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CoinCorner Partners With Pouch To Bring Instant Remittance Payments To The Philippines Utilizing Bitcoin's Lightning Network

The Philippines’ remittance market now has a faster, cheaper option through the use of the Lightning Network.Customers in the U.K. and Europe can now use CoinCorner’s Send Globally feature to send fiat to the Philippines after partnering with…

Integrating Statechains With Lightning Channels Can Allow For Off-Chain Balancing And Improved Flexibility

A Commerceblock BLIP facilitates Lightning channels built on Bitcoin statechains, improving flexibility for the Layer 2 protocol.Last year, I wrote about Commerceblock's Mercury Wallet, an implementation of both statechains and CoinSwaps. This…

Bitcoin Miner Greenidge Generation Reaches Debt Restructuring Deal With NYDIG

The deal will involve NYDIG taking ownership of miners, with the aim to lessen chances of a bankruptcy.Greenidge Generation, a bitcoin miner operating in New York, has reached a restructuring agreement for the $74.4 million debt with its lender…

The Africa Bitcoin Conference Showed That Africa Needs Bitcoin, Just As Bitcoin Needs Africa

This month’s Africa Bitcoin Conference underscored the need for Bitcoin on the continent and the progress of grassroots projects there.This is an opinion editorial by Josef Tětek, the Trezor brand ambassador for SatoshiLabs.The inaugural Africa…

Layer 2 Labs Raises $3M At Launch To Supercharge Bitcoin's Ecosystem

The firm, led by BIP 300 and BIP 301 author Paul Sztorc, is on a mission to bring privacy, scalability and better UX solutions to Bitcoin.Layer 2 Labs is launching with the goal of scaling and building out drivechains for the Bitcoin Network. The…

Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Maker Foundation Devices Completes $7 Million Seed Round

Led by Polychain Capital, new investors into the Bitcoin hardware and software firm include Greenfield Capital and Lightning Ventures.Foundation Devices has announced the end of a seed round raising $7 million, led by Polychain Capital. Other…

Grayscale Weighing Returning 20% Of GBTC Assets To Investors If ETF Dreams Fail

The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is considering a tender offer that would aim to return investor capital if the SEC keeps blocking its conversion to a spot ETF.Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein stated in a letter to investors that should the Grayscale…

Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s First Bitcoin Futures ETF Receives $53 Million Initial Investment

The futures ETF will be the first of its kind available in Asia according to the asset manager, CSOP.Investors in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will be able to trade the CSOP Bitcoin Futures ETF (3066.HK) starting December 16 according to a press…

Governments Could Still Hamper Money And Energy, Even On A Bitcoin Standard

Even after Bitcoin inevitably becomes the world reserve currency and bitcoin mining solves our energy problems, governments will intervene.This is an opinion editorial by Will Szamosszegi, founder and CEO of bitcoin mining hosting service…

The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act: An Unconstitutional Bill For An Unconstitutional World

The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act Of 2022 from Elizabeth Warren proposes unconstitutional privacy restrictions for bitcoin users.This is an opinion editorial by L0la L33tz, a privacy and security researcher and hacking advocate.Yesterday…

Visiting El Salvador’s Slums, It’s Clear Bitcoin Country Must Go Further

A visit to Soyapango, one of El Salvador’s most impoverished slums, shows that the Bitcoin experiment isn’t reaching those who need it most.This is an opinion editorial by Rikki, author and co-host of the “Bitcoin Italia,” and “Stupefatti”…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Introduces Sweeping Anti-Privacy, Anti-Freedom Bitcoin Bill

U.S. Senators have introduced a bill that would have a direct impact on the categorization and regulation of bitcoin miners, wallets and nodes.Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan) have introduced the “Digital Asset…