Solo Bitcoin Miner Wins Big After Securing an Entire Block Reward
A solo bitcoin {{BTC}} miner beat a swathe of powerful mining pools to receive a $181,000 reward after mining block 860749 on Tuesday.Source
Second U.S. Firm tZero Said to Become Crypto Broker Dealer Under SEC Oversight
A second company, tZero Group Inc., said it’s achieved status as a fully registered U.S. broker dealer under a rule allowing for crypto firms to join those ranks, following a path previously blazed by Prometheum Inc.Source
Core Scientific Is Uniquely Placed to Deliver AI Data Center Scale in the Near Term: Bernstein
The bitcoin miner benefits from readily available sites and power, less competition and the ability to hire strong data center talent, the report said.Source
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: ICP and RNDR Lead as Index Inches up 0.5%
Internet Computer gained 4.0% while Render rose 3.5%.Source
Polygon to Buy $5M of Servers With Computer Chips Devoted to Zero-Knowledge Cryptography
The purchase is part of a deal with hardware maker Fabric, that is also producing custom zero-knowledge chips for Polygon’s AggLayer.Source
UK Regulator Charges First Individual With Running a Network of Illegal Crypto ATMs
Olumide Osunkoya, 45 year old Londoner has been accused of running crypto ATMs that processed british pounds 2.6 million ($3.4 million) in crypto transactions across various locations.Source
Kalshi’s U.S. Election Markets Delayed Until Friday at Earliest
The judge in the prediction market’s court case against the CFTC has called a hearing Thursday over the regulator’s motion for a two-week delay.Source
Tether’s $100M Investment in LatAm Agriculture Firm May Be a Tokenization Play
Adecoagro is a founder and partial owner in an Argentina-based agricultural commodities tokenization platform Agrotoken.Source
Coinbase Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Regulator Risk Concerns, Judge Rules
A U.S. judge denied in part last week Coinbase’s request to dismiss a class action lawsuit from shareholders accusing the exchange of misleading them about its chances of being sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Source
Michael Saylor Says Republicans Have More ‘Progressive’ View on Crypto, Democrats ‘Drifting to the Middle’
Republicans are way ahead of Democrats regarding their opinion of crypto and bitcoin {{BTC}}, said MicroStrategy (MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael Saylor.Source