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Someone is working on a P2P encrypted messaging app using the Lightning Network as a rail. Slowly but surely…

Bitcoin would not have been possible without the breakthroughs that were made in cryptography, distributed systems, and hardware in the decades leading up to its inception. Here's a great timeline showing the breakthroughs of the last half century.

If you blinked this afternoon, you may have missed this price movement.

Bakkt, a new exchange that enables institutional investors to trade Bitcoin futures contracts, had itself a day.

Justin Moon explains the advantages and nuances of using a multisig setup when storing your Bitcoin. How many bullets can your setup take?

You'll probably be hearing a lot more of this moving forward.

Twitter user @StopAndDecrypt provides a great explanation of the power dynamics between full nodes and miners.

Alexander Liegl explains how Bitcoin creates incentives for oil and gas producers to become insanely efficient.

The team that brought us the Cryptosteel backup wallet has released a new version of their storage product.

Every 210,000 blocks the amount of bitcoin rewarded to miners every ten minutes gets cut in half by the protocol. Find out how much this will affect new supply after block 630,000.

Haters will say it's photoshop.

PlanB puts forward that, yes, Bitcoin is an act of free speech. This leads to a few interesting conversations on the subject in the thread.

Last night, as most people were out celebrating the end of the work week, the Bitcoin Network mined block #600,000.

'Phoenix demonstrates what we think is the future of Bitcoin/Lightning UX.'

Peep this thread on how the Founding Fathers messed up the first monetary system that existed in the United States of America.

But apparently Bitcoin is too expensive...

The 10th anniversary of the first ever purchase of bitcoin occurred over the weekend. Check out the block that recorded the creation of the UTXOs.

For the next two weeks Real Vision will be airing a Gold v. Bitcoin series. Check it out if you want to learn more about Bitcoin's position in an uncertain financial world.

While we can't be sure who is in control of these wallets, it is certainly still very intriguing.

The team at Zap is pushing a new desktop app update this week that will allow users to sign messages with their Lightning Node private keys. Check it out!