Crypto Industry Helps Write, And Pass, Its Own Agenda In State Capitols – The New York Times

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In this episode of BeCrypto’s Video News Show, host Juliette Lima explains Bitcoin’s popular Layer-2 payment solution, the Lightning Network. While Bitcoin usage has increased dramatically, this has come with a subsequent uptick in transaction times and fees. At a lackluster seven transactions per second, Bitcoin’s network is effectively inefficient...

Brandy covers crypto-related venture capital deals for CoinDesk. Context, an app that allows users to “follow” the transactions of any crypto wallet, has raised $19.5 million in a funding round co-led by Variant Fund and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company tweeted on Wednesday. The Block previously reported on the...

MoonPay CEO and co-founder Ivan Soto-Wright speaking at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida.Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWhat do Justin Bieber, Gwyneth Paltrow, Snoop Dogg and Ashton Kutcher all have in common? Aside from being A-list celebrities, they're among more than 60 new investors in fintech...