The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) has increased its investment in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), according to a new SEC filing today, as first reported on X by MacroScope. In an SEC filing today, the State of Wisconsin Investment Board reported owning 2,898,051 shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust asContinue Reading
Goldman Sachs has disclosed $418 million holdings in spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), signalling a growing institutional appetite for Bitcoin exposure. BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Goldman Sachs reports holding over $400 million in spot #Bitcoin ETFs in new SEC filing 👀 pic.twitter.com/n4nWDfCm6w — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) August 14, 2024 In a quarterlyContinue Reading
Chun Wang, the co-founder of Bitcoin mining pool f2pool and a well-known figure in the Bitcoin community, is set to command SpaceX’s first human spaceflight mission to explore Earth’s polar regions from orbit. Wang, who began mining Bitcoin back in 2011, said he has been eagerly preparing for this mission forContinue Reading
Company Name: Fedi Founders: Obi Nwosu, Justin Moon and Eric Sirion Date Founded: June 2022 Location of Headquarters: Fully remote Amount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: N/A Number of Employees: 27 full-time employees Website: https://www.fedi.xyz/ Public or Private? Private Just a few years back, Obi Nwosu was running Coinfloor, aContinue Reading
Custodial Lightning has clearly achieved product market fit. Users benefit from instant Bitcoin payments and minimal fees, while custodians manage the complexities of channel and liquidity management. Major platforms like Coinbase, Cash App, Kraken, and Binance provide over 200 million users with direct access to Lightning payments. While the LightningContinue Reading
According to data from Bitcoin Magazine Pro, there are 1,012,650 Bitcoin addresses that contain 1 BTC or more. This represents more than 1 million BTC potentially taken off the market and held by strong hands, a significant portion of the 21 million BTC that will ever exist. Demand continues toContinue Reading
Metaplanet, a publicly listed Japanese investment firm, purchased an additional ¥500 million ($3.4 million) worth of bitcoin. This brings the company’s total Bitcoin holdings to 303, acquired for ¥2.95 billion ($20 million). JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Metaplanet buys another ¥500 million worth of #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/dfGWwqNBXw — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) August 13,Continue Reading
Marathon Digital Holdings, a leading U.S.-based Bitcoin mining company, has announced that all Bitcoin blocks mined in America will now be stamped with the label “Made in USA”. The company declared on X, “MARA is Team USA, proudly declared in each American-made bitcoin block we mine.” JUST IN: Marathon announcesContinue Reading
“Give me liberty, or give me death!” Ben James said, poking the air with his fork to emphasize. I smiled back at my husband as he enjoyed the steak I’d grilled in the backyard. He was telling me about the second Citadel he wanted to create, this one affiliated withContinue Reading
Bitcoin Magazine is excited to announce that veteran reporter and author Aaron van Wirdum has been named Editor in Chief, a position he formerly held from 2021 to 2022. The appointment follows his sabbatical in 2020 to write “The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That InspiredContinue Reading
