FinTech

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

‘Indian fintech can lead by learning from global mistakes, invent tech ground up': Yubi CTO Bharat Krishnamurthy (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-5 India Fintech

Spritely Institute - Decentralized Networking Technology (spritely.institute)
2025-2-5 Decentralize

Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards raised $30M to expand work on OP_CAT, a scripting capability for Bitcoin to enable automated, customizable transactions (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-5 Bitcoin

El Salvador abandons Bitcoin legal tender experiment – media (www.rt.com)
2025-2-5 Bitcoin

MicroStrategy says it didn't buy any bitcoin in the prior week, ending a run of 12 consecutive weekly purchases worth $20B+ starting in October 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-4 Bitcoin

Some parents say they are eschewing 529 college savings plans and other traditional investments to invest in cryptocurrency to build wealth for their children (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-3 Cryptocurrency

Web3 domain infrastructure firm D3 Global raised a $25M Series A led by Paradigm, and plans to launch a decentralized network called Doma Protocol (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-1 Decentralize

Tether had $13B in 2024 net profits, including ~$7B from its US Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5B from unrealized appreciation of gold and bitcoin holdings (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-1 Bitcoin

Tether plans to bring USDT to the Bitcoin base layer again and to the Layer 2 protocol Lightning Network, following USDT expansions to Celo and other networks (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-31 Bitcoin

Elastos, a decentralized infrastructure provider building a Bitcoin DeFi protocol called BeL2, raised $20M from private investment company Rollman Management (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-31 Bitcoin Decentralize

Czech central bank chief proposes huge Bitcoin investment – FT (www.rt.com)
2025-1-30 Bitcoin Central Bank Czech

Trump Media unveils fintech brand Truth.Fi with an investment of up to $250M, which may be allocated to options including bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-30 Trump Bitcoin Fintech

Hackers steal $85 million worth of cryptocurrency from Phemex (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-1-28 Cryptocurrency

Sources: people affiliated with DOGE have met with representatives of various public blockchains as they explore using a blockchain to track federal spending (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-26 Blockchain

The US SEC revokes SAB 121, a controversial accounting rule that forced banks to treat bitcoin and other tokens as a liability on their balance sheets (www.cnbc.com)
2025-1-25 Bitcoin

HSBC shuts Zing after launching the payments app in Jan. 2024 to compete with Revolut and Wise, marking the latest failed fintech venture by a traditional bank (t.co)
2025-1-24 Fintech HSBC

Trump Issues Executive Order To Create Cryptocurrency Working Group, Establish Digital Asset Stockpile (slashdot.org)
2025-1-24 Trump Asset Cryptocurrency

Trump signs an EO to create a cryptocurrency working group to consider a national digital asset stockpile “potentially derived” from seized cryptocurrencies (www.cnbc.com)
2025-1-24 Trump Asset Cryptocurrency

Trump signs an EO to create a cryptocurrency working group, which is expected to advise on digital asset policy, help establish a bitcoin reserve, and more (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-24 Trump Bitcoin Asset Cryptocurrency

Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation back Etherealize, a NYC-based startup to market Ethereum to financial firms, as ether lags behind bitcoin's gains (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-23 Bitcoin Startup Ethereum Vitalik Buterin

Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cryptocurrency cult hero, serving a life sentence on money laundering and drug charges (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-22 Trump Cryptocurrency

'Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative To the Tech Oligarchy' (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-1-22 Social Media Decentralize

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