As a condition of a new IMF loan package, President Bukele of El Salvador has had to concede three aspects of the Bitcoin Law passed in 2021: A legal tender mandate requiring businesses to accept Bitcoin Shutting down Chivo, the state run wallet and on/off ramp service No longer accepting tax payments in bitcoin Ultimately […]

Vancouver’s Mayor, Ken Sim, is a genuine Bitcoin enthusiast who’s doing his part to get Vancouver’s city council as well as its citizens to see what he sees when it comes to Bitcoin. And his efforts are starting to bear fruit. On December 11, 2024, the Vancouver City Council greenlit a motion Mayor Sim prepared

If you’ve been watching bitcoin, you probably noticed the pullback yesterday. It dropped from $108,000 to $99,000 after the FOMC meeting, where the Fed cut rates, and Jerome Powell, the Fed Chair, when asked about the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, said: “We’re not allowed to own bitcoin and not looking for a law change,”. The market, as

Today, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced its most recent round of Bitcoin Development Fund grants, in a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. 700,000,000 satoshis (7 BTC) currently worth $706,000 at the time of writing, is being granted across 20 different projects around the world focusing on technical education for people living under authoritarian regimes,

One counter-argument against pushing for greater scalability with Bitcoin is that “most people won’t self-custody anyway, so why bother?” This is a wildly assumptive, arrogant, and outright fallacious argument. It is the same type of logical fallacy that human beings can’t help but make. The current state of the present is an indicator of what

When I saw Nic Carter’s recent Bloomberg interview, I couldn’t help but shake my head. Nic, who’s been a long-time Bitcoiner and someone I respect, said that the US shouldn’t—and won’t—buy Bitcoin for its strategic reserves because it would supposedly signal weakness in the dollar on the global stage. I get his argument, but I

Chaincode Labs, a privately funded Bitcoin research and development centre based in New York City, has awarded its inaugural Bitcoin Scholarship to 17-year-old Ishaana Misra, the youngest contributor to Bitcoin Core in the technology’s 15-year history. Misra was selected from 232 applicants globally for the scholarship, covering one year’s academic expenses. She can renew it

Look, I think it’s only a matter of time before China pulls a complete 180 on its Bitcoin ban. Yes, they outlawed trading and mining back in 2021, but honestly, a lot has changed since then — especially this year. Bitcoin’s momentum globally has been insane. We’ve seen US President-Elect Donald Trump calling to stockpile

Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts Last week, long-time Bitcoiner John Carvalho introduced a new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) aimed at addressing the unit bias issue many people face when first finding bitcoin. “This BIP proposes redefining the commonly recognized “bitcoin” unit so that what was previously known as the smallest indivisible unit

Company Name: Gridless Founders: Janet Maingi, Erik Hersman and Philip Walton Date Founded: August 2022 Location of Headquarters: United States | Operations in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia Number of Employees: 10 Website: https://gridlesscompute.com/ Public or Private? Private Gridless doesn’t just mine bitcoin — it helps to facilitate the electrification of rural Africa, which is notably