Category: Crypto Flash News

Led by Kingsway Capital, Blockstream has raised $125 million for the purpose of expanding their institutional mining services. Blockstream has announced they’ve raised $125 million in convertible note and secured loan financing with the aim of expanding their institutional bitcoin…

Banks would be allowed to hold 2% of capital in bitcoin, but required to have one euro in capital for every euro in cryptocurrency held. European Union lawmakers have voted to impose strict capital requirements on banks that hold cryptocurrencies,…

Andrew Barnard and Doug Carrillo of Bitstop have announced the acquisition of Genesis Coin Inc. Genesis Coin Inc., the first and largest bitcoin ATM software platform in the world, announced that they have been acquired by Bitstop Founders Andrew Barnard…

With their newly-announced stablecoin experiment doomed to fail, Russia and Iran will soon learn Bitcoin is the solution that they want. This is an opinion editorial by Q Ghaemi, a stocks and bitcoin analyst and author of the Qweekly Update…

Shadowy super coders and sat stacking anons from all over the internet are welcome to try and crack a wallet containing millions of sats. Wasabi Wallet, along with 12 other bitcoin projects and companies including Blockstream, BTCPay and Trezor, are…

As the New Year begins, Bitcoiners should take this opportunity to engage with constructive criticism. This is an opinion editorial by Heidi Porter, an entrepreneur with 35 years in the tech industry. I love Bitcoin — and the world that…

The embattled crypto lender has filed a slew of voluntary bankruptcy notices in order to restructure itself. Genesis’s two lending subsidiaries, Genesis Global Capital and Genesis Asia Pacific, have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to the announcement, the firm…

Committees from both states will soon vote on bills that would provide a variety of protections for Bitcoin mining operations and node runners. Lawmakers from the U.S. states of Mississippi and Missouri have introduced bills that seek to legally protect…

Mainstream bitcoin exchanges which collect troves of user data have warped users’ expectations for privacy-preserving, peer-to-peer versions. This is an opinion editorial by Okada, mechanical engineer and contributor to peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange RoboSats. Buying your first bitcoin has dramatically changed…

A commission out of New Hampshire has found that the positive impacts of bitcoin mining on the electricity system are worthy of further consideration. New Hampshire (NH) Governor Chris Sununu’s “Commission On Cryptocurrencies And Digital Assets” has returned results that…