In the heart of Manhattan, high above Hudson Yards in a bustling hotel, Bitcoin Magazine’s Editor in Chief, Mark Goodwin, sat down with US presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for a candid and engaging interview that shed new light…
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In Person Connections – Bitcoin’s True Superpower
It was 12:45 a.m. on a Friday out and about in Riga, Latvia. Without going into too much detail, I was having a good time with fellow Bitcoin and Lightning folks. I was there for the Baltic Honeybadger conference, one…
Paradox in Economic Headwinds: Recession or Inflation
The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine’s premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now. If…
Jack Dorsey’s Block Shipping New BitKey Bitcoin Wallet
It appears financial services giant Block is closer to going public with its first Bitcoin hardware wallet product. Teased yesterday by a beta tester, the images offer a first glimpse of Block’s new Bitcoin hardware wallet, first announced in 2022, and…
Volcano Energy Bitcoin Mining Pool Goes Live
Today, Volcano Energy and Luxor Technology Corporation have officially unveiled Lava Pool, El Salvador’s inaugural Bitcoin mining pool powered by abundant renewable geothermal energy. Volcano Energy, a unique public-private partnership committed to contributing 23% of its net income to the…
Bitcoin Cross-Border Payments More ‘Substantial’ Than Public Data Shows
A new study conducted by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has shed light on the true extent of Bitcoin’s impact on cross-border payments, revealing that its significance may be even greater than previously believed. According to a report by Reuters,…
How Venmo’s Stablecoin Integration Can Grow the Bitcoin Economy
Last week, PayPal, alongside their infrastructure partner Paxos, announced an integration of their PYUSD stablecoin product with Venmo, one of the largest mobile financial applications on the market. With over 78 million users, Venmo is currently one of the largest…
Unchained Is Now Helping Customers Custody Over $2 Billion in Bitcoin
Unchained, a leading bitcoin financial services provider, has expanded its collaborative custody network with the addition of Coincover, a company known for protecting and insuring over 5 million crypto wallets, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. This…
Bitcoin As A Foundation For Community Building
Community is crucial and that never has been clearer to me than it was this last month, as wildfires claimed 10,000 hectares of the area around my home, leaving many people with nothing except the clothes they were wearing when…
Coming Soon: An Easier Way To Bootstrap Your Node’s UTXO Set
Yesterday marks coming up to the finishing line after almost four years of work. Assumeutxo was merged into the Bitcoin Core master branch by Andrew Chow yesterday. This is the first major non-consensus update to the Bitcoin reference implementation in…