Top news of the week: 19.01.2022.
Bitcoin
Congress Treats Bitcoin Like Stacks of Cash
A new federal law mandates reporting transactions of more than $10,000. Why?
Bitcoin crashes the midterms
Candidates are staking out positions on cryptocurrency, scrambling party lines and fanning fundraising concerns.
Volcanos, Bitcoin and remittances: A Tongan lord plans for financial security
Lord Fusitu’a, a former-Tongan MP, is behind a proposal to make Bitcoin legal tender and establish volcano mining facilities.
Brazilian mayor to reportedly invest 1% of city reserves in Bitcoin
Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes is planning to turn the city into “Crypto Rio” and allocate 1% of the city’s treasury into Bitcoin.
Bitcoin vs Crypto & Web3 with Ryan Selkis
In this interview, I talk to the founder and CEO of the research and data firm Messari, Ryan Selkis. We discuss Messari’s industry-leading opus on the state of the ecosystem, Bitcoin and ...
Bitcoin ‘Energy Per Transaction’ Is A Misleading Metric
Measuring Bitcoin’s environmental impact with “energy per transaction” is misleading and disingenuous.
43% of Bitcoin trading volume during US market hours: Arcane Research
The findings illustrate that American traders — or traders wishing to trade during American market hours — take the lion’s share of Bitcoin trading activity.