Metaplanet has added 1,009 Bitcoin to its reserves, boosting its total stash to 20,000 BTC valued at more than $2 billion. The Japanese Bitcoin treasury firm announced the move Monday, highlighting its aggressive strategy to position itself as a global leader in corporate Bitcoin ownership.

The company is also set for a key shareholder vote today on a capital-raising plan. Bloomberg reported earlier that Eric Trump is expected to attend. The proposal seeks approval to issue up to 550 million new shares overseas, aiming to raise about 130 billion yen ($884 million). A large portion of the funds would go toward purchasing additional Bitcoin, further cementing Metaplanet’s role as Japan’s premier Bitcoin treasury firm.

Once a hotel operator known as Red Planet Japan, the company has successfully rebranded into the seventh-largest corporate holder of Bitcoin. Recently added to the FTSE Japan Index, Metaplanet’s stock has surged nearly 146% this year despite a 2.6% intraday dip, underscoring growing investor confidence in its crypto-focused future.

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The suits are here, and Bitcoiners are the new hype in financial markets.

That’s been the story for most of this year, culminating spectacularly in the bitcoin price plunge during Bitcoin Asia 2025. Bitcoin, the most vocal vote-of-no-confidence in the permissioned fiat monetary system is now rushing headfirst back into traditional finance.

Cypherpunks, morphed into suitcoiners, have found their ultimate expression as stonkcoiners.

The rebellious teenagers repented their sins. The lost son has returned — in glamorous, greedy glory.

We, the nerdy outsiders who were once dead-set on building a new and improved world have become cheerleaders for regulated, permissioned…

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Android, Google’s mobile operating system, announced on August 25 that it will be requiring all app developers to verify their identity with the organization before their apps can run on “certified android devices.”

While this might sound like a common sense policy by Google, this new standard is not just going to be applied to apps downloaded from Google Play store, but all apps, even those “side loaded” — installed directly into devices by side-stepping the Google Play store. Apps of the sort can be found online in Github repositories or on project websites and installed on Android devices directly by downloading the installation files (known as APKs). 

What this means…

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Hong Kong’s oldest university is preparing to take a bold step into digital finance. The business school of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) confirmed it is “actively exploring” accepting Bitcoin and other digital currencies for tuition payments and donations. The move comes just weeks after the city’s new Stablecoins Ordinance took effect, signaling Hong Kong’s intent to position itself as a global hub for virtual assets.

Dean Professor Cai Hongbin announced at the CryptoFi Forum that technical details were already settled, and the school is ready to test the system. “We will take bitcoin and digital currencies for tuition fees and donations in the future,” Cai said, stressing that the faculty is willing to bear any risks as part of embracing innovation.

The initiative has drawn support from crypto leaders like Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who believes Hong Kong could rival the US and UAE as a digital asset center. Lawmakers also welcomed the effort, calling it an “inevitable trend” that offers students and donors diverse, convenient payment options.

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South Korea is now in the corporate bitcoin adoption race. Bitplanet, a newly rebranded financial firm, has announced the country’s first institutional-grade bitcoin treasury with a $40 million BTC allocation.

The news was revealed at Bitcoin Asia 2025 in Seoul by Paul Lee, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lobo Ventures, who called it a game-changer for the company and the financial industry in South Korea.

“Just two days ago, our investor consortium acquired 62% of SGA, a CoStack-listed SI provider, giving us full board control. Within two weeks, we will rebrand it as Bitplanet and immediately deploy over $40 million into our bitcoin strategy,” Lee said…

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A common refrain has emerged in the Bitcoin community: fix the money, fix the world. While there is every reason to be optimistic about Bitcoin’s impact on society it is not enough to rely on lines of code to fix our world. Rather, in this essay on the ethics of immutability, I argue that fixing oneself is the true revolution, and in turn, collectively, as actors in this global network, we are the revolution of change.

Bitcoin was designed to be decentralized, censorship-resistant, open source and unconfiscatable, qualities that set it apart from traditional banking and financial infrastructure. Bitcoin’s architecture means that no central authority can arbitrarily seize funds…

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