The
#BTCTimes
delivers quality reporting of the
#Bitcoin
news you care about, covers stories that others don't, and addresses bad takes in mainstream media.
#Bitcoin
: World’s biggest bank with no actual cash.
@Uber
: World’s largest taxi company that owns no vehicles.
@facebook
: World’s most popular media, creates no content.
@Airbnb
: World’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate.
Times are changing people.
“For me
#Bitcoin
changes absolutely everything. What I’m drawn to the most about it is the ethos, is what it represents, are the conditions that created it, which are so rare and so special and so precious ”
- Jack Dorsey
Visa plans to not only facilitate
#Bitcoin
purchases, but also enable Bitcoin payments “at any of the 70 million places around the world where Visa is accepted,” the firm's CEO said.
BREAKING: Rio De Janeiro Mayor announces that the city will put 1% of its treasury into
#bitcoin
.
The announcement was made at Rio Innovation Week by Mayor
@eduardopaes
during a chat with Miami Mayor
@FrancisSuarez
.
Despite a smear campaign, El Salvador was successfully able to pay off an $800 million bond!
President
@nayibbukele
sheds light on mainstream tactics to discredit the country and
#Bitcoin
.
#BTC
As Bitcoin's foray into institutional finance continues, Larry Fink, CEO of the world's largest asset manager BlackRock, has stated he sees the possibility for
#Bitcoin
to "evolve into a global market."
Thailand joins a host of countries that include India and Russia in reversing recent proposals that included measures to restrict, ban, and tax
#bitcoin
.
Two filings with the SEC suggest that the world's leading asset manager BlackRock may soon add exposure to
#Bitcoin
futures through "certain funds."
@ItsTwoTM
reports
IMPORTANT: Warn your friends and
#Bitcoin
beginners to never to use any products or services on bitcoin(.)com. There’s a high risk of accidentally buying the BCH or BAB altcoins because their content and marketing is based on creating confusion with the real Bitcoin. ⚠️⚠️⚠️
The CEO of
@ln_strike
@jackmallers
today announced the company’s expansion into Argentina as it continues its mission to “make the world a better place” with
#bitcoin
and the lightning network.
Today marks the third anniversary of the day
#SegWit
reached lock-in threshold on the
#Bitcoin
network.
Today also marks the launch of the
#BTCTimes
.
The
@BTC
Times delivers quality reporting of the
#Bitcoin
news you care about:
Evolution of the banker outlook on Bitcoin:
2013: "Bitcoin is a joke."
2014: "Bitcoin is dead."
2015: "Blockchains not Bitcoin."
2016: "Bitcoin will fail"
2017: "BITCOIN IS GOING TO CRASH THE GLOBAL ECONOMY"
Can’t beat us, join us.
#Bitcoin
#Bitcoin
Timeline:
$0 - $1k: 1789 days
$1k- $2k: 1271 days
$2k- $3k: 23 days
$3k- $4k: 62 days
$4k- $5k: 61 days
$5k- $6k: 8 days
$6k- $7k: 13 days
$7k- $8k: 14 days
$8k- $9k: 9 days
$9k- $10k: 2 days
$10k- $11k: <1 day
$11k- $12k: 6 days
Bitcoin's hashrate just hit another ATH after a 15% increase from two weeks ago.
New hardware is consistently being added to the
#bitcoin
network. $BTC
BREAKING: The implementation of the Schnorr/Taproot consensus rules has been merged into
#Bitcoin
Core. The upgrade's activation method has yet to be determined.
@ecurrencyhodler
reports
Ukraine has posted
#bitcoin
and
#Tether
addresses on its official Twitter account
@Ukraine
and is soliciting funds to help with its defence efforts.
This is unprecedented.
Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
@jack
@morcosa
and Martin White announce the launch of the fund on the bitcoin dev list.
"The main purpose of this Fund is to defend developers from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem"
Today marks the 12th anniversary of the day Satoshi Nakamoto published the
#Bitcoin
white paper. We’ve compiled a few facts surrounding the release of the nine pages that made history.
BREAKING: GLV Endomorphism, a feature originally proposed by Hal Finney but never deployed due to patent concerns, can now be activated in Bitcoin Core.
@ecurrencyhodler
reports
DCA
#bitcoin
daily, HODL, & chill.
Anyone who has done this for 3 years or more has never been at a loss.
#Bitcoin
is the best long term store of value.
@w_s_bitcoin
.
@Tesla
has sold 10% of its
#bitcoin
holdings "essentially to prove liquidity of Bitcoin as an alternative to holding cash on balance sheet," Tesla chief
@elonmusk
said.
@ItsTwoTM
reports
As
#Bitcoin
climbed above $60,000, El Salvador's
@chivowallet
received over 24,000 remittances in a single day, amounting to more than $3 million.
@ItsTwoTM
reports
OPINION:
@jack
doesn’t need to build an open developer platform. He’s already a wealthy man thanks to his serial entrepreneurship. He does it because he believes in
#Bitcoin
and the ideals it embodies.
via
@obi
Surprisingly, we were suspended for a few days, and just as surprisingly, we were unsuspended. Seems like a report brigade tried to shut us down. If you value
@btc
tweeting good things about
#Bitcoin
&
#Lightning
, give us a follow and retweet so we can continue! ⚡️🤝
A solo
#bitcoin
miner with 126 TH/s has successfully mined a block. The miner earned the block reward of 6.25 BTC + 0.1 BTC in fees currently worth a total of $272,000
The chances of this are:
Chance per block: 1 in 1,442,301
Chance per day: 1 in 10,016
Time estimate: 27 years
More things that did not exist on Christmas Day 10 years ago:
Bitcoin
Instagram
Snapchat
iPad
Kickstarter
Pinterest
App Store
Angry Birds
Siri
Google Chrome
WhatsApp
Candy Crush
Alexa
Tinder
Apple Watch
Facebook Messenger
Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes