Sometimes the best Bitcoin stories start with the worst banking experiences. For Nicolas Dorier, creator of BTCPay Server, his journey into Bitcoin began not with grand visions of digital money, but with the frustrating reality of being blacklisted by French banks over a measly $1,000 unpaid bill after the failure of his first startup in […]
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Hewie Rattray remembers the price of bitcoin when it was just a whisper on campus: thirty bucks. Back then, he and his university friends weren’t thinking about treasury strategies, they were just obsessed with this new magic internet money. Twelve years later, that obsession has matured into something more concrete: a public company. Rattray now
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2025 has so far been a year marked by persistent geopolitical tensions, monetary challenges, and evolving investor behavior. Amid all this, the crypto markets continue navigating a complex macroeconomic landscape. Bitcoin’s performance, the increasing institutional adoption, the rise of certain fields in decentralized finals, as well as questions around traditional 4-year market cycles are all
Moritz Kaminski didn’t set out to start a company. He just wanted Bitcoin to work better on the internet, but back in 2019, standing at the Lightning Conference in Munich, something clicked. “There was this super enthusiastic crowd of people who were super excited about building on Bitcoin and not just talking theory,” he recalls.
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In a DeFi landscape that’s largely crowded with rigid scripts and static bots, Giza is building something substantially different: agents that adapt, think, and act with cryptographic precision. For this interview, we sit down with CEO Renç Korzay, whose vision of “agent-driven DeFi” replaces automation-as-usual with real-time intelligence and personalized financial autonomy. In the following,
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The signs started appearing everywhere for Will Reeves long before he founded Fold. In Argentina, a friend showed him how families preserved wealth through Bitcoin during runaway inflation. In Sonoma County, where his family worked in the wine industry, he watched migrant workers get gouged by traditional remittance providers who charged usurious fees for sending
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When Richard Scotford moved to Costa Rica in 2018, he had no idea he would become a key figure in a thriving Bitcoin economy. A longtime Bitcoin holder who initially saw it through the lens of speculation, Scotford’s journey led him to embrace Bitcoin’s deeper purpose and spearhead Bitcoin Jungle — a grassroots movement bringing real-world Bitcoin
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While most Bitcoin companies chase quick wins with flashy marketing and complex trading features, Coinfinity is taking a different path. The Austria-based company has built their entire business model around something most brokers treat as an afterthought: education. Founded on the principle that Bitcoin adoption requires understanding, not just access, Coinfinity offers something great in
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Ten years in Bitcoin can feel like an eternity. Just ask Sergej Kotliar, Founder and CEO of Bitrefill, who recently celebrated a decade of turning Bitcoin into something you can actually use in your everyday life. “We started Bitrefill back in 2014,” Sergej reflects, thinking back to the early excitement around Bitcoin. “The promise of
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Gen Z (those born between 1997 and 2012) are not rushing to stack sats, and Oliver Porter, Founder & CEO of Jippi, understands the challenge better than most. His strategy revolves around adapting Bitcoin education to fit seamlessly into the digital lives of young adults. “We need to meet them where they are,” Oliver explains.
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