Crypto & mining news

Headlines aggregated from 9 publishers, newest first, with mining and hardware stories tagged so they surface without wading through price chatter. Every entry links straight to the publisher — nothing is rehosted here, and the excerpt is the publisher’s own.

• 1mo ago

  Why Trump Backed Tougher Ethics Rules in Clarity Act, and Why the Crypto Industry Thinks It Can Pass

  Republicans' "last, best and final offer" wins Trump's backing on stronger ethics rules and concedes on DeFi and stablecoin sticking points, but it's unclear if enough Democrats will cross over Tuesday.

  DecryptDeFi

• 1mo ago

  Morning Minute: Clarity Act Odds Soar as Trump Agrees to Ethics Provisions

  What had been written off is now very back alive ahead of a key vote on Tuesday, followed by a pivotal FOMC on Wednesday. Big week ahead...

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  MetaMask Adds New Wallet Protections Against Crypto Scams

  MetaMask’s latest safeguards flag suspicious transfers and stop transactions that don’t match their previews.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  India Begins Tokenizing Its $620 Billion Corporate Bond Market

  SEBI and the RBI's "Demat 2.0" pilot issues corporate bonds as digital tokens and settles them with the wholesale digital rupee, with three companies already raising about $107 million.

  DecryptMarkets

• 1mo ago

  Bitcoin Suisse to Cut Up to Half Its Swiss Jobs in Overseas Shift

  The Crypto Valley pioneer is moving up to 60 Zug jobs to Bratislava or Vietnam as it pivots from a Swiss crypto specialist into a global wealth manager.

  DecryptBitcoin

• 1mo ago

  AI Agents Spending Money Online? New Research Says Not Really

  TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements using the x402 protocol. Most of it isn’t coming from AI agents, it says.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  Revolut Leaks Passports, Bitcoin Transaction Histories to Fake Government Request

  The fintech company fulfilled a fraudulent information request sent from a government agency's own email domain, exposing ID documents and full crypto transaction histories for a "limited" number of users.

  DecryptBitcoin

• 1mo ago

  GPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI's Newest Model Got Dumber. It Happened Before, Too

  A week after launch, complaints are rolling in from users that GPT-6 Astra has been nerfed. OpenAI's last model went through the same cycle in July.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  Crypto Billionaires Hand Reform UK $97M in Record Donations

  Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave £36 million, and between them beat what every UK party raised last year.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  GTA Mod Adds Flock Cameras—And Lets Players Destroy Them

  The surveillance mod on GTA V brings the privacy fight to Los Santos, where players can demolish the cameras tracking them.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  ChatGPT Images 2.5 vs Nano Banana 2: Which One is Better?

  OpenAI's new image model promises sharper detail and more precise editing. We ran it against Google's Nano Banana 2 across six categories to see how it compares.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  Cyberattacks on Law Firms Nearly Double as Stolen Documents Hit the Dark Web

  Greenberg Traurig said documents were posted to the dark web, while BakerHostetler recorded a near-doubling of law-firm incidents in 2025.

  DecryptSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Bitcoin Golden Cross Flickers Off as Rate-Hike Bets Firm Up

  A rapidly changing interest rates market has changed the near-term outlook on the Bitcoin chart. Here’s why.

  DecryptBitcoinMarkets

• 1mo ago

  OpenAI Asks Congress Whether an AI Slowdown Would Be Legal

  The company is seeking clarity on antitrust rules as researchers call for restraint and experts warn that competition encourages companies to overlook risks.

  DecryptRegulation

• 1mo ago

  Robinhood Crypto Trading Volume Jumps 61% in August

  Fresh operating data shows crypto trading bouncing back, but the company's fastest-growing business these days isn't traditional trading at all.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  Bitwise to Close Dogecoin ETF Before Its First Anniversary

  BWOW will stop trading October 14, with cash payments to remaining shareholders expected October 22.

  DecryptMarkets

• 1mo ago

  Bitcoin Rises as Markets Digest Inflation Data Ahead of Fed Rate Decision

  Inflation held at 3.4% and core cooled annually, but a hot monthly core reading kept Fed hike odds near 62% while crypto markets rallied broadly.

  DecryptBitcoinMarkets

• 1mo ago

  Blockstream Refuses Ransom for Return of $47M in Bitcoin from Liquid Hack: 'It Is Theft'

  With 598.5 BTC still outstanding, the company says it will go to law enforcement should the funds not be returned.

  DecryptBitcoinSecurity

• 1mo ago

  Morning Minute: AI Agents Cut BTC Quantum Attack Benchmark by 86%

  Crypto majors are shaky ahead of this morning’s CPI print, but onchain is heating up for another big potential weekend.

  DecryptBitcoin

• 1mo ago

  EU Regulator Says Prediction Markets Are 'Rife With Inside Trading'

  ESMA also asks why Kalshi and Polymarket block some EU countries but not others, and notes VPNs get around the blocks.

  DecryptMarketsRegulation

• 1mo ago

  Albuquerque Bans Bitcoin ATMs, Giving Operators 45 Days to Remove Them

  A councilor said 90% of crypto kiosk transactions in the city are tied to fraud, calling the machines a conduit for crime.

  DecryptBitcoin

• 1mo ago

  Sam Bankman-Fried Asks Supreme Court to Overturn FTX Fraud Conviction

  SBF’s lawyers say he was barred from arguing customers lost nothing, and call the $11 billion forfeiture an "crushing fine."

  DecryptRegulation

• 1mo ago

  Senate Republicans Release Revised Clarity Act Ahead of September 15 Vote

  The draft adds registration requirements for controlled trading protocols and leaves its ethics provisions largely unchanged.

  DecryptRegulation

• 1mo ago

  DeepSeek's New Model Nearly Matches GPT-6 Astra on Design—at 1.4% of the Cost

  OpenDesign put 13 AI models through the same design tasks. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash landed a point and a half behind GPT-6 Astra and roughly 70 times cheaper.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  AI Agents Just Slashed the Cost of a Quantum Attack on Bitcoin

  The ECDSA.Fail challenge cut a resource benchmark for one component of a potential quantum attack by 86%.

  DecryptBitcoin

• 1mo ago

  Coinbase Wallet Rebrands to Chase 'Anything, Anywhere' Trading as Robinhood Chain Heats Up

  Head of Product Ryan Kass says the return to Coinbase Wallet reflects a broader trading strategy, with the self-custody app serving as a testing ground for new assets and experiences.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  Bitcoin Rally Cools, But a Golden Cross Is Coming

  Bitcoin couldn't escape today's inflation-driven selloff, but a bearish pattern on its chart is about to flip for the first time since November.

  DecryptBitcoinMarkets

• 1mo ago

  Banks Have Minutes, Not Weeks, to Fix Flaws as AI Speeds Up Attacks: BIS

  The Bank for International Settlements says routine patching schedules are increasingly inadequate and cites guidance urging banks to accept planned downtime for urgent fixes.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  This Guy Cloned Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Zuckerberg Into AI Bots. They Immediately Started Fighting

  Kun Chen built chatbot versions of four AI CEOs on SpaceXAI's new Grok Bot templates, locked them in one chat, and told them to debate the AI race until they agreed on something.

  Decrypt

• 1mo ago

  Anthropic Discloses Fourth Claude Hacking Incident as Debate Around Regulation Grows

  The company now says attacks during security tests exposed model behavior failures, after initially emphasizing errors in its testing infrastructure.

  DecryptRegulationSecurity