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Bitcoin isn’t just a cryptocurrency — it’s a financial revolution. As the dominant digital asset, it fuels a trillion-dollar industry, institutional adoption, and a vision for truly permissionless finance. With its fixed supply and role as digital gold, Bitcoin has grown to shape global markets. Bankless keeps you informed on its latest developments.

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Spark Wants to Make Bitcoin Spendable Again
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Spark Wants to Make Bitcoin Spendable Again

Spark is a Bitcoin 'L2' that uses statechains to power cheap, fast, and self-custodial transactions.

2 months ago Bitcoin Magic Eden

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Breaking Down the $4B Bitcoin Behemoth 'Twenty One'
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Breaking Down the $4B Bitcoin Behemoth 'Twenty One'

Tether, SoftBank, and Cantor Fitzgerald are joining hands on a new firm that bills itself as taking the Strategy playbook one step further.

5 months ago Bitcoin Tether

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Where Bitcoin DeFi Action is Happening
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Where Bitcoin DeFi Action is Happening

Bitcoin's onchain footprint is growing through wrapped asset proliferation, but where are people putting their BTC to work?

5 months ago Bitcoin Base Berachain Solana
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Bitcoin's Market Behavior May Never Look the Same
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Bitcoin's Market Behavior May Never Look the Same

The market for BTC is changing. Is the four-year cycle over?

6 months ago Bitcoin Tether Matt Hougan pump.fun

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Can Bitcoin Thrive Onchain?
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Can Bitcoin Thrive Onchain?

Guest Post: How wallets and protocols are bridging Bitcoin into the onchain world.

6 months ago Bitcoin Ethereum Solana Coinbase
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Taking the Pulse of Ordinals and Runes on Bitcoin
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Taking the Pulse of Ordinals and Runes on Bitcoin

With Bitcoin bigger than it's ever been, is a new era starting for its cultural assets like Ordinals and Runes?

10 months ago Bitcoin Ordinals Runes Magic Eden
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MicroStrategy's Infinite Money Machine?
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MicroStrategy's Infinite Money Machine?

How Michael Saylor is pushing to turn MSTR into a leveraged bet on BTC.

11 months ago Bitcoin Coinbase Binance

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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits New All-Time High
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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits New All-Time High

The latest trend in mining difficulty has analysts forecasting positive price action.

11 months ago

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Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 3 min read Spark Wants to Make Bitcoin Spendable Again Spark is a Bitcoin 'L2' that uses statechains to power cheap, fast, and self-custodial transactions.... AnalysisBitcoin 7 0 Spark Wants to Make Bitcoin Spendable Again Written by Jack Inabinet • 5 months ago • 5 min read Breaking Down the $4B Bitcoin Behemoth 'Twenty One' Tether, SoftBank, and Cantor Fitzgerald are joining hands on a new firm that bills itself as taking ... AnalysisBitcoin 1 0 Breaking Down the $4B Bitcoin Behemoth 'Twenty One' Written by David Christopher • 5 months ago • 6 min read Where Bitcoin DeFi Action is Happening Bitcoin's onchain footprint is growing through wrapped asset proliferation, but where are people put... DeFiAnalysisBitcoin 4 0 Where Bitcoin DeFi Action is Happening Written by David Christopher • 6 months ago • 6 min read Bitcoin's Market Behavior May Never Look the Same The market for BTC is changing. Is the four-year cycle over?... AnalysisBitcoin 3 0 Bitcoin's Market Behavior May Never Look the Same Written by Guest Author • 6 months ago • 6 min read Can Bitcoin Thrive Onchain? Guest Post: How wallets and protocols are bridging Bitcoin into the onchain world.... AnalysisBitcoin 0 1 Can Bitcoin Thrive Onchain? Written by William M. Peaster • 10 months ago • 4 min read Taking the Pulse of Ordinals and Runes on Bitcoin With Bitcoin bigger than it's ever been, is a new era starting for its cultural assets like Ordinals... NFTsBitcoin 6 0 Taking the Pulse of Ordinals and Runes on Bitcoin Written by Jack Inabinet • 11 months ago • 4 min read MicroStrategy's Infinite Money Machine? How Michael Saylor is pushing to turn MSTR into a leveraged bet on BTC.... OpinionBitcoin 5 0 MicroStrategy's Infinite Money Machine? Written by David Christopher • 11 months ago • 1 min read Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits New All-Time High The latest trend in mining difficulty has analysts forecasting positive price action.... NewsBitcoin 1 0 Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits New All-Time High Written by William M. Peaster • 12 months ago • 2 min read Where to Get Started with Coinbase's cbBTC Discover three essential apps to explore Coinbase Wrapped Bitcoin (cbBTC) and maximize your DeFi opp... How TosBitcoin 5 0 Where to Get Started with Coinbase's cbBTC Written by Jack Inabinet • 1 year ago • 1 min read Can ETH/BTC Gains Last? Ethereum's ratio against BTC is up 10% off its recent lows.... NewsBitcoin 3 0 Can ETH/BTC Gains Last? Written by David Christopher • 1 year ago • 1 min read MicroStrategy Adds $1.1B in BTC to Its Massive Holdings The firm now holds a mind-boggling 244.8K bitcoin.... NewsBitcoin 5 0 MicroStrategy Adds $1.1B in BTC to Its Massive Holdings Written by David Christopher • 1 year ago • 1 min read Bitcoin 2024 Conference Concludes in Nashville The biggest Bitcoin conference of the year just finished up in Nashville, Tennessee... NewsBitcoin 4 0 Bitcoin 2024 Conference Concludes in Nashville Written by David Christopher • 1 year ago • 1 min read Proton Mail Maker Debuts Bitcoin Wallet Proton has launched early access to its self-custody Proton Wallet.... NewsBitcoin 2 0 Proton Mail Maker Debuts Bitcoin Wallet Written by David Christopher • 1 year ago • 1 min read Mt. Gox Begins Mass BTC Transfers $3.1 billion in BTC was just transferred to new addresses ahead of creditor repayments.... NewsBitcoin 2 0 Mt. Gox Begins Mass BTC Transfers Written by William M. Peaster • 1 year ago • 3 min read OP_CAT: The Missing Piece for BTC L2s? This opcode has everyone talking; what does it do?... AnalysisBitcoin 8 0 OP_CAT: The Missing Piece for BTC L2s? Written by David Christopher • 1 year ago • 1 min read StarkWare Plans Bitcoin Scaling Effort The team behind StarkNet is kicking off early plans for Bitcoin-centric ZK scaling.... NewsBitcoin 1 0 StarkWare Plans Bitcoin Scaling Effort Written by • 1 year ago • 5 min read Unpacking the Bitcoin L2 Narrative BTC L2s aren't technically real yet, but the narrative around them is already catching fire.... AnalysisBitcoin 7 0 Unpacking the Bitcoin L2 Narrative Written by Jack Inabinet • 1 year ago • 6 min read How Will Bitcoin Handle This Halving? With hours until the Halving, there are still some big concerns.... AnalysisBitcoin 5 0 How Will Bitcoin Handle This Halving? Written by Jack Inabinet • 1 year ago • 3 min read The Bitcoin Halving's Degen Bets Where are Bitcoin bulls making leveraged bets?... Bitcoin 3 0 The Bitcoin Halving's Degen Bets Written by David Christopher • 2 years ago • 5 min read Why This Bitcoin Halving Cycle Could Be Different Is BTC sticking to the plan? Or are its cycles shifting?... AnalysisBitcoin 0 0 Why This Bitcoin Halving Cycle Could Be Different Written by William M. Peaster • 2 years ago • 6 min read 8 Bitcoin L2s You Should Be Watching Bitcoin's L2 narrative is scaling up quickly... AnalysisBitcoin 0 0 8 Bitcoin L2s You Should Be Watching Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 years ago • 3 min read Where Bitcoin Goes Next It's a new bull market for Bitcoin, but some big questions remain! ... AnalysisBitcoin 4 0 Where Bitcoin Goes Next Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 years ago • 3 min read Bitcoin Needs Apps Bitcoin's toughest problem has a straightforward solution... AnalysisBitcoin 6 0 Bitcoin Needs Apps Written by William M. Peaster • 2 years ago • 4 min read Did Satoshi Dream of NFTs? 😶‍🌫️ On whether Satoshi anticipated NFTs!... OpinionBitcoin 1 0 Did Satoshi Dream of NFTs? 😶‍🌫️ Written by Ben Giove • 2 years ago • 3 min read Bitcoin Blasts Back Markets are surging, here's what's going on... NewsBitcoin 1 0 Bitcoin Blasts Back Written by William M. Peaster • 2 years ago • 6 min read Using BRC-20 Tokens on Bitcoin How to start exploring the latest Bitcoin frontier... How TosBitcoin 3 0 Using BRC-20 Tokens on Bitcoin Written by William M. Peaster • 2 years ago • 7 min read 10 Bitcoin Buy Signals The hot BTC catalysts you should be watching... Citizen-only AnalysisBitcoin 0 0 10 Bitcoin Buy Signals Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 years ago • 6 min read Are BTC Memecoins a Thing Now? Memecoin Szn: Bitcoin Edition... Bitcoin 0 0 Are BTC Memecoins a Thing Now? Written by Ben Giove • 3 years ago • 8 min read Bitcoin is Dominating As another financial crisis looms, BTC is now the flight-to-safety.... NewsAnalysisBitcoin 3 0 Bitcoin is Dominating Written by William M. Peaster • 3 years ago • 6 min read How to Mint a Bitcoin NFT Welcome to the world of Ordinals. Let Bankless be your guide.... NFTsHow TosBitcoin 5 0 How to Mint a Bitcoin NFT Written by William M. Peaster • 3 years ago • 7 min read Bitcoin NFTs … Again ✌️ Tracking the explosion of activity around Bitcoin NFTs!... NewsBitcoin 0 0 Bitcoin NFTs … Again ✌️ Written by William M. Peaster • 3 years ago • 4 min read Bitcoin NFTs 🚀 There is no second best… NFT chain?... NewsBitcoin 0 0 Bitcoin NFTs 🚀 Written by Bankless • 3 years ago • 7 min read How Bitcoin Builds DeFi Muneeb Ali shows us how the road to Bitcoin DeFi is being paved. ... DeFiOpinionBitcoin 27 0 How Bitcoin Builds DeFi Written by William M. Peaster • 3 years ago • 8 min read The Essential Guide to DeFi on Bitcoin A guide on how to swap, lend, borrow, and earn on Bitcoin's DeFi layer. ... DeFiHow TosBitcoin 25 0 The Essential Guide to DeFi on Bitcoin Written by Bankless • 3 years ago • 12 min read Why the Flippening Is Good for Crypto The Merge has happened. Is ETH on track to flip BTC now? ... 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Citizen-only DeFiOpinionBitcoin 0 0 The Second Crypto Money Written by Ryan Sean Adams • 5 years ago • 7 min read When Bitcoin Moon? 5 predictions on the price of Bitcoin using predictive models and data science... AnalysisBitcoin 2 0 When Bitcoin Moon? Written by Ryan Sean Adams • 5 years ago • 7 min read How to mint trustless BTC on Ethereum Learning how to use Keep Network to mint tBTC on Ethereum... How TosInvestingBitcoin 0 0 How to mint trustless BTC on Ethereum Written by David Hoffman • 5 years ago • 10 min read Bitcoin's Scarcity Game ...and the growing ecosystem of Money Games on Ethereum... OpinionBitcoin 1 0 Bitcoin's Scarcity Game Written by David Hoffman • 5 years ago • 14 min read The Three Nation Problem The world is heading into a Three Nation Problem, and one of these nations is not like the others... OpinionBitcoin 1 0 The Three Nation Problem Written by Ryan Sean Adams • 5 years ago • 11 min read DeFi on Bitcoin Experiences building DeFi on Bitcoin from the founders of Atomic Loans ... DeFiAnalysisBitcoin 0 0 DeFi on Bitcoin Written by Ryan Sean Adams • 5 years ago • 11 min read The Moneyness of Bitcoin and Ethereum Both BTC and ETH have a chance to become world’s first non-sovereign digital money but both have t... AnalysisEthereumOpinionBitcoin 0 0 The Moneyness of Bitcoin and Ethereum Written by Lucas Campbell • 5 years ago • 8 min read Is tokenized BTC bullish for ETH? Why trustless Bitcoin on Ethereum is a bull case for ETH value accrual... AnalysisEthereumBitcoin 0 0 Is tokenized BTC bullish for ETH? Written by Ryan Sean Adams • 6 years ago • 7 min read How Does Cryptocurrency Gain Value? ETH and BTC are economic bandwidth. It is the most under appreciated source of scalability in crypto... AnalysisEthereumBitcoin 0 0 How Does Cryptocurrency Gain Value? 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