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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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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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