A federal judge in Manhattan refused to vacate the January 2025 consent order, leaving Gemini's $5 million penalty and an injunction in force even though the CFTC itself asked for the case to be undone.
Mining bitcoin in 2026 pays for very few people. A single machine at home usually spends more on power than it earns. Here is what a coin really costs to produce, a worked example with live difficulty and price, and why your electricity rate decides the outcome.
The US Treasury lists 262 bitcoin addresses against 65 names on its sanctions list: 46 people and 19 services. Who they are, which legal authorities they fall under, and what being on the list actually does.
A single tagging attribute in CleanSpark's June 2026 10-Q multiplied a bitcoin figure by a thousand. More than two months later the SEC's structured data API still serves 1,719,000 bitcoin, which would be 8.55 percent of every coin ever mined.
Mastercard has turned its $1.8 billion BVNK purchase into a product. The Global Money Platform lets banks and fintechs hold fiat and stablecoins in one account, convert between them and pay out to local banks, with wider coverage promised for 2027.
The index provider finalized a screen for non-operating companies on Thursday. Strategy, Metaplanet and several digital asset treasury firms could be dropped from MSCI benchmarks, with the list of affected names set for November 11.
Restaking lets you reuse staked ETH to secure extra services for added yield. Here is how it differs from staking and liquid staking, where EigenLayer fits, and the risks you take on with each layer.
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Gemini and the CFTC argued that a settlement the regulator now regrets should be wiped out, along with the injunction that still binds the exchange.
Our read: The CFTC's own review documented real flaws, a whistleblower it calls not credible and evidence withheld from a commissioner, but the court found the facts predated the 2025 settlement and that Gemini, with lawyers, chose to settle. The order and the penalty stand.
The US sanctions list carries 262 bitcoin addresses attached to 65 named people and entities.
Our read: We downloaded the complete SDN list from the Treasury's own export endpoint on 16 October 2026 and parsed the digital currency address entries in the remarks field. The counts are reproducible from that file.
The SEC's machine-readable data reports CleanSpark holding 1,719,000 bitcoin, a thousand times the figure in its own filing.
Our read: We read the filing and the inline XBRL attributes on it directly, and queried the SEC's company concept API on 16 October 2026. The filing text says 1,719 bitcoin as a collateral receivable. The tag on that number carries a scale of 3. The API returns 1,719,000. The comparative figure in the same filing, which carries no scale attribute, comes through correctly.
Mastercard says its Global Money Platform will be the single infrastructure layer for every form of money, letting any bank or fintech plug fiat and stablecoins into one API.
Our read: The platform is live through BVNK with named partners like Nuvei and Marqeta, but the promised reach is mostly ahead: payouts in 40-plus currencies are a 2027 target, tokenized deposits and agentic commerce have no date, and no partner has given transaction volumes.
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Mining bitcoin in 2026 pays for very few people. A single machine at home usually spends more on power than it earns. Here is what a coin really costs to produce, a worked example with live difficulty and price, and why your electricity rate decides the outcome.
Quantum computers could one day crack the signatures that protect Bitcoin wallets. No machine is close yet. Here is what the threat is, which coins are exposed, and the defense work already under way.
Coinbase, the custodian of roughly 5% of all bitcoin, published a paper on 13 October urging developers to start building quantum-resistant defenses now. No computer can break bitcoin today. The company says the fix could take years, so the clock has started.
A single tagging attribute in CleanSpark's June 2026 10-Q multiplied a bitcoin figure by a thousand. More than two months later the SEC's structured data API still serves 1,719,000 bitcoin, which would be 8.55 percent of every coin ever mined.
Mastercard has turned its $1.8 billion BVNK purchase into a product. The Global Money Platform lets banks and fintechs hold fiat and stablecoins in one account, convert between them and pay out to local banks, with wider coverage promised for 2027.
The index provider finalized a screen for non-operating companies on Thursday. Strategy, Metaplanet and several digital asset treasury firms could be dropped from MSCI benchmarks, with the list of affected names set for November 11.
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.
VanEck filed a Form RW on October 14 to withdraw its proposed Lido Staked Ethereum ETF, a fund that would have held the stETH liquid staking token. It never launched, and the company gave no reason for pulling it.
A spot bitcoin ETF lets you track bitcoin's price inside a normal brokerage account, but you never hold the coins. Buying bitcoin directly puts the asset in your own custody. The choice comes down to control, cost and how much you want to manage yourself.
Bitcoin fell below $81,000 in Asian trading on October 15 after US consumer inflation ran hotter than expected for September. Ether and XRP slid more, and about $483 million in crypto futures bets were liquidated in a day as traders cut their bets on a Federal Reserve rate cut.