Digital Currency Group founder Barry Silbert believes 5–10% of capital could rotate from Bitcoin into privacy coins like Zcash, calling it an asymmetric bet while admitting BTC is no longer truly anonymous
A teenager posing as Durov’s son tricked people with fake “digital gifts” on Telegram. Durov flagged the account as fraudulent and even reimbursed two victims
Beast Industries acquired Step, a mobile bank for Gen Z and teens with 6.5m users and roughly $500m raised, expanding MrBeast’s footprint beyond media and into finance
#USNFPBlowout At the White House meeting, bankers refused to discuss a stablecoin yield bill. Instead they brought a “principles” paper and pushed for a full ban on yield $MOVE $LAYER
Bitcoin's hashrate has dropped approximately 20% as mining profitability collapsed. Crashing $BTC prices and Winter Storm Fern across 34 U.S. states triggered the largest difficulty adjustment since China's 2021 ban. Many miners also shifted to more profitable AI data centers. Bitcoin's self-correcting mechanism now rewards survivors with higher block rewards as inefficient operators exit.
FT says Tether is expanding hard outside the crypto world. Invested in 140 projects, from Juventus to South American agriculture. Team grew to 300 staff, with 150 more hires coming
Paolo says centralized tech kills freedom. Funny, coming from the biggest centralized player in crypto 🤭
$ADA co-founder Charles Hoskinson says his personal crypto portfolio is down over $3 billion, calling it “paper losses.” He insists he won’t sell and urges the community not to panic
US lawmakers are probing the reported $500M UAE sheikh purchase of 49% $WLFI . They want documents and a full list of participants, citing concerns over foreign influence and chip policy. The probe also looks at a $2B Binance investment via WLFI’s $USD1 stablecoin and any link to CZ’s pardon