FinTech

Crypto reserve bills have failed in Montana, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, and Wyoming over the last month; Bitcoin Laws: such bills have been introduced in 24 states (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-1 Bitcoin

Chainalysis estimates $40B worth of illicit crypto transactions took place in 2024; criminals shifted from mostly using bitcoin in 2021 to using stablecoins now (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-28 Bitcoin

Bitcoin slides more than 5% to lowest since November 11 (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-28 Bitcoin

MetaMask Head of Security Taylor Monahan says the Bybit hackers have moved at least 209,384 ETH, of ~400,000 stolen, onto Bitcoin, largely using THORChain swaps (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-28 Bitcoin ETH

Bitcoin ETFs saw their longest outflow streak, losing $2.1B over six days, including $1B+ on Feb. 25, the largest single-day outflow since their Jan. 2024 debut (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-27 Bitcoin ETF

Bitcoin drops below $90,000 as global jitters combine with Bybit hack (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-26 Bitcoin

Bitcoin falls below $90K, its lowest level since mid-November 2024, as the rally that followed Trump's election fades; ETH, XRP, SOL, and more also fell sharply (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-25 Trump Bitcoin XRP ETH

Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, bought 20,356 bitcoin for $1.99B between February 18 and 23, taking its holdings to 499,096, worth $47B, or 2.3% of BTC supply (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-25 Bitcoin

Renaissance Capital: 12 of 40 fintech firms that went public in the US since 2020 have given positive investor returns; only Shift4 and AppLovin are profitable (www.axios.com)
2025-2-22 Fintech

Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokens (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-22 Hacker Ethereum

Source: the US Marshals Service is struggling to come up with a rough estimate of its bitcoin holdings, complicating plans for a US Bitcoin reserve (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-22 Bitcoin

Sources: a US grand jury is investigating criminal misconduct at fintech Synapse, where up to $96M in user funds went missing, and has questioned an executive (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-21 Fintech

Meshtastic: decentralized communication with low-power devices (lwn.net)
2025-2-20 Decentralize

The seven-day moving average of Ethereum transaction fees fell to $0.77 on February 15, a 70% week-over-week drop from $2.57 and the lowest since July 2020 (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-20 Ethereum

Fintech giant Finastra notifies victims of October data breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-2-19 Fintech

What is $LIBRA, the cryptocurrency at the heart of Argentina's presidential scandal? (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-18 Cryptocurrency

Indian authorities have seized nearly $190M in cryptocurrency linked to the BitConnect Ponzi scheme, one of the country's largest crypto enforcement actions (www.dlnews.com)
2025-2-17 India Cryptocurrency

Zelle's payment volume crossed $1T in 2024, the most ever for a P2P platform, user base jumped 12% YoY to 151M accounts, and the total dollars sent grew 27% YoY (www.cnbc.com)
2025-2-15 P2P

Plasma, which is developing a bitcoin-based network designed to handle stablecoin transactions efficiently with zero-fee USDT transfers, raised a $20M Series A (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-14 Bitcoin

SoftBank-backed P2P vehicle sharing service Getaround is shutting down US operations, including HyreCar, to focus on Europe, where it operates in six countries (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13 Europe P2P

Man Who Hijacked SEC's X Account To Pump Bitcoin Faces Up To 5 Years In Prison (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-2-12 Bitcoin

Central African Republic, the first in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as tender, launches CAR MEME on Solana, which traded at $0.03 on Feb. 11, down ~90% since launch (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-12 Bitcoin Africa

An Alabama man pleads guilty in connection with the Jan. 2024 SIM-swap hack of the SEC's X account, then used to falsely claim the SEC had approved bitcoin ETFs (www.cnbc.com)
2025-2-11 Bitcoin ETF

Man seeks to buy landfill to search for Bitcoin treasure (www.rt.com)
2025-2-11 Bitcoin

Man Who Lost Bitcoin Fortune In Welsh Tip Explores Purchase of Entire Landfill (news.slashdot.org)
2025-2-11 Bitcoin

Rostra - a p2p (or rather f2f) social network (github.com)
2025-2-10 P2P

Data from crypto security company Coinkite shows 78 listed companies globally are following MicroStrategy's example in buying bitcoin to hold in place of cash (on.ft.com)
2025-2-9 Bitcoin

El Salvador Congress Votes to Revoke Bitcoin's 'Legal Currency' Status (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-2-9 Bitcoin

Bitcoin to go bust in 10 years? Nobel-winning economist makes a startling claim (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-7 Bitcoin Nobel

MicroStrategy announces a new name, Strategy, a new logo with a stylized “B”, signifying its bitcoin strategy, and orange as the brand's primary color (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-6 Bitcoin

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