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IREN Surges on AI Pivot as $6B Funding Fear Looms Over Bitcoin Miner Turnaround

IREN Surges on AI Pivot as $6B Funding Fear Looms Over Bitcoin Miner Turnaround

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IREN Limited is being priced somewhere between a Bitcoin miner with a shiny AI side quest and a real AI infrastructure play still trying to prove it deserves the premium. IREN stock jumped 7.50% on April 24, then kept moving after hours. The company is pivoting from Bitcoin mining to AI cloud infrastructure and GPU […]

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Metaplanet Raises $50M Zero-Coupon Debt to Buy More Bitcoin

Metaplanet Raises $50M Zero-Coupon Debt to Buy More Bitcoin

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Metaplanet is back with another Bitcoin buying spree, and this one comes with a $50 million zero-coupon bond that pays no interest at all. Cheap capital? Sure. Free money? Not remotely. $50 million raised through zero-coupon bonds All proceeds earmarked for Bitcoin purchases Unsecured debt with an early repayment clause Already holds about 40,177 BTC […]

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BlackRock’s IBIT Drives $2.1B Bitcoin ETF Inflow Streak as BTC Rallies to $77K

BlackRock’s IBIT Drives $2.1B Bitcoin ETF Inflow Streak as BTC Rallies to $77K

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US spot Bitcoin ETFs have logged eight straight days of net inflows totaling $2.1 billion, and BlackRock’s IBIT has hoovered up about three-quarters of that money. Bitcoin responded the way a scarce asset tends to respond when giant buyers show up with a checkbook: it climbed from roughly $68,000 to $77,000 while the ETF bid […]

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Quantum Researcher Wins 1 BTC for 15-Bit ECC Break as Bitcoin Quantum Risk Emerges

Quantum Researcher Wins 1 BTC for 15-Bit ECC Break as Bitcoin Quantum Risk Emerges

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A quantum researcher just won 1 BTC for cracking a 15-bit elliptic curve key, and while that is nowhere near enough to break Bitcoin, it is a reminder that quantum computing is not just a lab toy anymore. Project Eleven paid Giancarlo Lelli for a successful quantum ECC break 15-bit key recovered in about 45 […]

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Quantum Attack Wins 1 BTC Bounty, Raising Real Bitcoin Security Concerns

Quantum Attack Wins 1 BTC Bounty, Raising Real Bitcoin Security Concerns

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Italian researcher Giancarlo Lelli has landed a 1 BTC bounty after demonstrating the largest known quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) so far, a result that pushes the quantum threat to Bitcoin from abstract worry to something that deserves real engineering attention. 1 BTC bounty awarded to Giancarlo Lelli on April 24 Shor’s algorithm […]

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SEC DeFi Crackdown Meets Ethereum Native Privacy Push

SEC DeFi Crackdown Meets Ethereum Native Privacy Push

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DeFi is back in the regulatory crosshairs, and Ethereum is quietly plotting a privacy upgrade that could make the whole compliance debate a lot uglier for Washington. Industry groups are pushing the SEC to lock in its recent guidance on DeFi interfaces, while Ethereum developers explore native private transfers that would push privacy deeper into […]

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HSBC, Lloyds and JPMorgan Bring Tokenized Deposits to Canton Network

HSBC, Lloyds and JPMorgan Bring Tokenized Deposits to Canton Network

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Why Tokenized Deposits Are Becoming the Institutional Standard for On-Chain Cash Big banks are no longer treating blockchain as a toy for crypto traders. HSBC, Lloyds Bank, and JPMorgan are moving tokenized deposits onto the Canton Network, and the pitch is simple: keep money inside the regulated banking system, but make it move like digital […]

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Euro Stablecoins Surge 1,200% Under MiCA as Banks Rush In

Euro Stablecoins Surge 1,200% Under MiCA as Banks Rush In

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Euro stablecoins are surging under MiCA, and Europe is making the point loud and clear: if you want access to the regulated market, you play by the rules or you get sidelined. Euro stablecoins reportedly surged 1,200% under MiCA Regulated issuers are pulling liquidity away from offshore rivals Banks and institutions are driving adoption, not […]

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Cake Wallet Adds Lightning Integration to Boost Bitcoin Payments and Privacy

Cake Wallet Adds Lightning Integration to Boost Bitcoin Payments and Privacy

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Cake Wallet is taking another swing at Bitcoin usability with a new Lightning Network integration that aims to make fast payments easier without dumping users into the usual swamp of channel setup, liquidity headaches, and custody risk. That was the big takeaway from Episode 716 of the BlockHash Podcast, where Seth, COO of Cake Wallet, […]

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Rare Bitcoin Metric Flashes First-Time Signal as BTC Eyes Major Move

Rare Bitcoin Metric Flashes First-Time Signal as BTC Eyes Major Move

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Bitcoin’s next big move may be closer than the chart naysayers want to admit, with one key metric flashing a signal that has never appeared before, according to this rare Bitcoin setup. Whether that turns into a clean breakout or just another brutal fakeout depends on liquidity, macro conditions, and whether traders can resist doing […]

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