2025

Bitcoin no longer plays gold’s game 2025-08-31 at 17:02 By Cointelegraph by Armando Aguilar Bitcoin is evolving from digital gold to productive capital as BTC now earns native yield, while holders maintain custody and decentralization. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Metaplanet’s Bitcoin strategy faces fundraising crunch as stock sinks: Report 2025-08-31 at 14:26 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Metaplanet’s stock has plunged 54% since mid-June, forcing the Tokyo-listed firm to seek alternative fundraising as its share-based “flywheel” falters. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off 2025-08-31 at 14:26 By Danny Bradbury Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the process Feature  After a decade or two of the cloud, we’re used to paying for our computing capability by the

Will Bitcoin price drop in September? 2025-08-31 at 13:11 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola Bitcoin is in position for a rebound toward $124,500 in September, even as history brands the month as one of its weakest. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help 2025-08-31 at 13:10 By Thomas Claburn “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

California governor teases ‘Trump Corruption Coin’ in jab at MAGA memecoins 2025-08-31 at 12:31 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas California Governor Gavin Newsom says his planned memecoin is meant to expose the absurdity of Trump’s crypto ventures. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Skepticism Bitcoin can go ‘any higher’ will persist at $10M: Analyst 2025-08-31 at 08:21 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons A Bitcoin adviser says Bitcoin could reach as high as $10 million, and people will still be saying, “it can’t go any higher right?” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crypto treasury firms mirror CDO risks from 2008 financial crisis: Crypto exec 2025-08-31 at 00:07 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill Crypto treasury firms introduce several layers of risk to an asset class that inherently features reduced or no counterparty risk. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

DeFi will survive efforts to make it a walled garden — Fold CEO 2025-08-30 at 22:03 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill Permissionless financial protocols will survive government and corporate efforts to impose traditional financial controls on DeFi. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Supreme Court opened crypto wallets to surveillance; privacy must go onchain 2025-08-30 at 16:56 By Cointelegraph by Vikrant Sharma Crypto transactions are vulnerable to warrant-free surveillance, making privacy-enhancing tools essential for blockchain’s future. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Attackers Abuse Velociraptor Forensic Tool to Deploy Visual Studio Code for C2 Tunneling 2025-08-30 at 16:56 By Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a cyber attack in which unknown threat actors deployed an open-source endpoint monitoring and digital forensic tool called Velociraptor, illustrating ongoing abuse of legitimate software for malicious purposes. “In this incident, the

Indian court sentences 14 to life in Bitcoin extortion case 2025-08-30 at 15:00 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas A former BJP legislator and 11 police officials have been convicted for the 2018 abduction of a Surat businessman in a plot to seize over 750 Bitcoin. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too 2025-08-30 at 15:00 By Liam Proven We are drowning in code, but at least some folks are swimming opinion  To fight the enshittification of software, the first step is to pinpoint why and how it happens. Some observers are trying to do that.… This article is an

Spot BTC, ETH ETFs see outflows as inflation ticks up under Trump tariffs 2025-08-30 at 11:03 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Bitcoin and Ether ETFs saw outflows on Friday after the Fed reported rising core inflation, driven in part by Trump’s tariff policies. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Kilopixel creator kills livestream switch before woodblock display hits Crysis point 2025-08-30 at 10:48 By Richard Speed All good things must come to an end All good things must come to an end, and so too must the blocky glory of the Kilopixel. As the wood and robotic marvel crested the 200,000-pixel mark, its creator

WhatsApp Issues Emergency Update for Zero-Click Exploit Targeting iOS and macOS Devices 2025-08-30 at 08:17 By WhatsApp has addressed a security vulnerability in its messaging apps for Apple iOS and macOS that it said may have been exploited in the wild in conjunction with a recently disclosed Apple flaw in targeted zero-day attacks. The vulnerability,

El Salvador splits $678M Bitcoin across 14 wallets to reduce quantum risk 2025-08-30 at 08:05 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea El Salvador has transferred its 6,274 Bitcoin into 14 new wallet addresses as part of a security measure to protect against the threat of quantum attacks. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

Tether scraps plan to freeze USDT on five blockchains 2025-08-30 at 04:00 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Tether has scrapped plans to end USDT on Omni, Bitcoin Cash SLP, Kusama, EOS and Algorand, allowing it to continue in a limited capacity. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Tesla asks court to throw out damages awarded in deadly crash — claim Musk misled jury 2025-08-30 at 02:47 By Associated Press Tesla was asked in federal court on Friday to dismiss massive damages awarded to a 22-year-old student who was flung through the air to death by a Tesla vehicle that had Autopilot features.