Bitcoin Magazine My First Bitcoin Receives $1 Million Grant from Jack Dorsey to Expand Global Bitcoin Education My First Bitcoin, a nonprofit focused on grassroots Bitcoin education, just announced they are receiving a $1 million grant from Start Small. This funding will help scale efforts to provide free, open source Bitcoin education for the world. […]

Bitcoin Magazine Missouri Bill Would Enable Tax-Free Bitcoin Spending Missouri’s House Bill 594 (HB594), which would eliminate capital gains taxes for residents in the state, recently passed a vote in the state’s House of Representatives and now awaits a signature from Missouri’s governor, Mike Kehoe (R). If the bill passes, Missourians can write off “one […]

Bitcoin Magazine Dubai Partners To Accept Bitcoin And Crypto for Government Services  Dubai is officially making Bitcoin a part of everyday life.  At the Dubai FinTech Summit, the city’s Department of Finance (DOF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Crypto.com enabling people to use cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to pay for government services. JUST […]

Bitcoin Magazine Public Companies Have Already Bought 3.3x More Bitcoin Than This Year’s New Supply It’s only May, and public corporations have already bought 3.3 times more Bitcoin than has been supplied in 2025, according to a new graphic from asset manager Bitwise. To put that into perspective, the new supply for the year is […]

Bitcoin Magazine The Bitcoin Mempool: Why We Have Filters In my prior article on the mempool, I laid out a simple conceptual framework to reason about the basic functionality of the mempool, and how it was used by different kinds of users of the Bitcoin network. In this piece I will be looking at the […]

Bitcoin Magazine Metaplanet Issues $15 Million in Bonds To Buy More Bitcoin Japanese public company Metaplanet announced Monday it will issue $15 million in zero-interest bonds to fund additional Bitcoin purchases, marking its latest move to expandBitcoin holdings amid rising institutional adoption. According to regulatory filings, the company’s 15th Series of Ordinary Bonds will be […]

Bitcoin Magazine OP_RETURN Limits: Bitcoin’s Battle Over Arbitrary Data An OP_RETURN debate flared up in the Bitcoin industry in recent weeks and has by now invaded most conversation spaces within the industry. The topic is rich and complex, and many people have strong opinions on the matter. OP_RETURN is an opcode in Bitcoin’s scripting language […]

Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase Joins the S&P 500 as Bitcoin Treasury Exposure Goes Mainstream On May 19, 2025, Coinbase ($COIN) will officially join the S&P 500—widely regarded as the most trusted, most tracked equity index in the world. With over $5 trillion in assets benchmarked to it, the S&P 500 isn’t just a measure of corporate […]

Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase Becomes First Bitcoin And Crypto Company To Join The S&P 500 Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN) is officially joining the S&P 500 starting May 19. It will replace Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), which is being acquired by Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF), an existing member of the index. JUST IN: Coinbase […]

Bitcoin Magazine Exodus Hits Record Q1 Revenue As Bitcoin Holdings Rise To 2,011 BTC Exodus Movement, Inc. (NYSE American: EXOD), a leading self-custodial Bitcoin and cryptocurrency platform, has announced unaudited financial results for Q1 2025, showcasing record-setting revenue and a notable increase in digital asset holdings.  In its strongest first quarter yet, Exodus reported $36.0 […]