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179 articles shownof 179 totalLast updated 2026-09-06 22:13 UTC
us tech 7 10h ago 4 min read

Blockstream's Liquid Bitcoin Network Halted After $320 Million Withdrawal, Sender Claims to Be a 'White Hat'

Roughly 4,000 BTC, about $320 million, moved out of the Liquid Network's federation wallet on Sunday, September 6, 2026, dropping its reserve from roughly 4,200 BTC to 207 BTC. Blockstream halted the sidechain, says no signing keys were compromised, and is trying to contact whoever sent an on-chain message calling themselves a white hat.

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us finance 5 10h ago 5 min read

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Now Controls Over 115% of the Market's Net Inflows While Bessent Doubles Down on Treasury Buybacks

BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust has absorbed more cash than the entire U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF category combined, and the firm just made it easier for Bitcoin whales to swap coins directly for shares. Meanwhile Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is doubling the size of long-bond buybacks, a move Stanley Druckenmiller and other Wall Street veterans call an artificial prop that dodges the real fiscal problem.

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us finance 6 21h ago 4 min read

Tether's Treasury Holdings Top $122 Billion as Stablecoin Giant Eyes Top 5 Buyer Status

Tether now holds more than $122 billion in US Treasury bills backing its USDT stablecoin, and CEO Paolo Ardoino expects it to crack the top 10 buyers of US debt in 2026. That growth is happening while the 30-year Treasury yield sits near its highest level since 2007 and ICIJ documents show Tether's early vetting of customers let sanctioned and criminally-linked buyers through the door.

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UAE Tax Authority Orders Businesses to Average Three Exchange Rates for Crypto VAT Filings

The UAE's Federal Tax Authority issued Directive No. 3 of 2026 in mid-July, requiring any business paid in crypto to convert that value into dirhams using the average rate from three pre-selected exchanges, locked in for the whole calendar year. The 5% VAT rate itself hasn't changed since 2018, this just closes the gap on how to price crypto for tax purposes. It's the kind of clear, rules-based regulation that actually helps businesses instead of drowning them in vague guidance, though it comes with a real paperwork burden.

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us energy 5 1d ago 4 min read

El Reno, Oklahoma Condemns Bitcoin Mining Site After 3.8 Million Gallon Water Leak During Statewide Drought

A Bitcoin and AI data center in El Reno, Oklahoma leaked up to 3.8 million gallons of water through an unpermitted fire hydrant, shutting down schools and dropping city water pressure during a drought covering 100% of the state. City records show the operator, Athlon BT LLC, ignored a 2023 stop-work order and kept running the site without a certificate of occupancy until the leak forced the city's hand.

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gb tech 6 1d ago 4 min read

South Korea Sets Feb. 4, 2027 Start Date for Blockchain Securities Registry, Stablecoin Settlement Still Stuck in Parliament

South Korea's Financial Services Commission laid out a three-phase plan on September 4 to move stocks, bonds and funds onto blockchain infrastructure, with the first phase legally recognizing tokenized securities on February 4, 2027. The final phase, on-chain settlement using stablecoins, has no start date because the underlying stablecoin bill has been stuck in the National Assembly for nearly a year.

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us finance 7 1d ago 4 min read

Gold, Silver and Bitcoin All Slide as Rate-Hike Bets Build Toward Fed's Sept. 16 Decision

Since Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole speech on Aug. 28 sent gold and silver into their worst week of the year, rate-hike odds have kept climbing and now Bitcoin is getting hit too, dropping below $80,000 after last week's blowout jobs report. The August CPI report on September 11 is the last data point before the Fed's September 15-16 meeting, and traders are pricing real odds of the first hike since 2023.

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us finance 5 1d ago 4 min read

Bukele Denies El Salvador Transferred Its Bitcoin Reserve, Says Only Chivo Wallet Shares Changed Hands

President Nayib Bukele says El Salvador did not hand its 7,764 BTC strategic reserve to a private operator, calling reports to that effect false. The confusion traces to an IMF statement about the Chivo wallet's ownership structure, a separate entity from the government's sovereign Bitcoin stockpile.

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us finance 5 1d ago 4 min read

Bitcoin Rallies 38% From July Low to Near $80,000, Still $46,000 Below Its October 2025 Record

Bitcoin bounced from a $57,748 low on July 1 to briefly top $82,000 before settling near $79,700 as of Saturday, September 5, according to Bitcoin.com News and 24/7 Wall St. The rally has BlackRock's IBIT ETF assets up to $60.2 billion, but a stronger-than-expected August jobs report, oil above $96 a barrel, and bond yields near 5% are the headwinds standing between here and $100,000.

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gb finance 7 2d ago 4 min read

Singapore's MAS Proposes Formal Stablecoin Licensing Regime, Opens Door to Foreign Issuers

The Monetary Authority of Singapore published draft legislation on September 1 that would license stablecoin issuers under strict reserve, redemption, and capital rules, with public feedback due October 16. The bigger shift: Singapore is reversing its 2023 stance and now says it will allow multi-jurisdictional issuance and recognize foreign-regulated stablecoins, putting it in the same global regulatory race as the US, EU, UK, and Hong Kong.

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us tech 3 2d ago 3 min read

QuFi Network Launches Quantum-Resistant Verification Layer, Demos It on Bitcoin's Testnet

QuFi Network Limited announced a new verification platform on September 4, 2026, meant to shield crypto transactions from future quantum computer attacks without altering blockchains themselves. The company's proof came from a Bitcoin testnet demo, not a mainnet deployment, and its claims of institutional partnerships and funding come with zero names or dollar figures attached.

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us finance 6 2d ago 4 min read

Crypto Exchanges' Stock and Commodity Trading Hit $778 Billion in August, Up From Near Zero a Year Ago

Crypto platforms like Binance and Bybit are now running a $778 billion-a-month business trading perpetual futures on stocks like SanDisk and SpaceX shares. Nine months ago that market barely existed. The catch: half the volume rides on three tickers, and U.S. regulators haven't approved most of it for American retail traders yet.

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us finance 7 2d ago 4 min read

FinCEN Flags $12.7 Billion in Suspected Crypto Scam Activity From Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar Compounds

Treasury's financial crimes unit reviewed nearly 34,000 bank filings and found suspected pig-butchering scam activity growing 18% a month since 2023. The catch: that $12.7 billion is flagged suspicious activity, not confirmed victim losses, and FinCEN's own recovery program has clawed back barely $1 billion in a decade.

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us finance 7 4d ago 4 min read

21 Global Banks Commit to Joint Stablecoin Venture, Circle Shares Fall 6% in Second Hit This Quarter

Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and 17 other banks and asset managers announced Tuesday they will form a company to issue a dollar-pegged stablecoin, targeting a launch in the first half of 2027. Circle, the issuer of USDC, saw its stock drop 6% on the news, its second big competitive hit this quarter after Stripe's 140-company Open USD consortium launched in June. The banks still haven't named the company, picked a blockchain, or disclosed who runs it.

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us finance 5 6d ago 4 min read

Former SEC and CFTC Officials Push for Lighter Rules to Lure $90 Trillion Offshore Crypto Derivatives Market Onshore

Five former SEC and CFTC commissioners filed a joint letter this week urging regulators to write lighter-touch derivatives rules so the offshore perpetual futures market, an estimated $90 trillion in 2025, moves onshore instead of overseas. Kalshi paid for the letter's drafting but says it didn't write the content. Days earlier, the CFTC fined a former White House teleprompter operator $172,539 for insider trading on speech-related event contracts, a reminder the same agency is still writing enforcement checks even as it courts crypto's biggest players.

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us finance 6 Aug 31 4 min read

Bank of America Data Shows $3.2 Billion Slammed Into Crypto Funds in One Week, Biggest Haul Since October 2025

Bank of America's weekly Flow Show report shows crypto funds pulled in $3.2 billion for the week ending Aug. 26, 2026, a stunning reversal from the prior week's $392 million outflow. Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs did most of the work even as Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish tone spiked September rate-hike odds, a combination that doesn't fit the old playbook.

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us tech 6 Aug 31 4 min read

Dan Loeb and Leopold Aschenbrenner Are Both Betting Billions on Ex-Bitcoin Miners' Pivot to AI

Third Point's Dan Loeb and 24-year-old Situational Awareness LP founder Leopold Aschenbrenner have both built massive positions in former Bitcoin miners now selling power and land to AI companies. The miners have signed tens of billions in AI leasing deals, but their stocks have dropped sharply even as the hedge funds pile in, according to Yahoo Finance and Crypto Briefing.

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us finance 6 Aug 30 3 min read

DTCC Names BitGo as Custodian for Tokenized Treasuries While Trump-Linked USD1 Stablecoin Runs on the Same Blockchain

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation completed a live pilot converting US Treasuries and equities into blockchain tokens on July 15, with BitGo Bank & Trust as custodian, ahead of a full launch planned for October 2026. World Liberty Financial, the Trump-affiliated crypto firm, is deploying its USD1 stablecoin through that same custodian on the same Canton Network, a pairing worth watching even though no wrongdoing has been alleged.

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us tech 5 Aug 30 4 min read

Vietnam's New Crypto Penalties Take Effect Tuesday. Not One Exchange License Has Been Issued Yet.

Vietnam's crypto crackdown, Decree No. 284, kicks in Tuesday, September 1, but the government still hasn't licensed a single exchange under its five-year pilot program. Five firms cleared an initial review, need $383 million in capital each, and foreign investors get first crack at the market while ordinary Vietnamese traders wait on the sidelines.

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us tech 4 Aug 30 4 min read

Binance Founder CZ Admits He Missed the RWA Boom, Predicts Bitcoin at $1 Million 'Much Sooner' Than 25 Years

Changpeng Zhao says he badly underestimated how big tokenized real-world assets and stablecoins would get, and he's now telling anyone who'll listen that Bitcoin will hit $1 million faster than expected. His forecasting track record over the past year says take that with a grain of salt.

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us finance 6 Aug 30 4 min read

Crypto Insurance Coverage Shrinks 20% to $130 Million While Hacks Drain $3.63 Billion

CoinGecko's 2026 State of Crypto Security Report shows on-chain insurance coverage fell from $163.2 million to $130.2 million even as hackers stole $3.63 billion across 245 incidents since January 2025. Insurance paid out roughly $33 million total, covering less than 1% of losses, and five of nine tracked insurers have already quit the business.

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us politics 7 Aug 30 4 min read

Warren Says Trump Made $1.4 Billion From Crypto While Investors Sit on $4.7 Billion in Paper Losses

Sen. Elizabeth Warren renewed her attack on Trump's crypto wealth this week, claiming he owns roughly $1 billion in digital assets while his administration writes the rules for the industry. A Public Citizen report says Trump-linked crypto products left investors at least $4.7 billion underwater even as Trump's businesses pulled in $1.4 billion, and Warren is now pushing legislation to stop presidents from owning banks.

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us finance 6 Aug 29 5 min read

Bitcoin's Two-Week Short Squeeze Wiped Out $9.7 Billion Before Warsh's Jackson Hole Speech Reversed the Rally

Crypto traders betting against Bitcoin got liquidated to the tune of $9.71 billion over two weeks, the worst stretch for shorts since November 2021, as the price ran from $64,100 to above $80,000. Analysts at K33 and Bitwise call it a bull-market reset signal, but the rally already cracked once Fed Chair Kevin Warsh talked tough on inflation.

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ru finance 6 Aug 29 5 min read

Russia's Sberbank Preps Bitcoin-Backed Loans as New Crypto Law Takes Effect Tuesday, While Trump's World Liberty Wins Preliminary Bank Charter

Sberbank, Russia's largest lender, says it will accept Bitcoin, and eventually Ethereum and Tether, as loan collateral once the country's new digital-asset law kicks in Sept. 1. Separately, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency gave preliminary approval to a national trust bank charter for World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by President Trump and his sons. Two unrelated stories, same week: banks on opposite sides of the world are getting regulatory green lights to fold crypto into core banking functions.

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us finance 6 Aug 29 4 min read

Social Security Cuts Overpayment Garnishment to 50% as Labor Department Weighs Letting Crypto Into 401(k)s

The Social Security Administration quietly settled on withholding 50% of benefit checks to recover overpayments after a 2025 policy swing between 10% and 100%, according to the Empire Justice Center. Separately, a Trump administration-backed Labor Department proposal would let 401(k) plans add private equity, real estate and cryptocurrency, a move Senator Elizabeth Warren says exposes ordinary savers to risk they don't understand.

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us finance 5 Aug 29 4 min read

Ethena's USDe Stablecoin Surges Past $4 Billion in Supply as ENA Token Jumps on Buyback Plan

Ethena's synthetic dollar USDe is exploding across Coinbase's Base network and Robinhood Chain, gaining ground with yield-hungry crypto traders willing to bet on a delta-neutral hedging strategy instead of dollars sitting in a bank. The ENA token popped 10.4% after the foundation unveiled a buyback plan that only kicks in if supply grows another 50% from here, which is the part the excited headlines keep skipping.

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us finance 5 Aug 29 4 min read

Ethereum ETFs Extend Inflow Streak to 10 Days While Bitcoin Funds Lose $202 Million as Warsh Speech Rattles Markets

Bitcoin ETFs snapped a nine-day, $3 billion inflow streak on August 28 with a $202 million outflow as BTC slid toward $77,000 following Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole remarks. Ethereum ETFs kept buying through the same selloff, stretching their streak to 10 straight days and pulling in $102 million even as ETH fell more than 3%.

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us finance 8 Aug 29 4 min read

Warsh's First Jackson Hole Speech Sends Bitcoin Below $77,000, Rate-Hike Odds Jump to 60%

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole keynote on August 28 torched an eight-session, $2.8 billion Bitcoin ETF inflow streak, sending BTC from over $81,000 to under $77,000 and triggering roughly $488 million in liquidations. Traders now price a 60% chance of a September rate hike, up from 35% before he spoke.

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il finance 5 Aug 29 4 min read

Israeli Crime Syndicates Launder Millions Through Bitcoin and Tether, Police Fight Back With Blockchain Tracing

Israeli organized crime groups have shifted their money laundering operations to Bitcoin and Tether, with a $13 million case indicted in April 2026 exposing corrupt IDF and police officials in the scheme. Israeli law enforcement is countering with a $2.4 million Chainalysis contract and cooperation from Tether itself, but crime groups are adapting faster than regulators can track them.

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us tech 5 Aug 28 4 min read

Stanford Cryptographer Says Quantum Computers Could Threaten Bitcoin Sooner Than Expected, But Not Yet

A March 2026 Google Quantum AI paper co-authored by Stanford's Dan Boneh lowered the qubit count needed to crack Bitcoin's encryption, and roughly 6.9 million BTC already sit exposed on-chain. Boneh says the fix is a careful migration to quantum-resistant signatures, not panic, since current quantum hardware is nowhere close to the threshold.

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us politics 7 Aug 28 4 min read

Corporate Cash Hits Record $646 Million in Midterm Spending, Crypto and Betting Firms Lead the Way

Public Citizen's analysis of FEC filings found companies gave a record $646 million to political campaigns in the 18 months through June, 40% more than all of the 2024 presidential cycle. Crypto, online gambling and AI firms alone accounted for more than $344 million, and the real total is almost certainly higher since it excludes dark money and state races.

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us finance 7 Aug 28 4 min read

SEC Proposes Letting Crypto Projects Raise Up to $75 Million Without Full Securities Registration

The SEC on August 18 proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, creating two new exemptions that let token issuers raise $5 million or $75 million a year without registering as securities offerings. It is the agency's first formal crypto rulemaking and lands after the CLARITY Act stalled in Congress. Public comments run through October 20.

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ae finance 8 Aug 27 4 min read

UAE Security Adviser Tahnoon Holds 49% Stake in Trump Family's Crypto Bank Venture, WSJ Reports

The Wall Street Journal reports Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's national security adviser, controls the largest ownership stake in the holding company behind World Liberty Financial's newly approved trust bank. Trump family entities hold 38%. The arrangement sits alongside the administration's decision to loosen AI chip export limits to Tahnoon's own company, G42.

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us finance 6 Aug 27 4 min read

BlackRock's Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs Absorb Billions While Bond Yields Hit Multi-Year Highs

BlackRock's spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs pulled in roughly $2 billion in BTC and $961 million in ETH over an eight-day stretch in late August, pushing the firm's crypto holdings to $68.48 billion. Meanwhile the bond market is flashing warning signs, with 30-year Treasury yields hitting their highest level since 2007 on inflation and deficit fears. Two different stories about where money is fleeing to, and neither one is boring.

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us finance 6 Aug 27 4 min read

Bitcoin Tops $80,000 as Corporate Treasury Buyers Nurse $80 Billion in Losses

Bitcoin ripped 20% in three trading sessions to crack $80,000, its best run since 2023, as traders cite a "debasement trade" rotating into inflation hedges and money flowed into ETFs after regulatory announcements. But the companies that bet their balance sheets on Bitcoin haven't caught the wave: the 50 largest crypto treasury firms have shed $80 billion in combined market value since July 2025, and 43 of them now trade below what they paid to get in.

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us tech 5 Aug 27 4 min read

StarkWare Mines First Bitcoin Transaction Built to Resist Quantum Attacks, With Big Caveats

StarkWare says it completed the first Bitcoin mainnet transaction resistant to quantum computer attacks, using a method called Quantum Safe Bitcoin that required no network fork. It's a real technical milestone, but it took hours of computation, cost hundreds of dollars, doesn't protect most existing Bitcoin, and even StarkWare calls it a stopgap, not a fix.

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us finance 5 Aug 27 4 min read

BlackRock's Bitcoin Chief Says $40 Trillion in Federal Debt, Not Congress, Is Driving the Rally

Robbie Mitchnick, BlackRock's head of digital assets, told CNBC that Bitcoin's rebound has more to do with U.S. debt hitting $40 trillion than with stalled crypto legislation in Congress. Bitcoin is trading in the high $70,000s after cratering nearly 49% from its October 2025 peak near $126,000, and BlackRock just made it easier for wealthy holders to swap coins into its IBIT fund tax-free.

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us finance 6 Aug 26 3 min read

Visa Joins Singapore's BLOOM Program to Test Stablecoin Settlement on Weekends and Holidays

Visa announced August 25 it's joining the Monetary Authority of Singapore's BLOOM initiative, piloting stablecoin settlement with cross-border payments firm Nium to move money seven days a week instead of just banking days. It's a real step toward crypto and traditional finance merging, but it's a pilot, not a launch, and the tokens involved haven't even been named yet.

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us finance 7 Aug 26 4 min read

Bitcoin Tops $80,000, Ethereum Jumps 30% in a Week as Treasury Buyback and SEC Crypto Rules Fuel Rally

Bitcoin broke $80,000 for the first time since May and Ethereum ripped 30% higher in a week, both riding a wave of ETF inflows, short liquidations, and a new SEC framework for crypto fundraising. Gold hit a three-month high at the same time, which tells you this isn't a crypto story, it's a story about people fleeing the dollar and government debt.

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us tech 3 Aug 25 4 min read

Ethereum Developers Draft Proposal to Quantum-Proof Staking Deposits, Still Just a GitHub Draft

Ethereum developers Kevaundray Wedderburn, Tom Wambsgans and Thomas Coratger submitted a draft EIP on August 24 to make the network's validator deposit contract capable of handling post-quantum cryptography. It's a serious engineering effort with a real long-term threat behind it, but it's a pull request under review, not a done deal, and no quantum algorithm has even been chosen yet.

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us tech 7 Aug 25 4 min read

Blockchain Analysts Trace $16.8 Million to Iranian Hacker Network as Treasury Names Crypto a Sanctionable Sector

TRM Labs traced $16.8 million flowing through 30 crypto addresses tied to Iran's Mabna Institute hackers, with one defendant's wallets accounting for 92% of the money. Treasury's August 24 Operation Economic Outcast made digital assets a formally sanctionable sector under Executive Order 13902, meaning any exchange that touched these wallets now has a target on its back.

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us tech 4 Aug 24 4 min read

Bitcoin and Ethereum Are Betting on Old-School Hash Functions, Not NIST's Favorite Quantum-Proof Math

NIST finalized two post-quantum signature standards in August 2024. Most industries are adopting the lattice-based one. Bitcoin and Ethereum developers are leaning toward the hash-based alternative instead, according to Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet, because it doesn't require trusting a brand-new mathematical assumption.

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us tech 5 Aug 24 4 min read

Strategy Sells $2 Billion More in MSTR Stock While Its Bitcoin Pile Sits Untouched

Michael Saylor's Strategy raised over $2 billion selling its own shares between Aug. 17 and Aug. 23, and it didn't buy a single Bitcoin with it. The cash is going toward propping up a preferred stock trading below par and building a dollar reserve, not growing the 840,447 BTC treasury that's supposed to be the whole point of owning this stock. Existing MSTR shareholders are getting diluted to fund financial engineering, not Bitcoin accumulation.

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us finance 7 Aug 24 4 min read Updated

Bitcoin Jumps Past $77,000 Amid Treasury Bond Buyback Expansion and Short Squeeze

Bitcoin climbed from the low $60,000s to above $79,000 in nine weeks, adding roughly $416 billion in market value, as the Treasury Department expanded its bond buyback program and a $2.7 billion short squeeze forced bearish traders to buy back in. A White House crypto summit and record ETF inflows added momentum, producing the biggest weekly gain in Bitcoin's history.

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us finance 8 Aug 23 4 min read

OCC Gives Trump Family Crypto Venture Conditional Approval to Run Its Own Bank

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency conditionally approved World Liberty Trust Company on August 14, letting the Trump-family-linked crypto firm issue and custody its own USD1 stablecoin instead of relying on a third party. Democrats call it self-dealing on a scale never seen from a sitting president's family; the OCC says career staff reviewed it and the president isn't personally involved.

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us finance 5 Aug 23 4 min read

Cleveland Fed Study: Crypto Buyers Chase Bitcoin's Past Gains, and Their Spending Rides the Waves With It

A Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland working paper finds that simply showing people Bitcoin's historical returns makes them buy more crypto, and that existing holders ramp up spending on cars and appliances when prices rise. The findings land the same week Bitcoin and gold posted a sharp rally and the SEC proposed new rules to make it easier for crypto firms to raise money.

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us finance 7 Aug 23 3 min read

SEC Proposes Rules Letting Crypto Firms Raise Up to $75 Million a Year Without Full Registration

The SEC on August 18 proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, creating two new exemptions so crypto companies can raise capital without going through traditional stock-offering registration. The plan keeps fraud rules in place but is the clearest sign yet that Washington is trying to write crypto into the rulebook instead of regulating it through lawsuits.

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us finance 5 Aug 23 4 min read

Big Tech's Favorite ETF Bleeds $10.9 Billion in August While Bitcoin Funds Take In Cash

The Invesco QQQ Trust, the go-to fund for Nasdaq mega-caps, saw roughly $10.9 billion walk out the door in August 2026, nearly six times the money that flowed into Bitcoin spot ETFs over a similar stretch. Zoom out, though: QQQ still manages close to half a trillion dollars, and the Nasdaq itself just closed out a losing week on a bond-market spike, not a bitcoin stampede.

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us finance 6 Aug 23 3 min read

Ethereum Breaks Its 2021 Record After Powell Hints at a September Rate Cut

Ether cleared its November 2021 high on August 22, jumping nearly 15% in 24 hours on Coinbase after Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled a possible September rate cut at Jackson Hole. Bitcoin gained a comparatively modest 4% in the same window, and the buyer base this time looks less retail-driven than it did four years ago.

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us finance 6 Aug 22 4 min read

Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $1.9 Billion in a Week as BTC Jumps From the $60,000s to Above $76,000

US spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs took in a combined $2.6 billion between August 17 and 21, the biggest weekly haul since October 2025, according to SoSoValue data cited by KuCoin and CryptoRank. The rally came with over $3 billion in forced liquidations of short positions and a US Treasury move to double long-bond buybacks, and both funds are still down for the year overall.

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us politics 5 Aug 22 4 min read

Rashida Tlaib Fights Crypto Legislation in Congress, Holds Crypto ETFs in Her Retirement Account

Rep. Rashida Tlaib's latest financial disclosure shows Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF holdings inside her retirement accounts, even as she votes against crypto-friendly bills like the CLARITY Act. Nothing here is illegal, but it's the kind of do-as-I-say gap that undercuts her populist pitch.

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us finance 7 Aug 21 4 min read

Bitcoin Jumps More Than 25% This Week as Shorts Get Squeezed and Washington Pushes Crypto Rules

Bitcoin ripped from the low $60,000s to an intraday high of $79,500 on Friday, its best level in months, as bearish traders got steamrolled and the Trump administration leaned hard into crypto-friendly moves. A Treasury bond buyback expansion, an SEC deregulation proposal, and a White House push for the CLARITY Act all hit in the same week. None of it guarantees the rally holds once the short squeeze burns out.

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us finance 7 Aug 21 4 min read

Crypto's Perpetual Futures Wiped $18 Billion Off Exchange Stocks. Now Trump Wants to Regulate Them.

Perpetual futures, crypto-born contracts that trade 24/7 and never expire, knocked $18 billion off the combined market value of CME Group, Cboe, ICE and Miami International Holdings in two days, according to CNBC. President Trump signaled this week that the CFTC may open a path to regulating Hyperliquid, the decentralized exchange driving the boom, forcing Wall Street to decide whether to fight the trend or join it.

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us tech 6 Aug 20 4 min read

CFTC Chair Says Agency Will Write Crypto Rules With or Without Congress

CFTC Chairman Michael Selig says his agency isn't waiting on the CLARITY Act. It already has crypto market structure proposals drafted and will use existing authority to regulate if the Senate can't get 60 votes. The Senate cloture vote is scheduled for September 15, and Republicans don't have the numbers alone.

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us tech 6 Aug 20 4 min read

Binance Lets AI Bots Trade Your Crypto. You're Still on the Hook

Binance rolled out Agent OS on August 20, letting AI agents built on ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor place real trades with real money on the world's largest crypto exchange. The company built sandboxes and dollar caps to limit damage, but it admits it can't see why an AI made any given trade, and the user eats the loss either way.

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us tech 7 Aug 20 4 min read

Trump Presses Congress on Crypto's Clarity Act While His Own Family Profits From the Industry It Would Regulate

Trump hosted crypto executives at the White House Wednesday and pushed Congress to pass the Clarity Act, a market-structure bill stuck in the Senate over ethics provisions. Bitcoin and ether jumped on the news, but the bill everyone wants also has to deal with the fact that Trump personally made $1.4 billion off crypto last year.

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us finance 7 Aug 19 4 min read

Trump Says Government May Buy More Bitcoin as His Own Crypto Bets Lose Money

Trump told a White House crypto summit Wednesday the government is weighing large-scale Bitcoin purchases, while also pushing Congress to pass the stalled Clarity Act. Meanwhile his own company, Trump Media, is retreating from its Bitcoin treasury strategy after a $190 million paper loss, and the ethics questions around his personal crypto income aren't going away.

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us defense 8 Aug 19 4 min read

Trump's New Tech Strategy Bets on a Few AI Giants While His Own Crypto Venture Uses Chinese Models

The White House rolled out a national security science and technology strategy pushing faster military adoption of AI and drones, while the Pentagon ordered 30 universities to sever risky China research ties. At the same time, a Trump-linked crypto venture is promoting a platform built on AI from Chinese companies the government itself flagged as security risks.

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us tech 6 Aug 19 4 min read

Rapid7 Finds Crypto Phishing Ring That Used AI Chatbots to Build Its Own Malware

Rapid7 Labs found an exposed server running a crypto theft operation with 885,000 phone numbers, fake Trezor and Ledger apps, and code built with help from GitHub Copilot and Claude. When one AI model refused to help finish the malware, the operator switched providers and tried to jailbreak the next one. Rapid7 says it notified Apple and other authorities while parts of the operation were still active.

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us finance 7 Aug 19 3 min read

SEC Proposes Crypto Fundraising Exemptions as Bitcoin Ticks Up Toward $65,000 Amid Clarity Act Delay

The SEC unveiled a proposed framework on Tuesday letting crypto startups raise up to $5 million and larger projects up to $75 million without full securities registration. Bitcoin edged higher toward $65,000 on the news, though gains remained limited as markets await the stalled Clarity Act, now expected for a Senate vote on September 15.

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