2025

Trump tariffs squeeze already struggling Bitcoin miners — Braiins exec 2025-04-04 at 15:06 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz The new trade tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump may place added pressure on the Bitcoin mining ecosystem both domestically and globally, according to one industry executive. While the US is home to Bitcoin (BTC) mining […]

Malta regulator fines OKX crypto exchange $1.2M for past AML breaches 2025-04-04 at 15:06 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Cryptocurrency exchange OKX is under renewed regulatory scrutiny in Europe after Maltese authorities issued a major fine for violations of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws. Malta’s Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) fined Okcoin Europe — OKX’s Europe-based

30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery? 2025-04-04 at 14:36 By Connor Jones The industry’s approach to keeping quality backups may be masking the importance of other recovery mainstays Maintaining good-quality backups is often seen as the spine of any organization’s ability to recover from cyberattacks quickly. Naturally,

Have We Reached a Distroless Tipping Point? 2025-04-04 at 14:21 By There’s a virtuous cycle in technology that pushes the boundaries of what’s being built and how it’s being used. A new technology development emerges and captures the world’s attention. People start experimenting and discover novel applications, use cases, and approaches to maximize the innovation’s

US court fines UAE crypto firm CLS Global $428K for wash trading 2025-04-04 at 14:01 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Authorities in the US state of Massachusetts continue targeting unlawful cryptocurrency market practices, with a local court fining crypto financial services firm CLS Global. A federal court in Boston on April 2 sentenced CLS Global

Bitcoin DeFi surge may boost BTC demand and adoption — Binance 2025-04-04 at 14:01 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai The value locked in Bitcoin-based decentralized finance (BTCFi) has surged by more than 2,700% over the past year, potentially transforming Bitcoin from a passive store of value into a productive, yield-bearing asset, according to new research from

Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption 2025-04-04 at 13:50 By Dan Robinson The need to scale still battling security worries … on both sides Governments continue to adopt cloud services, for better or worse, hoping to modernize their IT services, leading big cloud operators to aggressively court public sector bodies for

‘DoctorEMF’ wants you to unplug your lamps and routers — he even has a dog protect him from radiation 2025-04-04 at 13:02 By Tracy Swartz “I’m the kind of guy who’s no fun at a party watching TV because the Wi-Fi puts me out,” Russell Kort told the crowd at the Biohackers World conference. This

Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system 2025-04-04 at 12:49 By Lindsay Clark ‘Full benefit’ of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns The effectiveness of new IT systems designed to speed up asylum claim processing in the UK continues to be held back by the Home Office’s

AI and blockchain — A match made in heaven 2025-04-04 at 12:03 By Cointelegraph by Dr. Merav Ozair Opinion by: Merav Ozair, PhD Tech moguls cannot stop heralding the artificial intelligence revolution — from Bill Gates to Sundar Pichai to Jensen Huang — signaling that agentic AI and robotics will claim our jobs and act

Alan Turing Institute: UK can’t handle a fight against AI-enabled crims 2025-04-04 at 11:34 By Connor Jones Law enforcement facing huge gap in ‘AI adoption’ The National Crime Agency (NCA) will “closely examine” the recommendations made by the Alan Turing Institute after it claimed the UK was ill-equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime.… This article is

Arthur Hayes loves tariffs as printed money pain is good for Bitcoin 2025-04-04 at 10:06 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes says US President Donald Trump’s tariffs may rattle the global economy in some ways, but that same disruption could be exactly what Bitcoin needs to rally. “Global imbalances will be corrected,