Something big just dropped in the crypto world. NVIDIA, the company famous for its powerful graphics cards, is suddenly under a microscope. A new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sent shockwaves through the market. The filing suggests NVIDIA might have been involved in activities that could influence cryptocurrency prices. This … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) ranged below $82,000 into Friday’s Wall Street open as stock markets slid further on AI financing concerns. Key points: Bitcoin struggled to rebound after falling more than 3% on Thursday. It briefly dropped below $81,000. AI infrastructure spending remained a persistent market concern as neocloud infrastructure provider CoreWeave slid to 17-month lows. Crypto … Read more
Update (Oct. 23, 6:27 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a response from Tether. Senator Richard Blumenthal has requested information from Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino after a Wall Street Journal report said that the stablecoin issuer had inked a $6.3 million deal with a marketing company co-founded by former White House crypto … Read more
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is preparing to overhaul its voluntary disclosure program, with plans to reduce penalties and accelerate the resolution of tax violations, including those involving cryptocurrencies, according to a Friday report by Forbes. IRS Criminal Investigation Chief Jarod Koopman said the agency aims to introduce the revised program before December, with … Read more
Initia halted its layer-1 blockchain and rollups after blockchain sleuths reported an exploit that allowed an attacker to mint tokens without authorization and drain more than $2.6 million in crypto assets. The network was halted at 3:41 p.m. UTC on Friday following a security incident, Initia said in a post on X. The team said … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) saw a fresh dip below $81,000 after Friday’s Wall Street open as Brent crude oil set new seven-month highs. Key points: Bitcoin briefly dropped below $81,000 at the start of Friday’s US trading session as stocks drifted lower and the US 10-year yield remained below 5%. Brent crude oil reached $116 per barrel … Read more
New York Attorney General Letitia James has asked a court to order defunct crypto and forex trading platform NovaTech’s founders, Cynthia and Eddy Petion, and related companies to pay $1.37 billion over its Ponzi scheme. The AG is seeking the return of about $1.13 billion in investor funds, plus $232.5 million in interest, according to … Read more
Switzerland’s financial regulator FINMA’s first approved spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund for retail investors is expected to begin trading in November. On Tuesday, FINMA announced it had approved the country’s first spot Bitcoin ETF that invests directly in Bitcoin, but did not disclose who the issuer was. On Thursday, BIT Asset Management said its Bitcoin Fund … Read more
Bitcoin Core is changing how it handles security vulnerabilities, explaining that large language models have made certain software flaws significantly easier to discover. In an email to the Bitcoin Development Mailing List on Thursday, Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot said that in the past, vulnerabilities were generally kept under lengthy disclosure embargoes to give users … Read more
Something big is happening behind the scenes at Coinbase, one of the biggest crypto exchanges. Today, October 23, 2026, a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has come to light. This filing suggests a serious ethics investigation is underway, and it could shake the foundations of the crypto market. We don’t know … Read more