Bitcoin Magazine The End of Paper Bitcoin Summer 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 on the cheap is ending, not with a […]

Bitcoin Magazine Nepalese Protestors Should Permanently Embrace Bitchat as Well as Bitcoin and Other Freedom Tech On Monday, September 8, 2025, Nepalese youth began protesting on the streets of Kathmandu in response to the Nepali government’s banning 26 major social media platforms on Thursday, September 4, 2025. At the height of the protests, the Nepalese

Bitcoin Magazine Africa’s Chipper Cash Adopts Lightning at Scale: 50% of Bitcoin Transactions Now Instant and Low-Cost Chipper Cash, one of Africa’s leading fintech companies, announced today that more than 50% of all Bitcoin transactions on its platform now run over the Lightning Network, marking one of the most significant real-world deployments of Lightning to

Bitcoin Magazine Saylor’s Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Inspires Global Corporations, But Not All See Premiums Bitcoin treasury strategies are being adopted by corporations worldwide. Following the example of Michael Saylor, the founder of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), the company with the largest known stack of Bitcoin in the world, others have copied his playbook and are attempting

Bitcoin Magazine Metaplanet Raises $1.4 Billion to Expand Bitcoin Treasury in Upsized International Share Offering Metaplanet Inc. (TSE Standard: 3350) has announced the successful pricing and upsizing of its international share offering, raising JPY 205 billion (~USD 1.4 billion) to fuel its ongoing Bitcoin-first treasury strategy. *Notice Regarding Determination of Issue Price and Other Matters*

Bitcoin Magazine Cboe, World’s Leading Derivatives Exchange, to Launch Continuous Bitcoin Futures for U.S.-Regulated Market Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the world’s leading derivatives and securities exchange network, announced plans to launch Cboe Continuous futures for bitcoin and ether beginning November 10, 2025, pending regulatory review. The new product marks a major expansion of

Bitcoin Magazine NPM Attack: Javascript Library Compromise Goes After Bitcoin Wallets A major NPM developer, qix, has had their account compromised. It was used to push malware that targets and searches for bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallets on users devices. If detected, the malware would patch the code functions used to coordinate transaction signing, and replace

Bitcoin Magazine New CLARITY Act Draft Could Shield Bitcoin and Crypto Developers From Past Liability On Friday, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee released its latest draft of the CLARITY Act (CLARITY), in which it proposes an amendment to 18 U.S. Code § 1960(a) stipulates that only crypto developers or providers that “knowingly exercise control over

Bitcoin Magazine Metaplanet Buys the Dip — Securing a Massive Bitcoin Position as Price Stays Below $112,000 Japanese publicly listed giant Metaplanet has acquired an additional 136 Bitcoin worth approximately $15.2 million (¥2.251 billion), bringing its total holdings to 20,136 BTC, according to a filing with the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday. The latest purchase,

Bitcoin Magazine The Avant-Garde and Bitcoin: Decentralized Money Didn’t Come From Nowhere Bitcoin is a financial tool born of code and cryptography. But seen in a wider frame, it belongs to a cultural lineage more than a century old. Since the 1910s, avant-garde movements have probed questions that later became central to Bitcoin: Who decides