A crypto-only dark web marketplace has brought its co-founder decades in federal prison and an agreement to surrender digital assets and real estate. The case involved drug trafficking, concealed payments, and vendor ratings for hiding shipments.
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The letter follows a report by the Democratic investigators last month alleging Tether’s USDT has become a key tool for Iran’s shadow banking network.
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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
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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…