A Civil Police investigation led to the arrest of Ítalo Francisco Mendes Barbiot, 42 years old, called the “Brazilian Unabomber” by the local press, after sending death-threat letters that asked for cryptocurrency to avoid launching attacks with explosives against financial executives. Lone Wolf Arrested by Police After Sending Bomb Threat Letters to Financial Executives The …
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A $5.8 million loss on Bitcoin options pushed operating revenue below zero, and higher Bitcoin prices lifted net income to $85.5 million. Shares in Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto fell 6.5% in premarket trading on Friday after the company reported that losses on Bitcoin options pushed third-quarter operating revenue below zero. Nakamoto’s shares traded at …
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Police suspect the group drew up fictitious loan agreements to disguise crypto trading proceeds it transferred directly into bank accounts. Israeli police arrested five people on Tuesday in a money laundering investigation involving about 16 million shekels ($5 million) in crypto transactions arranged through a WhatsApp group. Investigators from the National Unit for Combating Economic …
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Unocoin said the transfers were signed and broadcast outside BitGo’s platform, and BitGo said the account freeze worked as intended. Update (Nov. 13, 2026, 12:30 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include BitGo’s response and clarify that the account freeze applied to activity routed through BitGo’s platform. Indian cryptocurrency exchange Unocoin has kept …
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A Louisiana state judge has temporarily barred Kalshi, Polymarket U.S., Robinhood, Coinbase and other companies that offer prediction markets from offering event contracts to anyone in the state, hours after Attorney General Liz Murrill sued them. The order also requires the companies to geofence Louisiana, despite the CFTC telling exchanges this month to drop such …
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The two institutions signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) detailing that Minna Bank will integrate its financial functions, including Japanese yen deposits and withdrawals, into Backpack’s platform. Backpack is also considering integrating crypto into Minna Bank’s app and offering tokenized deposits. Minna Bank and Backpack Ink Value Co-Creation Agreement in Japan Minna Bank, Japan’s first …
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Bitcoin’s sell-off intensified as the cryptocurrency plunged to a nearly three-month low of $67,500, extending its November losses beyond 11%. Bitcoin Plunges to Three-Month Low Bitcoin’s sell-off, which began Wednesday, continued into Friday, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency plunging below $68,000 as fallout from former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s ouster kept financial markets rattled. The …
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A New Jersey man who has served two prison terms for mail scams has been charged again with trying to claim $12 million from a bank and billing schools for books they never ordered. Robert Armstrong, 56, of Turnersville, has been charged with bank fraud and mail fraud, reports NJ.com. Federal authorities allege he used …
Bitcoin price action interacted with its 200-week simple moving average for the first time since mid-August as it fell below $68,000. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $67,500 on Friday, slipping below its 200-week simple moving average on its first test of the level in nearly three months. Key points: TradingView data showed that Bitcoin last touched …
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Jane Street ended Q3 with 19% fewer shares in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, and a higher share price lifted the stake’s value to $957 million. Jane Street’s share count in Fidelity’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) rose nearly eightfold in the third quarter, while its holdings in BlackRock’s fund fell 19%. The trading giant ended September …
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Microsoft began a wider patch rollout Friday as the outage disrupted government email and Microsoft 365 connectors in ChatGPT and Claude. A global Microsoft 365 outage continued into Friday, disrupting Outlook email and some Teams features. Microsoft said in a 7:25 am UTC update that a patch had improved stability on some servers and that …
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Bitcoin and Ethereum fell to three-month lows Thursday, deepening a cryptocurrency selloff that has erased $550 billion in market value since October. Bitcoin slumped to $71,317, its lowest level since August, while Ethereum briefly fell below $2,000 to touch $1,983. The declines have pushed the broader crypto market’s valuation from approximately $2.94 trillion in early… …
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