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Vince Quill is a writer and journalist covering cryptocurrencies, macroeconomics, and financial news at Cointelegraph. His work has been syndicated on ZeroHedge and featured on the Coin Bureau YouTube channel. Before working as a financial journalist, he was a political opinion writer with over five years of experience and a real estate investor. He holds a bachelor's degree in communication from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Vince has no crypto holdings above Cointelegraph’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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Strategy expands STRC offering twice in two weeks The company continues to accumulate BTC through corporate equity and debt offerings, but class action lawsuits against Strategy are mounting.
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Bitcoin’s Independence Day: 8 years after the Block Size Wars The value of Bitcoin has grown substantially since the BTC community asserted independence from miner domination on Aug. 1, 2017.
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Ethereum researcher pitches ‘Lean’ network for quantum era The proposal aims to make Ethereum faster and quantum-resistant, while also reducing the layer-1 blockchain's technical complexity.
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Visa expands stablecoin offerings amid rising competition from institutions Visa, Mastercard, tech firms and banking institutions are all exploring ways of using blockchain technology for payments and settlement.
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US SEC rolls out ‘Project Crypto’ to rewrite rules for digital assets The initiative aims to modernize the SEC for 21st-century finance and was formed in response to recent policy recommendations from the White House.
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Trump White House releases long-promised crypto report The report rehashed many of the policy objectives touted by the Trump administration for regulating crypto in the United States.
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Treasury companies solve Ether's narrative problem — Bitwise exec Equity investment vehicles present ETH in a way that is palatable to investors in the legacy financial system, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan says.
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Polygon Hemidall mainnet experiences temporary outage The Bor layer, which handles transaction execution, did not experience any downtime and continued producing blocks, the Polygon team said.
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Solo Bitcoin miner scores $373,000 block reward Solo miners successfully adding blocks to the Bitcoin blockchain network is a rare event, but still not impossible in 2025.
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'Parabolic bull markets and devastating bear markets are over’ — BTC analyst Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have permanently reduced volatility and altered Bitcoin market dynamics, according to analysts.
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Demographics will 'leapfrog' Bitcoin adoption in Pakistan — Bilal Bin Saqib A young and tech-savvy population, combating inflationary pressures, is driving Bitcoin adoption and a new financial system in Pakistan.
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El Salvador’s Bitcoin reserve fails to help the average citizen — NGO exec Changes to El Salvador's Bitcoin laws under the IMF agreement put the benefits of BTC even further out of reach for the average resident.
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Robert Kiyosaki warns of the risk posed by BTC, gold and silver ETFs The investor warned against fraudulent paper claims made on hard assets, but ETF analysts told Cointelegraph that the fear is unfounded.
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MEV arbitrageurs on Ethereum increasingly centralized — Research Arbitrageurs who exploit price discrepancies between centralized and decentralized crypto exchanges are harming network decentralization, new research finds.
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Trading platform WOO X pauses withdrawals after $14M breach The hack only affected a limited number of user wallets, but withdrawals have been temporarily paused for additional safety, the team said.
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Anchorage Digital announces stablecoin issuance platform on GENIUS’ heels The digital asset service company joins a growing list of firms making stablecoin moves following the GENIUS bill's passage into law.
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Traditional companies enter the crypto treasury game with BTC, XRP and SOL buys Traditional firms like Nature’s Miracle, Upexi, and Kitabo are adding BTC, XRP, and SOL to their treasuries, signaling growing corporate interest in crypto assets.
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Trump’s AI plan eases data center rules, strips federal DEI guidelines On Wednesday, the White House released its plan to make the United States a global leader in artificial intelligence research and development.
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AI and blockchain are already disrupting legacy education system Projects across multiple educational sectors are leveraging AI and blockchain to provide more accessible alternatives to students.
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Saylor signals Bitcoin buy as Strategy's stash climbs to over $71B Strategy continues accumulating Bitcoin as it hits all-time highs in July, and the total crypto market cap breaches the $4 trillion mark.
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US Lawmaker sounds alarm on GENIUS bill, says it’s a CBDC Trojan Horse The line between a central bank digital currency and a centrally-managed, government-regulated stablecoin is thin, critics argue.
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Macro drivers will dampen Bitcoin’s halving cycle — Tim Draper The decline of the US dollar and the loss of purchasing power due to fiat currency inflation will drive global demand for Bitcoin.
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Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX hacked, $44M drained The cybersecurity exploit occurred due to a “sophisticated server breach,” CoinDCX CEO and co-founder Sumit Gupta said on Saturday.
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GENIUS’ ban on stablecoin yield will drive demand for Ethereum DeFi — Analysts The lack of yield-bearing options for US-regulated stablecoins under the GENIUS bill will drive investors to search for interest elsewhere, analysts said.
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El Salvador hasn’t bought Bitcoin since signing loan deal, IMF says The IMF report directly contradicts regular posts from El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office that the country is purchasing one BTC per day.
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Canary Capital bets on Injective with staked ETF filing The move follows SEC guidance treating staking rewards as income, enabling asset managers like Canary to back blockchain-based tokens through delegated staking.
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Nasdaq files application to add staking for BlackRock iShares ETH ETF Staking for crypto exchange-traded funds has been a feature long sought by traditional financial institutions and asset managers.
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Crypto Week Day 4: US lawmakers remain divided on key bills Republicans and Democrats tussled over the Trump family’s crypto ties, consumer protections, and backing stablecoins with fiat assets.
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‘There is no legitimate use case for crypto’ — US Representative Stephen Lynch Lynch joined his Democratic colleagues in denouncing cryptocurrencies and calling for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).