FinTech

Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Bitcoin Energy Drone Malaysia

Decentralized exchange Ostium raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst and Jump Trading, a source says at a ~$250M valuation, after previously raising $8M (fortune.com)
4 days ago Decentralize

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's American Bitcoin closed down 38.8% on December 2, wiping out ~$1B in market value; TMTG is down nearly 70% in 2025 (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Trump U.S. Bitcoin

UK Plans To Ban Cryptocurrency Political Donations (news.slashdot.org)
5 days ago Ban Cryptocurrency

Swiss Illegal Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Shut Down (slashdot.org)
6 days ago Switzerland Cryptocurrency

Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops (www.coindesk.com)
6 days ago Bitcoin

Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (www.reuters.com)
6 days ago Germany Bitcoin Switzerland

Police takes down Cryptomixer cryptocurrency mixing service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
6 days ago Cryptocurrency

Klarna launches KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin, running on Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo blockchain, aiming to “reduce costs” in international payments (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago Blockchain

Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Bitcoin ETF

Hashrate Index: China's bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world's third-largest miner despite China's 2021 ban (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago China Bitcoin Ban

Sources: the US has probed whether the products of China's Bitmain, which sells most of the world's Bitcoin-mining machines, pose risks of espionage or sabotage (www.bloomberg.com)
14 days ago China Bitcoin

Investors pulled $523M from BlackRock's IBIT bitcoin ETF on Tuesday, its largest single-day outflow since launch; BTC fell ~30% from its October all-time high (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Bitcoin ETF

CoinGecko: the total market value of 18K+ tracked crypto coins fell 25% since October 6, wiping out $1.2T; bitcoin fell 28% to $89,500, its lowest since April (www.ft.com)
19 days ago Bitcoin

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (techcrunch.com)
19 days ago Decentralize

How To Not Get Kidnapped For Your Bitcoin (yro.slashdot.org)
19 days ago Bitcoin

CoinGecko: total market value of 18K+ tracked coins fell 25% since October 6, wiping $1.2T; Bitcoin fell 28% to $89.5K, its lowest since April and flat for 2025 (t.co)
19 days ago Bitcoin

Bitcoin Erases Year's Gain as Crypto Bear Market Deepens (news.slashdot.org)
20 days ago Bitcoin

Some Americans Are Trying to Heat Their Homes With Bitcoin Mining (news.slashdot.org)
21 days ago U.S. Bitcoin

JPMorgan Chase Wins Fight With Fintech Firms Over Fees To Access Customer Data (news.slashdot.org)
23 days ago Fintech JPMorgan

JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid, covering 95%+ of third-party data pulls, and will receive payment for access to customer data (www.cnbc.com)
23 days ago Fintech JPMorgan

Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Bitfarms says it will wind down its BTC operations and pivot to AI infrastructure after posting a net loss of $46M in Q3 (decrypt.co)
23 days ago Bitcoin AI

“Bitcoin Queen” gets 11 years in prison for $7.3 billion Bitcoin scam (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago Bitcoin

A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago China Bitcoin

Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (www.theblock.co)
26 days ago Ethereum Decentralize

Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more (www.theverge.com)
26 days ago Startup AI Decentralize

Coinbase plans to launch a platform to let individual investors buy digital tokens before they are listed on its exchange, reviving 2017 and 2018's ICO craze (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago ICO Coinbase

Selloff in bitcoin and ether is tanking shares of crypto‑treasury companies like Strategy and BitMine; Strategy's valuation is down from ~$128B in July to ~$70B (www.wsj.com)
28 days ago Bitcoin

A US judge declares a mistrial after a jury couldn't reach a verdict on two brothers charged in 2024 for allegedly stealing $25M in crypto from Ethereum traders (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago Ethereum

Commonware, which develops open-source code for launching blockchains, raised $25M led by Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm (fortune.com)
30 days ago Blockchain

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