Crypto trading activity across the Middle East and North Africa is skyrocketing amid the ongoing regional conflict. The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) says in a new report that investors in the Middle East are shifting capital into digital assets to protect wealth during disruptions rather than fleeing the region, which has emerged as one of …
Monthly archives: September 2026
Massachusetts Dental Firm Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach Affecting 15,000,000 Patients
A dental benefits provider is facing a class action lawsuit over a cybersecurity incident that allegedly exposed sensitive personal and health data belonging to millions of patients. The complaint says DentaQuest failed to meet regulatory and industry standards for protecting records, including training staff on phishing and using multi-factor authentication. Plaintiff Amanda Whitlow filed the …
California Resident Detained in Arizona, Accused of Orchestrating $37,900,000 in Loan Fraud Schemes
Federal prosecutors have detained a California resident accused siphoning tens of millions from pandemic relief programs and commercial lenders. Rodney Rosenstein, 58, of Huntington Beach was ordered held without bond in Arizona after a federal grand jury returned an indictment on conspiracy to commit bank fraud and conspiracy to commit false statements to influence a …
Is Bitcoin too volatile to risk your retirement on?
Bitcoin believers see it as an almost certain long-term investment, but retirement demands a different approach. How much crypto exposure is too much for your retirement account? You stack sats. You farm yield, and you’d rather sell your car than part with your BTC. But does that mean you should bank your golden years on …
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Ethereum Foundation Rates 62 Proposals for Hegotá Upgrade
TLDR Ethereum Foundation rated 62 proposals tied to the upcoming Hegotá network upgrade. The ratings came from 397 individual assessments made by about 60 specialists across nine teams. Ethereum’s Protocol Cluster set December 2029 as the target date for a quantum-resistant Layer 1. Hegotá is currently expected in 2027, after the Glamsterdam upgrade planned for …
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Bitcoin Price Loses Steam as Bears Circle Critical $78K Floor
Bitcoin’s price was trading between $78,060 and $78,500 on Tuesday morning around 8 a.m. EDT, after pulling back from the $80,537 area, leaving short-term sellers with an edge even as longer-term technical measures remained constructive. The split leaves bitcoin’s price walking a tightrope between support around $78,170-$78,193 and resistance stretching from roughly $78,430 to $80,537. …
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Cypherpunk Disavows Robinhood Token as Mow Labels ZEC ‘Pump and Dump’
Nasdaq-listed Cypherpunk Holdings distanced itself from a stock token bearing the Zcash ticker on Robinhood’s blockchain and clarifying it only holds the privacy coin. Cypherpunk Says It Only Holds ZEC Nasdaq-listed Cypherpunk Holdings has distanced itself from a crypto token using its name on Robinhood’s blockchain platform, joining a growing list of public companies condemning …
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Chainalysis: Over 90% of France’s Crypto Gains Go Undeclared
Chainalysis estimates France generated $9.4 billion in taxable crypto activity in 2025, while just 24,000 French taxpayers declared €368 million (approx. $427 million) in gains for 2024. The Two Numbers That Don’t Match A quick look at the numbers and the problem states itself. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis puts potentially taxable crypto activity in France …
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OrbitX Introduces Stablecoin-Powered QR Payments Across 15+ Global Markets
OrbitX has officially launched its QR payment functionality, enabling users to convert stablecoin balances into local currency purchases at point-of-sale terminals via simple QR scans. The initial rollout is active in Vietnam and the Philippines—two regions dominated by QR-based merchant transactions—with expansion planned across additional markets in the coming weeks. The launch addresses a fundamental …
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Tron’s Justin Sun Pulls 10,000 ETH and Sends $12.3M to Poloniex
Tron founder Justin Sun has redeemed 10,000 ETH from Lido since Aug. 26, and roughly $12.3 million of it has already landed on Poloniex, an exchange he backs. The Trail Since Aug. 26 Onchain analysts flagged the latest step on Tuesday: a wallet cluster attributed to Sun requested the unstaking of another 5,000 ETH from …
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Robinhood Chain Volume Pushes Uniswap’s UNI Burn Past $250M a Year
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams says the protocol’s annualized UNI burn rate has passed $250 million, up from the $200 million pace he flagged days earlier. From $200M to $250M in a Single Post Adams marked the milestone with a simple message, “Update: now over $250m,” quoting his own earlier post noting that the trailing seven-day …
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Bitcoin’s Price Action Has Three Dates Left to Escape the $80,000 Ceiling
Bitcoin traded near $79,100 on Tuesday, unable to hold $80,000, with jobless claims, inflation data and a Federal Reserve decision all landing inside eight days. The Calendar Doing the Work Three dates now stand between bitcoin’s price and a resolution of the range it has been stuck in. The first is Sept. 10, when U.S. …
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Jupiter Mobile Adds Physical Pokémon Card Ripping Feature
Decentralized finance platform Jupiter has integrated its Gacha trading digital card platform directly into the mobile app, allowing users to buy, rip, and collect physical trading cards without leaving the application. Scaling Mobile Adoption Jupiter, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform on Solana, announced Monday that its rip-and-collect trading card product, Jupiter Gacha, is now natively …
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Chelsea’s USDC Jersey Deal Triggers Fears for Hong Kong Fans
The deal has sparked concerns among Hong Kong fans, who fear that wearing the team’s jersey could make them liable for what the HKMA’s stablecoin ordinance describes as offenses related to advertising regulated stablecoin activity and offering specified stablecoins. Hong Kong Chelsea Fans Nervous About Latest USDC Jersey Deal The recent deal between Chelsea FC …
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Sixteen Years After 12,000 Tons of Orange Peels, a Costa Rica Forest Grew Back
Tree biomass jumped 176% on a degraded plot inside Costa Rica’s Guanacaste Conservation Area after 12,000 tonnes of orange peels were spread there in 1997. The experiment was later halted by Costa Rica’s Supreme Court after a challenge from rival producer TicoFruit, but researcher Timothy Treuer’s 2013 revisit found a nutrient-rich, invasive-resistant canopy where bare …
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