Bitcoin uses proof of work; Ethereum switched to proof of stake. The debate is usually framed as one being better or greener. They are really two different answers to the same question: how do strangers agree on a ledger without a boss?
Crypto casino Duelbits went offline after attackers drained about $7 million from hot wallets on four blockchains, in a suspected private-key compromise. Its co-founder says user funds are safe. That reassurance, as ever, is the platform’s own.
Every crypto wallet is either connected to the internet or it is not, and that single fact decides most of your risk. Here is the difference between hot and cold storage, and how to match the wallet to the job.
Bullish, Alpaca, Apex and others formed a coalition to tie tokenized stocks to official shareholder records, days after AMC’s chief executive called some existing stock tokens a “quasi-fake market.” The fight is over what you actually own.
Buying bitcoin takes about five minutes. Doing it safely takes a little longer, and it is the part the apps gloss over. Here is the careful version: where to buy, how to pay, and how to store it so it is actually yours.
Crypto exchange Bitget said roughly $352 million was affected in a hack, which its chief executive attributes to spoofed transfers rather than compromised private keys, and says user funds are safe. As ever with an exchange breach, that is the company’s own account.
Passing the GENIUS Act in 2025 was treated as the finish line for US stablecoin regulation. It was the starting line. The Fed, OCC and FinCEN are now writing the rules that actually bind issuers, with an OCC deadline in November.
New York’s attorney general sued Polymarket as an unlicensed gambling operation. Hours later Polymarket countersued, arguing its event contracts are federally regulated swaps that a state cannot touch. The label, market or bet, is now a legal question.
Bitcoin fell about 55 percent in its latest bear market, tame next to the 70 to 80 percent crashes of past cycles. Analysts say a new, institution-heavy owner base is smoothing the drops, and, less comfortably, the rallies too.
Individual bitcoin holders flipped from sellers to buyers in the third quarter, adding more than 107,000 BTC in what River Financial calls the fastest retail accumulation in years, nearly erasing the 140,000 they sold in the first half.
US spot bitcoin funds took in about $2 billion in the week to September 23 and flipped 2026 flows positive, yet bitcoin was rejected at $87,000. The gap between demand and price is the real story.
TOKEN2049 Singapore returns to Marina Bay Sands on October 7 and 8, billing itself as the world’s largest crypto event, with 25,000 attendees expected and a speaker list that runs from Binance’s founder to the chief executive of Nasdaq.