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Satoshi Nakamotos Bitcoin white paper is now a 13-year-old teenager

The iconic Bitcoin (BTC) white paper celebrates thirteen years of financial disruption after being first published on Oct. 31, 2008, by an anonymous person or entity named Satoshi Nakamoto. The white paper, titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, foresaw the need for a peer-to-peer online payment system that is self-governing, secure and limited in quantity. The Bitcoin network was…

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Nigeria’s 24.2% Adoption Rating Is the Highest Rate of Crypto Ownership Globally – News Bitcoin News

According to the latest Finder Cryptocurrency Adoption Index, in October 2021, Nigeria had the highest rate of cryptocurrency ownership globally, at 24.2%. Bitcoin Is the Most Popular Coin in Nigeria In addition to finding the West African nation as the country with the highest proportion of citizens that hold cryptocurrencies globally, the survey also discovered that “of the 1 in…

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Latinx communities continue to rise above Bitcoin adoption obstacles

Digital assets have recently become more and more prevalent in our daily lives in the news, popular culture and our personal interactions. In the first quarter of 2021, the number of global daily Bitcoin (BTC) transactions hit 367,536. Bitcoin alone now accounts for around $20 billion of daily online transactions. Not only this, but those who are familiar with digital…

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A New Academic Paper Describes 3 Attack Methods Against an Ethereum PoS Chain – Bitcoin News

Following the Altair upgrade on the Ethereum network, the protocol’s native cryptocurrency reached a new all-time price high. Altair is the next step for the Ethereum’s network’s proof-of-stake (PoS) transition. However, a recently submitted white paper explains that a group of computer scientists from Stanford University and the Ethereum Foundation believe there are three attack vectors “on [a] proof-of-stake Ethereum”…

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Mad Money’s Jim Cramer Invests in Crypto Because ‘There Could Be Millions of Greater Fools Out There’ – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

The host of Mad Money, Jim Cramer, has some advice for crypto investors. “As long as you recognize the very real possibility that the whole investment case for crypto rests on the greater fool theory, you’ve got my blessing to speculate on it,” he said. Cramer added that he is holding ether because he believes “there could be millions of…

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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Warns Governments Will Never Allow Crypto to Be Out of Their Control – Bitcoin News

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sees bitcoin as mathematical purity, praising its fixed supply. However, he said that governments will never allow it to be out of their control. “If it got to the point where everything is being done in crypto and didn’t pass through governments for observation and taxation and all that, governments would just disallow it,” said the…

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Bitcoin Mining And Semiconductor Shortage

Supply chain shortages are starting to reveal many geopolitical dependencies on external actors for different resources, and the overall fragility that those dependencies can create for any given nation when supply chains are stressed. All it takes is for one little domino to tip and problems cascade through the entire system. It should come as no surprise that nations are…

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Dogecoin Accounts for 40% of Robinhood’s Crypto Transaction Revenue in Q3 – Altcoins Bitcoin News

Trading platform Robinhood has reported that 40% of its cryptocurrency transaction-based revenue was attributable to transactions in the meme cryptocurrency dogecoin in the third quarter. By comparison, dogecoin accounted for 62% of the company’s transaction-based revenue in the second quarter. Dogecoin Trading on Robinhood Robinhood Markets Inc. stated in its quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…

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Finance Author Says $100K Bitcoin Prices Not ‘So Far-Fetched Dont Rule It Out’ – Market Updates Bitcoin News

Throughout 2021, there’s been a number of people who have said they expect bitcoin to reach $100K by the end of this year. In more recent times, the six-digit bitcoin price forecasts continue as people are now saying a sudden move to $100K “doesn’t seem so far-fetched.” The Probability of Bitcoin Hitting $100K — ‘Don’t Rule It Out’ Many bitcoin…

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LGND Curates Major NFT Art Gallery at ComplexCon – Press release Bitcoin News

press release PRESS RELEASE. Austin, Texas – LGND Art Inc. announces its foremost curatorial effort to date, a major NFT art show in the form of a gallery to appear exclusively at ComplexCon 2021. Sponsored by Coinbase, the exhibition will include global artists in a unique group that includes Mad Dog Jones, James Jean, Joshua Davis, Matt Gondek, Fvckrender, Michael…

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