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View More NewsIn brief A Bitcoin wallet holding 8.54 BTC, first funded on June 13, 2011, moved its coins for the first time in 15 years on Aug. 16. The position is now worth about $538,000 for a roughly 461,981% gain if sold. It follows a trend of ancient Bitcoin wallets suddenly coming to life. A Bitcoin stash that had sat frozen since the network’s earliest days has moved for the first time in more than 15 years, the latest in a string of ancient wallets flickering back to life.According to Galaxy Research’s blockchain monitoring, a Bitcoin address beginning in “1Emi” holding…
Investors were allocated about 19.7 billion MON, nearly 20% of the original supply. Those tokens were locked when Monad’s public network launched last November and began unlocking after a one-year wait, with monthly releases for the remainder of a four-year schedule.That makes November the first point at which early investors begin receiving tokens they can sell normally.MON traded around $0.021 on Tuesday, about 16% below the $0.025 price of last year’s public sale. Roughly 11.8 billion MON are currently circulating, giving the token a market value near $250 million against a fully diluted value of about $2.1 billion.As such, the…
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Of all countries reeling from the United States’ return to realpolitik, none has more history with that American strategy—and none is more vulnerable to it—than Canada. US president Donald Trump’s disparaging social-media posts depicting Canada as the 51st state, his references to former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau as the “governor” of that state, and his haphazard imposition of crushing tariffs on a hitherto free-trading Canada-US partnership, doesn’t differ appreciably from his treatment of other allies. But as the United States’ closest neighbours, Canadians are especially sensitive to it. When White House advisor Stephen Miller declared in January 2026 that…
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Bitcoin BTC$64,169.25 steadied above $63,000 on Monday, clawing back a fraction of last week’s losses with a 0.8% gain since midnight UTC.Without an obvious…
BitMart account demands founder explain funds status, Xia calls claims ‘fabricated’BitMart’s official Chinese-language X account has publicly demanded that founder Sheldon Xia explain the…
In brief Ethereum Foundation researchers want Frame Transactions and FOCIL prioritized for the Hegotá upgrade. Frame Transactions and related proposals could let privacy pools…
Austria’s Financial Market Authority fined Bitpanda GmbH 70,000 euros ($81,150) for breaches of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation in the regulator’s…
From yesterday’s decision by Judge Hector Gonzalez (E.D.N.Y.) in Harr v. City of N.Y.: In 2003, in connection with the invasion of Iraq, the…
The research firm said bitcoin traders remain unusually defensive, reducing the risk of the kind of leverage-driven collapse seen in prior downturns. Read the…
Bitcoin (BTC) traders have shifted their focus lower after futures and order book data point to strong buyer interest in the $68,000-$70,000 zone.Sell pressure…
In brief Minnesota became the first state to ban prediction markets, making it a felony to operate or advertise such platforms. Hours later, the…
For years, civil society organizations, workers, journalists, and human rights experts have warned that major technology companies risk enabling grave human rights abuses when…
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. In this week’s newsletter, I wanted to share a recent feature story I wrote…
The head of digital assets and tokenization at one of Germany’s largest asset managers said that USDT and USDC are not stablecoins, from his…
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