2140 matters because miners will rely only on transaction fees, not new Bitcoin block rewards. Layer-2 can move small payments off-chain, but Layer 1 can still earn fees from big “final settlement” ...

“Bitcoin is at a crossroads—on one hand it’s never been stronger: a trillion in market cap, millions of holders, and even talk of nation-state adoption,” Suter said. “We use Bitcoin to hold, to hedge, ...

Foundry USA, Bitcoin's largest mining pool, briefly produced seven consecutive blocks on Monday, triggering a rare two-block chain reorganization that orphaned valid blocks from AntPool and ViaBTC.

Block is accelerating its push to make bitcoin everyday money, with Miles Suter unveiling new payments, rewards, and self-custody tools at Bitcoin 2026 alongside proof of $2.2 billion in BTC reserves.

"If Bitcoin breaks, then so does our industry as a whole, so we might as well use Bitcoin security for cross-chain DeFi," BOB co-founder Alexei Zamyatin, told CoinDesk. The team behind the project BOB ...

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Bitcoin’s on-chain metrics are painting a picture of rather steady underlying activity even as the cryptocurrency’s price ...

Fractal Bitcoin represents a forward-thinking concept for scaling Bitcoin to accommodate a growing user base and increasing transaction volume. It proposes a multi-layered on-chain approach using ...

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