Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Lightning and Sparks Fly

Lightning continues to strike as more and more companies announce that they are including in their products the new Lightning Network protocol that recently entered beta. Sparks also flared up at the Deconomy conference in South Korea when Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon challenged Craig S. Wright’s legitimacy. And, while India joins a growing list […]

Monero Just Hard Forked — and It Resulted in Four New Projects

One hard fork later, there are four new Monero projects. Privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero hard forked to version 12 of its protocol yesterday. But not everyone is on board. Following the example once set by Ethereum Classic, some users are continuing on the pre-hard fork Monero blockchain… though in this case not as a single project. […]

Coinbase Takes Steps Toward Becoming an Alternative Trading System

Cryptocurrency trading firm Coinbase has entered into talks with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission about registering as a licensed broker-dealer firm and electronic trading venue, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, April 6, 2018. The move comes just as U.S. regulators have begun clarifying their stance on virtual currencies. Testifying before the Senate […]

Tom Lee: Bitcoin Selling Pressure Could Dry Up After Tax Day

Ever the Bitcoin bull, Tom Lee usually has an optimistic perspective for Bitcoin investors. He was bullish when the market was green and the recent downtrend hasn’t dampened his positivity too much. The Fundstrat cofounder believes that the upcoming Tax Day should cause much of the current bleeding in the markets to stop. Crypto Traders […]