A Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) is a standard for proposing changes to the Bitcoin protocol, or in some cases a source for information for the Bitcoin community. Additionally, some BIPs are proposed changes to the BIP process itself. BIPs can include consensus-critical cha...
SNICKER could be the next tool in Bitcoin’s growing privacy toolbox. Although Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper suggests that privacy was a design goal of the Bitcoin protocol, blockchain analysis can often break users’ privacy today. This is a problem. Bitcoin u...
More than 10 years living in the world of Bitcoin has shown us that there is a long road ahead for Bitcoin developers, and BIP 324, created in March 2019, could be the next important step on that road. The BIP was authored by Switzerland-based Bitcoin developer and cofounder of Shi...
Xinhua Daily, a Communist party-controlled media, has just published a front-page article entitled "Bitcoin: The First Successful Application of Blockchain Technology". The editorial gives an objective introduction about bitcoin – an open-source peer-to-peer digital currency, and desc...
In July 2019, John M. Griffin and Amin Shams, academics from the University of Texas and the University of Ohio, respectively, published the cleverly titled report “Is Bitcoin Really Un-Tethered?” Their “findings” echoed through mainstream and cryptocurrency media alike. The...
Most of what you’ll read about bitcoin mining will be about mining operations in China and North America, but there is a small, growing sector of active mining operations in parts of the world that you don’t often hear about, in countries like Norway, Russia, Venezuela and Paraguay. As...
Earlier this month, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the seizure and takedown of Welcome to Video (WTV), one of the largest darknet marketplaces for child pornography in the world. The website was accessed through Tor Hidden services (.onion) and transacted a t...
Bitcoin's 12% sudden rise as China’s President Xi Jinping triggered a blockchain frenzy cemented its grip on the market and strengthened its dominance of the entire crypto industry - at its highest range in almost three years (currently at over 67%). The sustained dominance tells of Ethe...
China’s president Xi Jinping said that the country should seize the opportunity to speed up blockchain adoption. Speaking at the 18th collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on Thursday in Beijing, Xi stressed that the integrated blockchain technologies pla...
Despite talks of the Indian government planning to introduce a bill to ban cryptocurrency in Parliament this winter session, India residents have been presented with a means to deposit Indian Rupee (INR) to buy and sell cryptocurrencies which has not been possible for several months. S...
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