MARA Pledges 18,750 BTC for $600 Million New Bitcoin-Backed Loans
MARA (NASDAQ: MARA) has secured $600 million of new debt after pledging 18,750 BTC, tapping its bitcoin reserves to help...
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Stolen Bitcoin at Center of Kidnapping Plot, 3 Face 20 Years
Federal prosecutors charged three St. Louis men over a plan to storm a Connecticut home and force a transfer of...
67 Investors Paid $10M for NFT Tokens That Launched Worthless
Federal prosecutors say Few and Far founder Taj Tarsha raised more than $10 million from 67 investors, then allegedly spent...
Ripple Says EU Crypto Expansion Is Ready to Scale After MiCA Win
Ripple says the regulatory groundwork for its European crypto business is now in place, shifting its focus from winning approvals...
Bitcoin’s Splintered BIP-110 Fork Falls Behind by 18 Blocks
At 7:56 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Following Bitcoin’s chain split at block height 961632, BIP-110-aligned mining pool Roughnecks managed to...
Michael Saylor Identifies the Next Billion-Dollar Finance Opportunity
Michael Saylor has identified what he believes could become the next billion-dollar opportunity in finance. The Strategy executive chairman advised...
CLARITY Act Heads Toward Sept. 15 Senate Vote as Crypto Bill Advances
The U.S. Senate is positioning the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act for a potential Sept. 15 procedural vote, moving the...
Ethereum Whale Capitulates After 3 Years, Losses Top $19 Million
An ethereum whale who bought in during 2022 and 2023 capitulated on August 8, selling at a loss now exceeding...
Crypto Weekly: ADA and Privacy Coins Outperform While XRP Slides
The aggregate crypto market cap rose from under $2.2 trillion to $2.9 trillion during the first week of August 2026....
Bybit Unleashes RICO Lawsuit on North Korea Over $1.5B Hack
The cryptocurrency exchange platform Bybit has sued North Korea in a U.S. federal court over last year’s record-breaking $1.5 billion...
Blackrock’s IBIT Captures $479M as Bitcoin ETFs Extend Streak
U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) added $98.85 million on August 7, stretching their inflow streak to five straight trading...
Bitcoin’s ECX Hard Fork Splinters Into 3 Launches Through October
The upcoming Bitcoin hard fork known as ECX will not launch all at once on Aug. 23. Instead, its creator...
Bitcoin Fork Watch: Where to Track BIP-110’s Showdown Live
BIP-110 mandatory signaling begins today, putting block 961632 under a microscope as the risk of a blockchain split moves from...
Circle Renews Coinbase USDC Deal and Rules Out Dividends
Circle has renewed its longstanding USDC partnership with Coinbase on existing terms, preserving a key distribution channel for the stablecoin....
Genius Sports Now Settles Contracts for Both Kalshi and Polymarket
Genius Sports signed official-data, integrity, and marketing agreements with Polymarket on Aug. 4 and Kalshi on Aug. 5, putting one...
