Bitcoin Mining as a Business
Mining is the process of adding transaction records to Bitcoin’s public ledger of past transactions. This is the only way to create new Bitcoin and is a highly expensive process.…
Crypto Valley Journal
The Past: Understanding the Crypto Credit Market
The crypto-secured loans started in 2017, and since then, they grow fast. A three-part series presents the past, the present, and the future of the crypto credit market. This report…
Book presentation: Keeping and bequeathing Bitcoins
If you want to make sure that your Bitcoins and crypto assets are not lost after death, you need a watertight estate plan. A not quite simple undertaking, as Marc…
The moment of truth for Bitcoin
If the crypto-currency Bitcoin proves its worth in this coronavirus crisis, we are on the verge of a revolution in the monetary system. We are currently facing an historic watershed.…
The Tezos project, an interview with foundation board member Hubertus Thonhauser
An overview of the Tezos project, including an exclusive interview with foundation board member Hubertus Thonhauser about the current status of the blockchain-based smart contract platform. The Tezos project was…
Libra publishes revised white paper and submits application to FINMA
For a long time it was quiet around the planned stable coin social media company Facebook. Now the Geneva-based Libra Foundation is back with a revised white paper and a…
Swiss consortium takes Bitcoin to the Tezos platform
Under the leadership of the Bitcoin Association Switzerland and the Tezos Foundation, a decentralized consortium, have brought Bitcoin (BTC) into the Tezos ecosyste; enabling Bitcoin-supported use cases on the Tezos…
Does Bitcoin have what it takes to be digital gold? Part II
Thoughts on the new digital age by Claudio Grass. The decentralized (r)evolution of the Internet is followed by the second part: Does Bitcoin have what it takes to become digital…
Close Correlation between the Price of Bitcoin and Google Trends
The recently observed price increases in bitcoin have caused the search volume on Google to rise. According to statistics on Google Trends, this pattern of bitcoin price increases correlating with…