The executive chairman of bitcoin treasury firm Strategy teased a switch from orange dots to green dots in what’s become his routine cheeky Sunday X post.

S&P Global last Wednesday slashed its rating on Tether’s USDT stablecoin to its weakest score.

A sharp market pullback has exposed which BTC-focused public companies can actually execute, and which were never built for volatility.

The goal of the upgrade is to enable Ethereum to handle the large transaction throughput from the layer-2 chains that use the blockchain as their base layer.

The firm’s US-listed spot bitcoin ETF IBIT, launched in January 2024, reached $70 billion in assets in record time and has generated hundreds of millions in fees.

Phong Le says Strategy has no near-term debt maturity risk and plans to continue using convertibles and equity to grow its bitcoin position over time.

Denis Dariotis, the youthful founder and CEO of cryptocurrency-focused trading software firm GoQuant, talks about building a billion-dollar-a-day trading startup during his formative years.

The card doesn’t require preloading funds or custodial services, and carries a 2% fee on currency conversions, with no IOF tax for Brazilian users.

The court cases will continue for the moment.

An executive at a Brazil-based crypto firm argued that increasing regulation and surveillance are a threat to freedom, and that P2P tech remains a vital line of defense.