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Why Bitcoin’s “compressed” valuation offers reduced downside risk compared to stocks

Bitcoin BTC$66,878.77 Stocks may have already priced in the effects of tighter monetary policy, leaving stocks more exposed to the latest macroeconomic shocks, according to asset manager Bitwise. The company’s comments come as the cryptocurrency continues to correct below $70,000, down more than 23.7% year to date. Geopolitical unrest and energy disruptions, particularly from the […]

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The quantum threat of crypto is real and is driving divergent strategies between Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana.

As quantum computing moves closer to practical reality, the crypto industry is beginning to face a question it has long put off: What will happen if the cryptography that underpins trillions of dollars of digital assets no longer holds up? So far, the responses have been anything but uniform. In many of the best-known ecosystems

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Crypto Future Bright Amid AI Assault on SaaS, Says Kraken-Backed SPAC

Don’t be fooled by crypto’s prolonged bear market, the industry remains a sound investment and less threatened by AI replacement than traditional software-as-a-service (SaaS) operations, according to Ravi Tanuku, CEO of KRAKacquisition Corp. (KRAKU), a blank check company backed by American crypto exchange Kraken. The company, a Nasdaq-listed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by

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Here’s the sequel to Anthropic’s most powerful AI model leaked via insecure data cache

Anthropic is testing the most powerful AI model ever built, and the world wasn’t supposed to know it yet. A data leak reported by Fortune on Thursday revealed that the AI ​​lab behind Claude has trained a new model called “Mythos,” which it describes internally as “by far the most powerful AI model we’ve ever

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Beware of Bitcoin developers. Google says post-quantum migration must happen by 2029.

The crypto industry’s reaction was that the threat of quantum computing was still distant when Google unveiled its Willow quantum chip in December 2024. Bitcoin uses SHA-256 for mining and ECDSA for signatures, both of which are theoretically vulnerable to quantum decryption, but the consensus was that the threat was decades away. Breaking the encryption

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Ripple turns to AI to test the XRP Ledger as institutional use cases evolve

Ripple is overhauling how it secures the XRP Ledger, and AI is at the center of the effort. Its engineering team outlined a new AI-based security strategy for the XRP Ledger in a detailed post earlier this week, one that integrates machine learning tools throughout the protocol’s development lifecycle. The strategy includes AI-assisted code analysis

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Bitcoin miners are becoming AI companies and selling their BTC to fund the transition

The bitcoin mining industry is undergoing the most fundamental transformation in its history, and the clearest sign isn’t hashrate or difficulty adjustments. These are the balance sheets. CoinShares’ Q1 2026 mining report, released this week, reveals that the weighted average cash cost to produce one bitcoin among publicly traded miners reached approximately $79,995 in Q4

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Morgan Stanley enters the Bitcoin ETF race with market-leading low fees

Morgan Stanley Considers Pricing Its Bitcoin Project in Spot BTC$65,854.18 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) at 14 basis points, a level just below current low-cost options for similar products, according to an amended filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The move could spark a new wave of fee competition among existing funds. The latest

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Why Mastercard paid double for the stablecoin infrastructure it could have built

When one of the world’s largest card networks pays a significant premium over a company’s latest valuation to acquire it, it’s worth paying attention. When the company in question builds a stable settlement infrastructure, it tells you something fundamental about where the payments industry believes it needs to be – and how urgently it needs

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Bitcoin, Coinbase, Strategy, Gemini and Galaxy swept away by market rout

Crypto stocks are taking a hit Friday as weakness in U.S. stocks spills over into high-risk assets, fueling bitcoin. BTC$66,110.85 below $66,000. Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) and digital asset conglomerate Galaxy (GLXY) fell nearly 7%, while exchange Gemini (GEMI) slipped almost 9%, marking one of the group’s steepest losses. Cryptocurrency-friendly broker Robinhood (HOOD) also fell

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