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Strike Expands Lightning Network-Powered Remittances to Philippines
The Philippines is one of the world’s largest remittance markets, at $35 billion, and Strike says it will use its service, powered by the Bitcoin blockchain's Lightning Networ...
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Jack Mallers’ Crypto Payment Firm Strike Raises $80M
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 Lightn...
Jack Mallers’ Crypto Payment Firm Strike Raises $80M

Strike CEO on Recent Bitcoin Turbulence
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 st...
Strike CEO on Recent Bitcoin Turbulence

Strike Raises $80M; Bitmain Founder Reportedly Setting Up $250M Fund for Distressed Bitcoin Mining Assets
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...
Strike Raises $80M; Bitmain Founder Reportedly Setting Up $250M Fund for Distressed Bitcoin Mining Assets

Samson Mow on Nation-State Bitcoin Adoption, BTC Dominance, and More
Samson Mow on Nation-State Bitcoin Adoption, BTC Dominance, and More
Samson Mow, formerly of Blockstream, discusses his start-up business JAN3, and the company’s ambitions to “accelerate hyper-bitcoinization.”
Samson Mow on Nation-State Bitcoin Adoption, BTC Dominance, and More

Strike CEO Jack Mallers speaks at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
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 CEO Jack Mallers speaks at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Strike CEO Jack Mallers on El Salvador's Bitcoin Adoption
Strike CEO Jack Mallers on El Salvador’s Bitcoin Adoption
Jack Mallers, Strike CEO and a top 10 winner of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2021, shares insights into his mission to bank the unbanked that has led him to spread bitcoin adop...
Strike CEO Jack Mallers on El Salvador's Bitcoin Adoption

Square CEO Jack Mallers (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Strike App, Now Live in Twitter Tip Feature, Also Launches Bitcoin Payments API
The move from the Jack Mallers-led startup could be a boon for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
Square CEO Jack Mallers (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Strike's Jack Mallers on Fixing the Fiat Problem
Jack Mallers discusses Bitcoin, El Salvador and how Strike can capture the power of open networks to spread further than fintech.
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Strike: No Fee Bitcoin Trading Coming to the US
Strike: No Fee Bitcoin Trading Coming to the US
Jack Mallers’ payments company Strike is letting its U.S. customers buy and sell bitcoin for almost zero transaction fees, going head-to-head with Coinbase, Square’s Cash App,...
Strike: No Fee Bitcoin Trading Coming to the US