Dubai is officially making Bitcoin a part of everyday life. 

At the Dubai FinTech Summit, the city’s Department of Finance (DOF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Crypto.com enabling people to use cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to pay for government services.

The deal was signed with Dubai officials including His Excellency Abdulla Mohammed Al Basti and His Excellency Abdulrahman Saleh Al Saleh, and was made official by Ahmad Ali Meftah from DOF and Mohammed Al Hakim, President of Crypto.com UAE.

“Dubai continues to advance through coordinated efforts… deploying the latest secure financial technology solutions that support its cashless strategy,” said Al…

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Missouri’s House Bill 594 (HB594), which would eliminate capital gains taxes for residents in the state, recently passed a vote in the state’s House of Representatives and now awaits a signature from Missouri’s governor, Mike Kehoe (R).

If the bill passes, Missourians can write off “one hundred percent of all income reported as a capital gain for federal income tax purposes,” according to the language in the bill. This means that residents of Missouri would not have to pay a capital gains tax when they spend (or sell) their bitcoin.

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This bill differs from a bill recently introduced in Rhode Island that would permit the state’s residents to spend…

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It’s only May, and public corporations have already bought 3.3 times more Bitcoin than has been supplied in 2025, according to a new graphic from asset manager Bitwise. To put that into perspective, the new supply for the year is around 60,000 BTC, and companies have already surpassed 196,000 BTC in purchases.

*** NOTE: In 2025, public corporations already bought

*checks notes*

3.3 x times the amount of new supply in 2025.

Already exceeds the est. annual supply of 164,250 BTC. pic.twitter.com/raEcbAgtFM

— André Dragosch, PhD⚡ (@Andre_Dragosch) May 13, 2025

A year ago, there were only a few companies, notably Strategy and Metaplanet, holding Bitcoin on their balance sheets. Now…

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Federal banking regulators have greenlit national banks to engage in crypto activities. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released new guidance confirming that digital asset operations are permitted if conducted safely and fairly. Interpretive Letters 1183 and 1184 now pave the way for broader crypto adoption across traditional financial institutions.

OCC Acting Comptroller Rodney E. Hood highlighted that over 50 million Americans already hold cryptocurrency. Digital assets now represent hundreds of billions in financial activity across the economy. Hood emphasized that this is not a passing trend but a major financial transformation.

This move signals strong government support for blockchain innovation within the banking sector. With clearer regulations in place the US banking system is set to play a key role in shaping the future of digital finance.

An OP_RETURN debate flared up in the Bitcoin industry in recent weeks and has by now invaded most conversation spaces within the industry. The topic is rich and complex, and many people have strong opinions on the matter.

OP_RETURN is an opcode in Bitcoin’s scripting language used to store meta data or arbitrary data that is not relevant for bitcoin transaction validation, as such can be pruned by node runners without much issue, enabling more efficient management of spam while also giving developers a controlled environment to anchor data on chain. 

Taking a harm reduction approach to the problem of spam, the OP_RETURN controversy was recently triggered by a pull request…

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Japanese public company Metaplanet announced Monday it will issue $15 million in zero-interest bonds to fund additional Bitcoin purchases, marking its latest move to expandBitcoin holdings amid rising institutional adoption.

According to regulatory filings, the company’s 15th Series of Ordinary Bonds will be issued exclusively to EVO FUND, with each bond carrying a face value of $375,000. The bonds will mature on November 12, 2025, and investors will receive full principal repayment without interest.

The latest bond issuance follows Metaplanet’s recent acquisition of 1,241 Bitcoin valued at $126.7 million, bringing its total holdings to 6,796 BTC (approximately $705…

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In my prior article on the mempool, I laid out a simple conceptual framework to reason about the basic functionality of the mempool, and how it was used by different kinds of users of the Bitcoin network. In this piece I will be looking at the differences between relay policy and consensus rules, and why by default Bitcoin nodes do not relay some types of bitcoin transactions despite being consensus valid. 

First and foremost, regardless of the peer-to-peer network refusing to relay certain kinds of consensus valid transactions, if those transactions were to find up in a miner’s mempool and be selected for inclusion in a block, they will be received and downloaded by nodes when…

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On May 19, 2025, Coinbase ($COIN) will officially join the S&P 500—widely regarded as the most trusted, most tracked equity index in the world. With over $5 trillion in assets benchmarked to it, the S&P 500 isn’t just a measure of corporate strength—it’s a gravitational center of global capital allocation.

And starting next week, it will include a Bitcoin treasury company.

Coinbase currently holds 9,267 BTC on its balance sheet, valued at $963.8 million at today’s price of $104,000 per Bitcoin, making it the 9th largest public corporate Bitcoin holder globally.

This marks a quiet turning point for Bitcoin in capital markets—one that reframes the treasury conversation and…

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