Bitcoin Magazine Pearl Fund Launches $500M Bitcoin Fund with Zero Capital Gains Tax The Pearl Fund has launched a $500 million Bitcoin investment fund (Pearl BTC) that allows accredited investors to completely eliminate capital gains taxes after holding their Bitcoin investment for 10 years. “Bitcoin’s biggest problem is capital gains tax. We’ve solved that,” said […]

Bitcoin Magazine Ghost In The Machine: A Q&A with SatoshiAI Bootoshi is one of the more curious minds pushing the boundaries of art, AI, and bitcoin. Part builder, artist, and tinkerer, he’ll be bringing his latest work to both the Bitcoin Conference Las Vegas and Inscribing Vegas during Bitcoin Week in late May. In 2024,

Bitcoin Magazine UK Treasury Secretary Says No To National Bitcoin Reserve Speaking at the Financial Times Digital Asset Summit in London on Tuesday, Emma Reynolds, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, emphasized that while the UK aims to become a crypto hub, it will take a different approach from both the U.S. and EU in regulating

Bitcoin Magazine SDNY Withholding Of Evidence Undermines Charges Against Samourai Wallet This morning, a letter filed by the defense of Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill revealed that the Southern District of New York (SDNY) had suppressed exculpatory evidence in the criminal case.  According to the filing, the prosecution had consulted FinCEN

Bitcoin Magazine Semler Scientific Buys 167 More BTC, Now One Of The Largest Bitcoin Treasury Holders In U.S. Semler Scientific (Nasdaq: SMLR) has acquired 167 additional bitcoins for $16.2 million between April 30 and May 2, 2025, using proceeds from its at-the-market (ATM) equity offering. This latest purchase brings the company’s total BTC holdings to

Bitcoin Magazine Riot Produces 463 BTC in April During Strategic Transition  Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) produced 463 Bitcoin in April 2025, down 13% from March but up 23% year-over-year, according to its latest unaudited monthly production and operations report. The company also sold 475 Bitcoin for net proceeds of $38.8 million at an average price

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy Buys $180 Million Worth of Bitcoin According to a Monday SEC filing, Strategy purchased the bitcoin at an average price of $95,167 per coin between April 28 and May 4. The acquisition brings the company’s total holdings to 555,450 BTC, acquired for approximately $38.08 billion at an average price of $68,550 per

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Core Developer Sjors Provoost: Bitcoin Core The Project While at the MIT Bitcoin Expo last month I was able to sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Sjors Provoost.  Sjors is a physicist turned Bitcoin developer, which believe it or not is actually a pretty common phenomenon. He began contributing to Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Magazine Senator Lummis Says Trump Supports Her BITCOIN Act That Could Erase U.S. Debt In a powerful address on Capitol Hill today, Senator Cynthia Lummis made her stance clear: the United States is out of time—and out of traditional options. “The BITCOIN Act is the only solution to our nation’s $36T debt,” she said,

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Covenants: OP_CAT (BIP 347) This is the fifth article in a series deep diving into individual covenant proposals that have reached a point of maturity meriting an in-depth breakdown. OP_CAT, put forward for reactivation in tapscript by Ethan Heilman and Armin Sabouri in BIP 347, is not a covenant. It was an