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Peter Schiff Says AI Could Turn Into Bitcoin’s Biggest Threat
23.8.2026
American economist Peter Schiff is warning that artificial intelligence (AI) could become a threat to the leading crypto asset bitcoin. Schiff further argued that the two technologies compete for money, electricity and infrastructure, while increasingly powerful AI could potentially uncover...
Beyond the Kimchi Premium: Korea’s Institutional Shift
22.8.2026
Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park outlines South Korea’s transition from a retail-driven crypto market to an institutional digital finance hub. However, he believes institutional adoption relies on resolving unglamorous back-office realities supported by new frameworks...
South Korea Deploys AI to Bust Crypto Market Manipulation
22.8.2026
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service has deployed an AI-powered surveillance system to monitor crypto markets and detect unfair trading practices in real time. Algorithms Track ‘Racehorse’ and ‘Cage’ Schemes South Korea’s financial regulator has reportedly deployed...
AI could supercharge crypto but there’s a catch, Fidelity Digital Assets says
19.8.2026
AI agents could boost crypto activity, but much of the value may bypass blockchains and their tokens
A year after losing $1.46 billion, Bybit says AI helped it save $700 million
19.8.2026
The exchange that lost $1.46 billion to North Korean hackers is the first large centralized firm to put numbers on a claim bitcoin developers have been making all month
OpenAI trails Anthropic as losses deepen and Altman pauses frontier AI training
19.8.2026
Widening losses and intensifying competition coincide with a pause in frontier reinforcement-learning training as openai strengthens its safety controls
Live updates: Bitcoin remains above $64,000 as oil rises and the Kospi tumbles 6%
19.8.2026
U.S. Treasury yields retreat from the highest levels in decades, while bitcoin holds above $64,000
Coinbase’s x402 Handles 14 Million AI Agent Payments in 30 Days
19.8.2026
AI agents initiated 14 million transfers through the x402 payment protocol over the past 30 days, with Base and Polygon handling most of the activity. USDC accounted for virtually all transfers, offering an early indication that autonomous software may become a new source of stablecoin demand. USDC...
Robot maker Unitree’s IPO surges 600% , outpacing crypto traders’ premarket bets
19.8.2026
A Hyperliquid perp priced Unitree far above its IPO valuation before Shanghai trading began, but the robot maker’s first public trade still opened roughly 75% above crypto traders’ implied price
Why the Trump-backed crypto venture is distancing itself from Hong Kong AI aggregator WorldClaw
18.8.2026
WLFI says the AI platform is independent and uses USD1 as a payment rail, but would not say whether it has equity, financing, revenue-sharing or other economic interests in the company
Bitcoin miners’ AI pivot pays off, but mining could revive with one twist
18.8.2026
Miners with AI and high-performance computing contracts have commanded higher valuations as declining bitcoin prices and hashprice squeeze pure-play operators
Trump’s WLFI Faces Scrutiny Over Pentagon-Flagged AI Ties
18.8.2026
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump’s family, is facing fresh scrutiny after nearly half the artificial intelligence (AI) models on its partner platform, Worldclaw, were found to come from Chinese companies the U.S. Department of Defense flagged...
Tether Pushes Into Artificial Intelligence as User Base Tops 650M
18.8.2026
Tether is expanding into artificial intelligence as it looks to build on a global user base of more than 650 million. CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company increasingly sees itself as a digital dollar and infrastructure business rather than a conventional crypto firm. Tether Expands Beyond Crypto...
China’s 5,500 Robot Shipments Put US AI Hardware Rivals on Notice
18.8.2026
Unitree’s 5,500-plus humanoid robot deliveries highlight China’s scale in humanoid robot manufacturing. Devere Group CEO Nigel Green says those exports offer investors an alternative to heavily financed U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure. Unitree’s Shipments Strengthen China’s Physical...
Kraken parent Payward joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing for AI security push
18.8.2026
Payward will use Anthropic’s cybersecurity model to hunt vulnerabilities and share open-source findings
HIVE Digital Lands $350M AI Deal With 5-Year Cloud Contract
17.8.2026
HIVE Digital Technologies’ BUZZ HPC unit has signed a five-year AI cloud services contract worth about $350 million. The agreement will add roughly $70 million in annualized revenue and accelerate HIVE’s shift toward large-scale GPU infrastructure. BUZZ Deploys 2,016 Nvidia GPUs Under HIVE’s $350M...
Glassnode: Consumer Confidence Sinks as AI Stocks Soar, Bitcoin Left Behind
17.8.2026
Consumer confidence is sitting near its weakest levels in a decade even as U.S. stocks notch record highs, and Glassnode says bitcoin is being left out of the rotation entirely. A Confidence Paradox Consumer confidence remains, in Glassnode’s words, “among the weakest readings of...
SpaceX Closes $60 Billion Cursor Deal in Major AI Compute Push
14.8.2026
SpaceX has completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, bringing the AI coding company and its model-development operation under SpaceX. The transaction deepens a partnership centered on using large-scale computing infrastructure to train more capable models. SpaceX Closes $60 Billion Cursor...
Bitcoin Hashrate Slips 17% Off Record as Miners Chase AI
14.8.2026
Bitcoin’s network hashrate has fallen as much as 17% below its all-time high, per CryptoQuant, as publicly listed miners redirect power and capital toward artificial intelligence data centers instead of chasing new mining capacity. Hashrate Pulls Back From Record Highs Bitcoin’s network...
ParaFi Partner Bets AI Capital Flees to Bitcoin After Crash
14.8.2026
ParaFi’s Jeff Park stresses that while AI has been syphoning interest and funds from the crypto ecosystem, ultimately, when the bubble bursts, capital will be ready to be reinvested in hard-to-ignore, scarce solid assets such as bitcoin. Jeff Park: Bitcoin Will Ultimately Benefit From...