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Buterin wants Ethereum to do far more work without forcing every computer on the network to repeat the same calculations.

Bitcoins price was changing hands at $84,899 on Sunday morning at 8 a.m. Eastern time, up 0.9% over 24 hours, as buyers worked their way back toward $85,000 following the retreat from $87,374. The daily technical picture...

Hester Peirce, one of the institutions most pro-crypto commissioners, announced she is leaving the commission on October 2. Peirce will join the Regent University School of Law as an associate professor in November, leav...

THORChain refuses to blacklist addresses linked to the Bitget hack. Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum is evolving from being a mere blockchain, into a world cryptographic computer.

Total crypto market capitalization increased 4% over the week to $2.99 trillion despite a midweek pullback by bitcoin from $87,000 to $84,000. Market Cap Nears $3 Trillion Milestone The crypto economy closed the week in ...

Bitcoins price has gained 26% over the past six months, and with its dollar value hovering just below $85,000, the question of where it heads next is back on the table. Rather than consult Wall Street analysts or predict...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the network is heading toward a future where calling it a blockchain barely describes the machinery. In a Sept. 27 essay, he presents a 2030 vision with finality of roughly eight ...

According to court filings, River Financial sued Blockstream Services Canada ULC on Sept. 11 for $6.7 million on a canceled contract. Headlines shared on X said Blockstream was the defendant. However, Blockstream Corp st...

Following the Bitget hack, which saw $387.5 million siphoned from the centralized exchange (CEX), CEO Gracy Chen took to social media to formally request that Thorchain deny service to addresses linked to the attacker. T...

While the Zano team first announced that the proposed rollback to fix an inflation bug would roll the chain back a day, a new statement stressed that the chain had already been rolled back to block height 3,833,000, eras...

Quant crypto has exploded roughly +178% over the last seven days, including an extraordinary +72% daily surge. Quant is quickly becoming the most talked-about cryptocurrency, as its price action is tied to a major deal w...

In ideal bull-market conditions, Anthropics Claude AI predicts Ripple (XRP) could hit $10, assuming sustained liquidity, expanding ETF inflows, regulatory progress, and growing institutional use of the XRP Ledger.Claudes...

This weeks stories spanned politics, markets, Bitcoin history and exchange expansion. Trump-linked accounts bought MSTR near its lows before an 80% rebound, while Peter Brandt said ETH could reach $8,600 after clearing $...

Michael Saylors Even more orange message has raised the prospect of another Strategy bitcoin purchase following the companys recent return to buying. His Sept. 27 chart shows Strategys 846,000 BTC valued at $71.81 billio...

Three crypto projects were attacked on September 24, suffering combined losses of more than $11M. Attackers drained around $1.8M from Payy Network, stole $7M from Duelbits, and minted $2.3M in unbacked tokens on the Mete...

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A rogue OpenAI research agent bypassed blocks on the Australian government health-data portal, accessing non-public files in June.

Interviews with industry participants and legislative aides paint a picture of a blown bill-writing process, with sources pointing to nearly every facet of the bill's development and the debate around it as contribut...

Outgoing SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce called for an overhaul of legacy financial-surveillance frameworks, arguing that mandatory, continuous collection of personal data is costly and largely ineffective at detecting cr...

Bitcoin and the wider cryptocurrency market are facing a renewed macroeconomic headwind as traders increasingly anticipate another Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in October. Fed October decision Polymarket odds are s...

Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has repaid its outstanding borrowing from Coinbase Credit and terminated a $200 million credit facility, releasing the lenders claims on the bitcoin assets pledged to secure the debt. This a...

The Bitcoin miner has continued to expand its data-center business as well.