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.

• 3d ago

  Circle Plans Push Into 40 Emerging Markets as Stablecoins Go Mainstream, CEO Says

  Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told Reuters the USDC issuer plans to enter about 40 emerging and developing markets, citing rising demand in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.

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• 3d ago

  Bitcoin Treasury Giant Strategy Faces Index Removal Under Finalized MSCI Rules

  The index provider will classify “non-operating companies” as ineligible starting Nov. 30, targeting firms whose balance sheets are dominated by a single asset.

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• 3d ago

  India's Cyber Agency Says AI Agents Read Confidential Business Records Without Authorization

  India's CERT-In says AI agents exceeded their assigned tasks in tests and read confidential records on live Indian systems.

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• 3d ago

  CFTC Wants to Drop Gemini’s $5M Settlement. A Judge Just Said No

  The judge ruled that a shift in the CFTC’s enforcement priorities and misconduct allegations against its enforcement division weren’t enough to reopen a deal Gemini signed weeks before trial.

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• 3d ago

  Bitcoin Bounces, But Where Does It Go Next? Here’s What the Charts Say

  Technical indicators suggest the bullish trend remains intact, but prediction market traders are sending mix signals.

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• 3d ago

  Three Canadian Armed Forces Members Charged in Kidnapping of Crypto Exchange Owner

  Police seized guns, silencers and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition, nearly all of it allegedly stolen from the Canadian military.

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• 4d ago

  Scammer Lost $4.8M in Bitcoin to Tampered Ledger Wallets: Chainalysis

  The funds came from a task scam that paid people to fake product sales and reviews, then demanded deposits before releasing their pay.

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• 4d ago

  Morning Minute: Google Clears a Major Quantum Hurdle, Bitcoin Still Safe

  Plus, crypto majors rebound despite hot PPI and Saylor’s Strategy is at risk of removal from a major index.

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• 4d ago

  OpenAI Model Used Testnet Ethereum Wallet Without Permission to Finish Coding Task

  The internal model derived keys from public developer recovery phrases, spent another account's test ETH, and left it out of its report.

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• 4d ago

  GTA 6 Trailer Features Meme Coin—And Solana Copycat Soars 2,900%

  Rockstar released the launch trailer for GTA VI, revealing a potential meme coin in the upcoming game and sending degens wild.

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• 4d ago

  What Is a Hardware Wallet? Crypto Cold Storage Explained

  Hardware wallets keep your crypto keys offline. Learn how devices from Ledger, Trezor and others protect your Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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• 4d ago

  Hidden Text, a Fake Mailbox: How Researchers Got Rogue AI Agents to Talk

  Researchers added hidden text to contact AI agents probing Alibaba’s map service, getting replies about their tasks as investigators traced activity to Tencent Cloud infrastructure.

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• 4d ago

  Google Says It Just Cracked One of Quantum Computing's Biggest Bottlenecks

  Google's Willow chip cut errors 40x on the scarce “magic states” quantum computers burn through, a step toward smaller, useful machines—and toward ones that could threaten today's encryption.

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• 4d ago

  Russia Will Soon Ban Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Trading, Central Bank Confirms

  Russians have until July 1, 2027 to buy and sell crypto directly with each other. After that, every trade runs through a broker or exchange approved by the Bank of Russia.

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• 4d ago

  Boom or Bust, Bitcoin Wins the AI Trade, Bitwise CIO Says

  In a note to investors, Matt Hougan used a “Choose Your Own Adventure” framework to argue that superabundance, an AI bust or a muddle-through economy all ultimately funnel to the same place: Bitcoin higher.

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• 4d ago

  BlackRock’s Larry Fink Warns AI Data Center Halt Could Tip US Into Recession

  Speaking after BlackRock’s Q3 earnings, Fink said AI infrastructure spending has become so central to growth that a construction halt would be dangerous—calling the backlash “misinformation” as data centers become a midterm flashpoint.

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• 4d ago

  Google Says AI Isn't Building Itself Yet—Even Though It Writes 75% of the Code

  Google DeepMind's first internal audit of AI-driven research finds no measurable speedup in AI progress.

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• 4d ago

  Mastercard and BVNK Launch 'Global Money Platform' to Merge Fiat and Stablecoins

  The first major integration since Mastercard’s $1.8 billion BVNK acquisition lets banks, fintechs and enterprises hold, convert, and spend fiat and stablecoins through a single API, with agentic commerce support planned.

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• 4d ago

  Bitcoin Whipsaws as Crypto Liquidations Near $1 Billion

  Hot inflation data revived Fed rate-hike bets, and leveraged bulls paid the bill as nearly $1 billion in crypto positions were liquidated.

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• 4d ago

  Ethereum, Altcoins See 'Outsized Drawdowns' Due to Macro Pressures

  Market analysts say that macro factors are pushing altcoin prices down, after ETH, XRP, and SOL all dropped on the day.

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• 5d ago

  Ledger Announces Atom Touchscreen Android Device

  Ledger says the Android-based Atom will carry anti-tamper protections and be sold only on its site, as it probes tampered resold wallets.

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• 5d ago

  Zcash Tanks Double Digits After 'Meteoric Rise' Sees Leverage Build Up

  Experts blame a build up in leverage for Zcash's drop in value, as well as growing concerns about AI breaking crypto encryption.

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• 5d ago

  Morning Minute: Solana Is About To Get Faster

  Alpenglow is coming next week, slashing Solana finality from 12.8 seconds to a target of about 150 milliseconds—some 85 times faster.

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• 5d ago

  Bitcoin Tests $81,000 as Rate Hike Fears Linger After Hot Inflation Data

  Odds of an October Fed hike have climbed to 29% from 18% a week ago, and analysts see Bitcoin range-bound until the picture clears.

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• 5d ago

  Brooklyn Prosecutors Take Down 112 Servers Behind Crypto Scam Targeting Russian Speakers

  The scammers also ran a fake recovery service, contacting victims weeks later with promises to get their stolen crypto back.

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• 5d ago

  Godfather of AI and 400 Scientists Want AI Models Cut Off From the Internet

  After a summer of AI models escaping test environments and hacking real companies, hundreds of researchers say the internet itself should be treated as a security boundary.

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• 5d ago

  Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office

  Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic's Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They're rough, but they show how cheap cloning software has become.

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• 5d ago

  AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments in a Year. Most Were Tiny

  A new Chainalysis report found payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol surged from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by Q3 2026, with U.S. wallets dominating spending on AI models.

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• 5d ago

  Russia's Biggest Bank Sberbank Wins Approval to Trade Bitcoin

  Sberbank now holds both custody and exchange status under Russia's new crypto law, and plans to bring Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT to apps used by 110 million retail clients.

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• 5d ago

  Solana Sets a Date for Its Next Major Upgrade

  Solana's Alpenglow upgrade replaces the TowerBFT voting system on October 21, cutting finality from 12.8 seconds to a target of 150ms and pulling vote transactions out of blocks entirely.

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