Bitcoin Magazine Exodus Launches XO Pay, An In-App Bitcoin And Crypto Purchase Solution Exodus has officially launched XO Pay, a new crypto purchasing feature that allows users to buy and sell digital assets directly within the Exodus mobile wallet, and is now live across the United States. XO Pay aims to simplify the process for […]

Bitcoin Magazine Cake Wallet Introduces PayJoin v2, Increasing Bitcoin Privacy For The Masses Cake Wallet, a non-custodial open-source wallet for cryptocurrencies, has officially launched PayJoin v2, becoming the first major mobile wallet to offer Bitcoin silent payments to everyday users.  This integration introduces a protocol upgrade that disrupts blockchain surveillance by mixing transaction inputs from

Bitcoin Magazine Trump Media Group Seeks $3 Billion War Chest to Buy Bitcoin and Crypto Assets: FT  Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the company behind Truth Social and controlled by the Trump family, is preparing to raise a staggering $3 billion to invest in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, according to the Financial Times. JUST

Bitcoin Magazine Something is Brewing in Ireland: A Sound Punt Is Released, As Bitcoin Enters The National Conversation For years, Bitcoin in Ireland has quietly simmered at the grassroots level—discussed in pubs and meetups, debated in Telegram groups, and occasionally splashed across headlines with predictable suspicion. But recently, the temperature is beginning to rise. With

Bitcoin Magazine The Bitcoin Mempool: Relay Network Dynamics In the last Mempool article, I went over the different kinds of relay policy filters, why they exist, and the incentives that ultimately decide how effective each class of filter is at preventing the confirmation of different classes of transactions. In this piece I’ll be looking at

Bitcoin Magazine The Citadel (v. Nardo): From Meme to Monument My latest painting, The Citadel (v. Nardo), did not begin simply on canvas. It began as a whisper – an image passed digitally between anonymous hands, reposted, remixed, archived, and mythologized across the internet. Like many of my works, this piece builds from historical fragments

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Pizza Day: 15 Years Since 10,000 BTC Bought Two Pizzas and Changed Everything  On May 22, 2010, Bitcoin became more than just an idea—it became real money. Laszlo Hanyecz, a developer and early contributor to Bitcoin’s codebase, posted a casual offer: “I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.” Five days

Bitcoin Magazine The Freedom Issue: Letter From the Editor Bitcoin is freedom money, a censorship-resistant form of digital cash allowing anyone with an internet connection to send money to anyone else, regardless of nationality, borders, or other arbitrary restrictions. I personally first heard about Bitcoin in early 2013, through friends who were buying… stuff from

Bitcoin Magazine Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) Opens $2.1B ATM Program for Strife Preferred Stock  Strategy has launched a $2.1 billion At-The-Market (ATM) equity program for its Strife (STRF) preferred stock, marking another step in the firm’s long-term strategy to build a Bitcoin-backed financial architecture. The announcement was made by CEO and President Phong Lee during

Bitcoin Magazine Spark Partners with Breez to Launch Bitcoin-Native SDK for Lightning Payments Today, Breez and Spark have announced a new implementation of the Breez SDK, built on Spark’s Bitcoin-native Layer 2 infrastructure. According to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine, the update is intended to make it easier for developers to integrate self-custodial