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Cash App's bitcoin fee cuts traded margin for a cheaper on-ramp
Block's SEC-filed Q1 letter shows Bitcoin Ecosystem gross profit down 26% year over year. The result exposes the economic choice behind cheaper retail trading.
2 min readBusiness · DataTeraWulf's filed numbers already show a data-center company replacing a miner
HPC leasing supplied 62% of first-quarter revenue while bitcoin output more than halved. A later Anthropic lease extends the pivot, but its long-dated contract value is not current revenue.
2 min readMarkets · AnalysisSTRC turns Strategy's bitcoin balance sheet into a credit product
Strategy has scaled the preferred stock to $8.5 billion while building cash to service dividends. The instrument is a claim on the company, not bitcoin with a coupon.
2 min readSecurity · NewsFormer LAPD officer receives life sentence in $350,000 bitcoin home invasion
Eric Halem was convicted of kidnapping and robbery after a crew posed as police and took a teenager's bitcoin. Two current reports say the court imposed life plus 15 years.
2 min readSecurity · EventEric Halem bitcoin home-invasion case
The case has moved from a December 2024 armed home invasion to a jury conviction and reported life sentence. Co-defendant outcomes and restitution remain open.
2 min readMarkets · DataIntesa's 13F adds IBIT call exposure and a staked-ether ETF position
The March filing reports $95.9 million of IBIT call exposure alongside $24.9 million of IBIT shares, $81.2 million of ARKB and a new $3.15 million staked-ether ETF position. The filing covers the reporting manager and affiliated portfolios; it is not evidence that the bank put the same amount on its own treasury balance sheet.
2 min readBusiness · AnalysisBNY is turning crypto custody into a servicing stack
Bitcoin and ether safekeeping was the entry point. USDC issuance and redemption, followed by planned staking, show BNY assembling the accounting and operational layer around institutional crypto assets.
2 min readBusiness · EventBNY digital-asset custody expands into stablecoins and planned staking
BNY's platform has moved from bitcoin and ether safekeeping to USDC issuance and redemption. Galaxy is now helping design a staking layer that remains under regulatory review.
2 min readMarkets · Deep DiveFour crypto-linked ETF closures expose the economics of product survival
SEC filings from three 2026 closures show where the wrapper stops helping: narrow strategies still need enough assets, trading activity and investor demand to pay for operating complexity.
2 min readSecurity · NewsColdcard entropy flaw leaves affected wallets needing new seeds
Coinkite says seeds created on multiple Coldcard generations can contain substantially less randomness than expected. Fixed firmware prevents new weak seeds, but it cannot repair keys that already exist.
3 min readSecurity · EventColdcard seed-generation advisory and wallet migration
This file tracks the affected firmware, corrected releases, migration warning and promised technical review.
1 min readMarkets · NewsT. Rowe Price crypto ETF adds StoneX and Virtu as trading counterparties
The agreements give TKNZ two more routes for spot crypto trades. They also spell out where execution, counterparty and systems risk still sit.
2 min readMarkets · NewsARKB plans to replace its bitcoin pricing benchmark with FTSE data
The current CME CF licence is due to end August 31. The sponsor expects to sign with FTSE first, so the benchmark switch is planned rather than complete.
2 min readMarkets · BriefingWhat the first CFTC-approved bitcoin perpetual actually permits
KalshiEX received approval to list BTCPERP as a futures contract. Approval answers the regulatory question, not whether the contract has deep liquidity or broad access.
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