Coinbase Global Availability: Full List & Updates
Coinbase Expands Global Reach, With Liquidity Likely to Follow Coinbase has published a new list of more than 100 countries and regions where its services are available, announcing the update through its official X account. Yes, there is some PR baked into that announcement. Still, dismi ...
Ex-LAPD Officer Gets Life for $350K BTC Theft
Ex-LAPD Officer Gets Life in Prison After Posing as Police to Steal $350K Worth of BTC A former LAPD officer was sentenced to life in prison plus 15 years after joining a fake police raid that took $350,000 in bitcoin from a teenage investor. The late-2024 case exposes a crypto security ...
Proof of Play Shuts Down: Blockchain Gaming Thesis Fails
Proof of Play Shutdown Is a Reality Check for Web3 Gaming Proof of Play, the blockchain game developer backed by a16z, is shutting down after its bet on decentralized gaming failed to become a viable business. One studio closing is not unusual. This one matters. My take: anyone who treat ...
Crypto’s Campaign Efforts See Rare Loss, But Congress Roster to Grow
Crypto's Campaign Efforts Take a Rare Loss, but Its Congressional Roster Keeps Growing "Crypto's campaign operation suffered a rare defeat in a U.S. congressional primary, even as the industry gained allies in other races." In Detroit, incumbent Representative Shri Thane ...
Bitcoin’s 500-Day Rule: Biggest Test Yet?
Bitcoin's '500-Day Rule' Faces Its Toughest Test as ETF Money Pours In Bitcoin's historically profitable "500-Day Rule" points to another possible buying opportunity. The strategy tracks the cryptocurrency's four-year halving cycle. Simple enough. Except this cycle has a new wrinkle: U.S ...
Missouri Trio Charged in Bitcoin Kidnapping Plot
Missouri Trio Charged in Alleged Bitcoin Kidnapping Plot, Exposing Risks for Crypto Holders Owning crypto can pose a physical security problem as well as a digital one. Three Missouri men were charged this week over an alleged August 2024 plot to kidnap a Bitcoin holder ...
Bithumb Halts MEV Deposits/Withdrawals for Upgrade
Bithumb Pauses MEV Deposits During Network Upgrade Bithumb, one of South Korea's larger crypto exchanges, temporarily paused deposits and withdrawals of MEV (MeVerse) today at 3:40 a.m. UTC while the network undergoes an upgrade. MEV is a relatively small altcoin, so this looks like rout ...
Tether Evo Publishes Three AI Studies to Advance BCIs
Tether Evo's BCI Research: Another Way Into Crypto? Tether Evo, Tether's AI and neuroscience research arm, published three peer-reviewed papers on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) on August 4, 2026. The research tests whether one BCI can decode speech, vision, and music across different ...
Bitcoin’s Resilience: The Secret to Surviving Major Hacks
Wall Street's Grip: Why Bitcoin Barely Reacted to a $100M Hack Why didn't Bitcoin fall after the recent $100 million cold wallet hack? Because the market absorbing that headline is not the same one that existed a few years ago. Back then, comparable news might have rattled prices for day ...
Bitgo Shifts WBTC Infrastructure to Chainlink in Security Push
Bitgo moves WBTC infrastructure to Chainlink in a push for tighter security Bitgo announced Tuesday that it will move its Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) infrastructure to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, better known as CCIP. That is a big change for DeFi. Full stop. Still, ca ...