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The initiative seeks to minimize legal headaches that discourage software developers from actively contributing to Bitcoin. Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Block and ex-CEO of Twitter, has proposed creating a nonprofit organization to protect the rights and interests of open-source Bitcoin developers, who are often subject to “litigation” and “threats.” Dorsey explained in an email […]

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The lead of Spiral, the Bitcoin-focused company formerly known as Square Crypto, explains the group’s rebranding, mission and future. Jack Dorsey’s popular financial company Square went through a recent rebrand and is now called Block. The move led one of its subsidiaries, Square Crypto, to also take up a fresh name. Now known as Spiral, […]

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$41,000 bitcoin has been so normalized that people don’t believe that it is “this low.” The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1142: “This is what normalization looks like.” Sign up for the newsletter here. via @Pastore1314 via @Pastore1314 What a difference a year makes. At this point in 2021 the price […]

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Bitcoin plebs, as individual nodes in the Bitcoin community, represent a decentralized force of sovereignty minded people. The dominance of Big Tech is coming to a close. So long as we can ensure that it doesn’t enslave us all first. Many people are beginning to wake up to their dependencies on large internet companies and […]

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Potential correlation between bitcoin and equities is in focus as the S&P 500 reached as far as 4.2% below its all-time highs. The below is from a recent edition of the Deep Dive, Bitcoin Magazine’s premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to […]

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Publicly-traded bitcoin miner Marathon Digital has seen its share price tumble along with bitcoin. So, does that make it a good buy? Bitcoin’s price has come down from all-time highs hit on November 10, 2021, and many of the publicly-traded bitcoin mining stocks saw their prices drop along with it. Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) was […]

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How unions and Bitcoin both serve to protect the interests of working people through dissemination of governance. I am part of a subset of Local Union (ATU1555) based out of Oakland, California, proposing that our union allocate a percentage of our treasury and monthly union dues to bitcoin. I wish I could take credit for […]

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The video platform by Google banned Bitcoin Magazine’s channel today during a livestream covering Bitcoin news. YouTube has just banned the official channel of Bitcoin Magazine during a live stream about Cash App integrating the Lightning Network, bitcoin mining in Kazakhstan, and other Bitcoin-related news. The platform justified the move saying that “content that encourages […]

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The South American country’s citizens can now buy bitcoin, get paid in bitcoin, and send and receive money instantly with no fees. Lightning payments platform Strike has made its services available to Argentinians on Tuesday in an effort to “give hope” to a population that suffers from hyperinflation, according to an announcement Twitter thread from […]

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The individual worker took home over $260K after successfully mining a new block on the Bitcoin blockchain. A solo miner won a 6.25 BTC reward on Tuesday, worth about $265,600 at the time of writing, after being able to add a new valid block to the Bitcoin network with a hashrate capacity of just about […]