Mexican Billionaire Salinas Says He Has 70% Bitcoin-Related Exposure

Bitcoin Magazine Mexican Billionaire Salinas Says He Has 70% Bitcoin-Related Exposure Ricardo Salinas, the billionaire owner of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Salinas, revealed in a recent interview that he has allocated 70% of his investment portfolio to bitcoin and bitcoin-related assets. JUST IN: Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas says, “I’ve got about 70% in #Bitcoin-related exposure.” pic.twitter.com/1WqA9IBFED … Read more

THNDR Releases Skill-Based Blackjack Game With Bitcoin Lightning Network-Powered Payouts

Bitcoin Magazine THNDR Releases Skill-Based Blackjack Game With Bitcoin Lightning Network-Powered Payouts Today, THNDR, pioneers in play-to-earn (P2E) Bitcoin games as well as skill-based peer-to-peer (PvP) gaming solutions, announced the release of its latest title, Blackjack. Designed for iGaming operators and aggregators, the game is now available via THNDR’s B2B PvP platform. With this new … Read more

Standard Chartered Bank Re-focuses On $500,000 Bitcoin Target After Trump Crypto Reserve Announcement

Bitcoin Magazine Standard Chartered Bank Re-focuses On $500,000 Bitcoin Target After Trump Crypto Reserve Announcement Just one day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Bitcoin is going to “at the heart” of a national strategic crypto reserve, Standard Chartered Bank’s Head of Digital Asset Research Geoff Kendrick stated that he is now re-focusing on … Read more

Bitcoin Reserves And The Incentives Of Civil Asset Forfeiture

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Reserves And The Incentives Of Civil Asset Forfeiture Yesterday, President Trump announced the long awaited Strategic “Bitcoin” Reserve on Truth Social, and many in the space are pissed. First, the Reserve appears to be far from Bitcoin only. “They’re doing DEI for Charles Hoskinson,” former CoinDesk Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris … Read more

MEVpool, The Best Bandaid We Have For MEV

Bitcoin Magazine MEVpool, The Best Bandaid We Have For MEV Miner Extractable Value. That phrase is essentially one of the biggest fundamental risk spaces that exist for blockchain based systems. The original conception of a blockchain included incentives for miners (or other consensus participants deciding transaction ordering) to earn revenue based on whatever initial block … Read more

Stablecoins, Not Bitcoin, In Focus At First U.S. Digital Assets Subcommittee Hearing

Bitcoin Magazine Stablecoins, Not Bitcoin, In Focus At First U.S. Digital Assets Subcommittee Hearing Today, the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets hosted its first hearing, entitled “Exploring Bipartisan Legislative Frameworks for Digital Assets,” at which certain members of the subcommittee and crypto industry witnesses predominantly discussed stablecoin regulation. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), a long-time … Read more

Voltage Aims To Bring Bitcoin’s Lightning Network To Every Business In The World

Bitcoin Magazine Voltage Aims To Bring Bitcoin’s Lightning Network To Every Business In The World Founder: Graham Krizek Date Founded: October 2020 Location of Headquarters: Wichita, Kansas Number of Employees: 17 Website: https://www.voltage.cloud/ Public or Private? Private In 2012, soon after Graham Krizek discovered Bitcoin and subsequently began contributing to Bitcoin Core and building his … Read more

The University of Austin (UATX) Partners with the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, Bitcoin Policy Institute, Unchained, and Strive to Host the Satoshi Papers Symposium

Bitcoin Magazine The University of Austin (UATX) Partners with the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, Bitcoin Policy Institute, Unchained, and Strive to Host the Satoshi Papers Symposium The University of Austin (UATX) Partners with the Texas Bitcoin Foundation, Bitcoin Policy Institute, Unchained, and Strive to Host the Satoshi Papers Symposium  Press Release  The University of Austin (UATX) … Read more

USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown

Bitcoin Magazine USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown Everyone has heard the Chinese proverb British misquote: “May you live in interesting times,” and how it’s supposed to be a curse. It sounds deep, like a quote for edgelords over 80.  But have you ever considered the alternative? According to the Anglo-Saxon … Read more

The Witness Discount

Bitcoin Magazine The Witness Discount The witness discount refers to the reduction in data “weight” given to the witness portion of a Bitcoin transaction — the part that contains the signatures used to prove ownership. Implemented as part of the 2017 segregated witness (SegWit) upgrade, this discount effectively lowered the fees for SegWit transactions by … Read more