Author: Daniel snow

A Square-powered bitcoin checkout is now live on the Vegas Strip, where Bitcoin 2025 attendees can scan and pay for merch in seconds using the Lightning Network.Miles SuterLAS VEGAS — Jack Dorsey’s latest bitcoin vision is hitting the checkout counter — starting with a merch truck parked just off the casino floor inside The Venetian.This week at Bitcoin 2025, Square is piloting real-time bitcoin payments, letting attendees scan and spend crypto for T-shirts, hoodies, and hats at the BTC Inc. pop-up store. The system runs on Lightning, which settles transactions off the main blockchain and is faster and cheaper than…

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In May, bill pay service doxo released its 2025 Cost of Bills Index, which breaks down comparative household costs across the country.The report focused on the 13 most common household bill categories:MortgageRentAuto LoanGasElectricWater and sewerWaste and recyclingAuto insuranceCable, Internet and phoneHealth insuranceMobile phoneAlarm and securityLife insuranceTo determine the ranking, doxo compared the median cost of the most common household bills across the United States. They used the number 100 to represent the national average in the index. Then, states were assigned a number either above or below 100 based on how they compared to the national average.doxo’s index found that…

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Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at the Bitcoin 2024 event in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., July 27, 2024.Kevin Wurm | ReutersLAS VEGAS — Trump Media announced Tuesday a $2.5 billion raise from institutional investors to bankroll one of the largest bitcoin treasury allocations by a public company.Shares of the company fell about 10% following the news.It’s the latest and most ambitious move in its evolution from a free-speech social platform to a financial services player. The deal includes $1.5 billion in common stock and $1 billion in convertible notes, with proceeds earmarked for the purchase of…

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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at the annual National Memorial Day Observance in the Memorial Amphitheater, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., May 26, 2025. Ken Cedeno | ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he welcomed the European Union, after he agreed to delay a 50% tariff on goods from the bloc until July 9.”I have just been informed that the E.U. has called to quickly establish meeting dates,” Trump wrote in a post on the Truth Social platform.”This is a positive event, and I hope that they will, FINALLY, like my same demand to China, open up the…

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