Bitcoin Magazine Standard Chartered Bank Re-focuses On $500,000 Bitcoin Target After Trump Crypto Reserve Announcement Just one day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Bitcoin is going to “at the heart” of a national strategic crypto reserve, Standard Chartered Bank’s Head of Digital Asset Research Geoff Kendrick stated that he is now re-focusing on […]

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Reserves And The Incentives Of Civil Asset Forfeiture Yesterday, President Trump announced the long awaited Strategic “Bitcoin” Reserve on Truth Social, and many in the space are pissed. First, the Reserve appears to be far from Bitcoin only. “They’re doing DEI for Charles Hoskinson,” former CoinDesk Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris […]

Bitcoin Magazine MEVpool, The Best Bandaid We Have For MEV Miner Extractable Value. That phrase is essentially one of the biggest fundamental risk spaces that exist for blockchain based systems. The original conception of a blockchain included incentives for miners (or other consensus participants deciding transaction ordering) to earn revenue based on whatever initial block […]

Bitcoin Magazine Stablecoins, Not Bitcoin, In Focus At First U.S. Digital Assets Subcommittee Hearing Today, the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets hosted its first hearing, entitled “Exploring Bipartisan Legislative Frameworks for Digital Assets,” at which certain members of the subcommittee and crypto industry witnesses predominantly discussed stablecoin regulation. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), a long-time […]

Bitcoin Magazine The University of Austin (UATX) Partners with the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, Bitcoin Policy Institute, Unchained, and Strive to Host the Satoshi Papers Symposium The University of Austin (UATX) Partners with the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, Bitcoin Policy Institute, Unchained, and Strive to Host the Satoshi Papers Symposium  Press Release  The University of Austin (UATX) […]

Bitcoin Magazine Voltage Aims To Bring Bitcoin’s Lightning Network To Every Business In The World Founder: Graham Krizek Date Founded: October 2020 Location of Headquarters: Wichita, Kansas Number of Employees: 17 Website: https://www.voltage.cloud/ Public or Private? Private In 2012, soon after Graham Krizek discovered Bitcoin and subsequently began contributing to Bitcoin Core and building his […]

Bitcoin Magazine USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown Everyone has heard the Chinese proverb British misquote: “May you live in interesting times,” and how it’s supposed to be a curse. It sounds deep, like a quote for edgelords over 80.  But have you ever considered the alternative? According to the Anglo-Saxon […]

Bitcoin Magazine What are BRC-20 Tokens? Introduction BRC-20 tokens are an experimental and inefficient token standard designed for creating fungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain. Inspired by Ethereum’s ERC-20 tokens, BRC-20 tokens leverage the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol to inscribe data onto individual satoshis, making them transferable and tradable. Origins of BRC-20 Tokens The BRC-20 token […]

Bitcoin Magazine The Witness Discount The witness discount refers to the reduction in data “weight” given to the witness portion of a Bitcoin transaction — the part that contains the signatures used to prove ownership. Implemented as part of the 2017 segregated witness (SegWit) upgrade, this discount effectively lowered the fees for SegWit transactions by […]

Bitcoin Magazine Amboss CEO Talks Growth Of The Bitcoin Lightning Network, Tether (USDT) On Lightning Founder: Jesse Shrader and Anthony Potdevin Date Founded: March 2021 Location of Headquarters: Nashville, TN Number of Employees: 10 Website: https://amboss.tech/ Public or Private? Private Jesse Shrader thinks that this will be an important year for the Lightning Network. With Bitcoin’s price on the rise and […]