash out on crypto Twitter at anyone who thinks differently. But what ever happened to Satoshi’s original call for...

Bitcoin History Part 18: The First Bitcoin Wallet


Bitcoin users today are blessed with a panoply of feature-rich software and hardware wallets. When Bitcoin launched, however, there were no wallets. It took Satoshi Nakamoto to engineer the first desktop client, and his creation proved surprisingly resilient, serving the community faithfully...

Crypto Investment Group Grayscale Releases Bitcoin Cash Primer


Crypto investment firm Grayscale has just released “An Introduction to Bitcoin Cash” highlighting the basics of BCH for those who may be yet unfamiliar, or just wish to brush up on the popular token forked from Bitcoin Core on August 1, 2017. With a significant reputation in...

Bitcoin Mining: An Evolution from CPU to ASIC


To a newcomer, the cryptocurrency market might seem like any other industry and some might even be intimidated by it. Scarcely would anyone believe that it is only 10 years old. In 2008, it was just a hobby for some scholarly enthusiasts motivated probably by ideals like breaking free from...

Without Disobedience, Bitcoin Is No Better Than Gold


With the launch of Bakkt’s bitcoin futures market and Binance’s revamped U.S. exchange, there’s been a lot of talk in the space about institutionalization and traditional money flowing into crypto. It’s almost as if some believe that Bitcoin can’t scale as a purely...

Satoshi Nakamoto is Dead, Thinks BitMEX’s Arthur Hayes


Source: iStock/D-Keine Arthur Hayes, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, thinks that the Cryptoverse’s icon and the inventor of the world’s first and most popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is in fact – dead. We don’t know who Satoshi Nakamoto is, or even “are”, but the rumors about their...

FATF-Driven Delistings Capture the Criminalization of Privacy


The delisting of privacy coins like monero, zcash, and dash is becoming something of a trend in Asia, and could soon expand elsewhere. In the wake of the intra-governmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issuing new global standards, Korean exchanges Okex and Upbit have announced they will...

3-Day Japan Bitcoin Cash Survival Challenge


Among cryptocurrency enthusiasts, Tokyo is often mentioned as one of the most crypto-friendly cities in the world. Recently, it has especially become known for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) adoption, which is a cryptocurrency that has the characteristics of the original Bitcoin (BTC), as intended by...

Crypto Needs Less Government Regulation – Not More


A recent opinion article by Peter Lin, “Why Regulation Is The Best Thing For Crypto,” presents common arguments on why the state and state-affiliated institutions should administer cryptocurrency. Underlying the arguments is an assumption: the free market cannot provide necessary...

Craig Wright Plans to Challenge Court in $10 Billion Lawsuit


Only on August 27th, the year-long lawsuit over an alleged $10 billion Bitcoin fortune did seem to come to an end, finally. In a dispute that had been raised in 2018, between the self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin (BTC), Craig Wright, and Kleiman Estate, representatives of the deceased computer...

Court Instructs Craig Wright to Distribute Billions to Plaintiffs


On August 26, the self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor, Craig Wright, was ordered by Southern District Court of Florida to distribute half of his BTC holdings and intellectual property assets from prior to 2014. According to the Kleiman estate attorney Vel Freedman, the family has waited a long time...

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