Bitcoin
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The first quarter of 2021 witnessed increasing institutional involvement in cryptocurrencies and public companies Tesla and Square join Microstrategy in adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets. Source: CoinDesk
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Happy Birthday, Bitcoin! This evening 11 years ago, on January 3rd, 2009, someone pressed a button on his (or her) keyboard and created a new currency. There was no paper, gold, or silver backing it, just bits and 31,000 lines of software code with a simple announcement on the Internet. Along with a 9-page Whitepaper…
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Square Crypto, the division of the publicly traded payments company that focuses exclusively on bitcoin, just hired one of the world’s most prolific bitcoin developers. Chaincode Labs alum and Blockstream co-founder Matt Corallo previously authored notable efficiency improvements such as the rust-lightning implementation, which makes it easier for users to build and interact with layers of the…