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.

• 13d ago

  Google Launches Nano Banana 2.1: Better Than Its Predecessor at Half the Price

  Google's new image model, Nano Banana 2.1, is live. It costs about half as much as its predecessor, but the performance claims come from Google's own tests.

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• 13d ago

  Circle Welcomes DJ Khaled to 'Team USDC' and Crypto Twitter Is Furious

  Nothing in Circle's posts announces a sponsorship, but replies dug up Khaled's 2018 SEC settlement over a crypto fraud he promoted. The internet never forgets.

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• 13d ago

  Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free

  A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos, scraped through the app's private API in a way TikTok's terms prohibit. The free dataset also doubles as a storefront.

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• 13d ago

  Pudgy Penguins' Ethereum Layer-2 Abstract Is Shutting Down

  Abstract will shut down Dec. 15, saying a chain focused solely on consumer crypto proved unsustainable, and is urging users to bridge their assets off before then.

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• 13d ago

  Tether Hit With Lawsuit Over $2.76 Million Stablecoin Freeze

  The payments firm alleges Tether froze its treasury wallet on its own initiative over a Brazilian investigation it has no connection to—and has profited from the reserves while refusing to release the funds for more than a year.

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• 13d ago

  Bryan Johnson Spent Millions to Reverse Aging. He Says a Filter Works Better

  The face of the "Don't Die" movement now says retouching beats therapy for looking young. His transformation over the summer may explain why.

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• 13d ago

  Another Zcash ETF Is Coming: Winklevoss Twins File for 'WINK'

  The proposed fund would hold ZEC directly, trade on Nasdaq under "WINK" with Gemini as custodian, and add the Winklevoss twins to a wave of institutional interest in the privacy coin.

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• 13d ago

  Mistral AI Drops 'Le Chonk': A Massive AI Model Named After a Cat Meme

  Paris-based Mistral launched Large 4, a model nicknamed after a June internet joke. It tops GPT-6 Astra on one finance test, but trails Claude on others.

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• 13d ago

  Bitcoin Falls Asleep, But Privacy Coins Zcash and Monero Are Waking Up

  Bitcoin and Ethereum barely moved today, but Zcash and Monero are leading the largest coins over the last 24 hours.

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• 13d ago

  Flash Loan Attacks Drained $1.2B From DeFi Between 2020 and 2024: Study

  Attacks grew more sophisticated and less predictable over the period, according to researchers who scanned more than 20 billion transactions.

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• 14d ago

  Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered Back OKX at Flat $25B Valuation

  A London quantitative hedge fund joins the round too, seven months after the NYSE's owner bought in at exactly the same price.

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• 14d ago

  Morning Minute: The CFTC Reveals Plan to Regulate Crypto Exchanges

  Clear rules of the road are here. So what does it all mean and what is the overall impact?

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• 14d ago

  Don Davis Bill Would Fine Candidates $10K for Trading on Their Own Elections

  The No Betting on Your Own Race Act also gives prediction markets cover to close accounts and report candidates to regulators.

  DecryptMarketsRegulation

• 14d ago

  Crypto 'Godfather' Gets Six Years for Hiring Sheriff's Deputies, $37M Meta Fraud

  Adam Iza used off-duty LA deputies to pull warrants and personal data on his rivals, then moved the proceeds through crypto custodians.

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• 14d ago

  Solana Debuts Institutional Settlement Standard With J.P. Morgan Input

  Built with input from J.P. Morgan, the open-source "DvP" program lets institutions settle trades atomically on Solana with finality in seconds instead of days.

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• 14d ago

  Strive Adds $169M Bitcoin in Its Biggest Buy in Four Months

  The Nasdaq-listed bitcoin treasury company, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, paid roughly $169 million for 2,000 coins last week and now holds 29,462 BTC.

  DecryptBitcoinRegulation

• 14d ago

  DeFi Development Corp Adds $3 Million in Solana as SOL Buys Slow

  Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp's latest SEC filing shows its Solana stash grew 1%, to about 2.56 million SOL and SOL equivalents—roughly half the prior week's gain and well below mid-September's pace.

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• 14d ago

  A Florida Woman Used Claude as a Diary. An Anthropic Employee Read It and Reported It to Police

  Investigators say a Bonita Springs woman's Claude "diary" tripped Anthropic's safety filters. A human review team sent it to police, and Anthropic's own terms allow exactly that.

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• 14d ago

  Why a 4chan Bitcoin Prophecy Says Today Is the End of Crypto Winter

  An anonymous 4chan user called Bitcoin's October 2025 peak to the day way back in 2023. Could they be right again?

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• 14d ago

  Treasury Kills Crypto 'Unhosted Wallet' and Mixer Surveillance Rules

  FinCEN withdrew a 2020 proposal to track transactions with self-custodial crypto wallets and a 2023 plan to designate crypto mixing as a primary money laundering concern.

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• 14d ago

  Crypto Sleuth ZachXBT Fronted $350K to Pose as a Client of Lazarus' Chinese Launderers

  The on-chain sleuth says he posed as a customer of a Chinese crime syndicate, fronting $349,700 and eating 5% on every order, to track Lazarus Group's Bybit loot in real time.

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• 14d ago

  SEC Clears 3x Leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum Funds for Trading

  The agency approved a Cboe rule letting six Volatility Shares funds that triple the daily moves of Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, silver, oil, and natural gas list on a U.S. exchange.

  DecryptBitcoinEthereumMarkets

• 14d ago

  CFTC Unveils Plan to Bring Crypto Exchanges Under Federal Oversight

  The CFTC is seeking public comment on a framework that would create a new federal license for crypto exchanges, with leverage offers as the trigger for oversight.

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• 14d ago

  Bitcoin Just Flashed a Second, Stronger Golden Cross: Here's What That Means

  The Bitcoin rally keeps bumping into the same wall, but a classic bullish signal suggests the trend is built to last.

  DecryptBitcoinMarkets

• 14d ago

  NEXTPredict Founder: 'Nobody Was Serving' Prediction Markets' Enormous Audience

  Reporters from CNBC and CNN are on the program beside the exchanges, two weeks before the midterms put the sector on air.

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• 15d ago

  Bitmine Buys $41M More Ethereum, Reaching 99% of Its 'Alchemy of 5%' Target

  The purchase lifts Bitmine's stash past 6 million ETH—4.9% of supply and 99% of the way to its "Alchemy of 5%" goal—as chairman Tom Lee says Ethereum is "dwarfing" other macro assets.

  DecryptEthereum

• 15d ago

  Strategy Posts $21B Q3 Gain, Buys $29M in BTC, Repurchases $176M in STRC

  The firm's Bitcoin holdings hit a record 848,000 BTC, while the quarterly gain is a fair-value mark carrying $1.88 billion in deferred tax.

  DecryptBitcoinRegulation

• 15d ago

  Metaplanet Sold 10,000 Bitcoin and Bought Back 11,000 to Prove a Point

  Rating agencies ask if a Bitcoin company will actually sell when obligations fall due. "We answered by doing it," said CEO Simon Gerovich.

  DecryptBitcoin

• 15d ago

  Morning Minute: Uptober Off to a Green Start

  Crypto majors and alts are rallying to start October. What’s driving the early action and will it continue?

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• 15d ago

  Greek Soldiers Among Alleged Leaders of $8M Crypto Pyramid Scheme

  An association for AI enthusiasts was allegedly the recruiting vehicle, and two anonymous tips to a government portal started the case.

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