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Sam Altman’s OpenAI is reportedly working on a social media platform that could go head-to-head with Elon Musk’s X, according to a report by The Verge, marking a new front in the increasingly bitter feud between the two tech titans. The project, described as an internal prototype, is said to revolve around a social feed

More than two months after it brought its Bitcoin holdings to 3,192 BTC, healthcare tech firm Semler Scientific is preparing to buy more. Semler Scientific plans to raise up to $500 million through a new securities offering that could boost its Bitcoin holdings, according to a Tuesday SEC filing. The filing was a shelf registration

Real estate financing platform Janover has purchased an additional $10.5 million worth of Solana, marking its latest push to adopt Strategy’s crypto-stashing playbook, with a twist.  The company’s purchase of 80,567 tokens marks its third Solana acquisition under its new digital asset treasury plan, enacted on April 4, according to a company statement released on

As part of its ongoing effort to reshape OpenSea, the current leading Ethereum NFT marketplace is now offering Solana token trading to some of its closed beta users.  OpenSea’s trading platform now lets some OS2 closed beta users trade Solana tokens, including the popular meme coins Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) and Dogwifhat (WIF). While currently limited to

Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, acquired around 3,450 Bitcoin worth $286 million last week, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Unveiling a Bitcoin purchase for the third straight Monday, the Tysons, Virginia-based firm now owns 531,644 Bitcoin worth $45.2 billion, based on the asset’s current price.Strategy paid an average price of

Metaplanet, the Tokyo-listed firm dubbed “Asia’s MicroStrategy,” has boosted its Bitcoin holdings with a fresh 3.78 billion yen ($26.3 million) purchase amid growing tension over U.S. trade tariffs.  The company said it acquired 319 BTC at an average price of 12,849,780 yen ($82,549) per coin, bringing its total holdings to 4,525 BTC. Metaplanet plans to

A school in Scotland has said it will be the first in the UK to start accepting Bitcoin payments.  Lomond School in the town of Helensburgh said that it made the choice to accept the cryptocurrency after a number of parents—both local and foreign—made the request, The Times reported. The private boarding school has a

Ripple Labs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have jointly filed a request to suspend their respective appeals as they “pursue a negotiated resolution” of their long-running case. As detailed in a filing submitted yesterday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the two parties have already reached an agreement-in-principle, with

On Wednesday, Westpac CEO Anthony Miller apologised to a customer after the bank blocked a $30,000 transfer to Australian crypto exchange CoinSpot and froze their accounts. The customer, known only as Tim, had deposited $50,000 into his Westpac account earlier this month and attempted to move a portion of the funds to CoinSpot to invest