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The Bitcoin Design Community has officially announced Designathon 2025, a two-week global online event running from May 4–18, 2025, aimed at transforming the user experience of bitcoin through creativity, design, and collaboration, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.
In contrast to traditional hackathons that prioritize code, Designathon 2025 aims to put user experience and accessibility front and center, inviting participants from all backgrounds—not just professional designers—to help shape the next generation of bitcoin tools and interfaces.
“As bitcoin continues to grow globally, intuitive and accessible design has become critical for mainstream…
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The Panama City Council has voted to allow citizens to pay taxes, fines, fees and permits using cryptocurrencies.
What Happened: The initiative was spearheaded by Panama City Councilman and tech entrepreneur Mayer Mizrachi, who confirmed the development in a public post on Tuesday.
The policy covers a range of widely used digital assets including Bitcoin BTC/USD, Ethereum ETH/USD and stablecoins USDC/USD and USDT/USD.
According to Mizrachi, this milestone was achieved without requiring new legislation, a key differentiator from previous failed efforts.
“Prior administrations tried to push a bill in the senate to make this possible,” Mizrachi explained. “But we found a simple…
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[San Diego, April 16, 2025] – Merkle Standard, a leading sustainable cryptocurrency mining company, and Hashbranch, the software-enabled Bitcoin mining investment platform, today announced the successful deployment of 13,000 Bitcoin mining units, representing 1.3 Exahash of computing power across 30MW of capacity.
The strategic collaboration, which progressed from initial discussions to full implementation through an accelerated timeline, demonstrates both companies’ commitment to creating innovative solutions for institutional mining operations. The seamless execution highlights the operational synergy and aligned vision that characterizes the partnership.
“This partnership with…
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Advancing the standard for hardware wallet security and cypherpunk aesthetics, Coinkite, a small Bitcoin company out of Canada, is the third largest manufacturer in the industry.
Surrounded by hardware wallets that reach for mainstream adoption and seek to integrate every last altcoin in existence, Coinkite has taken a fundamentally different approach, sticking to their Bitcoin-only guns, and it’s been paying off.
“Coldcard is the ultimate HODL device — nobody else offers 10% of the features we have, and it’s all designed for Bitcoin. You literally cannot fork Coldcard for altcoins,” Rodolfo Novak, cofounder and CEO of Coinkite told Bitcoin Magazine in an exclusive interview.
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Markets have clearly been quite volatile in recent weeks — crypto or otherwise.
Zooming out, the S&P 500 was down nearly 9% year-to-date early Wednesday, and the Nasdaq Composite index has fared worse, dropping 14% so far in 2025.
As BTC hovered around $83,700 Wednesday morning, it was similarly down 10% year-to-date. Gold is up 24% over that span, flaunting a safe-haven status that BTC does not yet widely enjoy.
Shares of Strategy (formerly known as MicroStrategy) have rallied in recent days, putting it barely into the green in 2025 (at +2%). But perhaps the most renowned crypto stock, Coinbase, remains down about 34% from the start of the year.
Crypto assets and stocks…
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Project Eleven, a quantum computing research organization, has announced the launch of the Q-Day Prize, a global challenge offering 1 BTC to the first team able to break an elliptic curve cryptographic (ECC) key using Shor’s algorithm on a quantum computer. The first team to successfully achieve this breakthrough before September 25, 2025, will be awarded 1 BTC.
The challenge directly targets the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA), which underpins bitcoin’s security model. While theoretical discussions about quantum threats have persisted for years, Project Eleven seeks to turn speculation into measurable risk by encouraging practical demonstrations of cryptographic…
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Asset manger Bitwise has announced the listing of four of its Germany-issued crypto Exchange Traded Products at the London Stock Exchange. This move marks a significant expansion in European markets catering to Bitcoin and Ethereum investors. Among the products are BTC1 and the Bitwise Physical Bitcoin ETP recognized for their cost efficiency and liquidity respectively.
Speaking on the development Bradley Duke Bitwise’s Managing Director for Europe expressed satisfaction with the firm’s progress. He highlighted the increasing adoption of crypto investments by institutional investors. Bitwise is committed to delivering secure transparent and top-tier investment products.
The listings which include the Bitwise Core Bitcoin ETP and the Bitwise Ethereum Staking ETP enhance investment opportunities for professional and wholesale investors in the UK. These products designed with institutional-grade features offer strategic benefits like low total expense ratios and real-time benchmarking attracting significant positive attention within the financial community.