Mining, Institutional Adoption And Community Voice Defined Bitcoin’s 2020
2020 was unforgettable, especially for Bitcoin. To help memorialize this year for our readers, we asked our network of contributors to reflect on Bitcoin’s price action, technological development, community growth and more in 2020, and to reflect on what all of this might mean for 2021. These writers responded with a collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking articles. Click here to read all of the stories from our End Of Year 2020 Series. It is likely that 2020 will be remembered by most as a year of hardship, lockdowns, masks and lonesome holidays. While the world has been....
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Through adoption, price increases and more, Bitcoin’s 2020 improved the certainty that bitcoin will become the global reserve asset. The post Bitcoin’s 2020: The Rise Of Certainty appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020 has been an epic year for crypto and blockchain, but some did more than most to help spur adoption. In future years, it’s possible that 2020 will be seen as a watershed moment for cryptocurrencies. When Black Thursday hit in March, it wiped billions off the markets in a matter of hours. Anyone would have been forgiven for thinking recovery would take years. But by December, Bitcoin (BTC) has gone on to achieve a new all-time high, breaking the $20,000 resistance and almost reaching $24,000 in the process. This has come at the end of the first year in Bitcoin’s history where it was....
We asked our community to help wrap up Bitcoin’s wild 2020 and predict what could happen in 2021. Here are the results. The post Reader Survey: Bitcoin’s 2020 And 2021 appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
In 2020, the Bitcoin development community introduced a number of useful new features, important upgrades and notable improvements. The post Bitcoin’s 2020 In Tech appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
If triumphalism drove adoption, Bitcoin use would already be widespread, and its price against other currencies would be stratospheric. But the existence of a genius protocol does not guarantee its success. For Bitcoin to thrive, there must be a great deal of social and economic change. To foster such change, the Bitcoin ecosystem needs better and more mature communications. It’s a deficit that is costing the Bitcoin ecosystem in lost potential each day it persists. Bitcoin and the blockchain are brilliant and fascinating technologies. But Bitcoin’s social capital needs are manifold. To....