U.S. Vice President JD Vance will deliver a keynote at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas on May 28. He is the first sitting Vice President in U.S. history to publicly support Bitcoin at a major event. The Bitcoin Conference on X The announcement comes as the countdown begins to the three-day conference at […]
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Oregon has officially signed Senate Bill 167 (SB 167) into law, making digital assets, including bitcoin, legal collateral in financial transactions. Governor Tina Kotek signed the bill on May 7, updating Oregon’s Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) to allow the use of digital assets like bitcoin as collateral in secured lending. It adds Article 12, which
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New Hampshire is now the first state in the U.S. to allow its treasury to invest in bitcoin. Governor Kelly Ayotte signed House Bill 302 (HB 302) into law. This is a big step towards mainstreaming bitcoin into public finance. Rep. Keith Ammon on X The bill allows the New Hampshire State Treasurer to invest
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Arizona Bill SB 1025, which passed both chambers of the Arizona legislature, and was sponsored by State Senator Wendy Rogers (R), was vetoed on May 2, 2025, by Governor Katie Hobbs (D). Bitcoin advocate Rogers has previously introduced legal tender legislation in Arizona via Senate Bill 1341. The effort faced too many legal challenges initially
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Bitcoin is back in the headlines as its dominance has reached a 4-year high, and everyone is talking about the future of altcoins and the direction of the market. As of early May, bitcoin’s dominance (the percentage of the total market it represents) is at 64.98% its highest since January 2021. Bitcoin dominance hits 4-year
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Roswell, New Mexico, made history once again this week by becoming the first city in the world to document the acceptance of a bitcoin donation. A physical receipt signifying the city’s acceptance of the gift was ceremonially signed Tuesday by Roswell Mayor Pro Tem Juliana Halvorson. Halvorson signed the receipt for the bitcoin donation at
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MicroStrategy, the giant corporate bitcoin holder that is now called “Strategy”, is expanding its already huge bitcoin purchasing plan. It announced plans to raise $84 billion over the next 2 years — all to buy even more bitcoin. The new plan is called the “42/42 Capital Plan” and will raise $42 billion from stock sales
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El Salvador seems to be buying bitcoin (BTC) even after signing a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that seemed to require it to scale back. Despite a $1.4 billion loan agreement signed in late 2024 with the IMF which included terms to limit El Salvador’s involvement with Bitcoin, the government has not stopped
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A heated debate is raging in the Bitcoin community over a technical proposal that could change how data is stored on the blockchain. The issue is around the OP_RETURN function, a feature that lets users attach small amounts of data to Bitcoin transactions. Currently this data is limited to 83 bytes, but a new proposal—Pull
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A new phishing scam is targeting digital asset holders with Ledger hardware wallets—and it’s an old-school but effective method: physical mail. Users are reporting receiving letters in the mail that appear to be from Ledger, the popular hardware wallet provider. The letters claim to be from the company’s security team and ask users to do
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