Bitcoin Magazine Brazilian Publicly Traded Méliuz Adopts Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Brazilian fintech company Méliuz announced Thursday it had allocated 10% of its cash reserves into bitcoin, becoming the first publicly traded firm in the country to adopt a bitcoin treasury strategy. Méliuz invested $4.1 million to acquire 45.72 bitcoins at an average price of $90,926 […]

Bitcoin Magazine Belarus President Wants To Mine Bitcoin & Crypto Using Surplus Energy This week, Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko told the country’s Energy Minister Alexei Kushnarenko that he wants to use their surplus of electricity to mine cryptocurrency like Bitcoin to accumulate a reserve. “Look at this mining. More and more people are turning to […]

Bitcoin Magazine The Current State Of The IRS Broker Rule Between the holidays and New Years, the IRS used the last passing days of the Biden administration to finalize its long feared Broker Rule: a regulation requiring all cryptocurrency exchanges – custodial and non-custodial, fiat to crypto and crypto to crypto – to effectively subject […]

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Blockchain Used To Secure Results Of Tennessee County’s Republican Convention Vote On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, the Williamson Country Republican Party held its convention at the Franklin Marriott, located in the heart of Williamson County, Tennessee. At the event, “bona fide” Republicans (those who voted in the last three out of four […]

Bitcoin Magazine Howard Lutnick Says President Trump to Unveil Bitcoin Reserve Strategy This Week Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick revealed in an interview on Tuesday that President Donald Trump plans to announce a bitcoin strategic reserve later this week. Speaking to independent news outlet The Pavlovic Today, Lutnick stated that the President “definitely thinks there’s a […]

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin And Africa: Why Not Strategic Beef Reserve? South Africa Reserve Bank(SARB) governor’s question, “Why not strategic beef reserve?” at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos may have been rhetorical, but Lesetja Kganyago’s seemingly sarcastic remark about “strategic bitcoin reserves” inadvertently underscored the need for Africa to rethink its economic strategies in […]

Bitcoin Magazine Mexican Billionaire Salinas Says He Has 70% Bitcoin-Related Exposure Ricardo Salinas, the billionaire owner of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Salinas, revealed in a recent interview that he has allocated 70% of his investment portfolio to bitcoin and bitcoin-related assets. JUST IN: Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas says, “I’ve got about 70% in #Bitcoin-related exposure.” pic.twitter.com/1WqA9IBFED […]

Bitcoin Magazine THNDR Releases Skill-Based Blackjack Game With Bitcoin Lightning Network-Powered Payouts Today, THNDR, pioneers in play-to-earn (P2E) Bitcoin games as well as skill-based peer-to-peer (PvP) gaming solutions, announced the release of its latest title, Blackjack. Designed for iGaming operators and aggregators, the game is now available via THNDR’s B2B PvP platform. With this new […]

Bitcoin Magazine Standard Chartered Bank Re-focuses On $500,000 Bitcoin Target After Trump Crypto Reserve Announcement Just one day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Bitcoin is going to “at the heart” of a national strategic crypto reserve, Standard Chartered Bank’s Head of Digital Asset Research Geoff Kendrick stated that he is now re-focusing on […]

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Reserves And The Incentives Of Civil Asset Forfeiture Yesterday, President Trump announced the long awaited Strategic “Bitcoin” Reserve on Truth Social, and many in the space are pissed. First, the Reserve appears to be far from Bitcoin only. “They’re doing DEI for Charles Hoskinson,” former CoinDesk Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris […]