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Adam Back Says ‘Suck That Truthoors’ as Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Reveals Company Holds Tether’s Treasuries
15.12.2023
Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, a Wall Street private financial services company, has recently confirmed that they lent their services to Tether, the issuer of the biggest stablecoin in the cryptocurrency market. On CNBC’s Money Movers, Lutnick stated that he was a fan of Tether...
Michael Saylor’s 2BNs, Adam Back’s 700Ks, Jamie Dimon’s No-to-BTCs and 20 Crypto Jokes
9.12.2023
Source: coin.bureau / Instagram This is your weekly digest of top crypto news from Cryptonews.com, followed by a collection of 20 hand-picked crypto jokes. __________ This crypto week in the crypto world: the super-majority of bitcoin holders were back in profit, a Glassnode analyst expected...
Blockstream CEO Adam Back Predicts $700k Bitcoin Within 2 Years – Here’s How
5.12.2023
Source: Pexels Bitcoin (BTC)’s market cap could flip that of gold within two years, thus bringing its price up to $700,000 per coin. That’s according to Blockstream CEO Adam Back – a “Bitcoin OG” and one of the internet’s popular suspects for being Bitcoin’s anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto....
Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson Clashes With Blockstream’s Adam Back Over Crypto Security Classification
28.11.2023
Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Input Output Global (IOHK) and the Cardano blockchain initiative, recently expressed his frustration in a video over the U.S. regulator’s decision to categorize the cryptocurrency cardano as a security. He’s perplexed and critical about the exemption...
Bitcoin white paper turns 15 as Satoshi Nakamoto’s legacy lives on
31.10.2023
“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party,” Satoshi said in an Oct. 31 email in 2008
Bitcoiner drops BitVM paper — bringing Ethereum-like contracts to Bitcoin
10.10.2023
The author of the white paper, Robin Linus, based BitVM’s architecture on Ethereum’s optimistic rollups with fraud proofs and recent Merkle tree developments
Bitcoin Price Prediction: Adam Back's Bet on 2024 Halving & Whales' Confidence Boost Amid Market Turbulence
7.8.2023
Bitcoin, the renowned cryptocurrency, has been facing resistance around the $29,000 mark, but it has recently managed to break above this level.
As the renowned cryptocurrency continues to navigate its way through market turbulence, two significant factors have emerged as potential catalysts...
Bitcoin OG bets surprising sum on BTC hitting $100K before the halving
7.8.2023
Adam Back has joined a growing roster of market commentators who are bullish on the price of Bitcoin ahead of next year’s halving event
Venture capital's ICO gambits left Bitcoin ecosystem underfunded - Adam Back
4.7.2023
Venture capitalists have favoured ICOs in recent years, but Bitcoin-related startups are seeing renewed interest from investors
Blockstream CEO Adam Back: Bitcoin's Antifragility Will Prevail Amid Regulatory Pressures
13.6.2023
Despite the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s crackdown against the biggest companies in crypto, one Bitcoin diehard isn't breaking a sweat.
Adam Back – CEO of Blockstream and popular cypherpunk – believes the crypto industry will simply adapt and relocate if it can’t find a home...
Bitcoin Transactions Without Internet? ZeroSync and Blockstream Make It Possible with Satellites in Space – Here's How
3.4.2023
Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has partnered with ZeroSync Association, a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, to broadcast Bitcoin zero-knowledge proofs via Blockstream’s satellite.
Courtesy of this partnership, Bitcoin nodes will be able to sync from any location on earth...
Blockstream Founder: Bitcoin Market Cap Can Reach $200 Trillion by 2032 – Here's Why
13.2.2023
The market capitalization of Bitcoin (BTC) could reach as much as $200 trillion over the next nine years, if the legendary bitcoiner Adam Back is to be believed.
“Early this year I was curious of the claim ‘bitcoin 2x's per year on average’,” the early Bitcoin user and founder of Bitcoin...
Debate Intensifies Over Significance and Implications of Ordinal Inscriptions on Bitcoin Blockchain
4.2.2023
During the past two weeks, members of the cryptocurrency community have discussed the non-fungible token (NFT) concept known as Ordinals. Since the 3.96 MB block (#774,628) was mined, there has been a significant increase in Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Ordinal Inscriptions...
Meet Ordinals, the New Bitcoin NFT Engine, and the Drama Surrounding Them
31.1.2023
Ordinals, a new way of using and getting content using Bitcoin, are enabling creators to harness the utility of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) directly from the blockchain, essentially creating native Bitcoin NFTs. This has stirred the pot in some circles, which are now discussing if this is the way...
Ordinals protocol sparks debate over NFT's place in the Bitcoin ecosystem
30.1.2023
The community has been divided as to whether the NFT-like "digital artifacts" are the right fit for the Bitcoin ecosystem
7 people who could be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto
24.1.2023
To this day, the exact identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains a mystery
Tucker Carlson outlines wild theory to explain Bitcoin price rise: 'Maximum tin foil'
18.1.2023
Members of Crypto Twitter were quick to mock Tucker Carlson, who provided no supporting evidence to back his claims
Crypto Stories: Dr. Adam Back shares his life of hacks
16.12.2022
A cartoon version of Dr. Adam Back recounts stories of hacking coded doors at university and the inception of Hash Cash in the latest of Cointelegraph Crypto Stories
Bitcoin Infrastructure Firm Blockstream Seeks Fresh Funds at 70% Lower Valuation Than in 2021
8.12.2022
The Bitcoin-focused development and infrastructure firm Blockstream is seeking fresh funds at a valuation that “may be below $1 billion,” or about 70% lower than its most recent funding round in 2021, according to a Bloomberg report.
Blockstream’s valuation has likely been impacted by the collapse...
Blockstream raising funds for mining at 70% lower company valuation
7.12.2022
CEO Adam Back said the fresh funding will be invested into expanding the firm’s mining capacity