The judgment was first made in August and has now been cleared to take effect, according to a filing in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A U.S. appeals court has concluded the legal process to officially confiscate 69,370 Bitcoin and other crypto from defunct dark web marketplace Silk Road.  According to...Continue Reading

LAION-5B, a large artificial intelligence data set used to train several popular text-to-image generators, was found to contain child sexual abuse material. A widely-used artificial intelligence data set used to train Stable Diffusion, Imagen and other AI image generator models has been removed by its creator after a study found it contained thousands of instances...Continue Reading

In Nigeria, stablecoins have become the favored cryptocurrency because they’re tied to a widely accepted asset, the U.S. dollar, providing a hedge against inflation and the devaluation of the naira. Brazil has knocked Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, off its second-place perch on the interest-in-Bitcoin rankings. El Salvador has retained its position in the top spot,...Continue Reading

Three commercials for Bitcoin ETFs have appeared this week as the marketing war between competing asset managers heats up. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuers have fired two new salvos in a brewing crypto marketing war, rolling out a total of three crypto ads in just two days. Bitwise rolled the first Bitcoin ETF advertisement...Continue Reading

The price of Ethereum is down against Bitcoin and Solana at levels not seen in years, prompting some critics to predict Ether’s “death” on social media. Ethereum bulls have been forced to defend against a wave of slander on Crypto X after some critics noticed the price of Ether (ETH) has been lagging against Bitcoin...Continue Reading

Bitcoin may have finally stopped dying, at least in the eyes of mainstream media. Mainstream media has declared Bitcoin “dead” only seven times in 2023, its lowest frequency in ten years, according to a Bitcoin obituaries tracker. The data comes from 99bitcoins’ BTC obituaries tracker, shared by industry expert Jameson Lopp on Dec. 20 on...Continue Reading

In a Dec. 19 podcast, Coinbase researchers warned there are at least two potential problems that could arise with the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs. The launch of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States could cause a shortage of “regulated” Bitcoin (BTC) and hurt one popular trading strategy, according to Coinbase researchers. ...Continue Reading

Computer scientist Dr. Stephen Thaler attempted to file two patent applications in the name of an AI model he created. The United Kingdom’s top court has rejected an appeal from a computer scientist who has been trying to get his AI model recognized as the inventor of two new patented products. In its judgement, the...Continue Reading