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Jack Mallers
Strike CEO on State of Bitcoin, Lightning Network
Strike CEO and founder Jack Mallers joins "All About Bitcoin" to discuss the future of the Lightning Network after a recent spike in transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain has driven up congestion. Plus, insights on the evolution of the Chicago-based bitcoin payment provider and the progress of the crypto industry in the past decade.

Jack Mallers' Strike Service, Send Globally, Tackles Bitcoin-Fiat Remittances
The new Lightning-based service gives foreign workers a new way to send their pay back home quickly and cheaply. That’s why Send Globally is one of CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023.

Strike CEO: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experience ‘Doesn’t Hurt My Company at All’
Jack Mallers joined CoinDesk TV’s "First Mover" to discuss El Salvador, bitcoin and how the mobile payments app is working to change the payment system for merchants and consumers globally.

Jack Mallers’ Crypto Payment Firm Strike Raises $80M
Jack Mallers, CEO and founder of Chicago-based bitcoin payment provider Strike, discusses bitcoin as a store of value, use cases of the Bitcoin payments system, and the Lightning Network. Plus, Mallers’ take on El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment and how Strike plans to use its latest $80 million raise.

Strike CEO on Recent Bitcoin Turbulence
Jack Mallers, CEO and founder of Chicago-based bitcoin payment provider Strike, discusses why the current market environment is not hurting bitcoin’s (BTC) opportunity as a store of value, saying it “doesn’t matter.”

Jack Mallers on El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment
September marks the one-year anniversary of El Salvador adopting bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender. Jack Mallers, the Chicago-based company executive known for helping El Salvador adopt bitcoin, reflects on the milestone.

Strike Raises $80M; Bitmain Founder Reportedly Setting Up $250M Fund for Distressed Bitcoin Mining Assets
Strike, a Chicago-based bitcoin payment provider run by crypto entrepreneur Jack Mallers, raised $80 million in a Series B funding round led by Ten31. Crypto billionaire Jihan Wu, founder of bitcoin mining rig maker Bitmain, is reportedly setting up a $250 million fund to buy distressed assets from mining firms.

Jack Mallers’ Crypto Payment Firm Strike Raises $80M
Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Wyoming were among the investors in the Series B funding round.

Jack Mallers’ Strike Announces Shopify Integration for Bitcoin Lightning Payments
The bitcoiner instrumental to El Salvador’s announcement at last year’s conference waxed philosophical on Bitcoin’s role as a payments network.

Strike App Won’t Support Bitcoin in Argentina
The company trumpeted its expansion into Argentina earlier this week, but the Lightning Network-powered app is only supporting Tether’s stablecoin in the country.
