Latest Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency News
Lightning Ventures, a VC firm in the Bitcoin space, launched Thunder Funder, a Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) portal, at the Bitcoin 2024 conference last week. The platform aims to democratize early-stage investing in Bitcoin and open-source startups by allowing both accredited…
Multisig is a familiar concept for most in Bitcoin: a multisig transaction requires approval from multiple parties before it can be executed. We distinguish between “n-of-n” multi-signatures, where the number of involved parties is n, and they all need to…
Bitcoin’s recent price action has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows. However, even though bitcoin has set a new all-time high and had two years of a near-constant positive trajectory, we’re yet to see a consistent influx of retail…
Following the announcement on July 27th at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville, the “Boosting Innovation, Technology, and Competitiveness through Optimized Investment Nationwide” or BITCOIN Act of 2024, introduced by Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, seeks to firmly establish Bitcoin as…
On the main stage of Bitcoin 2024, Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-NC) shared that he’s working to have the Democrats shift to a more pro-Bitcoin and pro-crypto stance. He told the audience at the event that he’d recently written a letter…
In a significant move among major Wall Street banks, Morgan Stanley will soon allow its financial advisors to offer Bitcoin ETFs to certain clients, CNBC reports. Starting Wednesday, the firm’s 15,000 advisors can pitch BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust and Fidelity’s Wise…
MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR) reported its financial results for Q2 2024, revealing an increase in its Bitcoin holdings. The company acquired 12,222 bitcoins since the beginning of the quarter, at an average price of $65,882 per bitcoin, bringing its total…
According to Bitcoin Magazine Pro, the 7-day average mining hash rate for Bitcoin has hit a new all-time high, surpassing 667 exahashes per second (EH/s) on July 26th during the Bitcoin 2024 conference. This tops the previous record of 657…
Futu Securities, Hong Kong’s biggest online brokerage with over 3.5 million customers, has launched retail Bitcoin trading on its platform. As per South China Morning Post, users can now directly buy and sell Bitcoin and ether using Hong Kong or…
Bitcoin has experienced enormous growth in the past fifteen years since its inception, and with that has come numerous monumental shifts in the culture of the overall ecosystem, as well as the smaller individual communities that make it up. This…