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Bitcoin Tops $65,340 as BIP 110 Fight Raises Hard Fork Risk

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Bitcoin breached $65,000 on Friday, hitting an August peak of $65,340 before consolidating just under the mark with a 0.5% daily gain. Market volatility drove total crypto liquidations to $192 million, heavily dominated by $112 million in short position wipeouts. Bitcoin Reclaims $65K Range On

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Trezor: Someone Always Holds Your Keys. It Should Be You.

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By Danny Sanders, Chief Commercial Officer, Trezor If you own a hardware wallet and you have spent the last few days worried, I completely understand. The recent Coldcard incident was serious, and real people lost real money, which is never something to wave away. One company made a serious mistake on one of the core […]

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Wintermute Registers as US Broker-Dealer, Eyes Tokenized Stocks

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Wintermute’s U.S. arm has registered as a broker-dealer, giving the crypto market maker a path into regulated securities trading. The firm plans to expand from digital-asset ETFs and related markets into tokenized equities if U.S. regulators permit them. Wintermute Challenges Jane Street, Citadel With US Securities Push Wintermute is moving deeper into traditional finance,

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Intesa Sanpaolo Cuts BTC ETF Stake by 94%, Triples Staked ETH Position

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In its Q2 2026 Form 13F filing, Italian banking giant Intesa Sanpaolo revealed a 94% reduction in its flagship spot bitcoin ETF while tripling its position in Blackrock’s iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF. Strategic Expansion into Staked Ethereum Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest banking group, has reshaped its digital asset portfolio during the second quarter, slashing

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BIP-110 Supporters Prepare PoW Switch If Miners Refuse Soft Fork Plan

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Bitcoin developer Chris Guida has dusted off code that could swap the mining algorithm on a breakaway BIP-110 chain if supporters fail to overcome miners’ resistance. With the activation height closing in fast, supporters are now openly floating a proof-of-work (PoW) swap if BIP-110 leaves them stranded on a weak minority chain that stops moving. […]

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Bitcoin Red Team Finds 4,962 Flaws After Coldcard Hack

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A volunteer security group called the Bitcoin Red Team uncovered 4,962 vulnerabilities, 85 of them critical, across 390 open-source Bitcoin projects over a 27-hour stretch after the Coldcard hack. A Response to the Coldcard Exploit The Coldcard hardware wallet exploit drained bitcoin (BTC) from long-term holders after a firmware bug dating to March 2021. Losses […]

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Cathie Wood’s Ark Buys $21M in Block, $2.3M in SpaceX

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Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest bought $21 million in Block shares and $2.3 million in SpaceX stock, doubling down on two companies sitting at the intersection of bitcoin and Elon Musk’s business empire. Ark’s Latest Trades Ark Invest, the asset management firm founded by Cathie Wood and known for publishing its daily trading activity, disclosed purchases […]

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Tesla, SpaceX Pick Texas Site for Musk’s $16.8B Chip Plant

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Tesla and SpaceX have formally committed $16.8 billion to break ground on Terafab, Elon Musk’s giant AI chip factory, after moving the project’s planned site from Austin to a rural county outside Houston. A Site Change for the Largest Building on Earth Musk first unveiled Terafab in March at Austin’s Seaholm Historic Power Plant, pitching […]

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MARA Reports $611M Loss While Miners Deposit 581 BTC to NYDIG

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MARA Holdings posted a $611 million net loss in the second quarter as its bitcoin treasury shrank 29% year-over-year to 35,577 BTC. The report landed the same week rival Riot Platforms and MARA itself sent a combined 581 BTC to custodian NYDIG. A Rough Quarter by the Numbers MARA Holdings, the largest publicly traded bitcoin […]

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Coldcard Hacker Resumes Moving Stolen 30 BTC to New Wallet

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The hacker behind the Coldcard wallet exploit, believed to hold 2,055 BTC (about $130 million) in stolen bitcoin, moved funds for the first time in weeks, sending 30.185 BTC (about $1.94 million) to a new wallet. The Hacker Goes Quiet, Then Moves Again Just hours ago, the hacker behind the largest share of the theft, […]