$1.2B Wiped out: Bitcoin Squeeze Returns Strategy to Profit
Bitcoin surpassed $79,000, boosting market cap past $1.55 trillion and pushing the broader crypto market to $2.65 trillion amid growing...
Month: August 2026
Pennsylvania Catholic Priest Accused of Embezzling $740,000+ From Churches and His Elderly Mother: Report
Authorities in Pennsylvania have filed charges against a former priest for allegedly misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars from churches...
U.S. Debt Hits $40,000,000,000,000 for the First Time Ever as President Trump Dismisses Bond Market Worries
President Donald Trump is dismissing worries about bond market volatility amid the U.S. debt milestone. Total U.S. public debt outstanding...
Strategy Bitcoin treasury hits breakeven point as BTC price passes $77K
Bitcoin gains 20% in two days as Strategy sees its BTC treasury climb out of the red. Bitcoin (BTC) hit...
Bitcoin ETFs draw $608M as Ether ETFs see largest inflow since October
Bitcoin ETF inflows pushed August’s total to a 2026 high of $2.07 billion as Bitcoin traded above $75,000 and Ether...
BTCS used Ethereum to repay Aave debt and ended Q2 with just $317,000 in cash
Nasdaq-listed Ethereum infrastructure company BTCS swapped ETH into USDT to pay down Aave loans in the second quarter and ended...
Zcash miner buys 9.4% of merger target that warns failed deal could end in liquidation
Fortitude Mining, Digital Currency Group's Zcash-focused miner, bought a 9.4% stake in Nasdaq-listed HeartSciences for about $1 million, giving its...
Ethereum’s next upgrade turns a 2-second block bottleneck into a roughly 9-second window
Ethereum node operators now have an active public network for rehearsing Glamsterdam’s coordinated execution- and consensus-client upgrade. Platåberget has an...
Datavault wants to buy a bank and fund it with $35 million after reporting $1.4 million cash
Datavault AI has agreed to acquire BankWyse, a Wyoming banking institution, while promising funding substantially larger than the cash it...
This Bitcoin miner just signed a $350 million AI deal, but it needs $185 million to make it work
HIVE Digital Technologies’ $350 million AI cloud contract depends on a $185 million GPU buildout that must be completed in...
Solana’s 50,000 SOL security contest did not cover a clock attack disclosed months earlier
At USENIX Security on Aug. 12, researchers presented a Solana Proof-of-History clock attack they had disclosed privately to Solana developers...
Tether-backed Antalpha’s loan TVL declined $696 million as its gold bet returned a $22 million loss
Antalpha’s facilitated loan book shrank by $696 million in the second quarter as losses on tokenized gold holdings at its...
Two ETH Whales Offload $63 Million as Selling Pressure Builds
Onchain trackers flagged two large ether sell-offs within hours of each other on August 21, as a popular whale known...
After 100 Hours of 3D Printing, a Student Built a Modular Arm for His Sister
More than 100 hours of 3D printing went into a modular prosthetic arm that Vitaliy Bondarchuk, an engineering student at...
Hungary Repeals Strict Crypto Rules to Align With EU MiCA Framework
The Hungarian parliament voted to repeal the provisions that required a validation check for crypto asset conversions to be legal....