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Month: July 2025
A Japanese AI Firm Plans to Buy 3,000 Bitcoin Over Next 12 Months
Japanese AI firm Quantum Solutions is set to start investing in bitcoin (BTC) through its Hong Kong-based subsidiary, GPT Pals Studio, the company said in a press release. The decision, approved at a board meeting on July 23, includes plans to initially purchase up to $10 million in BTC using borrowed funds. The firm aims … Read more
U.K. starts enforcing online age check rules
A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday.
Astronomer winks at viral notoriety with ‘temporary spokesperson’ Gwyneth Paltrow
After spending the past week-plus in the headlines due to a seemingly inescapable social media scandal, data operations startup Astronomer is trying to shift the narrative with a tongue-in-cheek video starring actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow.
'Parabolic bull markets and devastating bear markets are over’ — BTC analyst
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have permanently reduced volatility and altered Bitcoin market dynamics, according to analysts.
Bitcoin Hits $1T Realized Cap as Price Holds Above $118K After $9B BTC Sale by Satoshi-Era Whale
Bitcoin continues to trade above the $118,000 mark, holding steady after a week of significant institutional developments and a landmark milestone in on-chain metrics. According to CoinDesk Data, BTC was last up 1.45% over the past 24 hours, bringing its 30-day gain to 10.42% and lifting its year-to-date performance to more than 26%. Blockchain analytics … Read more
Russian Entities Using Kyrgyzstan’s Crypto Industry to Evade Sanctions: Report
TRM Labs found that Russia-linked activity accounts for almost all of Kyrgyzstan’s cryptocurrency industry.
$100K Per Engine? How Bureaucrats Made CNG Illegal in the US in Everything but Name
Vehicles can be converted to run on compressed natural gas with relative ease. TLDR: The US has the world’s largest natural gas reserves (24% of global production) and infrastructure, yet maintains the world’s most restrictive CNG regulations, resulting in <0.1% market penetration while China operates 8.76 million CNG vehicles and India has 7.5 million. EPA … Read more
Is Washington Engineering the Largest Financial Market IPO in History?
Placing stablecoins under the purview of the U.S. regulatory system and Treasury was just the beginning. If U.S. debt were to ever hold a public IPO moment, this is it. But the U.S. is not stopping there. It looks to export even more to the globe. I like to think of it as a global … Read more
Test Results for AMD Zen 5
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State of Crypto: The Senate Responds to Clarity Act
The Senate Banking Committee has introduced a discussion draft bill for addressing crypto market structure, tackling part of what will overall be a significant legislative push to meet the House’s Clarity Act. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future … Read more
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Coinbase’s Base App Rebrand Sends a Little-Known Token Soaring 440% Amid SocialFi Boom
Coinbase’s rebrand of its Wallet into the Base App has kicked off a SocialFi surge, sending Zora’s (ZORA) activity into overdrive and leading to a massive rally for its token. Zora, which lets users mint tradable tokens tied to individual social posts, saw a dramatic rise in use following the app’s July 16 rebrand. The … Read more
Bitcoin bulls 'in control’ as BTC price rebounds to $118K
Bitcoin delivers a classic liquidity grab with a correction below $115,000 only to bounce back, while traders eye a BTC price showdown with new all-time highs next.
BNB Rebounds to $780 After $520M Windtree Buy Commitment, Shows Signs of Stabilizing
BNB rose around 0.6% in the last 24 hours, shaking off a recent drop to now trade close to $780. At its peak, the token reached $785.75, bouncing from a low of $761.22 during a stretch of high-volume trading. Much of the volume centered on a sharp correction, when BNB dropped from $774.52 to $761.34 … Read more
Demographics will 'leapfrog' Bitcoin adoption in Pakistan — Bilal Bin Saqib
A young and tech-savvy population, combating inflationary pressures, is driving Bitcoin adoption and a new financial system in Pakistan.
SUI Soars 15% as Analysts Predict Breakout to as High as $10 on Surging Momentum
Sui (SUI) rallied 15% on Saturday to $4.23, extending its multi-week surge and outperforming most major cryptocurrencies. The token is now up 13.1% over the past week, 28.7% in the last 14 days, and 62.3% over the past month, according to CoinDesk data. The move drew renewed attention from crypto traders, with analysts flagging potential … Read more
C# Packages Find a New Home in .NET 8 – Godot Engine
A new version of .NET is released in November each year, alternating Long Term Support (LTS) and Standard Term Support (STS) releases. The quality of all releases is the same. The only difference is the length of support. LTS releases are supported for 3 years, while STS releases are supported for 18 months. With the … Read more
.gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean
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Optimi-Zi(n)g Sudoku-Solving
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Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images
Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images.
Wyoming’s Stablecoin Billed as Yield-Bearing Alternative to CBDC Control
The Wyoming Stable Token is expected to debut next month, putting a publicly funded twist on the stablecoin sector.
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Granger Causality and the Negative Wealth Effect in BAYC-Linked Virtual Assets
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Data and Methodology 2.1 Bubble Timestamping 2.2 Cryptocurrency-LAND Wealth Effect 3. Results 3.1 Bubble Timestamping 3.2 Cryptocurrency-LAND Wealth Effect 3.3 Granger Causality Test 4. Conclusion and References Appendix: Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Otherside Appendix: Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Otherside Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) is arguably the … Read more