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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.

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Business · Data

TeraWulf'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.

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Markets · Analysis

STRC 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.

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Security · News

Former 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.

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Security · Event

Eric 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.

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Markets · Data

Intesa'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.

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Business · Analysis

BNY 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.

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Business · Event

BNY 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.

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Markets · Deep Dive

Four 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.

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Security · News

Coldcard 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.

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Security · Event

Coldcard seed-generation advisory and wallet migration

This file tracks the affected firmware, corrected releases, migration warning and promised technical review.

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Markets · News

T. 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.

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Markets · News

ARKB 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.

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Markets · Briefing

What 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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