Kyle Torpey

Kyle Torpey is a freelance journalist who has been following Bitcoin since 2011. His work has been featured on VICE Motherboard, Business Insider, RT’s Keiser Report, and many other media outlets. You can follow @kyletorpey on Twitter.

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Tor May Use Bitcoin to Enable User-Friendly Onion Addresses
Kyle Torpey14 Apr 2017
The Tor Project recently suggested that Blockstack may provide a solution to problems associated with onion addresses.
Cancoin is building a LocalBitcoins alternative for professional OTC bitcoin traders
Kyle Torpey4 Apr 2017
Cancoin is a new peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin exchange based in Canada, aimed at professional over-the-counter (OTC) traders. “The OTC market for Bitcoin is bigger than the exchange market,” Civic CEO and Gyft co-founder Vinny Lingham wrote in the summer of 2016. “Exchanges set the price but large trades don't happen there.”
Ethereum style smart contracts are coming to Bitcoin in June
Kyle Torpey27 Mar 2017
Ethereum has gained a lot of attention over the past year or two as it became the second most valuable cryptocurrency by market cap. The platform enables the execution of smart contracts, a feature coming to Bitcoin in the form of RSK.
Bitcoin sidechain with a bigger block size limit may soon be a reality
Kyle Torpey20 Mar 2017
Bitcoin’s block size debate is seeping into the mainstream press, the Wall Street Journal states that the “bitter split in the developer community behind the virtual currency threatened to literally break it in two.” The article echoes statements made by investors such as Vinny Lingham, the Civic CEO and Gyft co-founder, who states “I’ve been very surprised with the amount of vocal support for a Bitcoin Hard Fork.”