Category: Crypto Trends

This Rare Bitcoin Buy Signal Could Ignite Next BTC Rally

coiner

Bitcoin has been struggling with lower lows in recent weeks, leaving many investors questioning whether the asset is on the brink of a major bear cycle. However, a rare data point tied to the US Dollar Strength Index (DXY) suggests that a significant shift in market dynamics may be imminent. This bitcoin buy signal, which has only appeared three times in BTC’s history, could point to a bullish reversal despite the current bearish sentiment. For a more in-depth look into this topic, check out a recent YouTube video here:Bitcoin: This…

Read More

White House Draws Line Between Bitcoin And Digital Assets At Its First Crypto Summit, In EO

coiner

“From this day on, America will follow the rule that everyone in Bitcoin knows very well — never sell your Bitcoin.” -President Donald Trump, 3/7/25 at inaugural White House Crypto Summit The President of the United States is now reciting popular Bitcoin maxims as they pertain to America’s bitcoin stack. Wild. It’s clear that he’s gotten the message that bitcoin is something altogether different than all other digital assets. He’s proven this not only by what he said at today’s Crypto Summit, but also by signing an executive order (EO)…

Read More

Brazilian Publicly Traded Méliuz Adopts Bitcoin Treasury Strategy

coiner

Brazilian fintech company Méliuz announced Thursday it had allocated 10% of its cash reserves into bitcoin, becoming the first publicly traded firm in the country to adopt a bitcoin treasury strategy. Méliuz invested $4.1 million to acquire 45.72 bitcoins at an average price of $90,926 per coin. The purchase represents roughly 10% of the company’s total cash holdings based on a new policy approved by its board of directors. In a statement, Méliuz said the bitcoin allocation seeks “long-term returns” on the investment as part of its treasury management. The…

Read More

MEVpool, The Best Bandaid We Have For MEV

coiner

Miner Extractable Value. That phrase is essentially one of the biggest fundamental risk spaces that exist for blockchain based systems. The original conception of a blockchain included incentives for miners (or other consensus participants deciding transaction ordering) to earn revenue based on whatever initial block subsidy is entered into circulation each block in addition to fees paid by users to have their transactions confirmed.  These two things are no longer the only sources of revenues that incentivize the actions of miners. More complicated contracts and protocols now exist to facilitate…

Read More

Voltage Aims To Bring Bitcoin’s Lightning Network To Every Business In The World

coiner

Founder: Graham Krizek Date Founded: October 2020 Location of Headquarters: Wichita, Kansas Number of Employees: 17 Website: https://www.voltage.cloud/ Public or Private? Private In 2012, soon after Graham Krizek discovered Bitcoin and subsequently began contributing to Bitcoin Core and building his own applications on Bitcoin, he noticed an issue that was hindering Bitcoin builders. “The problem that I saw was that everyone was building everything from scratch — over and over and over again,” Krizek told Bitcoin Magazine. “There was no cloud environment where you could just spin up Bitcoin infrastructure…

Read More

My Top 3 Takeaways From Fidelity And Voltage’s Recent Lightning Report

coiner

Follow Frank on X. In a report released this Wednesday, Fidelity Digital Assets in collaboration with Lightning payment provider Voltage released a report on the state of the Lightning Network. The report details the many ways in which the Lightning Network has grown since its launch in 2018. It also illustrates how more businesses have begun incorporating Lightning in 2024 than any year prior, that larger channels are forming on the network and that more Lightning nodes are coming online. Source: The Lightning Network: Expanding Bitcoin Use Cases Some key…

Read More

The Next Decade, Part 2: The Road Ahead

coiner

We’re already starting to see the seeds of second layer potential develop from the base layer primitives that have been added or optimized in the first decade. Lightning, while still subject to some pretty big limitations, is really starting to thrive. And that is just the limited first version that is currently specified and deployed. There are now sidechains of various kinds deployed: Liquid, RSK, and even token chains tied to Bitcoin developed by Commerceblock. This is just the start. Schnorr and Taproot Just over the horizon, we have the…

Read More

BitVM Just Got A Massive Upgrade

coiner

The introduction of BitVM smart contracts has marked a significant milestone in the path for scalability and programmability of Bitcoin. Rooted in the original BitVM protocol, Bitlayer’s Finality Bridge introduces the first version of the protocol live on testnet, which is a good starting point for realizing the promises of the Bitcoin Renaissance or “Season 2”. Follow GG on X Unlike earlier BTC bridges that often required reliance on centralized entities or questionable trust assumptions, the Finality Bridge leverages a blend of BitVM smart contracts, fraud proofs, and zero-knowledge proofs.…

Read More

Proton Wallet — Now Available To Everyone — Is A Great Starter Self-Custodial Bitcoin Wallet

coiner

Follow Frank on X. In July of last year, Swiss privacy tech company Proton (makers of Proton Mail) announced it would be launching its own bitcoin wallet — Proton Wallet. I (along with about 100,000 other users) was given early access to the wallet to test it out and was impressed with the wallet’s user interface. I particularly liked that it allows you to link a user’s email address to their bitcoin address so that you only need to input the email address when sending bitcoin. You can read my…

Read More

Bitcoin Payments Aren't The Future, They're Here Already

coiner

Breez, in partnership with 1A1z, has released a new report investigating the use of Bitcoin as a payments system and transactional currency. Bitcoin has always been painted as digital gold, that is one of the longest running narratives at this point in terms of what Bitcoin actually is. It does capture the use as a long-term investment or speculative asset, and has been a very helpful aid in getting people over the first hump of basic understanding, but it is by no means a comprehensive explanation of what Bitcoin is.…

Read More