In its inaugural week, the Runes protocol – which allows fungible tokens to be created on the Bitcoin network – launched with considerable success, amassing a staggering $346 million market cap. Yet, ...

Strategy Inc. MSTR founder Michael Saylor argued on Tuesday that Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) faces the gravest threat not from an external attack but the internal “corruption” of its consensus rules. Saylor ...

On Tuesday, Ark Labs announced the public beta launch of the highly anticipated (at least among Bitcoin purists) Arkade, which is a new upper-layer network protocol built on top of the base Bitcoin ...

Bitcoin’s circulating supply has reached approximately 20.07 million coins, leaving roughly 929,465 BTC still to be issued ...

A proposed workaround could enable quantum-resistant Bitcoin transactions without a protocol change, but high compute costs limit real-world use. A Bitcoin researcher has come up with a way that could ...

Bitcoin token protocol BRC20 has taken a step toward enabling Ethereum-style smart contracts with the integration of Ethereum Virtual Machine into its core logic. The upgrade, dubbed BRC2.0, was ...

The Bitcoin Runes protocol experienced a significant decrease in activity and fee revenue after its initial surge after the Bitcoin halving. Runes takes the Ordinals protocol a step further by making ...

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) may be battling numerous risks, but macro analyst Joe Consorti says its resilience could be a stronger ...

Perpetual futures linked to tokenised stocks and commodities generated $61.7 billion in seven-day volume on Hyperliquid and ...

Bitcoin Metaprotocols are secondary protocols embedded "inside" the Bitcoin protocol itself. They function independently, using Bitcoin as a host. Bitcoin is a database. This is an inescapable ...

Bitcoin supply tops 20.07 million as apparent demand improves to minus 32,000 BTC, while price holds near $63,000.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel once advised future ...