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Bitcoin (BTC) Network Hashrate Hit Record Highs in October, JPMorgan (JPM) Says.

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The bitcoin network’s hash rate hit an all-time high in October, JPMorgan ( JPM ) said in a report Monday. The monthly average network hash rate increased 5% to 1,082 exahashes per second (EH/s), the report said. The hashrate refers to the total combined computational power used to mine and process transactions on a proof-of-work […]

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Bitcoin (BTC) price drop could be a warning for stocks: Crypto Daybook Americas

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By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless otherwise noted) The crypto market remains under pressure and falling in October. Bitcoin BTC$108,224.72 has fallen 3% to $107,500 in the past 24 hours, while ETH, XRP, BNB and SOL have seen even greater losses. The CoinDesk 20 index fell more than 4%. Among the top 100 coins,

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Microsoft Signs $9.7B AI Cloud Deal With Bitcoin Mining

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Microsoft said today that it had signed a $9.7 billion purchase agreement for AI cloud capabilities from bitcoin miner-turned-neocloud company IREN. The move marked one of the biggest commercial validations yet for the emerging neocloud sector — referring to a group of data center companies that evolved from bitcoin mining to artificial intelligence infrastructure. Under

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Berachain Halts Network to Contain Balancer-Linked Exploitation, Performs ‘Emergency Hard Fork’

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Berachain validators coordinated an emergency network shutdown after exposure to a vulnerability linked to the Balancer V2 exploit, the project’s core team said Monday. “The Berachain validators have coordinated to purposefully shut down the network as the core team executes an emergency fork to address Balancer V2-related exploits on BEX,” the Berachain Foundation said on

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Swiss Crypto Bank AMINA secures MiCA license in Austria

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Swiss digital asset bank AMINA has received a regulatory license from Austria’s Financial Market Authority (FMA) to operate cryptocurrency services across Europe under the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulatory scheme. Austria’s approval paves the way for AMINA EU’s launch (the official entity licensed by the FMA is AMINA [Austria] AG), to offer crypto trading,

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Miners, Robinhood Earnings and Interest Rate Decisions: Crypto Week Ahead

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After a disappointing October, the crypto market will be watching for signs of whether November will prove more uplifting for bitcoin BTC$107,870.97 and other major cryptocurrencies. Impulses can be created by interest rate decisions from the Bank of England, the Central Bank of Brazil and the Bank of Mexico. Missing from the lineup is the

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Balance the hack? DeFi Platform Hit by Apparent Exploitation as $70M in Crypto Moves

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Balancer, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol with over $750 million in value locked up, appears to have been hit by another major exploit, with on-chain data showing around $70.9 million in digital assets drained to a new wallet. The affected funds include 6,850 osETH, 6,590 WETH and 4,260 wstETH, blockchain data analyzed by CoinDesk showed

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Trump tells CBS News he ‘doesn’t know’ who Binance’s Changpeng Zhao is

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President Trump reiterated his claim that he does not know who Binance founder Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao is during an interview with CBS News. Trump granted Zhao a presidential pardon in October, nearly a year after the Binance founder pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act and served a four-month prison sentence. Trump told CBS’s

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