Auteur/autrice : Alberto
Strategy, Michael Saylor and MSTR have taken over Wall Street. To many people’s chagrin, the suitcoiners and corporates are here: Bitcoin held by corporations in the form of bitcoin treasury companies is hypnotic to look at. It has captured more or less everyone’s mind — mine, included. It’s the latest fad on the world’s capital markets, celebrated by a narrow sway of financially savvy Bitcoiners and insiders, yet hated by tradfi people who can’t for the love of humanity understand why anybody, let alone a company, would want bitcoin at all. Every odd Bitcoin podcaster has joined one or more…
This affects users of Alethzero GUI client on Windows. Users of eth CLI client or not on the Windows platform are unlikely to be affected but should take action detailed below. Users of Frontier command line interface geth are unaffected. Issue description: While setting privacy permissions on the keys directory, insufficient error handling can cause the key files to not be written; this may be widespread on the Windows platform. As such, current versions of AlethZero and eth may include identities for which there exists no underlying key. Ether Presale Claim functionality of AlethZero may result in funds automatically being transferred…
Image Credit: Kenneth Surillo All employees of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), as well as those of affiliated agencies and local government representatives, are strictly prohibited from engaging in online gambling. These people are not allowed to access or use any online gambling platform by Memorandum Circular 2025-082. The order extends the current ban on casino gambling to the rapidly expanding online gambling industry and goes into effect immediately. Keep Reading Philippines central bank moves to tighten online gambling regulations Philippines urged to intensify oversight of crypto and gambling risks The 1987 Constitution, R.A. 6713, and…
Suzanne Kite’s AI art installations, for example, model a Lakota framework of data sovereignty: intelligence that emerges only through reciprocal, consensual interaction. Unlike systems that assume user consent via opaque terms of service, her kinetic machines require the viewer’s physical presence—and give something back in return. “It’s my data. It’s my training set. I know exactly what I did to train it. It’s not a large model but a small and intimate one,” Kite says. “I’m not particularly interested in making the most technologically advanced anything. I’m an artist; I don’t make tech demos. So the complexity needs to come…
Thousands of US pharmacies can now settle prescription drug payments in cryptocurrency through a new blockchain-based system running on Ripple’s XRP Ledger.The system was developed by Wellgistics Health, a prescription drug distributor and digital prescription routing provider for more than 6,500 pharmacies, in partnership with pharmaceutical software firm RxERP. According to the companies, the system enables pharmacies to pay for products and move funds, while recording all payments on the XRP Ledger and offering an alternative to traditional bank transfers for wholesale drug purchases.“Independent pharmacy owners are far more forward-thinking than many realize,” Wellgistics’ CEO Brian Norton said. “They see…
Markets are still recovering from Thursday’s bombshell commercial inflation data, but institutional interest in bitcoin is still alive and well. BTC Flat, Yet Institutional Investors Remain Bullish Bitcoin dipped below $117K on Friday, as markets floundered in the wake of Thursday’s higher-than-expected wholesale inflation data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But the […]
A $130 million ETH purchase puts BitMine further ahead of its corporate rivals, but the influx lands just as Ethereum’s staking entry lines hit multi-day highs, squeezing validator activation timelines. Now, the question isn’t just who’s buying, it’s who can even move their coins anymore. Summary BitMine purchased $130 million in ETH, increasing its corporate holdings to 1.15M ETH. Ethereum validator queues hit multi-day highs, delaying staking entry and exit timelines. Meanwhile, South Korean retail investors are shifting from Tesla and tech stocks into BitMine and other crypto-related equities. On August 15, a wallet tagged as belonging to BitMine received…
British studio Revolution Software and developer Antstream LTD have released a bundle of four point-and-click games from the 1990s – Lure of the Temptress, Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, and Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror. The title is currently 25% off on Steam as part of an introductory bundle, and includes the Amiga edition of Lure of the Temptress, the Amiga CD32 edition of Beneath a Steel Sky, and the PlayStation editions of both Broken Sky titles. Of particular note is Beneath A Steel Sky, which featured art by Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons.…
The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector’s total value locked (TVL) has climbed to $154.248 billion, with liquid staking giant Lido and lending platform Aave maintaining dominant positions. Lido, Aave Take Top Spots as DeFi TVL Surpasses $150B Data from defillama.com shows TVL declined 3.23% over the past 24 hours, yet the figure remains well above the […]
The institutional Ethereum treasury race is accelerating, as two of the biggest corporate Ether holders are raising billions of dollars to acquire more of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency.Public Bitcoin mining firm BitMine Immersion Technology is raising $24.5 billion through an at-the-market (ATM) stock offering, while SharpLink completed a $389 million capital raise from common shares.Whales, or large crypto holders, have also been accumulating ahead of this week’s key US inflation reports. A new entity acquired $1.3 billion worth of Ether (ETH) across 10 fresh cryptocurrency wallets, surpassing the record-breaking $1 billion worth of Ether amassed by the exchange-traded funds (ETFs)…