A quick look at the numbers shows bitcoin has been declared dead 478 times since 2010. Here are some dollar figures on what ignoring each of those calls would have paid. Who Called It, and When? BTC’s obituary is its own genre by now, and the arithmetic on it has finally been done. Here’s what …
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There is a particular frustration familiar to anyone holding stablecoins. The balance sits in the app. It is dollar-denominated, it is liquid, and it is useless at the till. Reaching spendable money has traditionally meant a detour: transfer to an exchange, sell, withdraw to a bank account, wait. By the time it arrives, the convenience …
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ZEC cleared $1,600 on Tuesday for the first time since 2016, hours after 21shares listed Europe’s first Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam. The Listing That Moved It ZEC pushed past $1,600 over the past 24 hours and is currently trading at $1,622 (up 8%). The catalyst arrived from Europe as asset manager …
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Pokerstars has launched a sales site inviting outside operators to join the Pokerstars Network, the shared player pool that Flutter has so far used only to merge its own poker brands. The pitch comes with the brand trailing GGPoker on traffic, and the one partner success story it offers is a sister company. Pokerstars Pitches …
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New York City has secured its largest worker settlement ever to repay delivery workers who were underpaid or paid late. The settlement with New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) requires DoorDash to pay $131.5 million total, including more than $115 million directly to affected workers and over $16 million in fines …
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An Arizona resident has lost $48,000 after falling for a long-running romance scam by someone impersonating a manager of WWE star Rhea Ripley. The victim, who wished to remain anonymous, came forward after a Pennsylvania man reported losing more than $42,000 in a similar scheme, reports Local 21 News. Contact began roughly two years earlier …
BitMEX officially ended exchange operations after more than 11 years, while withdrawals remain open as the crypto derivatives platform urges users to remove their funds. BitMEX ended all exchange operations at 4:00 UTC on Wednesday, two months after the crypto derivatives exchange announced plans to shut down after more than 11 years of operations. The …
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The proposed NU7 change would disable version 4 transactions, leaving ZEC in Zcash’s legacy Sprout shielded pool unspendable. Zcash users holding ZEC in the network’s legacy Sprout shielded pool should move it before the planned NU7 upgrade or risk losing the ability to spend it. Under Zcash Improvement Proposal-2003, NU7 would stop accepting the older …
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded more than $1.7 billion in net inflows over two days as Bitcoin rose above investors’ estimated average cost basis. US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded more than $1.7 billion in net inflows over two days as Bitcoin traded above the estimated cost basis of the average ETF investor. The funds …
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Solana generated more user fees than Ethereum in data provider DefiLlama’s Sept. 22 dashboard snapshot, while Ethereum burned more fees. The split shows that users’ spending can reach validators and applications without producing an equivalent benefit for someone simply holding the network’s coin. The data provider’s Solana overview showed about $1.1 million in chain fees …
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XRP Ledger (XRPL) validators have put BatchV1_1 on a conditional path to activate at 14:06:41 UTC on Sept. 29, turning a security near-miss into a live test of the network’s amendment process and its surrounding software. On Sept. 22, xrpldashboard showed 30 of 35 trusted validators supporting the amendment, above its displayed 28-vote threshold. The …
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Circle is doubling down on Binance after USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin customer balances on the exchange nearly quintupled since their first agreement. On Sept. 22, the companies announced a new five-year commercial agreement alongside Binance’s $100 million equity investment in Circle, extending a relationship that has turned the world’s largest crypto exchange into one of …
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XRP registered an intraday high of $1.60 on Sept. 22, with roughly $7.4 billion in reported volume. The move was strong, but the latest public data on regulated futures showed different positioning shifts across venues. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Sept. 15 snapshot showed leveraged funds cutting their net short in CME futures by the …
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On Tuesday, the decentralized oracle network Chainlink announced a strategic partnership with Infosys, the information technology (IT) giant. Chainlink detailed that the companies are teaming up to help major traditional finance (TradFi) institutions easily plug their systems directly into blockchain networks. Chainlink’s Institutional Push Adds Another IT Giant Chainlink has logged quite a few institutional …
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460 vintage 6N3P vacuum tubes from the 1950s and 1960s power Mike’s Tube Computer MK3, a working 8-bit machine built from 46 modules across a 190 by 130 cm panel. It uses 920 triodes wired into NOR logic and runs a 16-instruction set after a 15-minute warm-up, trading practicality for a visible, hands-on view of …
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