Fold is teaming up with Stripe and Visa in their launch of a Bitcoin-only credit card, offering up to 3.5% Bitcoin rewards on everyday purchases. Fold, a Bitcoin-first financial services company, announced today that it is tapping Stripe and Visa to power its forthcoming Fold Bitcoin Credit Card™, a product designed to make Bitcoin […]
Morgan Stanley is planning to add spot Bitcoin and crypto trading to its E*Trade platform in 2026, giving retail investors direct access through their brokerage accounts. Morgan Stanley is preparing to roll out crypto trading for retail clients on its E*Trade platform, marking a significant leap by a Wall Street […]
I disagree with Bitcoin and crypto industry leaders like Michael Saylor and Brian Armstrong, who are proposing building a new debt system on top of bitcoin, which was built to be a definancializing force. The purpose of Bitcoin is to definancialize the world, not refinancialize it. And so when I heard […]
Early Riders, a Bitcoin-focused venture fund, has launched The Stables, an accelerator program in Texas Hill Country to support Bitcoin start-ups worldwide. The program offers 2-5 BTC in funding, a four-week residency and access to Bitcoin developers and operators, targeting start-ups with market-ready solutions in financial services and technology. Michael Tanguma, […]
Is Paper Bitcoin Summer, and the associated extractable premium in price, coming to an end? As summer now turns to fall in the northern hemisphere, the stonkcoiner dream of bitcoinizing finance is rapidly becoming a nightmare. The bitcoin paper summer of issuing shares to clueless financial markets at (extreme) overvaluations to thereby buy bitcoin […]
In Bitcoinland nowadays, everything seems upside down; despite all the bullish energy, all the records hit, and the bitcoin treasury companies vacuuming the world for cheap sats, the price keeps falling. The dissonance was at a maximum at the recently concluded Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong. The suits are here, […]
Over 110 crypto investors, developers, and advocacy groups have signed a sweeping letter to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, warning that failure to protect open-source software developers could drive innovation overseas and stall crypto adoption. The DeFi Education Fund has penned a letter to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee with support from […]
From violence and migration to hope and innovation, discover how El Zonte, El Salvador became the birthplace of the world’s first Bitcoin circular economy and a model for community transformation. When people picture a tropical beach with volcanic sands, warm waters and dreamy surfing waves, they are describing El Zonte, in […]
To anyone stuck thinking bitcoin is only for speculators or tech bros: come to Peru. The real Bitcoin story isn’t only written in conference halls — it’s unfolding in circular economies forgotten by the banks, but now remembered by Bitcoin. I never expected a jetlagged morning in Las Vegas would […]
The Era of Easy Differentiation Is Over There was a time when holding Bitcoin was enough. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) proved it in 2020—simply moving idle cash into Bitcoin electrified markets, drove premiums above NAV, and rewrote corporate playbooks. But five years later, the battlefield has changed. Dozens of public companies […]