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Finance

Blockstream to Launch 3 Funds After Securing Multi-Billion Dollar Investment

The funds, which will include two focused on crypto lending, will go live in April, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February.

Finance

Blockstream Opens New Office in Tokyo as It Expands in Asia

The company plans to drive Japanese adoption of Bitcoin Layer-2 and self-custody technologies.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Nomura-Backed Komainu Receives $75M Bitcoin Investment From Blockstream Capital

Blockstream CEO and co-founder Adam Back is to join Komainu's board of directors.

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Finance

Blockstream Raises $210M in Convertible Note Financing Round

The money will be used to advance adoption and development of Blockstream's layer-2 technologies, to grow the company's mining operations, and expand its bitcoin treasury.

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Finance

Blockstream Mining Raises Fresh Round of Note That Offers Exposure to Bitcoin Hashrate

The EU-compliant security token gives investors exposure to the hashrate over a four-year period.

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Tech

Steward of Bitcoin Software Explains Why She Nixed an Acrimonious Code Debate

"All it was doing was generating noise," the Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow says of Luke Dashjr's pull request, which would have severely curtailed the use of Ordinals inscriptions, sometimes known as "NFTs on Bitcoin."

Modified screenshot of Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow's comment on GitHub, when she closed a controversial proposal from the developer Luke Dashjr. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Blockstream Preps New Sale of Notes Designed to Profit From Rebounding BTC Mining-Rig Prices

Blockstream's BASIC note is a bitcoin-denominated investment vehicle to accrue gains from the price of ASIC mining equipment, which Blockstream anticipates will rise post-halving.

ASIC Miners (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Videos

Blockstream Developer Discusses 'Lightning V2' Outlook

CoinDesk's Most Influential 2023 recognizes 50 people who defined the year in the digital assets space, which includes Lisa Neigut, Blockstream Lightning Protocol Engineer and founder of Base58 School of Engineering. Neigut joins "First Mover" to discuss the problems she wants to solve with "Lightning v2."

Recent Videos

Finance

Bitcoin Financial Services Firm Swan Unveils 'Collaborative Custody' Service

Swan and Blockstream's plan to allow users to retain ultimate control of their bitcoin while knowing that is stored in a highly secure way

a rank of safe deposit boxes

Tech

Bitcoin Infrastructure Firm Blockstream to Unveil Its Long-Awaited Mining Rig in 3Q of 2024

The company expects to raise more capital to fund its mining business.

Rendered image of Blockstream’s new ASIC Bitcoin miner (Blockstream)