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Category: CRYPTO & BLOCKCHAİN
Bitcoin whale moves $34 million in BTC it got in 2013 when coins traded at $131
The specific wallet behind Sunday’s move received the bulk of its funds, some 411 BTC, on Sept. 11, 2013. Back then the cryptocurrency traded around […]
71% of Americans Doubt Trump Will Deliver $5,000 Dividend Checks: Poll
Most Americans don’t expect to ever see the $5,000 payment the president is promising if Republicans keep control of Congress in next month’s midterms. A […]
Top 3 CAC 40 stocks to watch this week: Hermes, Essilor, and L’Oreal
The CAC 40 Index has tried to recover over the past few days, rising from this month’s low of 7,682 points to 7,956 points today. […]
Banks Hold a Lever Over Stablecoin Adoption, BIS Economists Say
In brief A new BIS working paper using U.S. data from 2019 to 2025 found that higher bank deposit rates predict slower stablecoin market growth. […]
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Head to UN Security Council Over AI Risks
Sam Altman is going to the United Nations. So is Dario Amodei. Both CEOs — Altman running OpenAI, Amodei at the helm of Anthropic — […]
Bitcoin’s Quantum Transition Won’t Stop at Bitcoin
HONG KONG, October 18, 2026 – As quantum computing advances, the challenge extends beyond Bitcoin’s cryptography to the financial infrastructure built around it. Quantum computing […]
Sam Altman’s World Targets Deepfake Fraud With New Banking Tools
WLD remains nearly 96% below its record high, even as World expands its verification technology into Zoom meetings and financial workplaces. World, the iris-scanning identity […]
US Interest Payments on Public Debt Hit Record $1,052,000,000,000 in Fiscal 2026, Swallowing About a Fifth of Federal Revenue
The cost of carrying America’s national debt has climbed to a new record and now eats up about a fifth of everything the federal government […]
Zoom adds ‘proof of human’ badges to show you’re not a deepfake
Sam Altman-backed World has rolled out biometric verification badges for Zoom enterprise users, aiming to combat AI deepfake impersonation and fraud.