Month: March 2026
Bitcoin risks 50% drop as BTC’s positive correlation with US stocks grows
Bitcoin’s 20-week rolling correlation with the S&P 500 has turned positive, a signal that has historically preceded major BTC price declines.
An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple
Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.
Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about online age verification and your privacy, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Virtual private networks, or VPNs, weren’t always … Read more
AI was everywhere at gaming’s big developer conference — except the games
AI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven NPCs and even entire games from a chat box. On the show floor, I spent 10 minutes playing a demo of a pixel-art fantasy world generated by Tencent’s AI tools. In … Read more
Coinbase-backed CoinDCX founders questioned in fraud case: Report
Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX says the fraud complaint is part of a wider impersonation scam, citing more than 1,200 fake sites using its brand.
‘Hawk Tuah’ girl Hailey Welsh says memecoin implosion ‘traumatized’ her
Welsh warned others to stay away from crypto and said that she still does not understand anything about the sector more than a year later.
XRP falls 3% as breakdown below $1.44 and bitcoin weakness caps recovery
Traders are watching support near $1.40 as repeated failures below $1.60 reinforce broader downtrend.
Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8%
The average production cost was sitting at $88,000 per bitcoin in mid-March, according to Checkonchain’s difficulty regression model.
Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?
Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win.
Bitcoin drops below $69,200 as Trump gives 48-hour ultimatum on Iran power plants
BTC fell 2.2% as $299 million in liquidations hit crypto markets, with long positions accounting for 85% of the damage.
Resolv Labs’ stablecoin depegs as attacker mints millions of tokens
An attacker has exploited the Resolv USR stablecoin to mint 80 million tokens and has reportedly been able to cash out at least $25 million.