Vitalik Buterin said the risk from AI-accelerated math is real but pointed it at lattices rather than elliptic curves. A former Ethereum Foundation researcher said bunker mode would not help if the curves actually broke... Read the full story at The Defiant
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PowerCompute mined 8.1 BTC in September, up 37% from a year earlier. Its month-end Bitcoin holdings fell to 63.7 BTC after the company used 267.4 BTC to help retire a $22.45 million Bitcoin-backed credit facility, leaving most of its secur…
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Anthropic’s Claude AI predicts that if the US announced a strategic Bitcoin reserve and begin buying BTC on the open market, it could spike to $250,000 by January 1, 2027. Bitcoin is currently around $82,000–$83,000, roughly -34% below its…
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A new International Monetary Fund (IMF) report says tokenization could transform global capital markets, but warns that fragmented infrastructure, thin liquidity and financial stability risks continue to hinder widespread adoption. Small S…
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Despite ongoing bans, China has seen a big surge in peer-to-peer stablecoin use. New figures show South Korea’s $450B crypto economy is the largest in East Asia.