Category: Crypto Trends

As Mark Zuckerberg testifies in Congress today, October 23, 2019, about Libra, the prevailing question is no longer if digital assets will go mainstream, but how they will do so and who will control them when they do.  In one…

Bitcoin Magazine supplied reporter Colin Harper with a fistful of sats and set him loose in Europe. This is the second installment in his “Living on Bitcoin in Europe” series. Catch up on Colin’s earlier adventures in Living on Bitcoin…

Bitfinex, a prominent bitcoin exchange, has filed an application to subpoena a former bank executive in an attempt to recover millions of dollars in frozen funds.  Bitfinex filed its application on October 18, 2019, with a district court in the…

Argentina’s presidential elections are set to take place on October 27, 2019. Irrespective of who comes out on top on election day, all eyes will be on the country’s economic aftermath. Argentina’s economy is not in good shape. Inflation is…

Popular web browser Opera has announced an integration that will allow users to transact and make payments in bitcoin directly through its Android browser. The new features are the finalization of a beta announced on July 10, 2019, which first…

On October 21, 2019, Chinese bitcoin mining giant Bitmain launched mining headquarters in Rockdale, Texas, in collaboration with the Rockdale Municipal Development District and Canadian blockchain firm DMG Blockchain Solutions.  The Texas facility will be located on a 33,000-acre site,…

Launched in Berlin on Saturday, October 19, 2019, the new HTC Exodus 1s promises to be the first smartphone to put a full Bitcoin node in the users’ pockets. The device is a technical and spiritual successor to the Exodus…

On October 19, 2019, the team behind video game portal Satoshi’s Games presented Lightnite: an online multiplayer third-person shooting game whose microtransactions are entirely powered by the Lightning Network. This is the grandest and most ambitious project of the team…

Huobi, a prominent cryptocurrency exchange based in Singapore, has unveiled plans to increase the ease of access for individuals trading in the Turkish currency, the lira. The company announced this move via press release on October 18, 2019. It claims…