Five unlikely solo wins of Bitcoin miners in 2025 At a time when Bitcoin (BTC) mining is dominated by large-scale mining farms with advanced, specialized hardware, the odds of a solo miner striking the so-called digital gold are astronomically low. Yet 2025 has delivered a remarkable surprise. Five solo miners, operating outside massive mining pools,…
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Bullish Europe has become the first platform to list Société Générale-Forge’s USDCV stablecoin, expanding access to regulated digital assets in the European Union. According to a Tuesday announcement, Bullish is the first to offer USD CoinVertible (USDCV) to its customers through its German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) regulated…
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Key takeaways Stablecoins reduce settlement time, cross-border costs and enable programmable rewards. They outpace traditional credit card systems. US merchants pay over $100 billion in card fees yearly. In comparison, stablecoins offer much cheaper, faster payments. Ripple’s RLUSD, Gemini’s XRP Card and Moca’s Air Shop show stablecoins moving into mainstream commerce. With big players exploring…
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Kazakhstan’s central bank is launching a pilot project to issue a new stablecoin pegged to the local fiat currency in collaboration with Solana and Mastercard. The National Bank of Kazakhstan announced the launch of a stablecoin project within the framework of its Digital Assets Regulatory Sandbox, according to a statement shared with Cointelegraph on Tuesday.…
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Key takeaways: Positive Coinbase Premium Index signals strong US retail demand buying the dip. Strong ETF inflows and Bitcoin treasury companies bolster BTC’s recovery potential. Despite aggressive short-side pressure, the risk of another liquidation event is decreasing. Bitcoin (BTC) fell from its monthly high of around $118,000, dropping as much as 5.5% to today’s intraday…
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Key points: Bitcoin will be “markedly higher” by 2028, Arthur Hayes said, but $3.4 million per coin is too bullish. BTC price increases from credit growth may not match past performance. US money printing is back with the Trump administration, opening the path to BTC price expansion. Bitcoin (BTC) will trade “markedly higher” than its…
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Update (Sept. 23 at 7:43 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include Changpeng Zhao’s denial of the Financial Times report. Changpeng “CZ” Zhao pushed back against a Financial Times report claiming his $10 billion investment firm, YZi Labs, is planning to open the fund to outside capital and external investors. In a Tuesday…
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Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s $10 billion investment firm YZi Labs is weighing plans to open the fund to outside capital and external investors. YZi Labs manages Zhao’s personal fortune and funds from a few early Binance insiders, including co-founder Yi He. The fund accepted about $300 million in outside funding in 2022, but later returned part…
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A $20 billion South African asset manager has been warning their investors from investing too much in their Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) due to its price volatility. In an interview on Monday, Magda Wierzycka, the CEO of Sygnia, told Bloomberg TV that the company will intervene to ensure clients don’t shift too much of their…
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the US Federal Reserve will have a hard time cutting the interest rate unless inflation drops, and isn’t worried about stablecoins posing a threat to the banking sector. “If inflation does not go away, it’s going to be hard for the Fed to cut more,” Dimon, the head of the…
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