Bitcoin advocate, human rights activist María Machado wins Nobel Peace PrizeThe Venezuelan opposition leader has championed Bitcoin as a lifeline for individuals trying to protect their wealth or attempting to flee the country.Vince QuillOct 10, 2025
P2P marketplaces need to become unstoppable, permissionless — Paxful co-founderA new project aims to build a peer-to-peer marketplace to facilitate censorship-resistant, permissionless trading among Bitcoin users.Aug 25, 2023Gareth Jenkinson
Blockchain IoT firm Nodle goes open source with Web3 Bluetooth ‘nanocomputer’ stickerNodle unveils open-source Bluetooth ‘nanocomputer’ N1 sticker aimed at increasing IoT connectivity across industries.Aug 2, 2023Gareth Jenkinson
TransUnion to begin providing identity-protected credit scoring for DeFi lendingThe American credit reporting agency is teaming up with Spring Labs and Quadrata for a new service that should make DeFi borrowing easier and less risky.Apr 20, 2023Derek Andersen
Peer-to-peer crypto exchanges struggle to navigate shifting legal landscapeTwo major P2P platforms announced their closure in the first quarter of 2023. Many blame it on growing regulatory scrutiny, but experts call for better alternatives.Apr 17, 2023Prashant Jha
Paxful shutdown hits Nigeria harder than the rest of the world — Here’s whyPaxful’s shutdown has left its global community heartbroken, but it has significantly impacted the Nigerian community, where it pioneered P2P crypto use.Apr 5, 2023Amaka Nwaokocha
Nigerian crypto investors question central bank’s decision to flag P2P usersCrypto P2P users in Nigeria worry over using various platforms to transfer funds as the country’s central bank cracks down on bank accounts that received a share of Flutterwave’s rumored stolen funds.Mar 29, 2023Amaka Nwaokocha
Bitcoin nodes data: Frankfurt houses the largest city-wide networkDistributed across 5,773 cities worldwide, over 60% and 14% of the Bitcoin nodes run on IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, respectively, while more than 25% run anonymously on .onion.Jan 11, 2023Arijit Sarkar
Bitcoin hash rate marks all-time high as BTC price drops below $25KComplimenting the new hash rate ATH of 231.428 exahash per second, Bitcoin’s network difficulty stands at a strong position of 30.283 trillion.Jun 13, 2022Arijit Sarkar
Bitcoin ATM installations record low in May, biggest drop since 2019Since January, Bitcoin ATM installations have seen a gradual slowdown, eventually falling 89.75% from December 2021’s 1,971 new installations.Jun 5, 2022Arijit Sarkar
