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MARA Holdings sold 15,133 Bitcoin—about $1.1 billion—between March 4 and March 25 and used the proceeds to retire $1 billion of convertible debt at a discount. Several other publicly listed miners, including Core Scientific, CleanSpark, Riot Platforms, Bitfarms and BitDigital, are similarly divesting Bitcoin assets to fund AI‑focused data‑center builds. The April 2024 halving pushed the average cost to mine one BTC to roughly $88,000, well above the current $67,000 price, eroding margins for large, debt‑laden operations. This exodus is lowering network difficulty and flooding the secondary market with cheaper ASICs, reviving opportunities for smaller miners.
The post imagines an alternate 2026 where FTX survived its 2022 collapse and grew into a $300 billion crypto titan, boasting a $52.5 billion venture portfolio that includes a $30.4 billion Anthropic stake, $5.1 billion in Solana, and a $5.7 billion Robinhood holding. In reality,...
CoinShares, a Jersey‑based crypto asset manager that has been profitable every year since 2014, debuted on the NASDAQ through a SPAC merger with Vine Hill Capital. The listing adds a successful, fee‑based crypto business to the pool of publicly traded...
Asset manager Franklin Templeton, overseeing $1.7 trillion, has signed a deal with Ondo Finance to issue five of its ETFs on a public blockchain, enabling 24/7 crypto‑wallet trading across multiple regions. The move coincides with the NYSE’s memorandum with Securitize to...
Ethereum’s 2016 surge from a $1 billion market cap to a $500 billion behemoth is often cited as a blueprint for emerging blockchain infrastructure. Bittensor (TAO), a decentralized AI network, now trades around $275 with a $2.7 billion market cap and has attracted...
Dubai built a thriving crypto ecosystem with zero tax, safety, attracting 1,800 firms and 8,600 employees. Since February, Iranian missile and drone attacks have damaged key infrastructure, prompting a perception of Dubai as a war zone. The fallout includes a...
Mastercard has launched a Crypto Partner Program that brings together more than 85 crypto‑native companies, payment providers and financial institutions, including Binance, Circle, PayPal and Ripple. The initiative focuses on building real‑world use cases such as cross‑border remittances, B2B transfers...
Elon Musk granted early access to X Money, his upcoming payments platform, to actor William Shatner, who posted screenshots and sold 42 beta slots for $1,000 charitable donations. Musk sent Shatner a $42 test transaction, echoing the Hitchhiker’s Guide joke,...
Bitcoin surged past $70,000, climbing over 6% after the Iran‑Israel conflict eased, outpacing gold and equities. Simultaneously, the first block signaling support for BIP‑110 was mined by the Ocean pool, marking a concrete step toward a temporary soft fork that...
