Cryptocurrency

Donald Trump and his political allies are plugging away at plans to stockpile Bitcoin at a national level in the U.S. Treasury.  And now, with the asset’s price repeatedly soaring to new peaks since Election Day, some U.S. states are following suit.   So far, three states are fielding proposals to establish strategic Bitcoin reserves, while […]

Remember when we thought AI security was all about sophisticated cyber-defenses and complex neural architectures? Well, Anthropic’s latest research shows how today’s advanced AI hacking techniques can be executed by a child in kindergarten. Anthropic—which likes to rattle AI doorknobs to find vulnerabilities to later be able to counter them—found a hole it calls a

Stablecoin issuer Tether announced on Friday that it is investing $775 million in streaming video platform Rumble, a rival to YouTube that bills itself as an anti-censorship platform. The company behind the USDT stablecoin called the deal a “definitive agreement,” and it would begin with a primary investment of $250 million in cash. The deal,

After 372 hours, Haliey Welch, better known as the Hawk Tuah girl, has finally woken from her slumber to announce she’s made some new friends—namely, the same law firm that’s suing her business partners over her failed meme coin project. Sixteen days ago, Welch’s would-be meme coin debut, a Solana token called HAWK, imploded at

Meta is bringing its AI video tricks to Instagram, with new features that’ll let users modify their videos just by using text to modify imagery—from adding bling to changing backgrounds, and doing pretty much anything you can imagine. “I’m super excited about Movie Gen, our early AI research model that will let you change nearly

The alleged murderer of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson is now in the same jail as crypto crook Sam Bankman-Fried.  Luigi Mangione arrived in New York to be housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, the Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows, following numerous media reports noting his destination. The jail is the same

Ragnarok Landverse, a blockchain-enhanced massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in the classic Ragnarok Online franchise, will launch on Ethereum sidechain gaming network Ronin in early 2025. The Ronin version, dubbed Ragnarok Landverse: Genesis, is set to deploy to Ronin after previously soft-launching on BNB Chain. Developer Maxion, in partnership with Ragnarok publisher Gravity, said

Japanese investment firm Metaplanet has announced a plan to use debt to buy more Bitcoin—mirroring the model of American firm MicroStrategy, the top corporate BTC holder—despite recent pushback from shareholders.  The company said Friday that it would issue 5 billion yen ($31.9 million) in bonds to buy more of the cryptocurrency. Just on Tuesday, the

It’s dog days again for Dogecoin. The original and most valuable meme coin continued its plunge into Friday, dropping as low as $0.267 per data from CoinGecko. That’s the lowest price seen since November 10, when DOGE was in the earlier stages of a post-election spike that would take it as high as $0.48—a three-year

Crypto liquidations have hit $1.4 billion over the past 24 hours, Coinglass data shows. Leveraged traders with long positions were left reeling after a sharp pullback in Bitcoin’s price—and harsher declines among altcoins. The Bitcoin price sank to lows of $92,000 on Friday, meaning the world’s biggest cryptocurrency is now 13.4% off all-time highs set