Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Policy

Russian Lawmaker Proposes Creating Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: Report

Anton Tkachev proposed "assessing the feasibility of creating a strategic BTC reserve in Russia by analogy with state reserve in traditional currencies."

Russian flag (Egor Filin/ Unsplash)

Tech

Eric Wall, Udi Wertheimer and Francisco Alarcon: Upgrading Bitcoin With Covenants

The founders of the popular Taproot Wizards JPEGs want to do more now to “make bitcoin magical again.”

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

David Tse: Bringing Staking to Bitcoin

It’s been a banner year for Babylon, the staking protocol co-founded by Tse.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

Sergio Demian Lerner: Making Bitcoin More Programmable

The founder of Rootstock is working to create a framework for running programs on Bitcoin and enabling the development of more sidechains and Layer 2s.

Sergio Demian Lerner Pudgy Penguins

Tech

Robin Linus: Scaling Crypto’s Premier Network

The developer behind BitVM is facilitating the building of more and more applications atop Bitcoin.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

Bitcoin 'Four Meggers': OrdinalsBot Inscribes Largest-Ever File on the OG Blockchain

Inscriptions project OrdinalsBot minted what it says is the largest ever file on Bitcoin: The last in a collection of 1,500 "Pizza Ninjas."

16:9 OrdinalsBot co-founders (OrdinalsBot)

Tech

Everyone Wants a Piece of the Bitcoin Pie, Now the AI Bots Are Coming for It Too

AI-focused Ethereum layer-2 Mode is the latest network to bridge to Bitcoin in an attempt to get access to deep wells of liquidity held in BTC.

(Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Finance

USDC Issuer Circle Cuts 'Less Than 6%' of Jobs Following Operations Review

The job cuts amount to about 50 people, based on June employment numbers.

Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte (left) and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Tech

Botanix Labs' Mission to Bring Bitcoin to Defi Moves to Final Testnet Phase

The Aragog testnet as it is known, introduces a set of tools that will form the basis for the mainnet's DeFi offering.

Spiderchain, a Bitcoin layer 2 blockchain. (Shutterstock)

Tech

Bitcoin Gets a Decentralized Exchange as Cosmos Native Osmosis Activates Bridge

"I've always personally been pretty Bitcoin maxi," Osmosis co-founder Sunny Aggarwal said in an interview.

Osmosis Labs co-founder Sunny Aggarwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)