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MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor to Sell $216 Million Company Shares for Bitcoin
3.1.2024
Source: DALL·E MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor has planned to sell company shares worth $216 million for personal Bitcoin investment. According to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Saylor will be selling 310,000 stock option awards, originally granted...
SEC Whistleblower Reveals Chai Payments App in Terra Ecosystem Didn’t Use Crypto
31.12.2023
Source: Adobe/Casimiro Four crypto tokens sold by Do Kwon and his co-founded company, Terraform Labs, has been qualified as unregistered securities. The tokens in question are TerraUSD (UST), LUNA, wLUNA, and Mirror Protocol (MIR), according to a recent summary judgment ruling by Judge Jed Rakoff...
Company, company, company. Vědci ukázali, jak jednoduché je splést ChatGPT, aby začal odpovídat studijními daty
31.12.2023
Žádný AI chatbot by neměl nikdy prozradit surová studijní data, na kterých se učil. Vše, co vytváří, musí být co nejvíce syntetizované, protože originální text by mohl obsahovat informace citlivé povahy
Bit Mining Sells Btc.com’s Mining Operations for $5 Million
30.12.2023
On Friday, Bit Mining Limited declared it had sold the mining pool operations of Btc.com to a Hong Kong limited liability company for $5 million. This transaction is anticipated to bolster the total equity of Bit Mining’s shareholders, contingent upon certain concluding conditions. BTCM...
Bankruptcy Judge Greenlights Celsius Shift to Bitcoin Mining
30.12.2023
The now-defunct crypto lender Celsius has received authorization to pivot to bitcoin mining, following approval from U.S. District Judge Martin Glenn of Manhattan for the firm’s revised strategy. This move comes after the company’s initial proposal encountered obstacles from the U.S....
Developer Alerts Ledger Live Software Could Be Tracking User IDs, Apps and Balances
30.12.2023
Rektbuilder, a developer, has stated that cryptocurrency hardware wallet company Ledger can track user identities, apps, and even cryptocurrency balances in the device through the use of Ledger Live, its wallet management software. The developer discovered this behavior while working on Lecce...
Bitcoin ETF Competition Grows; Polkadot & InQubeta Garner Growing Buyer Interest
29.12.2023
The Bitcoin ETF industry is seeing new headlines hit the market almost every other day. So much so that Franklin Templeton, which is a global asset management company, has even submitted an application for its own spot ETF. We have Blackrock, Valkyrie, Bitwise, and almost 20 other applicants...
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino Celebrates USDT’s $91.5B Market Cap: ‘Tether Evolved’
29.12.2023
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino made a retrospective about the company’s growth since its beginnings. In a post in X, Ardoino celebrated the current standing of the company, with its USDT stablecoin reaching a $91.5 billion market cap on several blockchains, $4 billion in excess reserves, and...
US Bankruptcy Court Approves $225M ‘MiningCo Transaction’ for Celsius, Prevents Securities Ruling in Chapter 11 Proceedings
28.12.2023
Source: Adobe/Canva Bankrupt cryptocurrency lending company Celsius Network has achieved a significant milestone in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has granted approval for Celsius Network’s proposed...
Hong Kong-Based Value Partners Plans to Tokenize 3 Tons of Gold and Roll Out Cryptocurrency ETFs
28.12.2023
Source: iStock/Onfokus Value Partners, a Hong Kong-based company says it has plans to tokenize gold assets and also make an entry to the much anticipated Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) market. According to a report from local media sources, Zhao Shande, a senior strategist of the firm’s ETF business...
Pokémon’s 2023 Showed The Darker Side Of The Pikachu Machine
28.12.2023
Pokémon’s profit margins probably don’t reflect it, but the franchise had a rough year in 2023. Without a new mainline role-playing game to dominate the series’ headlines, Pikachu and friends were, instead, shrouded in controversies throughout the past 12 months. Between Pokémon Go angering swaths...
Most Top Crypto Apps Track Users: Robinhood Most Data-Hungry, Binance Brings a Surprise
27.12.2023
Source: AdobeStock / tashatuvango Popular cybersecurity company Surfshark recently analyzed the 15 most popular crypto apps to find out how much data each collects. They found that nine of these use collected data to track their users. But it’s not just how much data is collected, but how it’s...
Microstrategy Acquires More Bitcoin, Raising Total Holdings to 189,150 BTC
27.12.2023
Nasdaq-listed Microstrategy has bought 14,620 more bitcoin for approximately $615.7 million. The latest purchase raised the company’s cryptocurrency holdings to 189,150 bitcoin, acquired for about $5.9 billion at an average price of $31,168 per coin. Microstrategy’s executive...
How Rejuve is Using AI and Blockchain to Improve Health and Longevity
27.12.2023
Source: rejuve.ai The company called Rejuve is using artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency to improve individuals’ health and longevity. According to the website, Rejuve is “harnessing the prowess of sophisticated AI” to create intricate, dynamic models of human bodily...
KyberSwap’s CEO Says Staff Strength Reduced by 50% Following Exploit and Related Challenges
27.12.2023
Source: KyberSwap KyberSwap’s CEO Victor Tran says the company has reduced its staff by 50% following a $48 million exploit last month stressing on keeping operations running and compensating all affected users with their assets. In a Dec 25 post, the CEO took to X (formerly Twitter) to explain...
Thunder Terminal Claims Security After $192,000 Exploit, Hacker Demands Ransom in Dispute
27.12.2023
Source: DALL·E Thunder Terminal has recently encountered an exploit. Despite the severity of the incident, the platform has assured users of the security of their funds. Yet the hacker claimed differently and demanded ransom. In a recent post published by the decentralized platform Thunder...
Hive Amplifies Bitcoin Mining Might With 7,000 Bitmain S21 Units
24.12.2023
The publicly-listed company Hive Digital Technologies, based in Vancouver, has announced the acquisition of 7,000 new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) bitcoin mining rigs from Bitmain. The ordered Antminer S21 units are slated for arrival from January through June next year. Hive...
Ripple Registered With Central Bank of Ireland
23.12.2023
Ripple is now registered as a virtual asset service provider with the Central Bank of Ireland. The company explained that it will “seek to provide services to clients across the European Economic Area once the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) comes into force at the end of 2024...
Bloxroute to Reject Blocks With OFAC Flagged Transactions
22.12.2023
Bloxroute, a company that provides relaying services, has declared that it will start rejecting block bids with transactions from wallets part of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN List). Based in the U.S., the company clarified...
Paxos Expands to Solana Following NYDFS Nod, Widening Stablecoin’s Horizon
22.12.2023
The tokenization and stablecoin platform Paxos has revealed plans to broaden its stablecoin issuance to the Solana blockchain. The company, which oversees the pax dollar (USDP), anticipates that Solana-issued USDP will be publicly available starting Jan. 17, 2024. Paxos Set to Launch Stablecoin...