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Tue, Aug 25, 7:17 AM ET
US can now sanction anyone operating in Iran's crypto sector
Treasury added digital assets to five sectors targeted in what it called an 'Economic D-Day' campaign alongside technology, gold, aviation and shipping.
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Jury convicts Las Vegas man of $24M AI crypto mining Ponzi scheme
Brent Kovar told at least 400 investors a supercomputer was mining crypto for them and that their money was FDIC-insured.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs grew $23B last week but only $2.6B was new money
ETF inflows were the strongest since October, but most of the gain came from existing coins getting more valuable.
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Hugging Face explores $13 billion sale a month after rogue OpenAI agent hacked it
The open-source AI hub is fielding buyout interest at nearly triple its 2023 valuation, weeks after a security breach.
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Bitcoin rally reflects vote against the dollar as gold also rises
Bitcoin and gold rose as the dollar weakened after expanded Treasury bond buybacks, reflecting concerns about U.S. fiscal policy.
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Strategy raises $2B selling MSTR stock, establishes USD cash pot
The company has not bought Bitcoin since June and created a liquidity account that may be spent on more of it.
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Mysterious AI model Ox Alpha beats Claude Fable, is free, creator unknown
Ox Alpha tops benchmark scores, reads a million tokens, takes video input, and developers are guessing who built it.
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Coinbase brings tokenized stocks to Ethereum L2 Base
Tokens represent shares held by regulated custodian Alpaca and can be traded or used in DeFi applications on Base.
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Bitcoin's next test is $80,000 as Jackson Hole meeting looms
Kevin Warsh gives his first Jackson Hole keynote as Fed chair on Friday, with futures pricing a September rate hike at 36%.
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Franklin Templeton's tokenized Treasury fund lands on HashKey
The $1.8 trillion asset manager is putting its onchain money market fund on the Hong Kong exchange's Earn channel.
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Hyperliquid hits record high as $1.2 billion token unlock looms
Hyperliquid's token is riding a record into its largest remaining supply release.
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Bitcoin soars to $78k, Strategy back in green with biggest weekly candle
Bitcoin closed its biggest weekly candle ever in notional value, with 10 alt leaders posting 50%+ gains.
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Zcash hits eight-year high as futures bets nearly double
ZEC broke above $880 while open interest in perpetual futures climbed to $1.8 billion.
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Bitmine buys another $81M in Ethereum as ETH outperforms Bitcoin
Bitmine is about 187,000 Ethereum short of its 5% of supply target.
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Pakistan sets September 5 deadline for crypto firms to register
Anyone serving Pakistani users since March must apply for clearance by September 5, then incorporate locally.
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Strive buys $81.5 million in Bitcoin after issuing more shares
The company increased Bitcoin holdings by 5.5%, but Bitcoin per fully diluted share rose only about 1.4%.
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63% of religious books on Amazon are likely AI-written, study finds
Witchcraft books had the highest rate of likely AI-generated content at 78%, according to an Originality.ai analysis.
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Robot brains could have 'ChatGPT moment' by 2027, ACE Robotics chairman says
The breakthrough could come from AI models that help robots understand and interact with the physical world.
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