Public Bitcoin Miners Dumped Record 32,000 BTC in Q1—Then Asked for More
Public Bitcoin miners sold more BTC in the first quarter of 2026 than in all of 2025, shattering records as mining economics crater.
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Czech Central Bank Governor to Explain Bitcoin Reserve Strategy—While the ECB Says No
Czech National Bank Governor Aleš Michl will keynote Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas, explaining why his central bank bought Bitcoin while the ECB explicitly rejected it.
FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Through iPhone’s Back Door—Without Breaking Encryption
The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by pulling them from Apple's push notification cache—a technique that never touched Signal's encryption.
Almost Every Crypto Protocol Hides Its Market-Maker Deals—Only One Didn’t
A Novora study of 150 crypto protocols finds fewer than 1% disclose their market-making arrangements—only Meteora went public.
South Korea Will Pay Government Bills With Programmable Tokens—Not Cards
South Korea's finance ministry will pilot blockchain-based deposit tokens for government spending in Q4 2026, replacing purchasing cards with programmable money that enforces spending rules before…
Bitcoin Miners Are Losing $19K Per Coin—HIVE’s Answer Is a $75M Bet on GPUs
HIVE Digital raises $75M in zero-interest notes to buy GPUs and build AI data centers, joining a wave of bitcoin miners pivoting to AI hosting.
xAI’s Memphis Power Plant Is Pumping Toxins Into Black Neighborhoods—The NAACP Just Sued
The NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit against xAI for allegedly operating 27 unpermitted gas turbines that are spewing formaldehyde and smog into historically Black communities…
Bitcoin Developers Propose Freezing Satoshi’s Wallet—and Every Other Quantum-Vulnerable Address
BIP-361 would impose a phased deadline to migrate all Bitcoin to quantum-resistant addresses. Miss it, and your coins are frozen forever.
‘Nothing Ever Happens’: This Bot Always Bets ‘No’ on Polymarket—And Profits
A bot called 'Nothing Ever Happens' automatically buys 'No' on every non-sports Polymarket it finds — and 73.3% of the time, it's right. The open-source strategy…
Polymarket Bettors Think GPT-6 Will Ship Before GTA VI—and They’re Putting Millions on It
A $21 million prediction market says OpenAI's next model is more likely to drop before Rockstar's game. The odds are wild.