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Third Largest US Pension Fund Invests in MicroStrategy for Indirect Bitcoin Exposure

Posted on August 21, 2025 by 1BTC in News

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) has invested $34.9 million in MicroStrategy (MSTR), adding 25,346 shares to their portfolio. The investment in MSTR exposes CalSTRS indirectly to bitcoin due to Strategy becoming the first and largest bitcoin treasury company, which holds 629,376 BTC. CalSTRS is the 3rd largest pension fund in the United States. […]

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Winklevoss Twins Donate 188 Bitcoin to Digital Freedom Fund PAC

Posted on August 20, 2025 by 1BTC in News

Winklevoss Twins Tyler and Cameron, founders of Gemini exchange, have announced they have donated $21 million in bitcoin (188.4547 BTC) to the Digital Freedom Fund PAC. Gemini recently filed for IPO. Tyler Winklevoss commented on X, “The mission of the [Freedom Fund PAC] is to help realize President Trump’s vision of making America the crypto […]

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Bitcoin Surpasses Google in Market Cap

Posted on August 13, 2025 by 1BTC in News

Bitcoin has reached another all time high, reaching $124,533 on Coinbase on August 13, 2025. The new ATH puts Bitcoin above Google in market cap value, putting Bitcoin as the 5th largest global asset with a total market cap value of $2.45+ trillion. Next up for Bitcoin is Apple’s market cap of $3.46 trillion, putting […]

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Donald Trump Issues Executive Order to Allow Bitcoin in 401(k) Retirement Plans

Posted on August 7, 2025 by 1BTC in News

U.S. President Donald Trump has issued an executive order titled, “Democratizing Access to Alternative Assets for 401(k) Investors.” The order states, “A combination of regulatory overreach and encouragement of lawsuits filed by opportunistic trial lawyers has stifled investment innovation and largely relegated 401(k) and other defined-contribution retirement plan participants to asset classes whose returns lack […]

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Satoshi Nakamoto Statue Vandalized in Lugano Switzerland

Posted on August 3, 2025 by 1BTC in News

The statue in Lugano Switzerland of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creater of Bitcoin, was vandalized and stolen on August 2, 2025. Satoshigallery offered a 0.1 bitcoin reward to help recover the statue on X, stating, “You can steal our symbol but you will never be able to steal our souls.” Where is Satoshi? We are […]

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SEC Allows In-Kind Creations and Redemptions for Crypto ETPs

Posted on July 29, 2025 by 1BTC in News

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted today to approve in-kind creations and redemptions for crypto asset exchange-traded product (ETP) shares. The decision reflects a departure from recently approved spot bitcoin and ether ETPs, which were limited to creations and redemptions on an in-cash basis. Bitcoin and ether ETPs will be permitted to create and […]

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PayPal’s Pay with Crypto Allows Payments with Bitcoin

Posted on July 28, 2025 by 1BTC in News

PayPal has announced Pay with Crypto, powered by PayPal. The service connects merchants to a $3+ trillion market by enabling instant crypto to stablecoin or fiat conversion. The service will support transaction across 100+ cryptocurrencies. Pay with Crypto will be available to U.S. merchants in the coming weeks. Pay with Crypto offers the ability to […]

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Trump Media Purchased $2 Billion Worth of Bitcoin for Bitcoin Treasury

Posted on July 21, 2025 by 1BTC in News, Reserve

Trump Media and Technology Group Corp., operator of the social media platform Truth Social, the streaming platform Truth+, and the FinTech brand Truth.Fi, announced the Company has accumulated approximately $2 billion in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities as part of its previously announced bitcoin treasury strategy. The holdings now comprise around two-thirds of Trump Media’s approximately […]

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