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View More NewsIn brief Bitmine bought 28,086 ETH last week, worth about $70 million at its reported reference price. Its crypto, cash, securities, and other investments total $15.7 billion, the company says. Bitmine has staked about 85% of its ETH and projects $330 million in annual staking revenue. Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought another 28,086 Ethereum tokens last week, bringing its holdings to 5.93 million ETH as it approaches its goal of owning 5% of the cryptocurrency’s supply.The purchase was worth approximately $70 million at the company’s reference price of $2,495 per token. Bitmine did not disclose its acquisition cost.Myriad: Ethereum’s next price…
London, September 8, 2026—A Russian drone strike on a building housing two TV channels in Kyiv wounded six people and seriously damaged the newsroom on Tuesday while the team was on air. Three employees were taken to hospital following the attack on the premises of We are Ukraine and We Are Ukraine+ TV channels, according to the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU). Others suffered cuts and minor injuries, and the newsroom, make-up rooms and offices were also significantly damaged in the blast. Damage from Tuesday’s drone strike on a building housing We Are Ukraine TV channel in Kyiv…
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What follows is an excerpt from Advocacy in Literary Studies, a report published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Mathematicians and physicists typically do not instruct students in the history of their disciplines. What is old is outdated. That is not true of great literature. As nineteenth-century British essayist William Hazlitt pointed out in his essay Why the Arts Are Not Progressive?,…
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In brief Strategy repurchased 1,810,885 STRC shares for $176.3 million in the week to September 7. Its board doubled the digital credit securities repurchase…
Istanbul, September 8, 2026—Turkish authorities must immediately release arrested journalist Oya Lale Arslan and stop weaponizing the law against independent media, the Committee to…
The Foundation wants the network protected before a quantum computer capable of breaking today’s cryptography could plausibly arrive, and says upcoming upgrades will be…
Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury, skipped its weekly Bitcoin acquisition to repurchase $176 million of its preferred STRC stock.Strategy repurchased 1.8…
The federal SECURE Data Act is not a serious consumer privacy bill, and its provisions—if enacted—would be a retreat from already insufficient state protections.…
Men are spiking women’s drinks with abortion pills and it’s the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s fault. At least that’s Louisiana’s contention in a…
Executives from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), OKX and Securitize warned that synthetic tokenized stocks are creating market and retail risks, as ICE moves ahead with…
OpenTrade, an institutional-grade platform for onchain and real-world asset (RWA)-backed lending and stablecoin yield products, has raised fresh capital to expand its yield infrastructure.The…
In brief Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $9.8 billion lease for 352 MW of AI data center capacity at its Beacon Point campus in…
Project Freedom was over before it started. On Sunday night, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. military initiative to guide ships out of the…
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading…
Blockchain analytics platform Bubblemaps said 90 newly funded wallets bought 90% of Mystery (MYSTERY) memecoin supply at launch, raising concerns about coordinated sniping.The wallets…