A weekly look at the most important news and moves in crypto, and what's on the horizon in digital assets Welcome back to Distributed Ledger. I'm Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch.

A startup company plans to build a Bitcoin mining operation on Alaska's North Slope that would consume as much electricity as the state's largest coal plant produces, the Alaska Beacon reported.

Bitcoiners worldwide strongly disagreed with prominent angel investor Jason Calacanis’ “build a better Bitcoin” comment, arguing that layer-2s can fill any functionality gaps. A technology investor ...

Today, Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTG) has announced a new partnership with Unchained and Build Asset Management, focusing on a Bitcoin-backed commercial loan strategy designed to offer ...

Everything built on top of Bitcoin that you are aware of today is because of the primitives that Bitcoin Script supports. What do I mean by primitives? The basic components of a programming language ...

Bitcoiners shouldn't sit around and wait for fiat banks and financial companies to offer services built on Bitcoin, we should do it ourselves. Bitcoin banks are going to happen. We already have a few ...

Bitcoin miner Hut 8 has announced plans to develop four new sites across the United States, adding 1.53 gigawatts (GW) of utility capacity to its platform. Hut 8 is developing four new U.S. sites, ...