Monthly Archives: August 2019

Cryptocurrency trading platform Bakkt has announced that its physically-delivered bitcoin futures will be informally open to customers next month.  On August 28, 2019, the platform took to Twitter to announce that Bakkt Warehouse, its qualified custodian arm, would begin providing storage services for customers on September 6, 2019, in anticipation of its forthcoming daily and…

You can now use the Lightning Network to shop on stores powered by Shopify. The e-commerce platform now features a Bitcoin mainnet and Lightning Network plug-in for its more than 500,000 merchants, courtesy of OpenNode. On-chain payments on Shopify have been possible for sometime through BitPay, but this recently struck partnership is the first to…

On August 28, 2014, cypherpunk and Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney passed away due to complications with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which he had been fighting for nearly five years.  Prior to being diagnosed, the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction was an avid runner who never shied away from expressing his hobby on Twitter, even…

Beginning September 1, 2019, legacy peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins will extend its know-your-customer/anti-money laundering (KYC/AML) requirements and, as a consequence, limit user ability to retain privacy.  According to an official blog post published on June 18, 2019, the exchange has teamed up with identity verification technology provider Onfido, and a new account tier system will…