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.

• 18d ago

  Zcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be Over

  ZEC is 21% off its $1,698 peak after ETF outflows and a suspected North Korean heist routed money through its shielded pool. Is the run over, or will traders buy the dip?

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• 19d ago

  CFTC Sends White House New Rules to Cement Its Grip on Prediction Markets

  The two proposals would define event contracts as "swaps" while excluding "casino-style gambling products"—a bid to cement the agency's exclusive jurisdiction as states sue prediction-market operators over gambling claims.

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• 19d ago

  Bitcoin ETFs Extend Win Streak to 9 Days, Matching August Rally

  Bitcoin ETFs added $66 million Tuesday, matching August's nine-day run and topping it in dollars. How long will the streak stay alive?

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• 19d ago

  McDonald's AI ‘Pricing Engine’ Gauges What Customers Will Pay for a Big Mac: Report

  Machine-learning models set an 'optimal price' per item per restaurant, and have widened the gap between branches two miles apart.

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• 20d ago

  Bitwise Launches First US Spot Near ETF After Token Nearly Triples Since August

  Bitwise's NRR began trading on NYSE Arca Tuesday, giving brokerage accounts NEAR exposure and staking rewards as the AI-focused token soars.

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• 20d ago

  Crypto ETFs Surge as Bitcoin Funds Add $2.95 Billion in 30 Days

  Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to eight straight days on Monday, bouncing back from the Clarity Act sell-off in a big way.

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• 20d ago

  Bitcoin Hovers at $84K as Treasury Yields Hold Near Multi-Year Highs

  Analysts point to crude prices capping non-yielding assets, while spot ETFs have taken money in for eight sessions running.

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• 21d ago

  Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price

  Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.

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• 24d ago

  Bitcoin Rally Slows as $15.6 Billion Options Expiry Hits—XRP and Solana Keep Climbing

  Pullback or reversal? Here's what the charts suggest for BTC.

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• 24d ago

  Strategy Wants Its Preferred Stock Dividends to Accrue 365 Days a Year

  STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD would accrue dividends on weekends and holidays, in a move Strategy says will dampen volatility.

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• 24d ago

  Morgan Stanley Joins NEXTPredict as Prediction Markets Bet on 'More Institutional' Play

  The bulk of prediction market trades are still sports bets, while valuations are predicated on rising institutional interest.

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• 25d ago

  New York Wants to Ban Polymarket, Lawsuit Calls It 'Illegal Gambling Operation'

  Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul allege the prediction market operates without a license and exposes New Yorkers to gambling harms.

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• 25d ago

  Bitcoin Breakout Cools as Fed Rate-Hike Bets Climb

  Bitcoin has slipped back below $85,000 after tagging an eight-month high near $87,400 last week, with rising odds of an October Fed hike taking some air out of the rally.

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• 26d ago

  $15.6 Billion in Bitcoin Options Expire Friday—Here's What It Means

  Deribit's strike-by-strike data shows a book stacked with calls, and one price level drawing hedging pressure from both sides at once.

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• 26d ago

  Bitcoin Dips, But Its Forks Are Flying Again

  A CME futures listing and a fresh Grayscale ETF filing sent Bitcoin's two biggest forks soaring, even as the flagship coin cooled off its seven-month high.

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• 26d ago

  CFTC Staff Advisory Says Prediction Market 'Mention' Contracts Invite Manipulation

  Three weeks after fining a teleprompter operator who traded on speeches he had already read, regulators set out what exchanges must show.

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• 27d ago

  OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna Minutes After Anthropic Drops Claude Opus 5.5

  OpenAI cut prices 50% on its mid-tier models the same day Anthropic shipped a cheaper flagship, escalating a rivalry now measured in minutes.

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• 27d ago

  Bernstein Predicts $10 Trillion Prediction Market by 2035—10X Its Original Forecast

  Bernstein now projects prediction markets will handle $10 trillion a year by 2035, up from its own $1 trillion by 2030 forecast made just five months ago.

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• 27d ago

  Anthropic’s New Claude Opus 5.5 Matches Fable at 60% the Price

  Anthropic's new flagship claims Fable 5.1-level performance at a fraction of the cost—but GPT-6 Astra still beats it on two published benchmarks.

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• 27d ago

  Dogecoin Jumps to Highest Price in Months: Here's What's Going On

  Dogecoin is rallying, and once again, Elon Musk may have something to do with it.

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• 27d ago

  Morning Minute: Robinhood CEO Bets Crypto Will Beat Sports at Prediction Markets

  Crypto is interesting again and that means attention is flowing back to the sector. And it’s starting to show in the data.

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• 28d ago

  Robinhood CEO Says Crypto Will Beat Sports at Prediction Markets' Own Game

  Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says crypto event contracts are already outpacing sports bets, and could become the platform's dominant category within a few years.

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• 28d ago

  Coinbase Brings IPO Shares to US Retail Traders, With Oura Up First

  Eligible customers can request shares at the offering price, but allocations are not guaranteed.

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• 28d ago

  xAI Launches Grok 4.7. It's Bigger, But Late to the AI Frontier Party

  xAI says the new model is a "notable improvement" over Grok 4.6 at the same price. The benchmarks say it's still in second place.

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• 28d ago

  Bitcoin Is Rallying Again—What Happens Next?

  The rally cleared an eight-month ceiling on a short squeeze and falling oil prices. The next three weeks will decide if it sticks.

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• 28d ago

  Tom Lee's Bitmine Adds $74M in Ethereum, Declares a Crypto Bull Market 'Underway'

  The purchase lifts Bitmine's stash to nearly 5.99 million ETH—4.9% of supply—as chairman Tom Lee argues Ethereum's outperformance signals a stronger move ahead and institutions remain underweight.

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• 28d ago

  Morning Minute: Kevin O’Leary Calls for $1 Million Bitcoin, With an Asterisk

  Meanwhile, Bitcoin pushed up to $85,000 and a new local high and altcoins soared in a huge overnight rally.

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• 29d ago

  Why Holding Anything But Bitcoin Has Been a Losing Bet for Two Years

  A Glassnode and Bybit report frames the divergence as the defining feature of this cycle, with froth pooling in the market's riskiest corners even as Bitcoin does the heavy lifting.

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• 1mo ago

  Bitcoin's Sharpest Rally in Two Years Ran Almost Entirely on Short Liquidations

  A Glassnode and Bybit report found Bitcoin climbed 24.6% in five August days even as active leverage fell, with short positions supplying 89% of every liquidated dollar.

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• 1mo ago

  Grayscale Is Making Its Red-Hot Zcash ETF More Affordable

  The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade.

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