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Bitcoin has plunged to its lowest levels—nearly erasing all its post-election gains—as escalating trade tensions fuel global market panic. The Bitcoin price fell as low as $74,500 during early Asia hours Monday, marking a 6.5% fall in the past 24 hours and more than 5.8% over the week, CoinGecko data shows. As of now, Bitcoin […]

UFC champion and celebrity Conor McGregor’s crypto token failed to launch after raising only 39% of its minimum fundraising target during its 28-hour presale period that ended Sunday. The token, developed by Real World Gaming DAO (RWG), secured just $392,315 in USDC from 668 bidders, falling far short of the $1,008,000 minimum requirement to proceed

Another solo Bitcoin miner defied the odds last week, processing a block and bagging a 3.125 BTC reward. At the time—including the transaction fees—that was a $259,637 payday. And it was one of several such solo scores in recent months. Was the miner lucky? Is solo mining becoming more common? And can an average Joe

Today marks what crypto enthusiasts celebrate as Satoshi Nakamoto‘s 50th birthday, according to the birth date the mysterious Bitcoin creator registered on his profile for the P2P Foundation—a nonprofit organization dedicated to researching and advocating for the adoption of P2P solutions. Based on his profile, Satoshi was born on April 5, 1975. That is, of

Machine learning has been used to detect crypto malware targeting users of bitcoinlib, a popular Python library for making Bitcoin wallets. ReversingLabs says the malicious packages attempted to overwrite legitimate commands in order to extract sensitive database files. Researchers say bitcoinlib is a “widely used open-source library” that allows crypto wallets to be created and

Bitcoin could soon find a place on state balance sheets, with Alabama and Minnesota both pressing ahead with legislative frameworks for state Bitcoin reserves. In Minnesota, House File 2946, also called the Minnesota Bitcoin Act, introduced by Rep. B. Olson (R-MN) on Tuesday, would allow the state to invest in Bitcoin directly. Its Senate counterpart,

Grayscale Investments, one of the largest Bitcoin ETF issuers, filed to convert its existing private Digital Large Cap Fund to a publicly available exchange traded fund (ETF). It currently contains Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano. The existing private fund, which is only available to accredited investors through private placement, heavily leans towards Bitcoin with

In February, North Korean hackers broke headlines with what is now regarded as the largest single hack in crypto history. The Lazarus Group stole at least $1.4 billion from Bybit and later funneled those funds to crypto mixers. “Someone had pulled off the biggest hack in [crypto] history, and we had a front-row seat,” Samczsun,

AI enthusiasts, your prayers have been heard. OpenAI is jumping back into the open tech AI arena with plans to release a powerful open-weight language model with reasoning abilities in the coming months, CEO Sam Altman said on Monday. “We are planning to release our first open-weight language model since GPT-2,” Altman wrote in a