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Paul Sztorc's ECX Bitcoin fork produced more than 25,000 blocks in roughly 13 hours as of 9 a.m. EDT on Sunday, after launching at block height 963648. The network attracted 3.53 petahash per second (PH/s) of mining hashrate across multiple pools, with Ecashpool-alpha leading participation. Block pr

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland researchers released a working paper examining why cryptocurrency behaves differently from traditional financial assets, finding that Americans who buy crypto hold radically different beliefs about digital assets' future returns rather than simply having different d

Upbit, South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange, recorded approximately 1.15 trillion won ($830 million) in trading volume within a single hour on Saturday as XRP and the TRUMP meme coin dominated activity. The surge followed a 273% jump in daily volume to about $1.84 billion on August 21, Upbi

The Bitcoin Red Team, a volunteer group of approximately 20 to 25 security researchers, is scanning Bitcoin's open-source software ecosystem to identify AI-assisted vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. Pseudonymous member Calle, who maintains the open-source Cashu protocol, said in an

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's expanded long-term Treasury buyback strategy, announced May 20 as a 'Treasury Twist,' lost its market effect within one day. The 10-year Treasury yield reached 4.73% by week's end, approaching its highest level since Bessent's inauguration, after the buyback exp

American corporations are implementing new communication strategies as worker anxiety around artificial intelligence remains high, with 53% of Americans fearing AI will eliminate household jobs according to recent data. Despite the majority of employers who cut jobs for AI backtracking on their

Bitcoin surged past $72,000 on Thursday morning, gaining more than 7% on the day and roughly 12% on the week, while Ethereum rose 17.5%. The rally came after bitcoin added approximately $4,400 in fifty minutes on Thursday morning, touching $69,500 and liquidating about $1.1 billion of shorts

Donald Trump executed over 1,000 securities transactions in June, according to reports from Wall Street Journal and Yonhap News on local time. The trading activity included more than 550 purchases and over 450 sales, with transactions exceeding $1 million in companies including Berkshire Hathaway,

Digital X, the operator of Korean crypto exchange Korbit under Mirae Asset Group, announced on the 23rd a zero trading fee policy starting at 9am on the 24th for one year. CEO Oh Se-jin stated the policy aims to support customers who experienced difficult times and to prepare diverse products and se

Hana Securities analyst Lee Jun-ho lowered Kakao's target stock price to 50,000 won from 58,000 won on the 23rd, maintaining a 'buy' rating, after Kakao's board approved a human split into KakaoAI and KakaoX on the 21st. The analyst cited limited near-term rerating factors beyond listed subsidiary v

Stablecoin depegs have repeatedly disrupted crypto markets when digital dollars break their $1 peg, with USDC falling to $0.87 in March 2023 after $3.3 billion of Circle's reserves froze at Silicon Valley Bank and Stream Finance's xUSD crashing to $0.43 in November 2025 following a $93 million

Nvidia is raising AI server prices by over 15% due to surging memory costs, Bloomberg reports. The increases affect systems scheduled to ship early next year, including hardware built around the Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell platforms. Server manufacturers supplying Microsoft, Google, Oracle and

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby marks a decade at the carrier since joining as president on Aug. 29, 2016, after his departure from American Airlines where he previously served as president. Now leading the second-most profitable U.S. airline after Delta Air Lines, Kirby outlined expansion plans inc

Wells Fargo and Citigroup have regulatory capacity to acquire major regional banks under the Trump administration's banking environment, according to investment bankers and industry consultants. Both megabanks have cleared key regulatory restrictions and remain below the 10% national deposits cap th

United Airlines faces a decision on hundreds of lie-flat seats originally designed for its Boeing 737 Max 10 fleet, which have been in storage since the aircraft's certification was delayed over six years ago. CEO Scott Kirby told CNBC during an interview earlier this month at Newark Liberty

A small power plant in the UK was shut down for four days in July following a cyberattack linked to Iran, The Telegraph reported. The incident occurred around the time US authorities including the FBI warned about malicious cyber actors targeting water facilities across at least seven states. The

Solana is holding near $95 after rebounding sharply from the $60 region, keeping bullish Elliott Wave scenarios alive across short- and long-term charts. Analysts see a possible fifth-wave advance toward $114-$116 before a broader recovery targets $160-$180, although a break below $95.13 could

The Sandbox, the metaverse gaming platform behind the SAND token, contained a bridge exploit on August 21 that minted approximately 14.9 billion unbacked SAND tokens across Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC) networks. The attacker exploited vulnerabilities in the bridges' minting mechanism, creating tok

Bitcoin traded near $77,053 as technical analysts identified consolidation patterns following a recent advance. More Crypto Online said the pullback likely represents a wave 4 correction forming an A-B-C-D-E triangle, while analyst Rod compared the current structure to the 2022 market bottom pattern

Newly listed stocks on Korean exchanges showed deteriorating post-listing performance over the past year, with 38.5% trading below their initial public offering prices three months after debut, according to an analysis by Hankyung Economic TV published on the 23rd. The proportion of stocks falling b