{"id":27195,"date":"2025-05-16T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=27195"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:06:34","slug":"bitcoin-adoption-news-top-win-rebrands-steak-n-shake-accepts-btc-galaxys-nasdaq-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=27195","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Adoption News: Top Win Rebrands, Steak N Shake Accepts BTC, Galaxy&#8217;s Nasdaq Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Galaxy Digital (GLXY) just debuted on the Nasdaq, but it appears the financial services company&#8217;s listing will be jostling for the attention of the crypto sphere&#8217;s hive mind.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto X \u2014 still widely known as Crypto Twitter (CT) despite the platform&#8217;s name change \u2014 was abuzz with users sharing news of fast food company Steak n&#8217; Shake starting to accept bitcoin BTC payments over the Lightning network, having <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteaknShake\/status\/1920647356032139430\">announced its plans to do so a week ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/orddeutsch\/status\/1923165797163118826\">video<\/a> posted on the social-media platform shows a customer completing an order at a self-service machine, choosing the &#8220;Pay With Bitcoin&#8221; option and scanning the QR code with their Lightning wallet in the Zeus app.  <\/p>\n<p>Another company raising the bitcoin flag is Top Win International (TOPW), a luxury watch wholesaler, which said it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2025\/05\/16\/3082938\/0\/en\/TopWin-Prepares-to-Enter-Digital-Assets-Market-with-Sora-Ventures-Driving-Bitcoin-Treasury-Across-Asia-s-Booming-Web3-Market.html\">change its name to AsiaStrategy<\/a> and manage its treasury in digital assets. It is, in effect, following the model of Michael Saylor&#8217;s software company Strategy (MSTR), which now owns 568,840 BTC, more than 2.5% of all the bitcoin that will ever exist.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong-based Top Win is partnering with crypto-backed venture capital firm Sora for its new pivot. Shares of the company rose as much as 45% before losing the gains to trade down 31% at $5.14.<\/p>\n<p>Sora previously worked with Tokyo-based Metaplanet (3350), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/05\/15\/metaplanets-leverages-its-bitcoin-stash-of-over-5k-btc-to-generate-record-profit-of-4m\">another company copying the Strategy model<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h2>Galaxy&#8217;s Nasdaq Debut<\/h2>\n<p>Galaxy, the Toronto-based crypto-focused financial services firm led by Mike Novogratz, has commenced trading on Nasdaq Global Select Market.<\/p>\n<p>Novogratz, who described the listing as a &#8220;pivotal moment&#8221; for Galaxy in a letter shared via email, rang the opening bell on the Nasdaq floor on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Galaxy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galaxy.com\/newsroom\/galaxy-intent-to-list-on-nasdaq-may-16\/\">announced its plans at the end of last month<\/a>, in which it also said GLXY would remain listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) &#8220;for a period of time following [its] intended listing on Nasdaq.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>GLXY shares traded at around $22.61 in early trading, 3.2% higher on the day. The Toronto-traded shares rose 2.98% to C$31.48 ($22.53).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galaxy Digital (GLXY) just debuted on the Nasdaq, but it appears the financial services company&#8217;s listing will be jostling for the attention of the crypto sphere&#8217;s hive mind. Crypto X \u2014 still widely known as Crypto Twitter (CT) despite the platform&#8217;s name change \u2014 was abuzz with users sharing news of fast food company Steak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-27195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}