Discover the world’s top Bitcoin holders in River’s inaugural Top 21 List. In 2024, the top holders own 2.3M BTC, comprising 11% of the total bitcoin supply.
What Is a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)? | River Learn - Bitcoin Technology
A Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) is a formal proposal to change Bitcoin. The BIP process organizes the Bitcoin community in the absence of a centralized leader. BIPs can propose changes to Bitcoin's consensus layer, community standards, or the development process.
Listen now (8 min) | If you are not a subscriber of The Pomp Letter, join 215,000 other investors who read my personal opinion on finance, technology, and bitcoin each morning. To investors, Algorithmic stablecoins elicit intellectual curiosity from people across disciplines. Whether you are coming from the technology industry, finance, or academia, creating a digital currency that holds stable value without being pegged to another asset is a fascinating problem. The value of this type of asset is obvious, but no one has been able to figure it out.
Background In my article last week, I wrote up the basics of DeFi and how DeFi is coming to Bitcoin. Building DeFi on top of Bitcoin makes sense as the base layer is the most unchanging, trustworthy, and decentralized blockchain to build upon. "To build DeFi on a centralised protocol, or one that is a protocol managed by rulers, is inherently broken from the start" -
What Happened When Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Disappeared - Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin News, Articles, Charts, and Guides
10 years after Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's disappeared, Pete Rizzo distills the full story of his time as project leader into one readable article.