Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming "increasingly stringent compliance obligations" (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/1
bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
Iran Starts Bitcoin-Backed Shipping Insurance for Hormuz Strait (Golnar Motevalli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/iran-starts-bitcoin-backed-shipping-insurance-for-hormuz-strait
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p36#a260518p36
Giant Yorkshire gas field ‘to mine Bitcoin instead of boosting British energy’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/19/giant-yorkshire-gas-field-to-mine-bitcoin/
Im Landkreis #Ludwigsburg geht die #Energiewende voran.
Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~$2.01B at an average price of $80,985 between May 11 and May 17, taking its holding to 843,738 BTC, or 4% of total supply (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/401627/big-dot-energy-michael-sayl…
Iranian media: Iran launches "Hormuz Safe", a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies transiting the Strait of Hormuz; ~1,500 ships are trapped (Golnar Motevalli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20