Hedge or Cause? Unpacking Bitcoin and Inflation

The digital asset, often called digital gold, soared as governments printed money and crashed as they tightened.

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BIP 119: Unpacking CTV and How It Would Change Bitcoin

Right now, we can only use Bitcoin scripts to designate when or why a bitcoin is spent. But what if we could use it to designate how a bitcoin is spent?

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Unpacking The Fed’s Smoke And Mirrors In Jackson Hole

Responding to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's comments at Jackson Hole through a Bitcoin lens.

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Unpacking Bitcoin’s Recent “Double-Spend” Event

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The North American Bitcoin Conference Returns

Pioneers of the global Bitcoin and blockchain community will converge in Miami for a historical conference, continuing to propel cryptocurrency from niche to mainstream. Now in its seventh year, The North American Bitcoin Conference is the longest-running and most attended finance conference for the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency industries with over 20,000 attendees since 2013.

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Unpacking “The Convergence Stack” with Outlier Ventures’ CEO Jamie Burke

Since 2014, Outlier Ventures (OV) has been honing in on some of the most important technologies of our time. After speaking with nearly 1,000 different startups, the venture capital firm has been examining the ins and outs of what a future-proof investment thesis might look like.

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Why India’s Bitcoin ‘Ban’ Could Disappear after March 29 Hearing

Since July 2018, due to a circular released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in April, local banks were prohibited from dealing with bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges by the central bank. Last month, the Supreme Court of India provided the government four weeks to draft a cryptocurrency regulatory framework, which would decide the legal landscape of the cryptocurrency market in India for the foreseeable future.

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Unpacking Schnorr Signatures: Blockstream’s MuSig to Improve Bitcoin Transactions?

What is the Schnorr signatures scheme — the new MuSig standard that hopes to improve Bitcoin’s transactions?

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Looking Into Hasu Fly’s Essay “Unpacking Bitcoin’s Social Contract” and Futuristic Input

Bitcoin (BTC) has been affected by hard forks, divisions, and many other issues during the last few years. Although this is something that did harm the crypto space and the community, these public networks continue to grow and expand around the world.

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PR: The North American Bitcoin Conference Set to Heat up Miami

The North American Bitcoin Conference returns to Miami for its seventh installment. On the 17th and 18th of January, 2019, the entire Bitcoin and blockchain community will converge in Miami for a historical conference aimed at driving cryptocurrency from niche to mainstream.

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The SEC Is Weighing a Bitcoin Futures ETF – Here's What That Means

The distinction between a physical and futures-backed ETF is worth unpacking given that one may or may not have a better shot at SEC approval.

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Bitcoin and the NYSE — unpacking Bakkt’s BIG plans

By creating a federally-regulated crypto ecosystem, industry giants aim to make bitcoin a trusted global currency 

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