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.

• 5d ago

  Standard Chartered Opens Bitcoin and Ethereum Trading to Wealthy UAE Clients

  The British bank won Dubai regulatory approval to let affluent clients buy BTC and ETH straight from their bank accounts, with custody and settlement kept in-house.

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• 5d ago

  'It Can Take Years': Coinbase Presses for Bitcoin Quantum Migration to Start Now

  In a detailed technical post, the exchange argued Bitcoin’s multi-year migration to quantum-resistant cryptography must begin before any “Q-Day,” laying out requirements spanning block space, custody and dormant coins.

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• 5d ago

  Bitcoin Falls as Hot Inflation Puts a Fed Hike Back on the Table

  September CPI hit 3.7%, above forecasts, sending Treasury yields higher and dragging crypto down with stocks.

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• 6d ago

  Hex Founder Richard Heart Detained in Istanbul on Interpol Red Notice: Report

  Turkish police and intelligence officers reportedly seized cash, phones, jewelry and firearms at the crypto founder's address in Beşiktaş.

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• 6d ago

  Ledger Asks Resellers in Seven Asian Markets to Pull Devices After Suspected $86M Drain

  European electronics chain MediaMarkt Saturn has also halted Ledger sales after a customer in Germany reported finding an implant.

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• 6d ago

  Notorious Crypto Celeb Meme Coin Promoter Plots Second Wave on New Launchpad

  Sahil Arora says he's not done with celebrity meme coins, and that Fomo presents new possible strategies for his controversial schemes.

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• 6d ago

  Morning Minute: Move Over, Saylor, There’s a New Top Buyer in Town

  With Strategy's preferred stock STRC closing in on $100 par, Saylor might not be the number two buyer for long...

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• 6d ago

  Kraken Owner Payward to Buy Lithuania's Saldo Bank in EU Push

  Co-CEO Arjun Sethi says customers want cash, crypto, tokenized stocks and credit in one place, starting with lending and cards.

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• 6d ago

  BitMEX Sued in UK for Return of $27M in Bitcoin Over Unlicensed Derivatives

  The claim challenges 1,053 loss-making perpetual swap trades from 2018 to 2022 and also accuses the now-closed exchange of deceit.

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• 6d ago

  OpenAI Engineer Arrested for Bugging Office, Company Says AI Caught Him

  A Saudi national working at OpenAI allegedly hid an encrypted audio recorder behind a TV in an executive meeting room. OpenAI says its own models helped trace it back to him.

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• 6d ago

  Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy as Disney Bids $20 Million—And Users Get Grief Resources

  The chatbot app once valued at $1 billion is up for sale in a Delaware court, two weeks after launching new models. If nobody buys it, it shuts down.

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• 6d ago

  Binance Is Shutting Down Its Bitcoin Mining Pool After Six Years

  Binance will discontinue Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, and other related services in a retreat from mining infrastructure.

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• 6d ago

  Bitcoin Whale That Sat Through Every Crash Since 2020 Just Moved $377M

  A wallet that received 4,581 BTC in March 2020, worth about $40 million then, moved its stash today when it was worth about $377 million.

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• 6d ago

  Strive Buys $280 Million in Bitcoin, Its Largest Purchase in Months

  The Nasdaq-listed asset manager bought the Bitcoin at an average of about $84,500 during a rough week for the market, lifting its total stash to 32,773 BTC.

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• 6d ago

  AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palantir Exec

  Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says many AI researchers have taken up smoking to signal their faith in AI.

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• 6d ago

  Bitcoin Shakes Off Spooky Season Jitters: Can Bulls Keep It Going?

  Bitcoin dipped below $81,000 before buyers stepped in, but the Fear and Greed Index says traders aren't convinced yet.

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• 6d ago

  Trezor Cuts Its Resellers After Ledger Finds Spy Implant in Crypto Wallets

  Trezor is ending reseller authorizations on January 1, 2027, after Ledger confirmed that wallets sold by a Southeast Asian retailer carried a hidden implant that sent out users' recovery phrases.

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• 6d ago

  AI Powered PlayStation Crack Could Let You Play GTA 6 on PC at Launch

  AnyPS5 is working to get any PS5 game running natively on PC—and gamers are hoping it'll work for the next instalment of Grand Theft Auto.

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• 7d ago

  Ledger Finds LTE Implant That Stole Recovery Phrases in Suspected $86M Drain

  Ledger says the hidden chip reads the 24-word phrase off the screen during setup, leaving the Secure Element and its software untouched.

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• 7d ago

  Morning Minute: Bitcoin Gets Spooked as ‘Uptober’ Lets Down

  Crypto majors are red, alts are down bad and onchain is facing capitulation. This was not the ‘Uptober’ that was promised…

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• 7d ago

  UK Moves Closer to Keeping $5B Bitcoin Haul After High Court Ruling

  A judge ruled that Chinese law should govern fraud victims' claims to the 61,000 BTC seized from Zhimin Qian, in a blow to the claimants.

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• 7d ago

  ‘Leave’: Crypto Backlash Over French Proposal to Report Wallets Over $112K

  The proposal would require crypto owners to report holdings over €100,000, sparking concerns following a wave of "wrench attacks" in France.

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• 7d ago

  NFT Marketplace Blur to Shut Down Website, Stop New Blend Loans Next Month

  The shutdown comes as NFT trading volumes have collapsed from their 2021-2022 peak, with market revenue projected at $318 million this year.

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• 7d ago

  AI Will Hit 40% of Jobs, IMF Warns. Young People Are First in Line

  IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI investment is holding global growth near 3%, with Asian chipmakers winning big, while warning of a 'slow-moving tsunami' for young workers.

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• 7d ago

  Standard Chartered Will Hold Ripple's Stablecoin in Dubai—And Let Clients Trade With It Without Moving It

  The bank's Dubai branch now offers custody for Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin and plans a link with LMAX that lets institutions post it as trading collateral while the coins stay put.

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• 7d ago

  Meta's New Muse Wonder Finally Puts Zuckerberg in the Frontier AI Race

  Meta's new flagship beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude on memory, legal and marathon coding tests, but independent rankings still put Anthropic's Opus 5.5 on top.

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• 7d ago

  From GTA V on iPhone to Free Photoshop: This AI Tool Is Upending Software

  REA, a free toolkit that hands AI agents the keys to reverse engineering, crossed 100,000 GitHub stars in a week as AI-decompiled game mods, console ports, and Adobe clones flood the internet.

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• 7d ago

  Solana Treasury Firm DeFi Development Keeps Buying SOL as CHAD Preferred Stock Hits Record

  The Nasdaq-listed company now holds about 2.59 million SOL, but its weekly purchases keep shrinking.

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• 7d ago

  Ripple-Backed Evernorth Hits Nasdaq Holding 473 Million XRP Worth Far Less Than It Paid

  Evernorth's XRPN shares began trading Monday after its SPAC merger closed, but 80% of SPAC investors cashed out first and its XRP stash is worth roughly 40% less than at signing.

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• 7d ago

  Bitcoin Spooked? Crypto Fear and Greed Index Drops to Pre-Rally August Lows

  The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has dropped to 56 from an August peak of 82, as oil, bond yields, and ETF outflows hit Bitcoin in October.

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