Bitcoin Standard Treasury Co.’s SPAC deal combines fiat financing and a bitcoin-denominated PIPE, aiming to debut on the Nasdaq with over 30,000 BTC and an aggressive growth plan. What to know: Bitcoin Standard Treasury Co. (BSTR), a bitcoin treasury vehicle led by cryptography pioneer Adam Back, sees itself as a company with a […]
Some celebrate Washington’s embrace of stablecoins. In practice, it builds a switch to seize, block, and track. This is CBDC behavior with corporate branding. There’s a better path. Some folks in the libertarian crowd are seeing the GENIUS Act as a win—a sign that the government finally gets crypto, fostering innovation under […]
Japan’s largest public bitcoin holder aims to expand its treasury operations and integrate BTC into the country’s fixed income markets. What to know: Tokyo-based investment firm Metaplanet (3350) has unveiled two major strategic initiatives aimed at deepening its integration of bitcoin. The announcements came as the company posted strong second-quarter results, with revenue […]
Is the Trump administration actually interested in defending crypto in the U.S.? The result from the Tornado Cash trial, and the Samourai Wallet plea deal means questions remain unanswered. If prison time is what faces developers of privacy software, how is America to become the “crypto capital of the world?” […]
Block, Inc., founded by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and ex-CEO of Twitter, is a financial technology company with a deepening full-stack connection to the Bitcoin industry through its subsidiaries. Its companies span payments apps and merchant tooling with Bitcoin integration, the development of bitcoin mining hardware, open source software development, […]
Art has always symbolized values: Bitcoin and Bitcoin art is the next form of that. From Medieval times to modern corporations, companies supporting and collecting art can contribute to cultural capital and leverage art as an asset. Bitcoin art and Bitcoin corporations don’t seem to mix. But for decades — […]
What a time to be alive. Marty’s Bent Some of you may be aware of the fact that we’ve been leaning into AI tools here at TFTC to automate some mindless tasks so that we can make our operations more efficient. As we’ve leaned into leveraging AI to make our […]
Qubic says it has achieved hashrate dominance over Monero, sparking concerns over the future of the network’s decentralization. What to know: Monero, the leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency, is facing one of the most serious security challenges in its history. Qubic, a project led by IOTA co-founder Sergey Ivancheglo, says it now controls […]
At the Bitcoin 2025 Conference, held May 27-29 at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Simple Proof CEO Carlos Toriello and Screven County, Georgia, Elections Supervisor Stacey Scott shared insights into their groundbreaking use of Bitcoin’s blockchain to secure election results. In an exclusive video interview, now released to the public, the duo detailed […]
The position marks one of the largest known bitcoin allocations by a U.S. university endowment. What to know: Harvard Management Company, which oversees the university’s $50 billion endowment, disclosed a $116 million position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) in its latest quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The stake, reported in […]