Bitcoin 2025 Conference: Bitcoin buys and other showy bitcoin announcements galore
The Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas wrapped up last night, with crypto bigwigs like Jack Mallers and cofounder Michael Saylor, as well as brothers from the Winklevii to the Trumps, taking the st...
SOL Strategies raising $1 billion for solana opportunities
While everyone is mimicking Michael Saylor’s bitcoin corporate treasury mission ( not always successfully ), some companies are deciding to focus on altcoins like . SOL Strategies , a Canadian publicl...
Bad news for Trump Media and GameStop: The power of the “pivot to bitcoin” might be wearing off
The “pivot to” is one of the most tried-and-true ways for existing companies to ride the wave of a new mania and attract fresh investors. It can be as simple as a name change: Ping Shan Tea Group Limi...
GameStop’s big gains turn to big losses after bitcoin purchase announcement
This morning’s mystery of modern finance was why in the world rallied as much as 7% in the premarket after buying when management could have bought the cryptocurrency about two months ago at a much l...
GameStop jumps on purchase of more than $500 million in bitcoin
is ostensibly a brick-and-mortar video game and collectibles retailer. Effectively, it’s a meme stock turned successful T-bill fund that, as of this morning, has officially diversified into . The comp...
Standard Chartered initiates solana coverage, predicts $275 price
Today, Standard Chartered initiated coverage of , writing that it “is a fast, cheap alternative to ; as a result, it has dominated memecoin trading.” That said, Geoff Kendrick, Standard Chartered’s gl...
Trump Media raising $2.5 billion to establish bitcoin treasury
announced today they will “issue and sell approximately $1.5 billion in the Company’s common stock and $1.0 billion in principal amount of 0.00% convertible senior secured notes” to establish a bitcoi...
About last night’s $TRUMP dinner: Protestors, $100,000 watches, and excited attendees
Last evening, President Trump held the much-hyped and controversial dinner at the Trump National Golf Club for the top 220 holders of the token. The top 25 holders (two of whom Sherwood News spoke wi...
Strategy rises as it announces plan to sell $2.1 billion of Strife stock to buy more bitcoin
Bitcoin stockpiler announced a $2.1 billion sale of its Series A Perpetual Strife Preferred Stock. The company, the largest corporate bitcoin holder, will use the proceeds of the at-the-market program...
Guess who’s coming to dinner with $TRUMP
The dinner at the Trump National Golf Club in Washington, DC, for the top 220 holders of the token is May 22 (which is also Bitcoin Pizza Day ). The event has brought a lot of excitement and a nearly...
Bitcoin hits new all-time high
hit a new all-time high today, passing $109,400 midmorning according to CoinDesk . The previous all-time high was $109,114, set on Inauguration Day. BITCOIN HITS NEW ALL TIME HIGH! pic.twitter.com/4to...
Bitcoin, off to a scorching start this week, nears all-time high
Just in time to celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day , is gobbling up positive news. Last evening, the asset almost broke $108,000, and as of writing, bitcoin is at about $107,700 and climbing. This is within...
Bitcoin Pizza Day celebrates its 15th anniversary
Bitcoin Pizza Day is an unofficial crypto holiday that celebrates the first ever real-world transaction. On May 22, 2010, programmer and bitcoin fan Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 bitcoin for anyone w...
Galaxy Digital pops on Nasdaq debut
Mike Novogratz’s went public on the Nasdaq this morning under the ticker GLXY. Shares popped more than 6% at the open and remained in the green in early trading. It’s been quite the journey for Galax...
Jack Mallers’ Twenty One jumps to third place among corporate bitcoin holders
It took just a few weeks for newcomer Twenty One, the new bitcoin-native company launched by Strike CEO Jack Mallers, Tether, and SoftBank Group, to become the third-largest corporate holder. The com...
GD Culture raising $300 million to build bitcoin and $TRUMP reserve
announced yesterday it has entered a stock purchase agreement with a British Virgin Islands company, “providing for the sale by the Company of up to $300 million of its common stock.” It said it will ...
As competition to be a top $TRUMP holder ends, the meme coin launches loyalty program, reward points
The competition to win a dinner at the Trump National Golf Club in Washington, DC, on May 22 for the top 220 holders of the token is over. In a post on X , the @GetTrumpMemes account said, “If you we...
Coinbase set to join S&P 500, becoming the first crypto company added to the benchmark index
shares were as much as 10% higher in premarket trading on Tuesday after the news that the company will join the closely watched S&P 500 index. The crypto exchange will replace in the benchmark index ...
New Strategy competitors American Bitcoin and Nakamoto Holdings each announce mergers
The field to become the next is starting to get crowded. Eric Trump-backed American Bitcoin (a subsidiary of ) has announced it’s merging with Gryphon Digital Mining and will trade under the ticker “...
Bitcoin continues climbing after very good week
crushed it this week. The asset crossed the symbolic $100,000 mark on May 8 in the wake of the UK-US trade deal, the first time it’s hit six figures since early February. Bitcoin started the week hove...