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This Crisis Will Define the Future of Money

[Mar 17, 2023 12:11 PM] The recent collapse of three high-profile banks - Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank - has caused worrying outflows at hundreds of regional banks. Now, with the U.S. Federal Reserve creating a new backstop facility reportedly…

Bitcoin Becomes 12th Largest Asset Worldwide by Valuation, Surpassing Visa

[Mar 15, 2023 1:30 PM] After dropping below $26,000 per unit, the price of bitcoin, the leading digital asset by market capitalization, is still up 9.6% since last week. However, its price has decreased by 6.5% in the last 24 hours. Out of the 7,316 companies, crypto…

Silicon Valley Bank Failure Highlights Dangers of Fractional-Reserve Banking

[Mar 12, 2023 2:30 PM] After the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a great deal of Americans are starting to realize the dangers of fractional-reserve banking. Reports show that SVB suffered a significant bank run after customers attempted to withdraw $42 billion…

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes proposes Bitcoin-based stablecoin

[Mar 9, 2023 2:23 AM] The proposed stablecoin, the Satoshi Nakamoto dollar, aims to be entirely free from any movements of USD, which require banking services.

Former Bitcoin Dev Gavin Andresen Revises 2016 Blog Post, Calls Trust in Craig Wright a ‘Mistake’

[Feb 6, 2023 3:30 PM] During the first week of Feb. 2023, the United Kingdom Court of Appeal overturned a High Court decision from March 2022 in the case of Craig Wright’s Tulip Trading Limited (TTL) vs. 16 cryptocurrency developers. The case will proceed to…

Where Are the Crypto OGs? — Taxation Is Theft, but Joe Biden Needs Ice Cream Money

[Jan 26, 2023 6:30 AM] Bitcoin was once viewed as a means to opt out of violent, legacy financial systems. Now, it is being co-opted by the very same, and zealous newcomers to crypto think that’s a good thing, while still giving lip service to peer-to-peer values…

7 people who could be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto

[Jan 24, 2023 9:34 AM] To this day, the exact identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains a mystery.

14th Anniversary of Bitcoin’s Genesis Block: A Look Back at the Birth of Cryptocurrency

[Jan 3, 2023 2:30 PM] 14 years ago on Jan. 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network and block zero at approximately 1:15 p.m. (ET) on a Saturday afternoon. Satoshi’s technology allows “online payments to be sent directly from one party to…

Recently Signed 2009 Bitcoin Block Reward Linked to Hal Finney’s Set of BTC Transactions

[Dec 14, 2022 8:00 PM] At the end of November, an unknown person signed a signature tied to an extremely old block reward mined on Jan. 19, 2009, and the user published a message and verified signature linked to the reward on the forum bitcointalk.org. The message was…

An Unknown Individual Signed a Message Associated With BTC Block 1,018, Reward Was Minted 16 Days After Satoshi Launched Bitcoin

[Dec 3, 2022 12:30 PM] On Nov. 15, 2022, a post was created on the forum website bitcointalk.org and the thread’s creator asked people to share signatures tied to some of their oldest mined bitcoin blocks. 11 days later, a newly created bitcointalk.org profile…

Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Address Suggestions to Allow Less Anonymity on Twitter

[Nov 20, 2022 6:30 PM] Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and the new owner of Twitter, have addressed suggestions that the social media platform should have less anonymity. Clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is among the users who…

What Was The Reaction Of The Bitcoin White Paper Upon Its Release?

[Nov 9, 2022 4:00 AM] Pete Rizzo and Dan Held discuss the release of the Bitcoin white paper and how the cypherpunk community responded to Satoshi Nakamoto’s idea.This is a recording of a recent Twitter Spaces conversation about the Bitcoin white paper and what it means…