Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Finance

Bitcoin Payments App Strike to Offer BTC Lending in Boost to Reemergent Sector

"You shouldn’t have to sell the best-performing asset in human history to access cash. Now you don't have to," founder Jack Mallers wrote.

Jack Mallers, founder and CEO of Strike, stands on a stage at Bitcoin 2023. (Frederick Munawa)

Markets

Metaplanet Lifts Bitcoin Stash by 555 BTC, Plans to Sell Debt to Buy More

The Tokyo-based company earmarked the entire offering for EVO FUND only days after previously selling $25 million in bonds to the same buyer.

Tokyo, Japan (Jaison Lin/Unsplash)

Policy

Florida Withdraws Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bills From Consideration

The two bills, which were both filed in February, sought to allow investment of public funds in BTC

florida (CoinDesk Archives)

Finance

Crypto Trading Supercharged Digital Bank Revolut's Profit to Over 1B Pounds in 2024

The London-based fintech group's wealth revenue increased 298% from 127,139 pounds to just over £500 million in the full year 2024

Revolut

Policy

Russia's Finance Ministry to Offer Crypto Trading to 'Highly-Qualified' Investors: Report

The exchange will "legalize crypto assets and bring cryto operations out of the shadows," Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said

russian flag (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

KiloEx to Compensate Users Impacted by $7M Attack

Users whose positions remained open during the platform suspension will be compensated for the difference on increased losses or decreased profits

A hooded figure sits typing on a laptop in a darkened (Pixabay)

Technology

Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys Bridge to Tackle Collateral Bottleneck of Using BTC in DeFi

Citrea deployed its Clementine Bridge on the Bitcoin testnet, using programming language BitVM2

A photo of Citrea's four co-creators (Citrea)

Policy

Crypto Fundraising Is Positive, But Slower Than Expected Under Trump Administration

Hopes of some sort of clear regulatory framework by June "may have been a bit optimistic"

(NIPYATA!/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)