The last new bitcoin is expected around the year 2140, more than a century away, even though more than 95 percent of the supply already exists. The reason is the halving, a built-in cut to the mining reward that lands about every four years.
The Financial Intelligence Unit asked for the blocks and a media review panel approved them, extending an earlier app-store crackdown to the open web. KuCoin says user funds are safe.
Saudi Arabia has never passed a law that squarely bans crypto, yet it licenses no exchange and warns the public off. Here is what the rules let you do, where they stop you, and the grey areas in between.
Solana will switch on its Alpenglow upgrade on October 21, replacing the TowerBFT voting system it has run since 2020 and targeting transaction finality of about 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds. SOL holders need take no action.
Binance is closing its six-year-old mining pool and its Cloud Mining, Pool Savings and Transaction Accelerator products at 07:00 UTC on November 10. The exchange gave no reason beyond a review, and did not say how much hashrate the pool holds.
Strive, the asset manager run by Matt Cole, added 3,311 bitcoin in the week to October 9 for about $280 million, and now ranks fifth among public companies that hold the coin.
XRP is a free-floating crypto coin, not a stablecoin. Its price swings with the market, while Ripple's separate RLUSD token is the one built to hold a dollar. Here is how the two differ and why the gap matters.
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South Korea's regulator says blocking 27 unregistered exchange websites protects investors from illegal, unlicensed platforms.
Our read: The order is real and grounded in the anti-money laundering law, and 44 operators have been referred to investigators. But users can still reach the sites through VPNs or mirror addresses, no start date or deadline was given, and whether the blocks actually stop usage is untested.
Alpenglow will cut Solana's transaction finality from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds, placing it among the fastest layer-1 blockchains.
Our read: The October 21 date and the governance vote are confirmed by the Solana Foundation's own upgrade page and the September 2025 SIMD-0326 result. The 150-millisecond figure is a design target, not a measured outcome, and the foundation says real speed will only be clear after mainnet runs under load. Rotor, the second phase, has no date.
Binance says closing its entire mining line is routine product housekeeping, part of an ongoing review of its services.
Our read: The shutdown date, deadlines and product list are confirmed in Binance's own notice. What is missing is any reason beyond a review, and any figure for the pool's hashrate, user count or payout timeline.
Strive is quickly building one of the largest corporate bitcoin treasuries and aims to become the world's second-largest public holder by the end of 2026.
Our read: The buying is real and shown in weekly SEC filings: 3,311 bitcoin last week for an average near $84,500, lifting the total to 32,773. But the funding leans on warrant and preferred-share issuance that dilutes holders, the year-end goal needs about 990 coins a week against an 11,227-coin gap to Metaplanet, and the week's average cost sits above the current market price.
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Bitcoin Core 32.0, the software behind most Bitcoin nodes, is due on October 10, 2026. It brings faster block validation, a mempool based fee estimator and two security fixes, including a memory bug that could push a node to 3.2 gigabytes of memory use. Consensus rules do not change.
Mining Bitcoin on your own is still legal and technically possible, but one home rig against a world of giant farms faces odds that run into the millions. Here is how solo mining works, what your real chances are, and why a lucky few still take a whole block.
The US government shifted 12,267 bitcoin worth about $1.01 billion out of a wallet tied to the 2016 Bitfinex hack on 8 October 2026. The coins went to unlabeled addresses, not an exchange, so a sale is not confirmed.
Binance is closing its six-year-old mining pool and its Cloud Mining, Pool Savings and Transaction Accelerator products at 07:00 UTC on November 10. The exchange gave no reason beyond a review, and did not say how much hashrate the pool holds.
Strive, the asset manager run by Matt Cole, added 3,311 bitcoin in the week to October 9 for about $280 million, and now ranks fifth among public companies that hold the coin.
The Tokyo-listed bitcoin holder plans to issue 52 billion yen of zero-coupon convertible bonds, using the money to repay bitcoin-backed loans and buy back shares rather than to add more bitcoin.
Solana will switch on its Alpenglow upgrade on October 21, replacing the TowerBFT voting system it has run since 2020 and targeting transaction finality of about 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds. SOL holders need take no action.
The onchain contracts stay live, but Blur's website and its Blend lending service both close on November 12. Monthly trading volume had already fallen from $1.43 billion to under $7 million.
XRPL developers disclosed and fixed a payment engine flaw, hidden since 2015, that could have created XRP far beyond the network's 100 billion supply cap. The patch shipped in xrpld 3.4.1 on September 25, and RippleX says no public network was attacked.
Bitcoin climbed back above $84,000 on Monday after sliding to about $80,350 last week, with short sellers, not new buyers, behind the bounce. Traders now look to Wednesday's US inflation report.
Pando Finance's spot Solana ETF starts trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 13 under code 2831. Its 0.6% management fee undercuts the city's first Solana fund from ChinaAMC, as issuers compete on price.
Vanguard issues no Bitcoin ETF of its own and says it has no plans to. Since December 2, 2025 its brokerage clients can trade third-party spot Bitcoin ETFs from firms like BlackRock and Fidelity. Here is what you can buy, what stays blocked, and why the firm held out.