News with the tag "Taproot"

Follow me on X for more Bitcoin Alpha https://x.com/GuerillaV2 Earlier today at the Plan B Conference in El Salvador, Tether made an announcement that has been years in the making. USDT is back on Bitcoin using Taproot Assets. The next steps will be for Tether to mint the asset, which will be availa...

Taproot Wizards, a collection of 2,108 JPEGs inscribed on Bitcoin using the Ordinals protocol, headed into 2024 on the heels of a $7.5 million seed funding round , which was promptly exceeded by the sale of Quantum Cats , a digital art collection of brightly-colored felines. The sale of 3,000 NFT-li...

The bitcoiners gathered at OP_Next were decidedly in favor of progress – but not too much progress, and certainly not too fast.

The startup is onboarding Bitcoin miners representing a “sizable amount” of the Bitcoin network’s total hashrate, according to Alex Luce.

Coinbase has integrated Bitcoin Taproot addresses, simplifying BTC transactions and enhancing scalability on its platform.

The Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) has integrated threshold-Schnorr signatures and onchain Bitcoin block headers as part of its Deuterium milestone. This development aims to expand the utility of Bitcoin within the decentralized economy, allowing for new applications previously hindered by Bitcoin...

Lightning Labs, an institution dedicated to research and development related to the Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s second layer, has announced the rollout of Taproot Assets. This solution allows for issuing multiple tokens on top of it. The institution aims to capitalize on the popularity and volume o...

The Bitcoin developer says Brollups can support more than 90% of decentralized finance use cases, from NFT sales to token orders on DEXs.

Although Bitcoin-based decentralized applications (dapps) have been known to replicate or copy Ethereum dApps, Jeff Yin, founder of Merlin Chain, believes there is a growing impetus to build bitcoin dapps that are distinguishable from ether-based dapps. Yin, however, noted that the synchronization b...

Stacks (STX) is spreading a new narrative, showing that Bitcoin-based tokens are possible. STX lined up among top gainers after showcasing several active projects. Launching tokens on the Bitcoin network went through several attempts, each one creating its unique form of hype. In 2024, peak projects...