BJ Bitcoin MagazineCowbolt Announces Their Mission to Make Bitcoin Familiar to Everybody Today at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, Cowbolt, an app that lets you split expense payments and settle in bitcoin, will launch their mission: turn peer-to-peer payments into a Bitcoin onramp, starting with family and friends. Cowbolt will let their clients split costs … Read more
The restructuring of leading legal and compliance roles at cryptocurrency exchange OKX continues with the departure of the firm’s global general counsel, Melissa Muehlfeld. Muehlfeld joined OKcoin, the U.S. arm of OKX, back in May of 2022 as deputy general counsel. She was promoted to global general counsel in August 2024. Since OKX paid half … Read more
Bitcoin MagazineWhite House Executive Director Bo Hines Declares U.S. The Future Global Crypto Superpower In a session at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference this morning titled “Making America the Global Bitcoin Superpower“, Bo Hines, White House Executive Director, Tyler Williams, from the US Treasury Department, and moderator Miles Jennings made one thing clear: the United States … Read more
Bitcoin MagazineBitcoin Enters a New Era: Industry Leaders Predict Trillions in Institutional Inflows At the 2025 Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, the Founder and CEO of Kelly Intelligence Kevin Kelly, the Chief Executive Officer of Bitwise Asset Management Hunter Horsley, the CEO of BitGo Mike Belshe and the Advisor of WBTC Justin Sun talked about … Read more
A man suspected of helping kidnap and torture an Italian cryptocurrency investor in a Manhattan townhouse has surrendered to New York City police. William Duplessie turned himself in Tuesday after what officials described as days of negotiations with authorities, the New York Times reports. He is the third suspect in an alleged plot to extract … Read more
Jack Dorsey’s Square has taken bitcoin BTC payments a step further at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas this week. For three days, the company is piloting a program where attendees can make purchases with their bitcoin by scanning a barcode. Payments are then settled in near real-time via the Lighting Network while Square … Read more
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) CEO Fred Thiel has an idea for how U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration can make good on its promises to build out a strategic bitcoin reserve: start mining. Speaking on a panel at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Thiel said that the U.S. government has many … Read more
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Steak n’ Shake has only been accepting bitcoin payments for two weeks, but the American fast food chain’s COO Dan Edwards said it’s already been a “win” for both the company and its customers. Speaking at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Edwards said that bitcoin payments have been faster and … Read more
Bitcoin MagazinePresident Trump Supports Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill, Senator Lummis Says Today at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, US Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia, took the stage to give updates on federal and state level Bitcoin adoption in the United … Read more
Bitcoin MagazineBitcoin Is Here To Stay, Says Former US Treasurer Rosie Rios At the 2025 Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, the Co-Manager of President Trump’s 2024 Campaign Chris LaCivita, Congressman Brian T. Jack, the Chief Policy Officer of Coinbase Faryar Shirzad and Former US Treasurer Rosie Rios at the Nakamoto stage discussed the 250th birthday … Read more
