Bitcoin Developer and SegWit Inventor Proposes New ‘Taproot’ SoftFork
Several new softfork proposals were posted by the Bitcoin developer and SegWit inventor Pietr Wuille this week. Dubbed 'Taproot' the...
Bitcoin Network Surpasses 100,000 Nodes, New Data Shows
The total number of Bitcoin nodes has exceeded 100,000 and not 10,000 nodes, as popularly believed. The confusion over how...
Twitter and Google Trends Interest Precedes Cryptocurrency Price, Study Finds
The volume of tweets and Google Search Volume Index (SVI) were found to be leading price indicators for Bitcoin and...
‘You Can’t Buy Bitcoin’ – Is How Banks Promote Bitcoin, Says Economist
Economist Saifedean Ammous was recently interviewed on Stephan Livera's Podcast. Ammous explained the best way government can defeat Bitcoin and...
Why Consortium Blockchains are Failing
Consortium blockchains have shown their failures throughout recent history. From R3 Corda's crippled partnerships with its banking partnerships to the...
Whale Moves $230 Million for 57 Cents Using Bitcoin
A bitcoin whale has moved 40,000 BTC (USD $229,000,000) from one Bitcoin address to another on May 1st for a...
Bitcoin Will Be Over $10K By 2020 Halving, Model Shows
Despite a slight dip, Bitcoin price is still expected to surpass $10,000 by the next block halving, according to Stock-to-Flow...
Sweden’s Central Bank Asks Gov’t: What’s ‘Legal Tender’?
Sweden's central bank has its parliament to form a committee to review what constitutes legal tender in the country. Originally...
