Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Brazil issues a blanket ban on non-financial prediction markets, Hashrate Index highlights the potential for bitcoin min...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Space and Time has launched Dreamspace, an AI-powered, no-code app builder designed to democratize blockchain development. Key Takeaways: Space and Time launched Dreamspace with Microsoft to enable no-code AI app building for 140,000+ students. Built...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Industry leaders and financial experts have issued a sharp rebuke of the South African National Treasury’s Draft Capital Flow Management Regulations 2026, calling the proposal a regressive move that mirrors apartheid-era economic controls. Key Takeaw...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
The two companies would agree to merge, with CS Digital receiving $55 million in an all-share transaction, to combine Olenox’s energy expertise with CS Digital’s expertise in bitcoin mining. The combined company would seek to develop off-grid mining...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Ripple opens registration for Swell 2026 in New York, with the company describing it as its biggest Swell yet. The event brings Swell and Apex into one program, with builders, financial leaders, developers and the XRP community under one roof. Key Ta...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
An anonymous wallet with no prior trading history turned $174,000 worth of ether into $2.45 million by trading Apecoin on both sides of an 80% price surge in a single day. Key Takeaways: Wallet 0x0b8a converted $174,000 in ETH into a leveraged Apecoi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Europe’s MiCA rules helped euro stablecoins surge even as broader crypto adoption cooled, while a Balancer exploit wallet reawakened to move funds through Thorchain. In Washington, more than 100 crypto groups pushed the Senate to act on the CLARITY A...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Stablecoin payments are moving rapidly into multi-asset infrastructure as volumes climb across global markets. Ripple says institutions that chose infrastructure already operating across assets, rails, and markets are better positioned as adoption co...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
CFTC escalates prediction market fight as state challenges intensify across the U.S. The Kalshi case in Massachusetts heightens tensions, with regulators warning states they will see them in court. Key Takeaways: CFTC filing asserts exclusive authori...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin’s safe-haven properties remain under market pressure as Willy Woo says major capital pools still treat it as untested. That perception keeps bitcoin tied to risk assets during global uncertainty. Key Takeaways: Bitcoin still trades like a ris...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Morgan Stanley Investment Management launched a stablecoin reserve fund to meet rising institutional demand for compliant digital asset infrastructure. The move deepens its push into tokenization and crypto-linked products as market participation exp...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
State gambling enforcement against Kalshi is being challenged as 38 attorneys general back Massachusetts’ lawsuit. The case could shape whether states can enforce gambling licensing rules against event contracts. Key Takeaways: Coalition of 38 attorn...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Polish prosecutors have opened a fraud investigation into cryptocurrency exchange Zondacrypto after chief executive Przemysław Kral departed for Israel, where his citizenship could prevent extradition, leaving up to 30,000 users facing losses tied to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
A coalition of five DeFi protocols filed a Constitutional AIP on the Arbitrum governance forum on April 25, asking the Arbitrum DAO to release 30,765.67 ETH frozen after the April 18 KelpDAO exploit. Key Takeaways: Aave Labs, KelpDAO, and three other...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
A domain registered on July 20, 2008 — e-cash.org — is drawing renewed attention from Bitcoin historians and researchers who believe Satoshi Nakamoto registered it weeks before creating bitcoin.org. Key Takeaways: Historians like Gwern Branwen link e...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Chainlink Labs has listed three oracle data services on the AWS Marketplace, giving developers a direct path to connect blockchain smart contracts with Amazon cloud infrastructure. Key Takeaways: Chainlink Labs listed 3 oracle services on AWS Marketp...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin extended its inflow streak to nine days with a modest $14 million inflow, as ether returned to gains. XRP added to its steady rise, and solana slipped into outflows. Key Takeaways: Bitcoin ETFs added $14 million, with Blackrock IBIT’s $22.9 m...
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Post-quantum startup Project Eleven awarded its 1 BTC Q-Day Prize to independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli on April 24, 2026, for breaking a 15-bit elliptic curve cryptography key on a publicly accessible IBM quantum computer, a result the company c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Ben Pasternak, the 26-year-old founder of Solana-based token launchpad Believe, was arrested in New York on charges of second-degree strangulation and assault as the platform’s native token trades 99.8% below its all-time high. A class action lawsuit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
French prosecutors have charged 88 people across 12 crypto-related kidnapping cases as France records 41 such attacks in 2026 alone, with the country now accounting for roughly 40% of all crypto ransom attacks across Europe. Key Takeaways: France’s a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin developer and Drivechain architect Paul Sztorc announced a new Bitcoin hard fork called eCash, set to launch this August, giving every BTC holder an equal number of eCash coins at the time of the split. Every holder, that is, except Satoshi N...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
A new report on the state of bitcoin mining in Latam found that the region is lagging in bitcoin mining adoption, even as it holds vast energy resources. While Paraguay holds the fourth place in global hashrate, Hashrate Index picked Brazil and Venez...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
An April 23 non-binding opinion from an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union has found Malta’s Bill 55 incompatible with EU law, marking the second significant setback for the country’s iGaming protection regime in just over...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum stated that the goal was for 50% of government sectors to operate through autonomous agentic AI. The transition will also include the training of federal employees to “master AI” and will be overseen...