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Willem Schroé: Building Botanix, a Bitcoin Layer 2 That Brings the EVM to Bitcoin

A Belgian polymath and his team are building a “spiderchain” network that harnesses both bitcoin’s sound money properties and Ethereum’s technological capabilities.

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EigenLayer, Crypto's Biggest Project Launch This Year, Is Still Missing Crucial Functionality

The "restaking" protocol with $15 billion in deposits won't pay rewards to depositors and is missing its mission-critical "slashing" feature.

EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan at ETHDenver 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Shinobi: How Covenants Help Scale Bitcoin

Bitcoin Magazine’s technical editor says it’s necessary to implement covenants - which allow joint ownership of UTXOs - if Bitcoin is to fulfill its promise of bringing financial self-sovereignty to people globally.

Bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal outside the BitCluster mining farm in Norilsk, Russia.

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Texas Takedown: Nic Carter and David Hoffman Square Off for Karate Combat at Consensus

The influencers, representing Bitcoin and Ethereum, will enter the pit at the Consensus festival May 30, 2024. Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland is also on the fight card.

Ben “BitBoy” Armstrong and meme coin creator “More Light,” in Mexico City in February, 2024.

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Lorraine Marcel: Bringing Bitcoin to African Women

The founder of Bitcoin Dada, a virtual education program and sisterhood started in Kenya, on how she’s getting African women involved in the Bitcoin space.

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Bitcoin Halving Is a ‘Show Me the Money’ Moment for Miners

With April’s “halving” set to cut mining rewards by half, Bitcoin miners are upgrading to more efficient mining machines, cutting costs, finding cheaper sources of power and exploring mergers and acquisition opportunities.

Stronghold's Russelton plant (Aaron Kotowski/Stronghold)

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Bitcoin L2s Are Poised to Break Out, Stacks Creator Muneeb Ali Says

“Bitcoin is not going to change much,” says Ali. “Layer 2s are innovative and open to making rapid changes. After a while, it becomes part of their culture.”

Muneeb Ali, co-creator of Stacks and CEO of Trust Machines (CoinDesk TV)

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Bitcoin ETFs' Hot Start Seems Largely Driven by Retail Investors

Data shows that the average trade size for the biggest spot bitcoin ETF, BlackRock’s IBIT, hovers around $13,000, suggesting that a big chunk of its demand is coming from nonprofessional investors.

A user examines prices on a mobile phone while looking at a graph on a laptop

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Where Is Nayib Bukele Actually Storing El Salvador's Bitcoin?

Last week, the sats stacking president of the "Land of Many Volcanoes" announced he was moving thousands of the country's BTC into a bitcoin "piggy bank."

San Salvador, El Salvador (Oswaldo Martinez/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Machankura 2.0: Turning Feature Phones Into Bitcoin Hardware Wallets

When Kgothatso Ngako launched Machankura two years ago, he enabled Africans to transact bitcoin via feature phones for the first time. Now, he’s on the verge of helping Africans self custody their bitcoin, as well.

Kgothatso Ngako presenting at the 2023 African Bitcoin Conference in Ghana. (Frank Corva)