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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...

Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade went live on the Holesky testnet on Monday but failed to finalize in the expected time. Pectra was activated on the Holesky testnet at 21:55 UTC (4:55 p.m. ET), but did not initially finalize according to blockchain data . Finality is the state in which, once a transaction ...

Ethereum is trading below the $2,700 mark after days of struggling to reclaim it and push above $2,800. Bulls have been unable to gain momentum, and selling pressure has kept ETH below key resistance levels. On Friday, the market was hit with negative news as Bybit, one of the top crypto exchanges, ...

The Ethereum price appeared to be finally gearing for a strong bullish breakout after multiple weeks of disappointing and sluggish action. However, this bullish dream ended almost immediately after it started as nearly $1.5 billion worth of ETH tokens were drained from the ByBit exchange. Ethereum, ...

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...

In an astounding development, Tether is planning to invest in the South African energy company Adecoagro S.A. The company reportedly received a preliminary bid from Tether Investments to purchase a significant stake. Tether’s latest move aligns with its global investment expansion strategy, closely ...

The staking ecosystem is growing rapidly, with rising institutional interest and potential regulatory oversight. Everstake, a blockchain validator, secures over 80 cryptocurrencies and supports some of the industry’s leading networks. In an exclusive interview, Sergey Vasylchuk, Everstake CEO discus...

Bitcoin is currently at a critical phase, consolidating below key supply levels and holding above crucial demand. The market sentiment remains divided, with many leaning toward a bearish outlook as price action struggles to break above resistance. After weeks of sideways trading, investors are prepa...

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 ...