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Strategy is aiming for a Bitcoin milestone that sounds like a dare. The company formerly known as MicroStrategy wants to surpass Satoshi Nakamoto’s estimated BTC holdings within the next two years, pushing its corporate Bitcoin treasury strategy to an even more aggressive level. Strategy wants to out-stack Satoshi’s estimated 1.1 million BTC The plan depends […]
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IREN Limited is being priced somewhere between a Bitcoin miner with a shiny AI side quest and a real AI infrastructure play still trying to prove it deserves the premium. IREN stock jumped 7.50% on April 24, then kept moving after hours. The company is pivoting from Bitcoin mining to AI cloud infrastructure and GPU […]
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Metaplanet is back with another Bitcoin buying spree, and this one comes with a $50 million zero-coupon bond that pays no interest at all. Cheap capital? Sure. Free money? Not remotely. $50 million raised through zero-coupon bonds All proceeds earmarked for Bitcoin purchases Unsecured debt with an early repayment clause Already holds about 40,177 BTC […]
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs have logged eight straight days of net inflows totaling $2.1 billion, and BlackRock’s IBIT has hoovered up about three-quarters of that money. Bitcoin responded the way a scarce asset tends to respond when giant buyers show up with a checkbook: it climbed from roughly $68,000 to $77,000 while the ETF bid […]
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A quantum researcher just won 1 BTC for cracking a 15-bit elliptic curve key, and while that is nowhere near enough to break Bitcoin, it is a reminder that quantum computing is not just a lab toy anymore. Project Eleven paid Giancarlo Lelli for a successful quantum ECC break 15-bit key recovered in about 45 […]
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Italian researcher Giancarlo Lelli has landed a 1 BTC bounty after demonstrating the largest known quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) so far, a result that pushes the quantum threat to Bitcoin from abstract worry to something that deserves real engineering attention. 1 BTC bounty awarded to Giancarlo Lelli on April 24 Shor’s algorithm […]
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DeFi is back in the regulatory crosshairs, and Ethereum is quietly plotting a privacy upgrade that could make the whole compliance debate a lot uglier for Washington. Industry groups are pushing the SEC to lock in its recent guidance on DeFi interfaces, while Ethereum developers explore native private transfers that would push privacy deeper into […]
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Why Tokenized Deposits Are Becoming the Institutional Standard for On-Chain Cash Big banks are no longer treating blockchain as a toy for crypto traders. HSBC, Lloyds Bank, and JPMorgan are moving tokenized deposits onto the Canton Network, and the pitch is simple: keep money inside the regulated banking system, but make it move like digital […]
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Euro stablecoins are surging under MiCA, and Europe is making the point loud and clear: if you want access to the regulated market, you play by the rules or you get sidelined. Euro stablecoins reportedly surged 1,200% under MiCA Regulated issuers are pulling liquidity away from offshore rivals Banks and institutions are driving adoption, not […]
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Cake Wallet is taking another swing at Bitcoin usability with a new Lightning Network integration that aims to make fast payments easier without dumping users into the usual swamp of channel setup, liquidity headaches, and custody risk. That was the big takeaway from Episode 716 of the BlockHash Podcast, where Seth, COO of Cake Wallet, […]
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