Ever since the release of the Bitcoin whitepaper over a decade ago, the interest in blockchain technology has grown exponentially. The space is maturing and now covers a myriad of projects, cryptocurrencies, smart contract functionalities, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Non-Fungible...
The highly anticipated upgrade of Bitcoin was activated on Sunday the 14th day of November 2021 at block 709,632. This is a major update happening right after Segwit, a major update in 2017 which helped bitcoin to scale. Just...
Financial services provider, Square, is planning to build an open-source Bitcoin mining system and has begun investigating the technical requirements. This is according to CEO Jack Dorsey who shared a series of tweets explaining that he plans to follow...
With surging Bitcoin prices in recent years, cryptocurrencies have emerged as a popular investment avenue for many investors. However, when it comes to investment opportunities, two asset classes that have often been compared are real estate and cryptocurrencies, specifically...
Recently, many institutional and retail investors alike have aped into cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin. Many argue that Bitcoin is a hedge against inflation and better than the traditional safe-haven asset like Gold. The emergence of Bitcoin as a store of...
Barely a week after El Salvador formally adopted Bitcoin as a legal tender, the Central American country is granting foreign investors a tax waiver on gains from the digital currency. This is according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Javier Argueta,...
El Salvador has become one of the first countries to accept Bitcoin as a legal medium of exchange within the country. Its President, Nayib Bukele, has been actively pushing for this, and it is not surprising that the El...
Bitcoin and Wrapped BTC are two different cryptos, as the latter is an ERC20 token, which is meant to act as a tokenized version of the bitcoin. WBTC is the tokenized version of BTC that allows its users to...
