The Bitcoin Asia conference held on May 9 and 10, 2024 in Hong Kong demonstrated a significant milestone in the adoption of bitcoin as a legitimate medium of exchange.This article outlines the strategies and technologies implemented to facilitate seamless bitcoin transactions for goods and services over the two days, leveraging the capabilities of self-custodial...

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Inscription Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription.Let me start off by acknowledging that Ordinals are amazing! Ordinal Theory is a very clever method of tokenizing individual satoshis and Casey Rodarmor deserves high praise and recognition for gamifying the blockchain...

At the MicroStrategy World: Bitcoin for Corporations conference, Nathan McCauley, co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital, shared his thoughts on the growing rate of institutional Bitcoin adoption.Anchorage Digital, the only federally-chartered bitcoin bank and a leading institutional custodian, plays a crucial role in facilitating this transition to...

The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) has announced the launch of its Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund, a strategic initiative aimed at safeguarding the decentralized, peer-to-peer integrity of the Bitcoin ecosystem. The fund's mission is to defend non-custodial tools and their developers from regulatory overreach, ensuring that innovation, privacy, and user autonomy...

I heard a lot of people say no one could define an L2 at Bitcoin Asia. The problem is that we have a definition, and most people just want to ignore it. Marketing, eh.“Bitcoin L2s” are the hottest thing on the street. People are using a bunch of jargon to distract users from trust assumptions and shill Bitcoin Season 2.Why all the sudden energy? See,...

A UK judge has ruled that Craig Wright, who claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, lied extensively and forged documents during a high-profile trial.In a scathing 231-page judgment, Justice James Mellor stated that Wright "lied to the court repeatedly" and committed forgery "on a grand scale" in a failed attempt to prove he was Nakamoto. A...