2021 was a tremendous year for Blockstream and the Bitcoin ecosystem in general. Thanks to our talented and dedicated team of Bitcoiners, we continue to be at the vanguard of many of the industry’s most influential and cutting-edge projects. In the spirit of the new year, we wanted to reflect on some of our most ambitious undertakings in 2021 their…
Where do you want your crypto sent after you die? Have you thought about the fact that if you are the only one who knows your keys, the coins will be lost once you’re gone? Sarcophagus is a decentralized “dead man’s switch” allowing users to set instructions to be carried out by a smart contract if the user is incapacitated.…
Bitcoin As A Divine Idea Source: @Metamick14 Bitcoin As Divine Bitcoin is divine. And with all things divine, us humans form religions that try to understand the divine and venerate it, especially because of the difficulty of comprehending it in full. There is extensive literature that describes Bitcoin as a living organism (Gigi, Quittem). These perspectives reveal that Bitcoin “grows, reproduces,…
Just recently the reality star, American Youtuber, and Tiktoker Stephanie Matto made international headlines after raising $200K from selling her farts contained in mason jars online. After Matto had to go to the hospital and after a doctor told her the farting idea was causing her to get hospitalized, she’s decided to sell her fart jars as non-fungible token (NFT)…
LINK, ICP, LEO and ONE could rebound if traders sense that Bitcoin’s selling is near completion. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/top-5-cryptocurrencies-to-watch-this-week-btc-link-icp-leo-one
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt The crypto markets have had an extremely lackluster start to the new year. And yet, NFT sales are booming, and Crypto Twitter is as juicy as ever. Phunks vs Apes The week got off to a combative start when Ryder Ripps, creative director of the NFT project CryptoPhunks (a CryptoPunks parody), leveled a broadside…
Last month, the lead vocalist of System of a Down, Serj Tankian, hosted an art exhibition with the non-fungible token (NFT) platform and marketplace Curio NFT. The physical and virtual-melded art show was called “Not for Touching” and this week Tankian told Bitcoin.com News that he believes NFT technology has opened new doors for his artistic expression. This week Bitcoin.com…
Bitcoin (BTC) may end up falling to as low as $30,000 if the U.S. inflation data to be released on Wednesday comes any higher than forecasted, warns Alex Krüger, founder of Aike Capital, a New York-based asset management firm. The market expects the widely-followed consumer price index (CPI) to rise 7.1% for the year through December and 0.4% month-over-month. This…
In brief The One mega mansion in Bel Air has suffered because its owner defaulted on over $165 million in loans and debt. Its developer now wants to tokenize the property. If you can’t afford to buy yourself a mega-mansion, how about buying coins that represent a portion of the mansion? Nile Niami, who spent 10 years developing the 105,000-square-foot…
Exactly one year ago, on Jan. 9, 2021, Cointelegraph launched its subscription-based data intelligence service, Markets Pro. On that day, Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at around $40,200, and today’s price of $41,800 marks a year-to-year increase of 4%. An automated testing strategy based on Markets Pro’s key indicator, the VORTECS™ Score, yielded a 20,573% return on investment over the same…
