Market Insights Why you should pay attention to Lightning There are many layers to Bitcoin that signal astounding growth that don’t show up in the price. Let us share the facts with you.
River Research The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years How many transactions are happening on the Lightning Network? How many people are using it? That and so much more in our new report.
Market Insights 🤯 How Much Bitcoin Is Gone Forever? We explore estimates on the amount of lost bitcoin and provide actionable advice on how you can protect your stack.
Market Insights 🗳️ Presidents Are Talking Bitcoin Bitcoin ascends into the political main stage with multiple candidates crafting their stances on it. Let’s break it down.
Market Insights What do Altcoins, Venture Capitalists, and CBDCs have in common? We provide context on the latest eyeball-scanning fiasco coming out of Silicon Valley and share a new Bitcoin partnership.
Product News River's Zero-Fee Dollar-Cost Averaging Explained Insights on the "what", "why", and "how" behind our Zero-Fee Dollar Cost Averaging product.
Market Insights What should you do with this ETF news? We keep you up-to-date on the latest happenings of financial institutions' Bitcoin adoption.
Market Insights How Many People Hold Bitcoin Today? 🤔 Sharing our latest research report "Bitcoin vs the $150 Trillion Global Payments Industry", a recent blog post about our cold storage model, and the best of Bitcoin Twitter.
River Research Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry Bitcoin's use case for payments has grown, but why have business and consumer adoption been slow so far?
How River Secures Client Funds When deciding which Bitcoin brokerage to do business with, and to potentially store funds with, it is important to understand the custody model that an organization employs. Is the firm
Market Insights New Bitcoin Tech & What’s Going On With Ledger We examine the fallout from Ledger's recent feature announcement and explore some highly anticipated bitcoin developments.
Market Insights Busting Bitcoin Mining’s Energy Usage FUD We walk you through how bitcoin mining actually works, discuss an interesting way mining is being utilized in Ireland, and highlight the best of bitcoin Twitter.
Market Insights Taking a hands-on approach to The Lightning Network ⚡ We introduce some media-focused Lightning applications that you can use today, and share some of Bitcoin Twitter’s best stories.
Market Insights What does money printing & 400 Exahash mean for Bitcoin? Comparing the Fed's recent money printing resulting from the March 2023 bank runs against past campaigns. Plus a review of the continually increasing hash rate despite market headwinds.
Market Insights Making Bitcoin less overwhelming 🤯 Sharing the results of a round of subscriber feedback. Plus sharing some insights on market concerns with U.S. banks, and a look at the OP_VAULT proposal.
Market Insights Ordinals: A new NFT protocol on Bitcoin, hype or a distraction? Reviewing the recent trend of the ordinal inscription protocol being used to store large amounts of data onto the bitcoin blockchain.
Market Insights Nostr, Transparency, and an Eventful 2023 This release announces River's presence on Nostr, the decentralized communications protocol. Additionally provides an overview of "How Bitcoin Flows through River", and provides a list of Bitcoin events in 2023.
How Your Bitcoin Flows Through River As a (potential) client, you may be wondering how the buying and selling of bitcoin works behind the scenes at River. Are you being offered a fair price? What happens
River Research What Could Bitcoin Mining Look Like at One Zettahash? In April 2022, we launched a hosted mining product to help anyone who does not want to physically run their own mining operation enter the Bitcoin mining industry. We have
Security best practices to consider Security has always been an important topic in regards to Bitcoin. Believe it or not, employing average security measures would protect users from most mishaps that occur.
Market Insights Can Bitcoin Level Up? There’s over a dozen proposed BTC upgrades. See our favorites in the latest River Intelligence
Market Insights What Bear Market? The builders of the Bitcoin network are experiencing the exact opposite of a bear market as more BTC miners continue to stack up and join the network
Company Announcements Announcing River Lightning Services (RLS) TL;DR we’re launching RLS to power the future of payments on the Internet. At River we believe that Bitcoin is on a trajectory to become the reserve currency
River Research Insights From the 4th Largest Lightning Network Node River has been a participant in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network since 2019. As of 2022 we have grown into the fourth largest node on Lightning by bitcoin capacity. We now
A snapshot of the past, and a glimpse into the future See where we’ve been and where we might be headed in this edition of River intelligence