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British regulators have forced bitcoin exchange Luno to take down ads recommending bitcoin purchases.A creative advertising slogan curated by Luno, a United Kingdom-based bitcoin exchange, has been banned by the U.K.’s Advertising Standard Authority (ASA), according to a recent report from CNBC. Posters displayed across the London Underground network and on London buses prominently stated…

Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people. For some, it presented opportunities for prosperity, becoming the best performing asset in their portfolio. For others, this peer-to-peer cash for the internet represents…

With inflation in the U.S. hitting its highest mark since the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin is serving as a critical lifeline.The consumer price index (CPI), a measure of the price of consumer goods and services, increased by an annual rate of 5% last month, hitting its highest mark since August 2008, according to the U.S.…

Silk Road darknet marketplace founder Ross Ulbricht explains how bitcoin derives its value from the freedom it enables.An earlier version of this article was published on Medium on September 25, 2019.Something special happened in the first year or so after Satoshi gave us Bitcoin, something no one expected and many thought was impossible. Try to…

I had the opportunity to participate on a legal panel with David Silver at the Unconfiscatable: Bitcoin Not Blockchain Conference put on by Tone Vays in Las Vegas. It was quite an honor to be part of it; the conference was hands down the best Bitcoin event I’ve attended since Jason King hosted Coins in…

Bitcoin surpasses $60,000 and looks poised to retake a new all-time high soon and pump to prices never seen before.Bitcoin is back at $60,000 and looks poised to retake a new all-time high of $65,000 in the near future.Starting off the year in the low $30,000s, we watched bitcoin put doubters in disbelief as it…

This week’s newsletter features a letter from John Newbery, founder of Bitcoin Optech, information about IRC channel updates and more.The Bitcoin Optech newsletter provides readers with a top-level summary of the most important technical news happening in Bitcoin, along with resources that help them learn more. To help our readers stay up-to-date with Bitcoin, we're…

Things you can buy with bitcoin: AT&T’s services, airfare, pretty much anything using gift cards through Bitrefill, pizza, drugs (duh) and now, Indigenous Australian art. Yes, you read that right. The Indigenous Fine Art Gallery (IFAG) in Australia now accepts bitcoin for its “museum-quality art from Australia’s most collectible Indigenous artists.” This puts the IFAG…

Listen To This Episode: AppleSpotifyGoogleLibsynOvercast In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed compact client-side filtering, also known as Neutrino. Compact client-side filtering is a solution to use Bitcoin without needing to download and validate the entire blockchain, and without sacrificing your privacy to someone who operates…