🪙 Bernstein: Strategy₿ and its corporate copycats could add $330B to Bitcoin treasuries in next five years

🔄 Earlier: Strategy₿ Q1 2025 results.

@just 📄

🔥 Cryptocurrency markets record historic $19,000,000,000 inflows over the past month.

@just 📄

⚡️ Ripple announces Q1 2025 XRP markets report

Key points:

• Institutions continued to back new XRP products;
• The SEC officially withdrew its appeal against Ripple;
• Ripple acquired Hidden Road for $1.25B.

@just 📄

📣 Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO: "Congress has a real opportunity this week to advance stablecoin and market structure legislation. We strongly support the Senate starting debate on the GENIUS Act — and we need 60 votes to get there".

@just 📄

🪙 Bitcoin developers plan OP_RETURN* removal in next release

This update has sparked debate over data transparency versus network abuse. Critics warn it could increase spam and a shift from Bitcoin's financial focus.

* — The 80-byte limit has long been used for proof of existence, token creation, and data anchoring.

@just 📄

🔥 CZ thinks Bitcoin price could top between $500,000 to $1,000,000 this cycle

@just 📄

⚡️ House Republicans unveil crypto regulation bill

US House Republicans introduced a draft bill to regulate the crypto market, slashing the disclosure threshold for token holdings from 5% to 1%.

@just 📄

🪙 Only 993,126 addresses have more than 1 Bitcoin.

@just 📄

⚡️ UK Economic Secretary for the Treasury: The UK has no plans to launch a national digital asset reserve

@just 📄

🪙 Michael Saylor: "AI will buy Bitcoin".

@just 📄

📣 Scott Bessent, US Treasury Secretary, says: “A central bank digital currency is a sign of weakness".

@just 📄

⚡️ ECB has launched an Innovation Hub to test the digital euro as its preparation phase approaches completion

🔄 Earlier: COTI is involved in the ECB’s Digital Euro CBDC endeavor.

@just 📄

🪙 New Hampshire is the first state to formally enact a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve law

@just 📄

⚡️ Senate Democrat probes Trump's crypto ventures

Senator Richard Blumenthal sent inquiries to executives of Trump-linked businesses, requesting details on their ownership and investment framework.

@just 📄

⚡️ Visa boosts its stablecoin focus by investing in BVNK*

*— a blockchain payments company.

🔄 Earlier: Visa to roll out payment cards backed by stablecoins.

@just 📄

💎 Ethereum's Pectra upgrade is live

Three major EIPs*:

• EIP-7702 allows externally owned accounts to behave as smart contracts. They can cover gas costs and payments in tokens other than ETH;
• EIP-7251 increases the validator staking limit from 32 to 2,048 ETH;
• EIP-7691 increases the number of data blobs per block. This enhances layer-2 scalability and may considerably lower transaction fees.

* — Ethereum Improvement Proposals.

@just 📄

🪙 Opinion: Russia seen as largest Bitcoin mining beneficiary if Trump's tariffs hit in full

@just 📄

⚡️ Revolut to roll out Bitcoin lightning payments for EU users through lightspark

@just 📄

🪙 Michael Saylor says Microsoft could add $4 trillion in value by swapping bonds for Bitcoin

@just 📄

🔝 Total DEX volume on Solana has surpassed $805B in 2025

@just 📄

🔥 Coinbase unleashed over 10,000 documents stemming from Freedom of Information Act requests to multiple agencies, including the SEC

@just 📄