A 32-page report to Congress acknowledges financial privacy as a valid reason to use mixing services, even as Samourai Wallet founders sit in prison

The bank managing $8 trillion in client assets filed an amended S-1 with the SEC, opting for third-party cold storage custody rather than building the capability in-house

Intercontinental Exchange secures a board seat and plans to license OKX spot prices for US-regulated crypto futures, with tokenized NYSE equities on the roadmap

John Daghita allegedly exploited his father's firm's access to US Marshals Service seized assets, raising urgent questions about government Bitcoin custody practices

Barefoot Mining uses Ocean's DATUM protocol to independently signal for the data-restriction soft fork, demonstrating how pools can restore miner sovereignty

Simplicity smart contracts enable post-quantum transaction signing without a hard fork, letting users opt in to advanced cryptographic protection permissionlessly

Wyoming's full-reserve SPDI gains direct Fedwire access after five years of regulatory engagement, challenging the fractional reserve model that dominates U.S. banking

A full recovery within 48 hours of the Iran strike dip inverts the traditional crisis playbook as gold drops from $5,400 to $5,160

Core Scientific dumps $175 million, Bitdeer reduces holdings to zero, and Bitfarms declares it is no longer a Bitcoin company

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 picks Bitcoin 91.3% of the time while OpenAI averages just 26%, as 90.8% of all responses reject fiat currency entirely

Africa's first major airline to accept Bitcoin at checkout converts to rand via fintech partners, operating within South Africa's Travel Rule framework that went live in April 2025

The privacy-focused multicoin wallet integrates Breez SDK and a custom Spark implementation that keeps Lightning invoices off public explorers by default