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Total open interest on Bitcoin futures hit $29 billion on Aug. 16 despite a decline in Bitcoin’s price.

Dek: AI-powered websites allowing users to create nonconsensual nude photos of women and girls were visited 200 million times in the first half of the year.

“I love New Zealand. I’m not leaving,” said Bitcache and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom on X after the New Zealand Justice Minister signed off on a United States extradition order.

The crossing of this indicator on two different timeframes has signaled to traders that short-term performance may be weakening, sparking fear in the market.

Robin Linus has unveiled a new whitepaper for BitVM2 and BitVM Bridge, two new developments that offer significant improvements to the original version of BitVM.

Onchain sleuth ZachXBT claims to have found a network of North Korean developers who have been working on dozens of crypto projects.

A tax on the energy used by crypto miners could cut emissions by 100 million tons a year, equal to Belgium’s emissions, say two IMF executives.

Low user numbers and sex predator scandals are killing South Korean metaverses, 3AC sues Terra, Malaysian crypto kidnappings. Asia Express.

Bitcoin price falls as demand for leveraged long BTC futures and stablecoins drops.

Depending on the November presidential election outcome, Fred Thiel said he would consider “looking outside the US” for Bitcoin mining firm MARA’s operations.

Multiple analysts believe that Ethereum price is likely to touch new lows near $1,600.

A total of nine out of 13 US-listed Bitcoin mining companies raised capital through stock offers in the second quarter of 2024.

In July 2024, Circle became the first stablecoin issuer to comply with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulatory framework.

The stablecoin issuer said there was a risk of a “respective loss for the holders of AEUR tokens” due to FlowBank’s bankruptcy in June.

Other investors in the round include PayPal, Lightspeed, Galaxy Ventures, Wintermute, F-Prime Capital, Slow Ventures and The Spartan Group. 

According to data from DefiLlama, the Tron network has accrued $1.31 million in network revenue during the past 24 hours alone.

Low uptake of Grayscale’s Solana fund is an early indicator, she said.

“There’s a sense of inevitability” that NFTs are the start of a renaissance in digital art says 24 Hours of Art’s RD: NFT Collector.

After Black Monday, the stock market fears recession and Wall Street predicts an AI bubble burst, with Nvidia and tech stocks under pressure. Will crypto AI projects survive?

In his 1971 speech ending the gold standard, Richard Nixon promised to stabilize the dollar, but instead, nearly everything has gone up in price.