The blockchain analytics firm claims Grayscale is the world’s second-largest BTC entity. Blockchain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence claims to have identified the addresses of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust. The trust consists of more than 1,750 addresses holding a total of over $16 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC), according to a Sept. 6 thread on X...Continue Reading

The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI’s profits came as a result of using illegally scraped data to train its models. OpenAI and Microsoft have been named as the defendants in yet another class-action lawsuit over their alleged use of web scraping techniques to obtain supposedly private data for the use of training ChatGPT and other associated...Continue Reading

Bitcoin’s current price action leaves much to be desired, but multiple indicators point to what could be a generational buying opportunity for patient investors. Bitcoin (BTC) price action suggests that the asset remains in a precarious position and a recent report from ARK Invest said that short-term Bitcoin investors had no choice but to capitulate...Continue Reading

Orbital, ZTX, Stroom Network, unshETH and Fxhash highlight the latest funding deals from the world of crypto and blockchain. The sharp increase in global interest rates may have limited investors’ appetite for crypto ventures, but new projects are still flourishing and attracting capital to speed up growth. Data from the Cointelegraph Research Venture Capital Database...Continue Reading

After the rug pull, Xirtam scammers directly deposited stolen funds onto Binance, prompting the exchange to freeze the assets. Crypto exchange Binance has created an automated smart contract to reimburse users following the events of the Xirtam rug pull. According to a Sept. 6 announcement, users affected by the Xirtam rug pull can receive their money...Continue Reading

The motion from Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers will now go to a three-judge panel, with less than four weeks before the former FTX CEO’s criminal trial is set to begin in New York. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, lost an initial appeal to return to being free on bail prior to his...Continue Reading

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo took a lie detector test to celebrate the launch of his latest NFT collection in July. In this week’s newsletter, read about how German flagship airline Lufthansa uses nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to reward loyal customers and how soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo teased his future NFT plans during a lie detector test....Continue Reading

As Texas baked in the sun, Riot Platforms received two types of monetary credit for being attentive to the grid’s power needs. Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms mined fewer Bitcoin in August than July but received over $31 million in power credits. That is the equivalent of around 1,136 Bitcoin (BTC), CEO Jason Les pointed out in...Continue Reading

Bitcoin and several major altcoins continue to show weakness, but a few data points do favor bulls in the short term. Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading between $25,333 and $26,156 since Sept. 1. Typically, a volatility squeeze is followed by an expansion in volatility, but it is difficult to predict the direction of the breakout...Continue Reading

A new paper co-authored by Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin highlights the use of zero-knowledge proofs as a tool for regulatory compliance and on-chain privacy. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a research paper diving into privacy pools systems as a tool to achieve more privacy in financial transactions, allowing users to prove dissociation from illicit funds...Continue Reading