Bitcoin News

Bitcoin News

Finance

Strike secures New York BitLicense, opening bitcoin financial services to state residents

NYDFS approval allows the Bitcoin payments company to offer trading, bill pay and custody products across New York.

Jack Mallers in an interview with CoinDesk when he was CEO at Twenty One Capital

Markets

Bitcoin drops toward $70,000 ahead of U.S. jobs data; oil price rises on Iran war

Investors are turning more defensive as geopolitical tensions rise and key U.S. labor market data approaches.

North Sea oil rig.

Markets

Vancouver mayor's bitcoin investment proposal blocked by city, provincial law

Officials say the Vancouver Charter limits city reserves to government debt, bank instruments and other traditional assets.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Markets

Bitcoin and stocks stabilize after early week slide. The bond market isn’t convinced.

Risk assets recover from oil-driven selloff as rising yields pressure Fed rate-cut bets.

A person looking at multiple trading screens. (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

CleanSpark sold 97% of February bitcoin production to fund AI pivot

The cash flow generated will support the bitcoin miner's expansion into AI and high-performance computing data centers.

Racks of mining machines.

Markets

Core Scientific secures up to $1 billion loan facility from Morgan Stanley

The company initially closed a $500 million loan facility that includes an accordion feature allowing the total commitment to expand to $1 billion..

Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Markets

Bitcoin’s drawdown hasn’t shaken institutional investors yet, says CoinShares

Professional investors trimmed exposure but largely held firm during BTC’s recent slump, while long-term allocators quietly added positions, the crypto asset manager said.

(Photo by Kanchanara on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Trump-backed American Bitcoin board members scoop up stock following earnings

Board members Justin Mateen and Richard Busch bought roughly 1.6 million shares after the trading window reopened following the bitcoin miner’s latest earnings report.

Eric Trump, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, American Bitcoin speaks at Consensus 2025. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Chamath Palihapitiya questions bitcoin’s role as central bank reserve asset

Billionaire Venture capitalist points to privacy and fungibility concerns, while debate grows over corporate bitcoin strategies such as Strategy’s massive holdings.

Chamath Palihapitiya (JD Lasica/Flickr Creative Commons)

Markets

Bitcoin trading firm suggests a bullish trade with a key financing twist

The strategy aims to build upside exposure in March and April while minimizing upfront cost.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)