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New York's financial regulator granted Mastercard Transaction Services (U.S.) LLC a BitLicense on 27 May 2026, and a social post revived the news this week as if it were fresh. Mastercard's own statement ties the approval to stablecoins and tokenized deposits, not bitcoin.
An Instagram slide says Bitcoin was $8 exactly 15 years ago today, pinned to a BitcoinTalk post dated 18 August 2011. Satoshi Nakamoto's last public post on that forum was 12 December 2010. The date on the slide is also three weeks past.
BlackRock has cut the in-kind minimum on its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, opening direct bitcoin-for-shares swaps to smaller institutions. Robbie Mitchnick told Bloomberg the fund keeps growing because access keeps widening.
Harmony wants to end its seven-year-old chain and reissue ONE on Ethereum. Validators can start shutting down on 10 September, and the vote is non-binding.
A viral post shows crowds queuing for a SpaceX IPO while one lone buyer waits at a door marked Bitcoin $63,000. The tape disagrees. Bitcoin traded near $78,000 in early September, and the SpaceX listing closed back in June.
Roughly 4,000 bitcoin left Liquid's federation wallet on Sunday afternoon. Six accounts of the amount are on the record and none of them match.
Strategy's bitcoin position stood at 845,050 BTC at the end of August, well above the 672,497 in a holder ranking now circulating. Checked against current trackers, most of that list carries figures dated December 2024.
River puts the number of people holding at least one entire bitcoin at roughly 825,000, about one in every 10,000 people alive. Its own range runs from 600,000 to 1 million. Rival address counts do not agree with it.
CertiK puts operational compromise at about 76% of first-half losses. Three trackers give three totals for the same six months.
Evernorth's quarterly report puts order-book volume at 3.57 million XRP a day against 1,111 trading accounts. Outlets differ on how far the account count fell.
The opt-in format lifts the transaction ceiling from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 and drops Address Lookup Tables. Legacy transactions keep working unchanged.
Preliminary approval comes with $210 million of paid-in capital due within 12 months and a 12% leverage ratio for three years. Accounts differ on the seed round behind it.
