CRYPTO
BNY Sees Stablecoins, Tokenized Cash Hitting $3.6T by 2030 Amid Institutional Adoption
Blockchains won’t replace the traditional rails but will be integrated and work in tandem, the bank said in the report. What to know: Stablecoins and other forms of tokenized cash could grow to $3.6 trillion by 2030, according to a fresh report released by financial services giant BNY. The financial […]
Institutions Stay Bullish on Bitcoin as Retail Capitulates: Bitwise CIO Sees Crypto Rally Ahead
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan sees the crypto market nearing a bottom amid retail exhaustion, while Senator Cynthia Lummis urges U.S. banks to integrate digital assets into the financial system. Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the crypto market may be nearing a turning point as retail exhaustion deepens and institutional demand […]
Switzerland’s FUTURE Raises CHF 28 Million to Build ‘Europe’s Premier Bitcoin Treasury’
Switzerland-based FUTURE raised CHF 28 million to expand as Europe’s leading institutional Bitcoin treasury platform, backed by investors Fulgur Ventures, Nakamoto and TOBAM. The international Bitcoin ecosystem just got another major player. FUTURE (Future Holdings AG), a self-described “Bitcoin Treasury Company,” has raised CHF 28 million in a new funding […]
Samourai Wallet Developer Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Unlicensed Money Transmitting
District Judge Denise Cote sentenced Keonne Rodriguez to the statutory maximum. Fellow developer William Lonergan Hill will be sentenced later this month. NEW YORK — Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday for his role in creating a bitcoin mixing service that prosecutors say […]
Dormant Bitcoin Comes Back to Life as 4.65 Million BTC Reenters Circulation in 2025
Data shows long-term holders have driven an unprecedented wave of distribution across 2024 and 2025. What to know: For every buyer there’s a seller, and in 2025 those sellers have been especially active. Bitcoin has mostly traded sideways, fluctuating within roughly a 20% range around $100,000 since the start of […]
Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Lengthy ‘FTX Was Never Insolvent’ Document
The disgraced FTX founder resurfaced on social media with a sprawling self-defense arguing that customers could have been made whole in 2022. What to know: Sam-Bankman Fried is once again arguing that he’s innocent. The former FTX chief posted a lengthy document on X this week claiming that the exchange “was never […]
Bitcoin: The Dawn of a New Monetary Era
Seventeen years after Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the world, it has grown from a cryptographic experiment into a global movement, argues Tony Yazbeck, co-founder of The Bitcoin Way. On October 31, 2008, an anonymous entity called Satoshi Nakamoto released a nine-page white paper titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. […]
What Has Bitcoin Become 17 Years After Satoshi Nakamoto Published The Whitepaper?
Getting close to two decades after the Bitcoin Whitepaper was published by Satoshi Nakamoto, how much bearing does the document have at this point? Today marks seventeen years since Satoshi Nakamoto’s publication of the Bitcoin Whitepaper on the cryptography mailing list in 2008. Back then Bitcoin was nothing more than […]
Steak ’n Shake Launches First-Ever Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Steak ’n Shake is making history as the first major restaurant to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, adding all Bitcoin payments to its SBR and taking a bold step into cryptocurrency adoption. Steak ’n Shake is making history as the first major restaurant to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. All […]
SoFi to Launch Bitcoin and Crypto Trading, Eyes Record Year
SoFi reaffirmed its plans to launch Bitcoin and crypto trading later this year. SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) raised its full-year profit forecast on Tuesday after reporting record third-quarter results that beat Wall Street expectations, driven by fee revenue and more user growth across its financial products. CEO Anthony Noto said […]
