CRYPTO
El Salvador Dispatch: The Origins of the Bitcoin Experiment
El Zonte inspired Bukele to make bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador. CoinDesk visited the surfing village to see how it’s developing. What to know: This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on Bitcoin City, here. The sun was […]
Szabo’s Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs: 25 Years Later
A look at the realities of UX friction that widespread micropayments would create, and the potential solutions to that problem. What if every click you made online cost just a fraction of a penny? What if your favorite news site, your go-to streaming service, or even your daily email usage […]
Trump Has Made His Major Decisions on His Crypto Regulation Team, Now Also OCC
With picks at the banking agency and consumer watchdog, the field of major nominees is mostly complete, showing a deep roster of finance and federal know-how. What to know: President Donald Trump is just about done naming the key figures he’s seeking to get into financial regulation posts that will […]
Bitcoin Banks: We Should Build Them Ourselves
Bitcoiners shouldn’t sit around and wait for fiat banks and financial companies to offer services built on Bitcoin, we should do it ourselves. Bitcoin banks are going to happen. We already have a few of them. We’re going to have more of them. Existing legacy banks are going to start […]
European Payments Giant Klarna Says It Will Look To Integrate Crypto
The “buy now, pay later” company is backed by venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital, which has a 22% stake. What to know: Klarna Bank AB, a Swedish fintech company popular in Europe, plans to embrace cryptocurrencies on its platform, the firm’s chief executive officer, Sebastian Siemiatkowski announced in a post […]
North Carolina Joins Growing Number of States Pursuing Crypto Investments
Nineteen U.S. states are weighing bills to put public money into digital assets, some of them similar to the federal pursuit of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. What to know: The latest state effort to set up the investment of public money into cryptocurrency, a bill introduced on Monday in North […]
Introducing the Bitcoin Everything Indicator
A Single Metric to Rule Them All – The Bitcoin Everything Indicator combines multiple key metrics into one comprehensive tool for better investment decisions. Wouldn’t it be great if we had one all-encompassing metric to guide our Bitcoin investing decisions? That’s precisely what has been created, the Bitcoin Everything Indicator. […]
U.S. Regulator Pursuing Tokenization Pilot to Tap Stablecoins as Collateral
Caroline Pham, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief tapped by President Donald Trump, is hosting a CEO summit on one of her longstanding policy aims: Tokenization. What to know: Caroline Pham, who is running the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on an acting basis, is pursuing a stablecoin-backed tokenization pilot […]
Crypto’s Debanking Worries Hit Another Big Stage in U.S. House
The industry’s U.S. banking crisis may be retreating as a second congressional committee sheds light on how crypto businesses have been treated by regulators. What to know: The chief lawyer of U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) testified about the abuse of authority from regulators who erected barriers between banks and […]
How Running “The Peter Schiff Playbook”Cost Me $3 million (and counting)…
But I’ll break even as soon as gold cracks $178,820.86/oz Peter Schiff hates Bitcoin and constantly admonishes HODLers that if they had any brains they would sell their BTC and use it to buy gold. If you look at his timeline on Twitter/X, there are innumerable tweets advising one to do this, […]
