Bitcoin Magazine The Government Is Not Your Friend Yesterday’s guilty verdict for Roman Storm on the count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money service business is absolutely insane.  FinCEN, the regulator responsible for licensing, monitoring, and enforcement actions concerning criminal activity in money transmission has themselves explicitly stated that self-custodial tooling that facilitates the […]

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Rallies To $116,000 As Trump Set To Sign An EO To Allow Bitcoin And Crypto To 401(k)s Bitcoin price surged to $116,850 on Thursday, marking an over 2% increase, after reports emerged that President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order allowing crypto and other alternative assets in 401(k) retirement

Bitcoin Magazine Tornado Cash Trial Concludes: Roman Storm Found Guilty of One of Three Counts Today in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm was found guilty of the second count on his indictment, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. The Tornado Cash trial has concluded. Roman Storm

Bitcoin Magazine Acacia Partners With Unchained and Build on Bitcoin-Backed Loan Strategy Today, Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTG) has announced a new partnership with Unchained and Build Asset Management, focusing on a Bitcoin-backed commercial loan strategy designed to offer attractive, risk-adjusted returns while expanding Acacia’s exposure to the rapidly growing Bitcoin ecosystem. “We are very

Bitcoin Magazine Sazmining Becomes First Bitcoin Mining Firm to Integrate Square for Payments Today, Sazmining announced it has become the first mining-as-a-service company to integrate Square’s payment platform, offering customers a faster and more reliable way to purchase mining hardware and services.  According to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine, the integration allows payments

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Stays Still As The Smarter Web Company Launches Bitcoin Bond Bitcoin price remained steady around $114,000 on Wednesday as Smarter Web Company, a UK-based technology firm, announced the launch of a groundbreaking $21 million Bitcoin-denominated convertible bond, marking another milestone in the growing institutional adoption of Bitcoin-based financial instruments. The three-year

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price: The 7 Buy Zones That Preceded Big Rallies — Is The Next One Already Here? In Bitcoin’s humble beginnings, it wasn’t possible to buy bitcoin, as there were no exchanges. There were no hardware wallets to store it and no influencers or the BlackRock marketing team even promoting it. Just Satoshi,

Bitcoin Magazine How Preston Pysh Changed My Mind on Bitcoin Treasuries For a while, I was skeptical of bitcoin treasuries. All these bitcoin companies felt like another fiat-financial stunt, another way to play games with debt and derivatives while co-opting Bitcoin’s name. I didn’t want bitcoin financialized. I wanted it to flourish — cleanly, directly

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Mining Is the Resurrection Of the Working-Class Hero Most people think of bitcoin as just another asset: You buy some, throw it in cold storage and wait. Easy, right? That’s the white-collar view of bitcoin: clean, polished and abstracted. Perfect for quarterly reports and portfolio charts. But here’s the reality: Bitcoin mining

Bitcoin Magazine Tornado Cash, the Only Useful Ethereum Product, Is About To Be Made Illegal Many projects have been created on top of Ethereum. Fans of the project will talk up the fruits of that blockchain if you let them, but having seen the project’s growth firsthand since its inception in Toronto in 2014, I