Originally published on Unchained.com. Unchained is the official US Collaborative Custody partner of Bitcoin Magazine and an integral sponsor of related content published through Bitcoin Magazine. For more information on services offered, custody products, and the relationship between Unchained and Bitcoin Magazine, please visit our website.  For newcomers, especially those in and around retirement age, the idea of investing in or owning bitcoin can evoke reactions from skepticism to disbelief. If you look beyond the popular narratives, however, you might find there is more to the stor ..read more

Fidelity, a major financial services firm, says pension funds are starting to explore investing in Bitcoin, particularly after the approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds earlier this year. BREAKING: Wall Street giant Fidelity says pension funds are beginning to explore #Bitcoin and crypto Gradually, then suddenly ? pic.twitter.com/8vBz4Bf02t — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) May 3, 2024 Fidelity has been bullish on Bitcoin for years, launching its Digital Assets branch in 2018 and bringing a successful Bitcoin ETF to market earlier this year. The firm's ETF attracted si ..read more

In a Keynote address at MicroStrategy World: Bitcoin for Corporations, MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor delivered a masterclass on corporate finance and the power of bitcoin to supercharge corporate balance sheets. Saylor made a point to emphasize Bitcoin as the single solution for capital appreciation in an inflationary environment. In his speech, Saylor likened the cost of capital to being the benchmark which a company must surpass to increase its purchasing power, arguing that “Bitcoin is the only asset that exceeds the cost of capital. Another way to say that, is everything ..read more

The last six months or so have seen several proposals for improvements to Bitcoin Script: CAT, 64-bit arithmetic, as well as some older ideas (CTV) and far-future ideas (Chialisp and Simplicity). This activity has largely overshadowed some revolutionary changes in our understanding of the existing Bitcoin Script, changes which form the basis of BitVM but which may also form the basis of other, equally-exciting improvements. This article tries to summarize and organize research into Script by other people. I make no claim to originality or authorship of anything described here. Bitcoin Script A ..read more

Microstrategy’s annual Bitcoin for Corporations conference has kicked off its second day, featuring conversations with leading finance, regulatory and fintech professionals on the future of corporate Bitcoin adoption. Discussions will center around the financial implications of the recently approved Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States, the changing regulatory landscape for Bitcoin, as well as catalysts for other firms to follow MicroStrategy in pursuing their own Bitcoin strategy. MicroStrategy World: Bitcoin for Corporations is available for live viewing via the Bitcoin Magazine livestrea ..read more

A Binance user, after purchasing and withdrawing BTC from the exchange, has lucked upon one of just four extremely rare "Epic Sats" from Bitcoin's 2016 halving epoch. These special satoshis, categorized by the Ordinals protocol, are considered some of the most scarce and significant in Bitcoin's history. BREAKING: The first satoshi of #Bitcoin’s second halving block was just found by a Binance user. A $10 transaction worth 33 $BTC. Jackpot ? pic.twitter.com/rLE16ogNsc — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) May 2, 2024 The term "Epic Sat" refers to the first satoshi of each Bitcoin halvin ..read more

Asset management giant BlackRock says it is seeing growing interest in Bitcoin ETFs from institutional players like sovereign wealth funds and pension funds.  This comes after a hugely successful debut for BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF, iShares IBIT, which was approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year. BREAKING: Blackrock says “Sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and endowments” are coming to #Bitcoin Institutions are coming big time ? pic.twitter.com/GLcpMJYkYz — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) May 2, 2024 The U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF market has exploded in 2024 ..read more

BNP Paribas, the second largest European bank, has purchased exposure to Bitcoin via a spot ETF, per recent 13F filings with the SEC .  The filings show BNP Paribas bought BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT). JUST IN: ?? Second largest European bank, BNP Paribas reports exposure to #Bitcoin ETF in 13F filings. It's just getting started ? pic.twitter.com/4zi1EkAc07 — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) May 2, 2024 U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen immense success since launching earlier this year, crossing $200 billion in cumulative volume.  Under regulations, large institut ..read more

Korok Ray, Bitcoin researcher and Associate Professor at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, announced plans to launch The Bitcoin Research Institute to drive academic research at the intersection of Bitcoin and artificial intelligence. At the MicroStrategy World: Bitcoin for Corporations 2024 event, Ray made note of Bitcoin’s potential to enable secure multi-party computation (MPC), offering the example of poker players agreeing on the state of a particular game as a basic form of computation. He expanded this example to include deep neural networks and agent-based reinforc ..read more

MicroStrategy revealed its latest innovation today, a decentralized identity (ID) platform built on the Bitcoin network, named MicroStrategy Orange, at the MicroStrategy World: Bitcoin for Corporations 2024 event. JUST IN: MicroStrategy launches an enterprise platform for building decentralized identity applications on #Bitcoin — MicroStrategy Orange ? pic.twitter.com/P5PXz80kSD — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) May 1, 2024 "Today, I'd like to introduce MicroStrategy Orange, which is an an enterprise platform for building decentralized identity applications on the Bitcoin b ..read more