Compiled by entrepreneur and market commentator Alistair Milne, exchange rate figures show that at this week’s highs, Bitcoin was worth more in seven currencies than ever before.

The U.K. hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s U.S. extradition on the week of February 24, 2020, presented a test of Western liberal democracy. The indictment of Assange under the Espionage Act for publishing classified documents which exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan is recognized by free speech groups as an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment.

News broke this morning that PayPal, the company that kickstarted the online money transfer industry, will start allowing users to buy Bitcoin via its app and website. Some have hailed the move as a decisive moment for Bitcoin adoption and cryptocurrency markets have responded favorably, with the price of BTC briefly hitting $13,000 today. But others think PayPal's forthcoming feature is a bad look for the world’s largest cryptocurrency, primarily because of what it lacks.

PayPal has partnered with cryptocurrency company Paxos to launch a new service. PayPal users in the U.S. will soon be able to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrencies. More countries are coming soon. PayPal plans to support Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin at first.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones believes that investing in Bitcoin draws strong parallels to early investors in tech firms like Google and Apple. In an interview on CNBC’s Squawkbox on October 22, the American hedge fund manager and philanthropist said that Bitcoin could well be at the start of a very fortuitous period and might be an excellent hedge against rising inflation.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency traders are searching for direction, with the market more-or-less treading water since the summer. The bitcoin price, hovering around $11,400 per bitcoin, has been trading broadly in line with equity markets in recent months—with groundbreaking announcements, including payments company Square SQ +0.7% buying bitcoin, failing to much move the market.

‘Tokenisation’ would allow a crypto asset to represent single securities like ETFs

They can't stop you buying Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, but they can ban almost anything based on its price being sold to people in the UK by firms operating here

Square has bought 4,709 Bitcoin as part of its investment strategy. It says this investment is about Bitcoin's potential. “We believe that Bitcoin has the potential to be a more ubiquitous currency in the future,” said Square’s chief financial officer, Amrita Ahuja. “As it grows in adoption, we intend to learn and participate in a disciplined way. For a company that is building products based on a more inclusive future, this investment is a step on that journey.”

BitMEX made itself a haven for hackers and illegal transactions, American prosecutors said.

The size of Bitcoin’s whole network—which full nodes need to synchronize—has reached a new milestone. The size of the full Bitcoin blockchain exceeded 300 gigabytes of data on September 19, according to Blockchain.com. This is the size of the full Bitcoin transaction history for the past 10 years. It’s also the amount of information full mining nodes need to download and keep on their hard drives after synchronizing with Bitcoin’s network.

Bitcoin is a system with unique monetary attributes based on a disruptive technology called Blockchain. Without the Blockchain technology, Bitcoin could not work. However, without Bitcoin, the Blockchain is just one of many data storage technologies. It is the combination of Bitcoin and Blockchain that represents the unique invention that will revolutionize the world of the future. Bitcoin is a decentralized system that works through the Internet today. Every user on the network can become a full node and have their own version of the Bitcoin Blockchain.

The tax collector is making it a lot harder to pretend you don’t have bitcoin or other virtual currencies hidden away somewhere.

Grayscale Buys $183 Million Worth of Bitcoin in 3 Days. Institutional Investors have a bitcoin fever – The Grayscale cryptocurrency investment fund is no longer stopped in its buying madness. The fund has just added a new (big) ladle of bitcoins for its products aimed at professional investors.

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Several months into the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, its impact on the global economy has been monumental, pushing both the US and the UK into recession (the latter, for the first time in 11 years). New COVID-19 surges have sprung up in France and Spain, while even New Zealand, which had won plaudits for its handling of the virus, has been forced to put its biggest city, Auckland, back into lockdown after a new outbreak.

EFF has become increasingly concerned that payment processors are being asked to turn over information on their customers, without any mechanism for the public to know who is making those requests, or how often. That’s why we are calling on Coinbase—one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in...

Bitcoin doesn’t need “smart contracts” for the same reason your bathroom scale doesn’t need to exercise. Both are there to provide you with an objective standard. If you are having difficulty with that standard, it is you that needs to change, not the standard.

Payments provider Mastercard has launched a digital currency testing kit to help central banks trial their own coins.

The agency is offering up to $1 million dollars for developers who can create technologies to track Monero and Bitcoin Lightning Network transactions.