FinTech

Bitcoin Miners' Pivot To AI Has Lifted Bitcoin-Mining ETF By About 90% This Year (slashdot.org)
2025-12-26 Bitcoin ETF AI

Bitcoin miners retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up about 90% YTD even as bitcoin has slumped (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-24 Bitcoin ETF AI

Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (www.ft.com)
2025-12-20 Bitcoin

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-18 Bitcoin AI

Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC selects the Canton Network blockchain as a real-world asset tokenization partner after receiving a No-Action Letter from the SEC (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-18 Blockchain Wall Street Asset

Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17 Fintech

Bhutan unveils a pledge of up to 10,000 bitcoin to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham says Bhutan holds 5,984 bitcoin, ranking 7th among sovereign holders (decrypt.co)
2025-12-17 Bitcoin

Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (www.theblock.co)
2025-12-17 Hong Kong Fintech

Mexico-based fintech Plata raised up to $500M in a financing deal arranged by Nomura Securities International, as it moves toward becoming a full-fledged bank (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-16 Mexico Fintech

SEC Gives DTCC OK to Tokenize Stocks In Move To Blockchain (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-12 Blockchain

Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-12 Fintech Netherlands London

Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users “banking-level privacy” with a “compliance record” (fortune.com)
2025-12-10 Blockchain

Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-10 Blockchain

How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-9 Cryptocurrency

Michael Saylor's Strategy acquired 10,624 bitcoin for $962.7M between December 1 and 7, its largest purchase since July; its stock is down ~40% in 2025 (www.theblock.co)
2025-12-9 Bitcoin

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)
2025-12-4 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)
2025-12-4 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)
2025-12-3 Trump U.S. Bitcoin

UK Plans To Ban Cryptocurrency Political Donations (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3 Ban Cryptocurrency

Swiss Illegal Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Shut Down (slashdot.org)
2025-12-2 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)
2025-12-2 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)
2025-12-2 Germany Bitcoin Switzerland

Police takes down Cryptomixer cryptocurrency mixing service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-1 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)
2025-11-26 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)
2025-11-25 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)
2025-11-25 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)
2025-11-24 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)
2025-11-20 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)
2025-11-19 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)
2025-11-18 Decentralize

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