Category: Crypto

Bitcoin hovers near $85.6K as inflation jumps to 3.6% and job fears spike. Investors eye Fed guidance and macro signals for BTC’s next big move.
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KiloEx offers a 10% bounty to the hacker behind a $7.5M exploit, urging the return of stolen funds while warning of legal action and enhanced efforts to recover assets across multiple blockchain networks.
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Gibraltar-based Xapo Bank reported a notable uptick in Bitcoin trading activity during the first quarter of 2025.
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Publicly traded companies increased their Bitcoin holdings by 16.1% in the first quarter of 2025, signaling continued institutional interest in the leading cryptocurrency.
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Despite El Salvador’s historic move to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021, the majority of registered Bitcoin service providers in the country are no longer active.
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A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on April 15 disrupted trading and withdrawals across top crypto exchanges like Binance, KuCoin, and MEXC, exposing the risks of centralized cloud dependency in the crypto industry.
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Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has announced a strategic deployment of its existing and future Bitcoin hashrate to OCEAN, a decentralized mining protocol created by veteran Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr.
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Homeland Security’s El Dorado Task Force, dedicated to fighting money laundering, initiated an investigation into Anchorage Digital Bank according to Barron’s. The federally chartered crypto bank previously faced regulatory issues with the OCC and recently partnered with BlackRock for custody services worth billions.
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Ethereum could play a key role in solving some of the most pressing problems facing artificial intelligence, according to Eric Connor, a former core developer of the blockchain.
The post Ethereum Has ‘Huge Opportunity’ to Fix AI’s Centralization Problem, Says Former Dev appeared first on Cryptonews. …

Bitcoin mining pollution crossed state borders and exposed 1.9 million Americans to dangerous PM2.5 emissions, according to Harvard research. Mining facilities consumed 33% more electricity than Los Angeles, with 85% from fossil fuels. The cross-border nature of pollution revealed regulatory blind spots that the EPA could address.
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