Bitcoin Magazine Templar Launches Native Bitcoin Lending Without Intermediaries In a significant development for Bitcoin holders, Templar Protocol has announced the launch of its mainnet, introducing the first “Cypher Lending”…

Bitcoin Magazine Freedom, Decentralization and Unity: Stay True to These Principles and the Future Is Ours, Says Ross Ulbricht Last week, Ross William Ulbricht, at the 2025 Bitcoin Conference in…

Bitcoin Magazine Is 8% of Bitcoin Owned by Institutions a Threat to Its Future? Institutional ownership of Bitcoin has surged over the past year, with around 8% of the total…

Follow Aaron on Nostr or X. It’s difficult to find a more fundamental threat to Bitcoin’s continued existence than mining centralization. If —say— there are only a few mining pools,…

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Halving Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription. Halvings are always looked at as seminal events, a demarking of…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed several enhancements aimed at improving the network’s permissionlessness and decentralization. The proposed changes focus on tackling issues such as miner extractable value (MEV), hardware…

“One of the many ways that Bitcoin is an experiment is in its decentralized development model,” explained Amiti Uttarwar. “Whether a non-profit or a private company, the vast majority of…

The new update will enable the selection of transactions via a new sub-protocol and miners’ nodes. A new reference implementation (SRI) update for Stratum v2 has been announced by developers…

As financial institutions’ “too big to fail” mindset erodes, can Bitcoin’s pioneering decentralization save our wealth? This is an opinion editorial by Nikolay Denisenko, co-founder and CTO of Brighty, a…

Following the initial incident on Feb. 25, Solana resolved the blockchain’s performance degradation after validators decided to restart the network. According to an outage report following more than 24 hours…