It is no surprise that Iran is now accepting cryptocurrency payments from cargo ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Blockchain crime experts say the move fits perfectly with Tehran’s existing sanctions surrounding trade networks. Iran’s crypto charges have now been confirmed via recent comments from a spokesman for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products […]
The US government is making its clearest case yet that sports betting can be regulated as finance, not gambling. In a filing late Tuesday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Justice Department asked a federal court to block Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against prediction market operator Kalshi. The agencies argue that contracts
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XRP fell back towards $1.33 after failing to hold recent gains, with selling pressure still outweighing buying, although inflows turned slightly positive. The move suggests rallies are being used to exit positions, not build new ones, keeping the broader structure weak. News background Ripple-linked products saw $3.32M in ETF inflows, marking a shift from March
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Bitcoins BTC$70,965.26 The next big move may have less to do with crypto fundamentals and more to do with the direction of oil prices. The leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization has risen to $70,900 from early-week lows near $67,000, tracking a broader risk-on move after the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire
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Bitcoin traded at $70,981 on Thursday, down 0.5% over 24 hours but still up 6.1% on the week, as the two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire that sparked Tuesday’s broad rally began to show cracks less than 48 hours after it was announced. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said three paragraphs of the ceasefire proposal had been
A top Bitcoin developer says he’s built something the community has discussed for years but never actually produced: a way to save regular wallets if the network is ever forced to defend itself against a quantum computer. in the face of the quantum adversary, a commonly discussed emergency fork for Bitcoin would be to disable
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Anthropic has built an AI model that can autonomously find and exploit zero-day software vulnerabilities at a level the company says surpasses decades of human security research and any automated tool in existence. A closer look at its prowess suggests potential threats to the crypto-DeFi infrastructure. Let’s start by discussing its ability. Cracks long-hidden vulnerabilities
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A consortium of six major Swiss banks joined forces with Swiss Stablecoin AG to test use cases for a Swiss franc-pegged stablecoin, the country’s largest bank UBS announced on Wednesday. UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, Raiffeisen, Zürcher Kantonalbank and BCV, along with Swiss Stablecoin AG, have created a sandbox in a coordinated push to bring blockchain-based payments
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Blockstream CEO Adam Back played down the immediacy of quantum computing as a threat to the Bitcoin network, but emphasized the need for the industry to prepare. A foundational figure in Bitcoin’s history for its cryptography work dating back to the 1990s, Back laid out his central argument, saying that while quantum risk is real
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NEAR Protocol ( NEAR ) joined Internet Computer ( ICP ) as a top performer, rising 8.9% from Tuesday.
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