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Bitcoin mining’s 2026 reckoning: AI pivots, margin pressure and a fight to survive 2025-12-25 at 20:08 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Post-halving stress is reshaping Bitcoin mining. As margins compress, miners turn to AI, HPC and consolidation to survive heading into 2026. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

What the $310B stablecoin market reveals about crypto adoption 2025-12-25 at 19:02 By Cointelegraph by Abhinav Tewari Emerging markets are finally accessing finance, with a $310-billion stablecoin market showing that adoption is not hype. Here is what this milestone actually means. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Stealth Loaders, AI Chatbot Flaws AI Exploits, Docker Hack, and 15 More Stories 2025-12-25 at 17:24 By It’s getting harder to tell where normal tech ends and malicious intent begins. Attackers are no longer just breaking in — they’re blending in, hijacking everyday tools, trusted apps, and even AI assistants. What used to […]

Quantum computing in 2026: No crypto doomsday, but time to prepare 2025-12-25 at 16:29 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Quantum computing won’t break Bitcoin in 2026, but the growing practice of “harvest now, decrypt later” is pushing the crypto industry to prepare sooner rather than later. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View […]

Fed Q1 2026 outlook: Potential impact on Bitcoin and crypto markets 2025-12-25 at 16:29 By Cointelegraph by Yashu Gola BTC may fall to $70,000 and ETH to $2,400 if the Fed pauses rate cuts in the first quarter of 2026 and inflationary pressure persists. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Samourai Wallet co-founder spends Christmas Eve recounting first day in prison 2025-12-25 at 16:29 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra A prison letter from Keonne Rodriguez has reignited debate over crypto privacy tools, developer liability and executive clemency. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow 2025-12-25 at 15:38 By Thomas Claburn Investment and interest have outpaced technology and society By the time the humanoid robots arrived at the Humanoids Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, on December 11, the registration line […]

LastPass 2022 Breach Led to Years-Long Cryptocurrency Thefts, TRM Labs Finds 2025-12-25 at 15:00 By The encrypted vault backups stolen from the 2022 LastPass data breach have enabled bad actors to take advantage of weak master passwords to crack them open and drain cryptocurrency assets as recently as late 2025, according to new findings from […]

CZ proposes fix to address poisoning after investor loses $50M 2025-12-25 at 14:08 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Zhao urged the blockchain industry to adopt new security measures, including scam address blacklist, after an investor lost $50 million to an address poisoning scheme. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crypto derivatives volume explode to $86T in 2025, averaging $265B per day 2025-12-25 at 14:08 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Crypto derivatives trading surged to $86 trillion in 2025, averaging $265 billion per day, as Binance captured almost 30% of global volume, CoinGlass reported. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top? 2025-12-25 at 14:08 By Tobias Mann Two tiny boxes, 128 GB apiece – but very different strengths Hands On  Most GenAI models are trained and run in massive datacenter clusters, but the ability to build, test, and prototype AI systems locally […]

NFT collections get no Santa rally as market hits 2025 lows 2025-12-25 at 13:06 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Market data showed shrinking participation across NFTs, with fewer buyers, sellers and transactions signaling fading speculative interest. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

You don’t need Linux to run free and open source software 2025-12-25 at 13:06 By Liam Proven Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows Part 2  There’s a wealth of highly usable free software for the big proprietary desktop OSes. You can escape paying subscriptions and switch to free software without changing […]

CISA Flags Actively Exploited Digiever NVR Vulnerability Allowing Remote Code Execution 2025-12-25 at 10:57 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a security flaw impacting Digiever DS-2105 Pro network video recorders (NVRs) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-52163 (CVSS score: 8.8), […]

Fortinet Warns of Active Exploitation of FortiOS SSL VPN 2FA Bypass Vulnerability 2025-12-25 at 10:57 By Fortinet on Wednesday said it observed “recent abuse” of a five-year-old security flaw in FortiOS SSL VPN in the wild under certain configurations. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2020-12812 (CVSS score: 5.2), an improper authentication vulnerability in SSL VPN […]

Bitcoin ETFs lose $825M in five days as US becomes ‘biggest seller’ of BTC 2025-12-25 at 09:18 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin ETF performance stayed negative on Christmas Eve as a short final US trading session produced another $175 million in net outflows. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crypto saw record $8.6B in deals in 2025 with growth under Trump: FT 2025-12-25 at 08:08 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The number of crypto deals reportedly skyrocketed this year and hit a record total value of $8.6 billion, led by Coinbase’s record-breaking acquisition of Deribit. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View […]

Bitcoiners bullish over Elon Musk tipping ‘double-digit’ economic growth 2025-12-25 at 08:08 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Elon Musk added that “triple-digit” economic growth could even be possible by 2030; however, some Bitcoiners worry about a 2026 bear market. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Social engineering cost crypto billions in 2025: How to protect yourself 2025-12-25 at 08:08 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Crypto hackers took social engineering to a whole other level this year, and advances in artificial intelligence mean scams are about to get even harder to detect. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View […]

Solana and Ethereum can coexist in tokenization race: Dragonfly VC 2025-12-25 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons Dragonfly’s Rob Hadick says “there’s a lot of room” in crypto for more than one blockchain as networks race to win market share of tokenized assets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source