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Bitcoin Magazine The Clock Is Ticking While You Do Nothing Bitcoin does not exist in a vacuum. It does not exist outside the flow of time. We cannot just sit on our hands and do nothing while chasing the perfect, flawless, no downside improvements to this network and protocol. The real world does no...

Follow Frank on X . In a report released this Wednesday, Fidelity Digital Assets in collaboration with Lightning payment provider Voltage released a report on the state of the Lightning Network. The report details the many ways in which the Lightning Network has grown since its launch in 2018. It al...

Follow Frank on X . The news of USDT (Tether) coming to Bitcoin and Lightning via Taproot Assets has been met with various reactions. Some believe it’s good for Bitcoin (most, actually, based on a small survey I conducted on X; yes, I know the sample size isn’t large enough for the results to be sig...

The introduction of BitVM smart contracts has marked a significant milestone in the path for scalability and programmability of Bitcoin. Rooted in the original BitVM protocol, Bitlayer's Finality Bridge introduces the first version of the protocol live on testnet, which is a good starting point for ...

Bitcoin banks are going to happen. We already have a few of them. We’re going to have more of them. Existing legacy banks are going to start offering services. New banks are going to be founded around Bitcoin. This is completely unavoidable at this point. Bitcoin doesn’t scale. Even absent that, peo...

Follow Frank on X . In July of last year, Swiss privacy tech company Proton (makers of Proton Mail) announced it would be launching its own bitcoin wallet — Proton Wallet . I (along with about 100,000 other users) was given early access to the wallet to test it out and was impressed with the wallet’...

Follow Frank on X . El Salvador is still Bitcoin country, despite the fact that bitcoin is no longer legal tender in the country — at least from where I’m sitting. Let’s start with some background on the matter. On January 29, 2025, the Legislative Assembly in El Salvador voted to remove bitcoin’s s...

Follow Frank on X . Over the course of the last week, we’ve seen reports of massive bitcoin liquidations . For those unfamiliar with the term “liquidation” as it applies to finance, it refers to when a trader is forced to close a leveraged trade because the margin for the trade has been depleted. In...

Recently, Flashnet announced that it had raised a $4.5m seed round, led by Abstract Ventures with participation from UTXO Management and others. Follow GG on X Flashnet is a Bitcoin native DEX based on Spark (a Bitcoin L2 designed between the Flashnet team and LightSpark). It’s designed to rival the...

The son of the current President two days ago on Twitter told people it's time to add Ethereum to their balance sheets. It is mind blowing to see this, given what this cycle represents for Ethereum. For years people have been predicting the outcome we are seeing play out this cycle. Ethereum’s domin...