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Four Case Studies: Should You Hold Bitcoin In A Roth IRA?

Whether you’re young, mid-career, or playing the back nine, Roth IRAs can be an important tool for your financial goals. Four case studies below will illustrate how by combining Roth IRAs with bitcoin, you can save for retirement, optimize for…

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Multisig, Shamir’s secret sharing, & MPC compared

For anyone with substantial bitcoin holdings, a custody structure that includes a single point of failure should be seen as unacceptable. If a wallet has a single component that—when lost or stolen—can lead to a permanent loss of funds, then…

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MicroStrategy Increases Convertible Loan to $525 Million to Buy More Bitcoin

The Michael Saylor-led software company MicroStrategy has upsized its planned convertible senior notes offering from $500 million to $525 million. The company intends to use the proceeds to acquire more Bitcoin, as per their recent press release, following a strategy…

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How Miners Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the JPEG

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Inscription Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription. Click here to download a PDF of this article. Ordinals have been a polarizing phenomenon for most every subcommunity in Bitcoin…

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Your financial plan may be riskier without bitcoin

This article originally appeared in the Sound Advisory blog. Sound Advisory provide financial advisory services and specialize in educating and guiding clients to thrive financially in a bitcoin-powered world. Click here to learn more. “Belief is a wise wager. Granted…

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Craig Wright Is Not The Inventor of Bitcoin, Judge Rules

In a landmark ruling, a judge at London’s High Court declared that Craig Wright, the Australian ‘computer scientist’ who has long claimed to be the elusive creator of Bitcoin, is not Satoshi Nakamoto. This decision came following a legal confrontation…

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Stabilizing Forces: How Bitcoin ETF Inflows Counter Price Volatility

Eleven approved Bitcoin ETFs have painted the pioneering cryptocurrency with a fresh coat of legitimacy. By receiving an official blessing from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an institutional investing barrier has been lifted. With this barrier gone, financial advisors,…

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Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy To Raise $500 Million To Buy More Bitcoin

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR) has revealed plans to raise $500 million to buy more bitcoin through a private offering of convertible senior notes due 2031. The offering, subject to market conditions, targets qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the…

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Saving Seeds in DNA: Bitcoin as Information

I recently converted a Bitcoin seed phrase into a DNA sequence, just because I can. Using only the first four letters of the BIP39 seed words, a 12-word seed phrase can be stored in a mere 48 nucleotides of DNA.…

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Bitcoin Hits New Heights Between BlackRock Success and London Approval

The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine’s premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now. Bitcoin…

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Bitcoin Exchange Relai Integrates Lightning Network For Its 100,000 European Users

Relai, the Swiss-based Bitcoin app with a self-custody wallet, has announced a new partnership with Blockstream and Breez to integrate the Lightning Network into its platform, benefiting over 100,000 European users, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.…

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Bitcoin on Wheels: The Story of Bitcoinetas

You may have seen that picture of Michael Saylor in a bitcoin-branded van, with a cheerful guy right next to the car door. This one: Ariel Aguilar and La Bitcoineta European Edition at BTC Prague. That car is the Bitcoineta…

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Over 25 Leading Bitcoin Companies Rally for Official Bitcoin Emoji

Today, more than 25 leading Bitcoin organizations joined forces under the banner of the ‘Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji’ movement. Spearheaded by Nexo, this global initiative is dedicated to securing an official Bitcoin emoji for digital keyboards everywhere, signaling a monumental…

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BITPACS: Emulating DAOs on Bitcoin

I wanted to share some thoughts on a seemingly overlooked innovation that has come to Bitcoin within the last year, called Bitpacs. Bitpac stands for a Bitcoin Based Publicly Auditable Cooperative. Bitpacs are essentially normal bitcoin multisig wallets with the…

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Instant Settlement Series: It’s Not About The Money

Instant settlement profoundly transforms our behavior as it reconnects us with the elemental laws of nature. The existing paradigm mirrors the primal imperative of reaping benefits in exchange for labor–working to survive, but the pay-per-time system in the labor market…

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Final Agreement On EIA Emergency Survey Released

The final agreement between the Texas Blockchain Council & Riot Platforms, Inc., and the Energy Information Administration has just dropped, and it’s a good one. In sum, the EIA will voluntarily terminate the illegal EIA-862 collection action they initiated, and…

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Anduro: A Network of Sidechains

Marathon yesterday announced their Anduro layer two proposal. While there aren’t really any fundamentally new pieces or developments in the Anduro design, they do compose in slightly different ways compared to other existing sidechain systems such as RSK or Liquid…

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BlackRock’s Spot Bitcoin ETF To Start Trading in Brazil Tomorrow

BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) is poised to make its debut in Brazil tomorrow, according to a report from the largest financial market news platform in Brazil, InfoMoney. The launch follows the announcement by BlackRock that the Brazilian Depositary Receipts (BDRs)…

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Wells Fargo and Bank of America’s Merrill Are Now Offering Spot Bitcoin ETFs To Clients

Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo & Co.’s brokerage unit have begun offering access to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that directly invest in Bitcoin, according to Bloomberg Law. JUST IN: Wells Fargo and Bank of America’s Merrill are…

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Edward Snowden Anticipates Government Acquisition of Bitcoin in 2024

Renowned whistleblower Edward Snowden has made a bold prediction on X today, suggesting that a national government will enter the Bitcoin market this year by purchasing BTC. JUST IN: Edward Snowden predicts “A national government will be revealed this year…