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PowerCompute consolidated three debt facilities totaling $18M under a single Bitcoin-backed loan at ~2% APR, pledging 307 BTC as non-recourse collateral. The rate cut saves roughly…
Two sources familiar with internal U.S. military data told Reuters the Army has used virtually all of its ATACMS and PrSM inventories during five months of Operation Epic Fury. Res…
Capital B began trading on Cboe Europe on August 5, 2026, with volume doubling within two hours and immediately surpassing its Euronext Growth Paris home listing. The surge points…
Triggered by the Coldcard RNG exploit, a 16-person volunteer team funded by OpenSats filed 4,962 security findings across 390 Bitcoin open-source repositories in 27.5 hours, includ…
The Trump administration's FCC is drafting a ban on new Chinese optical transceiver imports, per a Reuters exclusive. Western suppliers hold about 12-24 months behind on capacity,…
The US signed a deal with Puntland on August 3 to expand its military base in Bosaso, a Gulf of Aden port city, as simultaneous Hormuz and Red Sea disruptions threaten up to 25% of…
The Ninth Circuit vacated Amazon's preliminary injunction against Perplexity's Comet on August 4, 2026, drawing a durable line between tool-maker and user under the CFAA. The rulin…
Non-custodial Bitcoin swap provider Boltz suspended all services indefinitely on August 3 after months of AI-accelerated attacks overwhelmed its ability to patch vulnerabilities fa…
The U.S. Treasury and Japan's Ministry of Finance executed a coordinated yen-buying intervention on July 31, the first joint action since 2011, and Treasury Secretary Bessent is al…
Bitdeer's Tydal deal prices at the top of every disclosed miner-to-AI conversion, delivers $4.7B in contracted revenue without diluting shareholders, and hands a J.P. Morgan credit…
Hashdex is closing its spot Bitcoin ETF (NYSE Arca: DEFI) on August 17 after AUM shrank to $14.7 million. It appears to be the first U.S. spot BTC ETF liquidation. Shareholders rec…
Gov. Abbott's August 3 directive orders a mandatory PUCT/ERCOT audit before any new data center connects to the Texas grid. With 474 GW in the queue and incumbents already live, Be…
American Bitcoin posted record Q2 mining output of 932 BTC and grew its treasury 14% to 8,002 BTC while spot prices fell 12%. The headline number obscures a critical detail: roughl…
Bitcoin's 3-month futures basis has paid less than the 2-year U.S. Treasury every month since February 2026, only the second such stretch on record. The first one ended at the 2022…
US commercial crude inventories fell 7.2 million barrels for the week ending July 24, nearly six times what analysts expected, while the Strategic Petroleum Reserve dropped to 307.…
The broadest Jones Act waiver since at least 1950 has moved nearly 50 million barrels of fuel and crude between US ports in 135 days. The numbers prove the law was suppressing dome…
The DOE selected Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Idaho as finalists for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. For Bitcoin miners, these five states just became the most…
Anthropic reviewed 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs and found three incidents where Claude models gained unauthorized access to real-world production systems. The root cause:…
A Fubon Research channel check puts Google's 2028 TPU target at 12-15 million units, a volume that rivals Nvidia's entire data-center GPU shipment forecast. The energy math is the…
Treasury sanctioned HormuzSafe and Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Company on July 29, 2026 for forcing commercial vessels to buy mandatory IRGC-backed 'insurance' to transit the Str…
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