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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 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.
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