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India orders takedown of Jack Dorsey’s bitcoin-linked messaging app Bitchat

India’s top cybercrime watchdog has ordered GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Block chief and bitcoin advocate Jack Dorsey, as anti-government protesters in Delhi use mesh networking tools to communicate through repeated internet shutdowns. The Indian Cyber ​​Crime Coordination Centre, part of the Ministry of Home Affairs, late Thursday issued the […]

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Brent crude prices top $100 as conflict with Iran drags on

Global oil prices hovered around $100 per barrel. barrel on Friday after Iran rejected a U.S. cease-fire offer, fueling investor concerns that the escalating conflict could curb energy shipments from the region indefinitely. Claims of attacks on tankers in the Red Sea by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia group on Thursday heightened fears about the flow

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Dogecoin and ether lead back as investors digest technology earnings

Dogecoin fell 4.5% and ether fell 2.5% on Friday, leading a broad but shallow retreat across the majors as the market consolidated a strong week, according to CoinDesk data. XRP and Solana each fell about 2.5%, while bitcoin held up better, down 0.6% to around $65,400. The pullback barely dented the weekly picture. Bitcoin is

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Ripple’s RLUSD Gets Two Boosts As Transfer Volume Drops 25%

Fintech firm Ripple made two moves on Thursday aimed at boosting its dollar-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, in a month in which transfer volume across the token has fallen 25%. The first is Ripple Mint, a platform that lets institutional customers create, redeem, bridge and track RLUSD through a web dashboard or direct integration. Until now, minting

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Mirae plans to turn the Korbit crypto exchange into something Korea has not seen before

Korbit currently has less than 1% of South Korea’s domestic crypto market, far behind giants Upbit and Bithumb. When asked directly about its strategy to compete, Mirae Asset emphasized that the goal is not to overtake any other company or exchange, but to promote sustainable growth in the digital asset industry in South Korea. “We

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Bitcoin, Ethereum-Linked Protocols Lose $35 Million In Multiple Attacks Hours Apart

Another confirmed attack was the B² Network, a scaling network built to make Bitcoin cheaper and faster to trade on. B² said in Asian morning hours Thursday that an attacker gained unauthorized access to the upgrade authority of its token staking contract, the administrative permission that controls how that contract behaves. Security firm Lookonchain tracked

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South Korea’s Korbit exchange is now part of the $1 trillion Mirae Group family

Korbit, South Korea’s first homegrown crypto exchange, founded in 2013, now has a new home and it’s a traditional financial giant. The exchange announced Thursday that it is now part of the Mirae Asset Group family, which reportedly had $1 trillion in AUM in May. The acquiring entity is Mirae Asset Consulting, a subsidiary of

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Bitcoin consolidates below $66,000 as a 13% recovery in July runs out of steam

The crypto market consolidates on Thursday with bitcoin BTC$64,910.37 a modest 0.62% lower since midnight UTC at $65,674 as it falls into a range between $64,000 and $66,800 that has held for the past week. The price action reflects a market that is breathing. Bitcoin is up more than 13% since its July 1 low

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Polymarket challenges France’s nationwide website block

Polymarket plans to challenge France’s decision to block its website, arguing that the order prevents users from accessing its market odds, even though trading from the country has been disabled since November 2024. France’s national gambling authority ordered ISPs to block the platform last week, saying it exposed users to potential losses and offered markets

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