Bitcoin

Bitcoin Overtakes Google as Fifth-Largest Asset by Market Value

Bitcoin has officially moved past Alphabet, Google’s parent company, to claim the spot as the world’s fifth-largest asset by market capitalization. As of August...

Blue Origin Now Accepts Crypto for Spaceflight: BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC

How the crypto checkout works Blue Origin now lets customers pay for New Shepard suborbital flights with Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, and the dollar-pegged stablecoins USDT...

Block builds a “full-stack” Bitcoin banking suite for small businesses

A complete Bitcoin toolkit for merchants Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, is gearing up to ship a full “bitcoin for business” stack...

Metaplanet Buys 518 More Bitcoin, Lifts Treasury Past 18,000 BTC as Price Nears $119K

Metaplanet adds 518 BTC on August 12 Tokyo-listed Metaplanet purchased another 518 bitcoin on August 12 for roughly $61.4 million, paying an average of about...

India’s tax department targets USDT arbitrage; loss offsets under Section 115BBH draw heat

What the I-T probe uncovered India’s Income Tax Department has trained its sights on crypto traders who ran USDT arbitrage and then tried to trim...

Trump’s Order Opens 401(k)s to Crypto and Other Alternatives as Bitcoin Pops

What the executive order does President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, August 7, directing regulators to clear a path for “alternative assets”...

Senator Lummis’s Plan to Turn Federal Gold Profits into BTC

On August 1, 2025, the Federal Reserve published a FEDS Note titled “Official Reserve Revaluations: The International Experience,” examining how governments have unlocked unrealized...

Smarter Web Company Secures $21 M in Britain’s First Bitcoin-Denominated Convertible Bond

Smarter Web Company, a UK-listed firm, has raised about £15.8 million (roughly $21 million) by issuing the first Bitcoin-denominated convertible bond in British markets....

Welsh Engineer Ends 12-Year Hunt for Lost Bitcoin Hard Drive

James Howells, a 40-year-old computer engineer from Newport, Wales, has called off his long-running effort to unearth a hard drive that he tossed into...

Binance founder says countries will race to embrace Bitcoin: who will prevail?

Why Nations Consider Bitcoin Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, founder of Binance, predicts a global contest to integrate Bitcoin into national reserves. On August 2, 2025, he...

Metaplanet Adds 780 BTC, Doubling Down on Bitcoin Treasury Strategy

Fresh Purchase Pushes Holdings Beyond 17,000 BTC Metaplanet has added another 780 Bitcoin to its balance sheet, announcing the purchase on July 28, 2025. This...

Ex-PayPal Exec David Marcus Says Bitcoin Is the Future of Money

A Push Beyond Digital Gold On July 24, 2025, David Marcus made waves with a clear message: “The world needs Bitcoin.” This bold statement, featured...