In 2018, one of the hottest topics for the bitcoin community has been taxation. In light of the exuberant rise in the value of bitcoin and other digital currencies in 2017, tax authorities around the world are now keen on catching wealthy bitcoin investors who have not been appropriately reporting […]
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Don’t Get Stuck in Your Own Bubble of Cryptoasset News and Information
Earlier this week, the @Bitcoin Twitter account was suspended and the original owner lost access to the account. At this time, it’s unclear why the owner was stripped of their ownership of the account, but it has since been returned to this pseudonymous individual. The situation with the @Bitcoin Twitter […]
Bitcoin Market Journal Interview with Dr. John Edmunds
In an exclusive interview, Dr. John Edmunds, Professor of Finance at Babson College, shared with Bitcoin Market Journal his views on how blockchain technology and initial coin offerings can help the Chilean economy. Edmunds is a distinguished scholar with a focus on finance and Latin America. Dr. Edmunds holds a […]
Q&A with Ned Scott, Steemit CEO
In your winter update, one of the things you said was that scaling was one of the biggest challenges that Steemit faced over the last year. It took a lot more resources than you thought. So how do you feel about the state of scaling now? Can you give us an […]
3 Key Factors That Have Pushed Down the Bitcoin Price in 2018
The bitcoin price is down a little over 50 percent so far this year, and everyone wants to know what has caused this massive sell-off up to this point. While it’s often a near-impossible task to pinpoint a single reason for a price decline, there are at least three concrete […]
Who Is the Founder of Telegram?
The life of Pavel Durov, creator of encrypted messaging service Telegram, has been nothing if not interesting. Born in Leningrad, which is now Saint Petersburg, he learned how to code at a young age, according to The New York Times. With his older brother Nikolai as a teacher, Pavel was […]
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Continues to Grow in the Face of a Declining Cryptoasset Market
It’s been another bad seven days for the bitcoin price (and even worse for most altcoins), but plenty of development work is still going on behind the scenes. Technical developments, such as Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, tend to be better indicators of long-term trends in the market than short-term price swings, […]
Major Tech Companies are Banning Bitcoin and ICO Advertisements
The bitcoin, altcoin, and initial coin offering (ICO) boom continued to falter this week as more tech companies announced new rules regarding advertisements related to the cryptocurrency industry. At this point, pretty much every major tech company (e.g. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snap) has implemented changes to its ad policies that […]
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is Now Live! Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network took a giant leap forward this week with the beta release of Lightning Labs’s Lightning Network Daemon (LND). With this software, developers now have the tools to create Lightning apps (lapps) for the average bitcoin user. The release also marks the true beginning of the development of […]
Q&A with Ryan Colby of Tokenfest
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Bitcoin Market Journal’s John Hargrave and Ryan Colby, founder of the upcoming cryptocurrency conference Token Fest. What was your blockchain origin story, Ryan? How did you get involved in this exciting space? In the early spring of 2017, I started acquiring Ether, […]