A confluence of factors that emerged this year have created a unique opportunity for the world’s largest economy to dominate Bitcoin mining. Here’s how America overlooked the sector for years and could now take the lead relatively quickly to stake its claim in this...
MicroStrategy’s famous CEO Michael Saylor recently had a conversation with the Argo Blockchain team hosted on Twitter Spaces. CEO Peter Wall, and VP of Operations, Sebastien Chalus discussed the ongoing transition of Bitcoin mining from China to the rest of the world, the underlying...
What does Bitcoin have to do with infrastructure? Objectively, not a lot. However, a new bill introduced by the U.S. Senate links the two together. Here’s how the world’s most popular cryptocurrency became a core element of the capital expenditure plans of the world’s...
Ameer and Raees Cajee, the pair that operated Johannesburg-based Africrypt since 2019, disappeared last month. Along with them, an estimated US$3.6 billion (S$4.8 billion) in bitcoin seems to have vanished too. While investors have yet to learn the truth of what happened, this is...
Annual inflation in the United States hit 5% recently, the highest it’s been in roughly a decade. The rate is skyrocketing in other parts of the world too, from Canada to China. Some economists and experts worry that this bout of inflation could persist...
Math is the basis of any blockchain-based platform. Instead of middlemen, regulators, laws, or leaders, these platforms rely on the indisputable logic of math-based models to create an ecosystem that works for every user. Bitcoin is perhaps the most prominent example of how these...
The Bitcoin hashrate - the aggregate computation power the network consumes - has declined drastically over the past couple of weeks. Industry insiders consider this a signal that China’s clampdown on its domestic mining industry is now being reflected on the network. If this...
There has been a lot of chatter over the latest proposed Bitcoin upgrade of the network which will be implemented in November 2021. This upgrade could move the Bitcoin protocol one step closer to better, and more improved functionality. Experts suggest the upgrade could...
Over the weekend, the Bitcoin community marked a major milestone in its history. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that the digital token will soon be declared “legal tender” in his country. This makes the Central American nation the first to adopt cryptocurrency as...
It’s no secret that bitcoin investors tend to be much younger than more traditional investors. A recent survey by Charles Schwab UK found that most crypto assets were traded by people under the age of 40 and half of Britain’s youth had traded these...
