GITHUB DELETED BITCOIN DEVELOPERS’ CODE ON A GOVERNMENT’S ORDERS. NOW THE EXIT RAMP IS A PROTOCOL NOBODY OWNS.
India ordered GitHub to geoblock an open-source repository and reportedly gave it three hours. A month earlier GitHub deleted rust-lightning contributors'...
THE SEC JUST APPROVED 3X LEVERAGED BITCOIN — THE SAME MEN WHO BLEW UP 96% OF YOUR NEIGHBOR’S MONEY ARE BACK FOR MORE
The SEC just cleared six triple-leveraged ETPs from Volatility Shares. Their existing 2x crypto funds are down up to 96.15% annualized...
AFRICA’S FIRST BANK JUST OFFERED TO HOLD YOUR BITCOIN — THAT IS NOT CUSTODY, THAT IS CAPTIVITY
Absa became the first African bank to offer Bitcoin custody, chasing a $1.5 billion market. One line in the launch briefing...
COMMUNITY BANKS CALLED BITCOIN A SCAM FOR TEN YEARS. NOW THEY’RE SUING TO KEEP CRYPTO FIRMS OUT OF THE BANKING CLUB.
The Independent Community Bankers of America just sued the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to block crypto firms from...
THE PEOPLE WHO TOLD YOU TO BUY THE TOP ARE NOW YOUR SELL WALL
Glassnode says the investors who bought last year's rally are now selling more coins per day than at any point in...
THE SEC JUST ADMITTED SELF-CUSTODY IS REAL — THEN BURIED IT UNDER A CONDITION
The SEC proposed new crypto custody rules on Oct 1, letting advisers and funds hold client crypto themselves — but only...
THE ECONOMY ADDED 29,000 JOBS. THE FEED RAISED RATES ANYWAY. NOW WATCH THEM CALL IT A SOFT LANDING.
America added 29,000 jobs in September. Economists wanted 90,000. The Fed raised rates a month ago and markets just celebrated the...
CORE LIGHTNING JUST TOLD THE WORLD ITS NODES ARE GETTING ROBBED — AND IT WON’T SAY WHO OR HOW
The team behind Bitcoin's most-used Lightning implementation says attackers are hitting unpatched nodes right now. They won't name the vulnerability. They...
BITCOIN’S LOUDEST PURIST JUST TOOK THE BIGGEST MINER’S PAYCHECK TO BUILD A PRIVATE LANE FOR YOUR TRANSACTIONS
Peter Todd spent years arguing nobody should control what gets relayed. Now he runs Slipstream, MARA's private mempool - where a...
METAMASK LOST CONTROL OF 523,000 ETH AND WON’T SAY WHY — IT STILL WANTS YOUR KEYS
MetaMask got compromised, quietly exited ~17,000 Ethereum validators, watched block rewards get rerouted to a Tornado Cash-funded address — and told...
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ROBINHOOD HOLDS 185,000 BITCOIN FOR YOU – TODAY IT BOUGHT 294 FOR ITSELF
Robinhood custodies 185,000 BTC for its customers. On October 7 it put $25 million of Bitcoin on its own balance sheet...
1.1 MILLION USERS HAVE BEEN LOCKED OUT OF THEIR BITCOIN SINCE JUNE — AND THE REGULATOR JUST SAID NO AGAIN
BaFin refused bitcoin.de's MiCA license. Trading has been frozen since June 12 and 1.1 million customers' coins were already moved to...