Bitcoin’s price surged above $115,000 on Monday as Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, announced another significant purchase of Bitcoin. The business intelligence firm acquired 390 BTC between October 20 and October 26, spending approximately $43.4 million at an average price of $111,053 per Bitcoin.

According to a Form 8-K filing released today, Strategy’s total Bitcoin holdings have now reached 640,808 BTC, with an aggregate purchase price of $47.44 billion. The company’s average purchase price stands at $74,032 per Bitcoin, including fees and expenses.

The latest acquisition was funded through proceeds from Strategy’s At-The-Market (ATM) equity…

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Elliot Johnson has. As CIO and COO of Evolve ETFs, he filed for a Bitcoin ETF back in 2017, got told “no,” kept building, and then launched the Evolve Bitcoin ETF with his team (TSX: EBIT) in February 2021.

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Rumble has officially launched Bitcoin and cryptocurrency tipping, allowing its 51 million users to send direct payments to creators. The move transforms the video platform into a growing digital economy that merges content creation with cryptocurrency utility, offering Bitcoin a real-world use case beyond speculation.

The update fulfills CEO Chris Pavlovski’s vision announced nearly a year ago, following a massive $775 million investment from Tether. That deal not only boosted Rumble’s stock by 76% but also cemented a shared mission with Tether to promote decentralization and blockchain-based innovation.

Rumble’s integration of Bitcoin tipping builds on its earlier decision to allocate up to $20 million of its treasury into Bitcoin. By linking its financial strategy with creator monetization, the company is creating a closed-loop crypto ecosystem—one where Bitcoin moves from being a balance sheet asset to a practical, peer-to-peer payment tool driving a new era of decentralized creator economies.

President Donald Trump has selected Michael Selig, chief counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s crypto task force, to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Selig’s nomination, first reported by Bloomberg, marks Trump’s second attempt to fill the CFTC’s top post, following the stalled nomination of Brian Quintenz, a16z crypto’s global policy chief, amid opposition from Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss. 

Selig, who serves as an aide to SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, has been instrumental in coordinating regulatory approaches between the SEC and CFTC on financial and crypto market oversight.

The CFTC, which regulates futures, swaps, and…

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Swiss Bitcoin app Relai has become one of the first Bitcoin-only companies to receive regulatory approval under Europe’s landmark Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework. 

The Zurich-based firm announced today that it has been granted authorization as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) by France’s Financial Markets Authority (AMF), according to a note shared with Bitcoin Magazine.

The approval marks a significant moment not just for Relai, but for the broader Bitcoin ecosystem in Europe. The MiCA regulation, which came into effect earlier this year, establishes uniform rules for crypto companies across the EU, aiming to increase investor protection and reduce…

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Can AI trade crypto? Jay Azhang, a computer engineer and finance bro from New York, is putting this question to the test with Alpha Arena. The project pits the greatest large language models (LLM) against each other, each with 10 thousand dollars worth of capital, to see which can make more money trading crypto. The models include Grok 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 pro, ChatGPT 5, Deepseek v3.1, and Qwen3 Max. 

Now, you might be thinking “wow, that’s a great idea!” and you would be surprised, at the time of writing, three out of the five AIs are underwater, with Qwen3 and Deepseek — the two Chinese open source models — leading the charge. 

That’s right, the…

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