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BitcoinTaproot is a script upgrade, not a Bitcoin rebrand
A soft fork locked in over the summer and activated on schedule. Complex spends can look ordinary on-chain. That is capability, not a new coin and not a price law.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readMarketsBitcoin near $69,000 was a print, not a new era
US CPI came in hot. Futures ETFs were already a story. Taproot was four days away. A round number is still a last trade, not a destination.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readRegulationEl Salvador made bitcoin legal tender. That is one country’s experiment.
Businesses are told to accept bitcoin alongside the US dollar. Chivo, ATMs, and a $30 signup bonus are the product. Volatility and the IMF are the weather around it.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationChina told miners to leave. Hashrate moved. The protocol did not.
Vice-Premier Liu He’s committee named mining in a risk list. Provinces that hosted the world’s hash began to shut barns. Bitcoin kept producing blocks at whatever hash remained.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
CompaniesTesla stopped taking bitcoin for cars. That is a till, not the chain.
A car company changed a payment option and said it would keep the coins. Energy use is a mining-industry fact. It is not a consensus vote.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readBitcoinBitcoin’s market cap reaches $1 trillion
Bitcoin’s market capitalisation — price multiplied by coins in circulation — was reported above $1 trillion for the first time in February 2021.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readCompaniesTesla’s bitcoin buy was a treasury choice, not a protocol event
An electric-car maker put idle cash into an alternative reserve asset named in an SEC filing. Bitcoin’s issuance did not change. A later tweet about the till is a different week.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
CompaniesPayPal launches cryptocurrency buying inside its app
PayPal said users could buy, hold, and sell crypto in-app, and later spend at merchants. That is a company balance, not a withdrawal to your own wallet.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readCompaniesMicroStrategy’s bitcoin pile is a balance-sheet choice
A Nasdaq business-intelligence company put idle cash into bitcoin instead of leaving it in dollars. Tesla’s later 10-K is a different issuer. Issuance did not change.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readBitcoinBitcoin block halving, explained without the countdown clock
The 2020 halving was 11 May. Another happened in 2024. Halvings are how Bitcoin’s issuance slows. They are not a strategy.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min readMarkets