Michael Saylor's Strategy has pushed past one of the most closely watched milestones in corporate finance, confirming a purchase of 34,164 Bitcoin for $2.54 billion between 13 and 19 April — its third-largest acquisition by coin count since the company began its treasury accumulation programme in 2020.

The longest-running mystery in cryptocurrency has a new chapter. On 8 April, the New York Times published a 12,000-word investigation by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou arguing that British cryptographer Adam Back — the 55-year-old inventor of Hashcash and CEO of Blockstream — is the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.