Bitcoin Magazine Metaplanet Buys Additional ¥1.92 Billion Worth Of Bitcoin Metaplanet Inc. has acquired an additional 145 bitcoin for approximately ¥1.926 billion ($13.6 million), reaching a significant milestone of 5,000 BTC in total holdings. The Tokyo Exchange-listed company executed the purchase at an average price of ¥13,280,472 ($93,327) per bitcoin. Metaplanet’s bitcoin treasury is acquired […]

Bitcoin Magazine Russia’s Finance Ministry and Central Bank to Launch Crypto Exchange for “Super-qualified Investors” Russia’s Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Russia are set to jointly launch a cryptocurrency exchange designed exclusively for super-qualified investors, as part of a broader effort to bring crypto operations into a formal regulatory framework, according to a

Bitcoin Magazine secp256k1lab: An INSECURE Python Library That Makes Bitcoin Safer Until now, every Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) that needed cryptographic primitives had to reinvent the wheel. Each one came bundled with its own custom Python implementation of the secp256k1 elliptic curve and related algorithms, each subtly different from one another. These inconsistencies introduced quiet

Bitcoin Magazine Jack Mallers Named CEO of New Bitcoin Powerhouse Twenty One Capital, Plans to Launch With 42,000 BTC Jack Mallers, co-founder and CEO of Strike, has been named co-founder and CEO of Twenty One Capital, Inc., a new Bitcoin-native firm preparing to go public via a SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners. The company

Bitcoin Magazine SoftBank, Tether, and Cantor Fitzgerald in Talks for $3B Bitcoin Treasury Vehicle SoftBank, one of Japan’s most powerful corporate institutions, is reportedly in talks with Tether and Cantor Fitzgerald to launch a $3 billion Bitcoin treasury vehicle slated for public listing. According to Bloomberg, the structure is expected to be capitalized in Bitcoin—not

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin ETFs See $912 Million Inflows, Bitcoin Price Surges Above $94,000 Bitcoin ETFs witnessed massive inflows totalling $912.7 million on April 22, marking their strongest performance since January 20, when bitcoin reached its previous all-time high above $108,000. The surge coincides with bitcoin’s price breaking above $94,000 for the first time in 51

Bitcoin Magazine BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF IBIT Hit $4.2 Billion in Trading Volume as Bitcoin Price Surpasses $91,000 BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, recorded a massive $4.2 billion in trading volume today as the price of Bitcoin soared above $91,000 for the first time since early March. According to data from Barchart, IBIT traded a staggering

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin’s Transformative Role As A Retirement Asset According to the Bitcoin Reserve Monitor, 20 states have pending Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) legislation. As bullish as these efforts seem, they may be overshadowed by a sweeping federal framework pushed by Senator Cynthia Lummis, now the head of the Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets. After

Bitcoin Magazine Embed Bitcoin Into Everything, Everywhere Last week Breez Tech announced WebAssembly (WASM) support for their Nodeless Breez SDK. They had to rework a number of pieces of the SDK to make Bitcoin and Lightning work in the browser, implementing new ways to grab blockchain data, handle databases in memory, handle DNS resolution, interact

Bitcoin Magazine CitizenX Acquires Plan B Passport to Accelerate Sovereign Individual Movement Katie “The Russian” Ananina’s Citizenship by Investment company, Plan B Passport, announces a merger with CitizenX, unlocking a new suite of passport diversification options for Bitcoiners. Digital-first and ‘crypto’—as in cryptography—native, the merger combines Plan B Passport’s deep connections in the Bitcoin industry