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Hunter Biden Accepts Bitcoin for His Artwork, and It Matters More Than You Think
# Hunter Biden Accepts Bitcoin for His Artwork, and It Matters More Than You Think
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Bitcoin slid to $78,300 on May 17, shedding 3
Bitcoin slid to $78,300 on May 17, shedding 3.8% over the week as rising U.S. Treasury yields and renewed fears of prolonged Federal Reserve tightening drained risk appetite across digital asset markets. Spot Bitcoin ETF
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Roundhill DRAM ETF Breaks Bitcoin Spot ETF Inflow Record
The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) pulled in $10 billion within six weeks of its April 2026 launch, shattering the fastest-asset-accumulation record set by Bitcoin spot ETFs in 2024.
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Gemini Stock Jumps After Winklevoss Twins Make $100M Bitcoin Bet on Company Future
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss announced on May 15, 2026, that they would pour $100 million of their personal Bitcoin holdings into Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange they founded in 2014. The move came alongside a Q1 202
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Strategy (MSTR) Buys $43 Million More Bitcoin After Saylor Defends Potential BTC Sales
Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, disclosed a purchase of 535 bitcoin for approximately $43 million during the week ending May 11, 2026. The buy came just days after co-founder and executive chairman
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Agentic commerce will run on crypto rails, PayPal and Google reps tell Consensus Miami
At Consensus Miami on May 10, 2026, senior representatives from PayPal and Google Cloud made a claim that would have sounded absurd five years ago: autonomous AI agents will conduct commerce on cryptocurrency rails, not
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Finance's Banana Album: BlockMedia's Warhol Analogy for Crypto
Korean financial outlet BlockMedia compares blockchain's current position in global finance to Andy Warhol's banana album cover for The Velvet Underground & Nico. The polished interfaces of modern fintech may be concealing something far more radical underneath.
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Kraken and MoonPay Buy Payment Rails as Crypto VC Pivots to Infrastructure
Ten notable venture rounds the week of May 3 through May 9, 2026 were dominated by M&A and payment infrastructure. Kraken and MoonPay led the pivot from speculative token plays to revenue-generating plumbing.
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Crypto’s mainstream moment has arrived, say industry leaders speaking at Consensus Miami
At Consensus Miami on May 6, 2026, executives from Binance, Revolut, and Circle took the stage to declare that crypto has crossed into the mainstream. Their claim: digital assets are no longer a speculative sideshow but
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Trust in crypto remains biggest barrier to adoption, say Consensus Miami 2026 panelists
At Consensus Miami 2026 on May 5, a panel of industry executives and regulators agreed on a single word to describe why crypto has not reached mainstream adoption: trust. The panel, hosted inside the Fillmore Miami Beach
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A beginner’s guide to AI
CoinDesk published its pre-conference primer on artificial intelligence on May 4, 2026, timing the piece to land exactly three weeks before Consensus Miami opens its doors on May 26. The article covers terminology from "
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The Mempool Is Empty and Nobody Noticed
Two years ago, Bitcoin's mempool was a battleground. JPEGs and memecoin inscriptions paid hundreds of sats per vbyte to fight for confirmation. Blocks cleared at a fraction of that rate today, and nobody is talking about it. The quiet fee environment is not a sign of health. It is a structural problem arriving on schedule.
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