Hyperscale Data Abandons $500M Bitcoin Mine for $1.2B AI Bonanza
When the economics of running GPUs flips faster than your mining rigs can cool down, you pivot or you die.
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Blockstream's Adam Back Bets $9M on Corporate Bitcoin Hoarding
Blockstream's Adam Back just wrote a check for nearly $9 million to fund someone else's Bitcoin buying spree. Capital B raised $8.8-$9M through a share issuance on Euronext Growth Paris, with backing from Blockstream CEO Adam Back
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Grayscale and a16z Tell SEC to Stop Blocking Crypto ETFs
The biggest names in crypto just told the SEC how to approve products faster without writing new rules.
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BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Flips From $217M Inflow to $236M Outflow Overnight
The largest crypto ETF in the world just whipsawed from $217 million in inflows to $236 million in outflows in 24 hours, and nobody's talking about what that says about institutional conviction.
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US Bitcoin ETFs flip from bleeding cash to $3B inflows as institutions quietly pile back in
The infrastructure to own Bitcoin is finally working, but price discovery still runs on vibes and Federal Reserve tea leaves. US spot Bitcoin ETFs cut year-to-date outflows by 66% as BTC climbed 25% in August, while Ether ETFs flipped to $732M positive YTD and XRP ETFs hit $502M
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Gal Gadot's Lawyers Fought Six Months Over Who Owns Her AI Ghost
The six-month legal fight wasn't about whether to use AI, it was about who owns the ghost when the actor leaves the set. Gal Gadot's lawyers spent six months negotiating AI terms for her role in "Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi," a film about the hunt for Bitcoin's creator
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Bitcoin Posts Best August in 7 Years While Oil and Fed Bets Tank Everything Else
While everyone else was watching oil prices climb and betting on Fed rate hikes, Bitcoin just posted its best August in seven years. Bitcoin delivered its third-best August performance ever, breaking the historical summer slump pattern that typically drags crypto prices down
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Binance Just Processed $445B in Stock Futures Without Wall Street
The world's largest crypto exchange just became a serious threat to TD Ameritrade. Binance's traditional asset perpetual futures volume hit $433-445 billion in July/August, a 15x jump since January, while simultaneously launching options on 1,000 US stocks and ETFs.
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Cathie Wood Bets $37M That Bitcoin Eats Payments Infrastructure
Cathie Wood is doubling down on the thesis that payments infrastructure eating the world is a bet on Bitcoin eating payments infrastructure. Ark Invest purchased 456,059 shares of Block Inc across three ETFs, totaling $37 million, plus $3.4 million in Circle stock
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Sberbank Turns $46B Crypto Volume Into Collateral Engine
Russia's largest bank is about to turn $46 billion in crypto trading volume into a collateral machine, while a U.S. lender just made tokenized gold borrowable.
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Strategy Just Proved Bitcoin Treasuries Can't Get Margin Called
The company that turned corporate treasury into a Bitcoin betting strategy just proved it can't be margin called — which changes the game for every CFO watching from the sidelines.
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Strategy Bought $2B More Bitcoin After Treasury's Crypto Warning
After going dark for ten weeks, Michael Saylor's company just told Treasury Secretary Bessent exactly what it thinks of his crypto warnings. Strategy resumed Bitcoin purchases after a 10-week pause, ending its longest buying freeze since adopting its signature accumulation strategy
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Wall Street Now Controls Crypto's Next Rally and Retail Investors Already Lost
The people who used to laugh at Bitcoin are now building its next rally, and that changes everything about who wins. Institutional investors are returning to Bitcoin after a period of retreat, signaling renewed confidence in crypto markets
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Altcoin Treasuries Are Crushing Bitcoin Inc At $340 Billion
The corporate balance sheet just became the new alpha vehicle, and it's not Bitcoin doing the heavy lifting. Crypto treasury companies now command $340 billion in combined market cap, up 10% since mid-August alone
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Treasury Secretary's Bond Market Gambit Crashes as Crypto Billionaire Reveals the Tell
When the Treasury Secretary tries to bluff the bond market and the crypto world calls his hand, everybody sees your cards. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced plans to ramp up buybacks of long-dated government debt, a move Pantera Capital's Dan Morehead says backfired spectacularly
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Senate Already Killing the Bill That Could Legalize Crypto Trading
The bill that could finally separate crypto from securities law is losing votes before it even hits the Senate floor.
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Nasdaq Firm Offers 13% Dividends While Gorging on Solana
A Nasdaq-listed firm just turned the MicroStrategy playbook into a 13% dividend machine—but instead of buying Bitcoin, they're betting the treasury on Solana. DeFi Development Corp. is raising up to $20 million through a preferred stock offering with an initial annual dividend rate of 13%
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Firelight Raises $8M to Insure DeFi's $3 Trillion Unprotected Honeypot
DeFi insurance covers 0.1% of the market, and the people with the most to steal know it. Firelight raised $8 million to build cover protocol for DeFi vaults, expanding beyond its initial XRP focus to include bitcoin and Stellar
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Bitcoin's Best Month in 20 Months Hits a Wall of Rising Rates
Bitcoin's best month in 20 months is running into a wall built from rising rates, a crashing yen, and the market pricing in monetary tightening nobody saw coming three weeks ago.
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Anthropic's $35B Funding Round Just Made a Bitcoin Miner Rich
A Bitcoin miner just became the landlord for Claude's brain, and the numbers say more about AI's infrastructure bottleneck than any funding round ever will.
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