Blockstream News

Major crypto mining firm Blockstream looks to raise $50 million to acquire mining equipment in anticipation of the next Bitcoin (BTC) halving. During a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Blockstream’s mining sales head James Macedonio said that the firm wants to…

Amid the mounting regulatory pressures on cryptocurrency exchanges, Blockstream CEO Adam Back highlights the inherent resilience and adaptability of the crypto industry.

Adam Back, the co-founder of Blockstream, thinks bitcoin (BTC) can rally to $10m, driving its market capitalization to over $200t in the next nine years.

According to a recent statement by the firm, Blockstream is putting fundraised funds worth $125 Million into its mining sector. Blockworks is still going strong despite 2022's bear market.

Blockstream has deposited a one-time payment of 10m Sats to the SeedSigner development fund for easing access to Blockstream Jade, a hardware wallet.

The answer is yes on whether satellites help extend crypto networks. As we will learn herein, satellite projects are already in use today, providing reliable yet limited alternatives to internet service providers. Projects that enable data propagation from public and…

Blockstream and Sevenlabs are partnering with Poseidon Group to launch a decentralized Bitcoin exchange.

Blockstream has announced the rollout of a new multi-signature standard called Robust Asynchronous Schnorr Threshold Signatures (ROAST). ROAST is designed to function as an improvement to the Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures (FROST) threshold signature scheme, according to a blog…

Blockstream, a Bitcoin startup, and Block (previously Square), a digital payments provider, will use Tesla’s Megapack technology to power a new solar and battery-powered mining center. According to a recent report, the mining site would have 3.8 megawatts (MW) of…

Blockchain technology firm Blockstream allies with Square to push for solar-powered bitcoin mining. Powering Solar-Energy Mined Bitcoin In an announcement made on June 5, blockchain firm Blockstream announced a partnership with Jack Dorsey’s Square Inc. to develop an open-source, solar-powered…

Aker’s recent press release states that it has started a company committed to investing in blockchain technology products. Aker Dives Further into Crypto According to the press release, the new company dubbed Seetee AS will have all its investment tools…

Former Blockstream CTO Greg Maxwell and MIT’s Cory Fields have expressed their opinion regarding possible threats that could lead to bitcoin failure. For both, a 51 percent attack is very unlikely and they are more worried about a social attack…

On August 8, Canadian company Blockstream unveiled Blockstream Mining, a new solution to host and manage Bitcoin mining equipment at facilities located in Quebec and the United States. The project also includes a mining pool based on the BetterHash protocol.…

The Liquid Network, the world’s “first production Bitcoin sidechain”, is now accessible from the mobile wallet Blocksream Green. The update is supported on both iOS and Android, and allows its users to take advantage of Liquid Bitcoin in a simple…

Adding to the swathes of problems and criticisms that have come since the release of the Libra whitepaper, Facebook’s crypto project. An anonymous developer has forked the Libra code and proposed a more privacy-oriented alternative. Subsequently the startup accused Facebook…

During an episode of the Keiser Report, a discussion hosted by Max Keiser, streamed on May 17, 2019, the Chief Strategy Officer of Blockstream, Samson Mow, declared that their satellite in the geosynchronous orbit broadcasting the Bitcoin blockchain could prevent…