An AI agent bought an Amazon card in 60 seconds using bitcoin

The flow used four Bitrefill MCP server tools in sequence without human intervention The report is from the CEO of the operating company; there is no independent verification at this time Freddie New, CEO of B HODL Plc, a company that offers B2B advisory services on bitcoin, published a transaction report on his The entire … Read more

Bitcoin conquers self-service windows in restaurants with payments via Lightning

The race for efficiency at quick service windows is adding a new engine to its ecosystem. This, after, starting this May, the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning network is integrated into the operational flow of food establishments in the United States with the ambition that the payment is confirmed before the order reaches the customer’s hands. This … Read more

Developer proposes monitoring Bitcoin’s most overlooked infrastructure

DNS seeds are servers that new nodes query upon startup to discover other nodes. The network lacks updated monitoring of those servers since the end of 2024, according to b10c. The developer b10c published a proposal on GitHub this May 12 to create a monitoring tool for DNS seeds of Bitcoin, which are the servers … Read more

Bitcoin, hashrate and energy as financial commodities: the Braiins proposal

Braiins acquired financial firm CAMMS Capital, which is registered with the US CFTC. Bitcoin, hashrate and energy lack a financial structure like the traditional one, according to Braiins. Proposing to develop financial tools to manage Bitcoin, hashrate and energy with the same infrastructure that exists for the oil, gas and grain markets, Bitcoin mining company … Read more

Charles Schwab launches bitcoin and Ethereum trading for retailers

Paxos will be responsible for the execution of operations and part of the custody of the service. Charles Schwab currently manages $11.77 trillion in client assets. Charles Schwab, one of the largest stock brokerage and financial services firms in the United States, began enabling early access to Schwab Crypto, its platform for buying and selling … Read more

BlackRock CEO sees investment potential in Venezuela

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink stated on May 11, 2026 that he sees a “great opportunity” for investment in Venezuela, amid Wall Street’s renewed interest in the country’s assets and the start of talks to restructure its foreign debt. The statements come after the United States authorized Venezuela to hire financial advisors to negotiate approximately USD … Read more

How will the cryptocurrency market operate with the approval of the CLARITY Act?

As the United States Congress heads for a decisive vote on May 14, 2026, the digital asset ecosystem is preparing for a paradigm shift that promises to replace years of legal uncertainty with definitive rules of the game. Given this imminent approval, the CLARITY Law project must be understood as the mechanism that formalizes the … Read more

“We are democratizing the financial education of Venezuelan children with Bitcoin”

Villalonga believes that children have a “different approach” to the cryptocurrency ecosystem. At Val-U they apply transversal teaching so that the little ones learn about finances. The Venezuelan startup Val-U, dedicated to financial education, has managed to integrate learning about bitcoin (BTC) and the decentralized economy into the curriculum of more than 5,000 students in … Read more

Jameson Lopp warned Knots nodes running BIP-110 that they will be out of Bitcoin

BIP-110 is a soft fork proposal for Bitcoin that aims to mitigate the use of arbitrary data. In Lopp’s vision, nodes that activate the new version of Knots will disappear. A day after the release of the new version of the Bitcoin Knots client (29.3.knots20260508), which activates the BIP-110 soft fork proposal by default, developer … Read more