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A bitcoin mining plant run by Compass Mining in Hopkinton, Iowa, has become the center of a quiet but intense dispute. Local residents, the county board, and the landowners are all staring a...
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Hyperliquid Labs is chasing a regulated foothold in the United States’ perpetual futures market by lining up a partnership with Payward, the parent company of Kraken, through its newly acq...
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On 31 August 2026, Phemex— the global cryptocurrency exchange— announced that 82 USDT‑denominated spot trading pairs would be shifted into its Special Treatment (ST) regime. The change...
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Strive, Inc. quietly added 1,800 Bitcoin to its treasury, pushing it past Bullish to become the fifth‑largest publicly traded holder of the digital asset. The acquisition, completed betwee...
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A recent a16z crypto report shows that 94% of peso‑denominated crypto trading in Argentina now takes place in dollar‑backed stablecoins like USDC and USDT, underscoring a broader shift t...
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Wallets linked to North Korea’s state‑sponsored Lazarus Group have sold more than $30 million in bitcoin on the decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid in recent weeks, according ...
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On a quiet August morning, Ontology’s blockchain went silent. At 09:09 UTC on August 31, 2026, the project announced that it had halted the creation of new blocks on its mainnet as a preca...
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On August 12 2026, Matthew Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, issued a note that could reshape how investors view crypto valuations. Hougan argued that if blockcha...
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Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), the company most known for its large Bitcoin treasury, announced on August 31, 2026 that it purchased 4,603 bitcoins for approximately $369.7 million. The acquis...
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Venture capitalist Tim Draper took to X yesterday to reiterate his long‑standing optimism for Bitcoin, citing Block Inc.’s March announcement that would let merchants using Square’s po...
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On August 11, 2026, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed civil complaints in the same courtroom against Goliath Venture...
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On August 11, 2026, eToro Group Ltd. made headlines by announcing its intent to acquire U.S. online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231 million in cash and stock. The deal, which would includ...
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Alameda Research, the trading arm of the insolvent FTX exchange, has pulled 201,740 Solana (SOL) tokens from a staking position that had been locked for almost five years. The tokens were th...
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When the IRS issued a safe‑harbor bulletin in November 2025 that confirmed crypto trusts could stake assets without losing their grantor‑trust tax status, Fidelity seized the opportunity...
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July 2026 marked a milestone for HTX as the exchange released a performance report that highlighted a surge in its TradFi futures, a boom in automated trading, and record‑setting activity ...
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In a bold move that could reshape the security landscape for the world’s most valuable digital asset, Bitcoin developers are turning to the same AI power that fuels the newest deep‑fake ...
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Pokémon cards have outperformed Bitcoin and the S&P 500 in 2026, according to a CCN.com report published on 12 August 2026, as crypto platforms begin to bring the $10–15 billion collectib...
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Bitcoin hovers near $63,800, perched just below its 50‑day exponential moving average (EMA) of $64,584 and its 100‑day EMA of $66,723. The price remains above the 50‑day support trendl...
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Bitcoin slid to $62,037 on Tuesday, a dip that reflected investors tightening their positions amid a cocktail of geopolitical jitters in the Middle East and the looming release of U.S. infla...
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Bitcoin spot ETFs drew a record $853.5 million in net inflows last week, the largest single‑week haul since April, according to a market update from Wintermute, a leading cryptocurrency ma...
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A sharp slide in the value of its crypto holdings has turned Trump Media & Technology Group’s (TMTG) quarterly earnings into a cautionary tale of a media company’s heavy reliance on digi...
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On August 10, 2026 the Bitcoin BIPs repository was updated to remove Luke Dashjr from the list of BIP editors. The change was merged through Pull Request 2248 in the bitcoin/bips repository ...
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Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD) announced its second‑quarter 2026 results on July 29, 2026, unveiling a sharp upward swing in the company’s bottom line. Revenue hit a record $1.31 ...
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On a quiet Sunday that could have been just another drop day, Cole Villemain, the former co‑founder of the Pudgy Penguins, unveiled Spritehood on the Robinhood Chain. The new collection—...
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