Bitcoin Investment Trust Executes 91-for-1 Stock SplitNew!!
Bitcoin Investment Trust declared a 91-for-1 stock split last week. Each holder of record will receive ninety one new shares for every single share already held. The exchange traded fund, which tracks the spot price of bitcoin, will trade at a proportionally lower price once the split settles. The move lowers the entry cost for […]
One in Five Bitcoins Vanishes Forever, Chainalysis Finds
Chainalysis estimates that 3.7 million bitcoins sit in wallets whose private keys no user remembers. The tokens equal roughly twenty percent of the 19.4 million units mined to date. A banknote dropped in the street can still return to its owner - a bitcoin whose key disappears cannot. The protocol grants no back door, no […]
Who Is Charlie Shrem?
Charlie Shrem, born 25 November 1989 in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in a Syrian-Jewish household above his parentsâ jewelry store on Kings Highway. He attended Yeshivah Flatbush, an orthodox Jewish day school, where classes began at seven thirty and ended at six. After graduation he enrolled at the City University of New York - […]
What Strategy Does and Why It Holds 581,000 Bitcoin
Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, owns 581,000 bitcoin valued at $63 billion. The figure dwarfs the $463 million the company earns each year from software licences, maintenance along with cloud subscriptions. All figures reflect market prices and filings dated 2 June 2025. Founder and chief executive Michael Saylor now calls Strategy a âbitcoin treasury company.â The phrase […]
SegWit2x - What It Was, How It Worked along with Concerns
SegWit2x was a 2017 proposal for a hard fork that would have raised the Bitcoin block size limit from one megabyte to two megabytes. The intent was to raise the number of transactions that fit into each block and to shorten confirmation times. The proposal never activated. A hard fork introduces rules that reject blocks […]