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Public Bitcoin Miners Are Taking Over—But Their Stock Keeps Dropping

The largest Bitcoin mining companies are steadily claiming greater dominance over Bitcoin’s network security, even though their stock performance this year might not suggest such success. JP Morgan analysts summed up the current state of the market in their “September ’24 Bitcoin Mining Halftime Report" published Monday, noting that publicly listed U.S. mining companies saw their piece of the network hash rate pie expand for the fifth straight month—to a record 26.7%. Hash rate measures the pace...

Bitcoin ETFs Bounce Back in a Big Way as Investors Expect Rate Cuts

Money flowed back into Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other crypto investment vehicles last week—just in time for the Federal Reserve’s key meeting tomorrow.  Data from Jersey-based digital asset manager CoinShares showed on Monday that a total of $436 million hit funds that give exposure to cryptocurrencies. This came after a period of outflows where investors cashed out $1.2 billion in a bearish trend, including $726 million the week before last. Most of that money that flowed in las...

New Brain Implant Allows Man with ALS to Control Amazon's Alexa with His Mind

A 64-year-old man paralyzed by ALS was able to communicate via his thoughts to his smart devices using a new type of brain implant that avoids potentially risky brain surgery. The man, identified only as “Mark” in a YouTube video uploaded Monday by Synchron, a New York-based company that makes the brain-computer interface, was apparently able to control a range of Amazon Alexa-enabled devices, including answering video calls, using just mind control. In a previous demonstration, Mark used Synchr...

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Plans to Raise $700M to Buy More Bitcoin

MicroStrategy, the largest corporate reserve holder of Bitcoin with over $14 billion worth, announced Monday that it plans to buy even more Bitcoin as part of a private offering of $700 million worth of convertible senior notes. The firm said that it will use proceeds from the sale to redeem $500 million in previous senior secured notes that are due in 2028, with an expected total cost of $523.8 million including interest. MicroStrategy then plans to use any remaining proceeds to purchase more B...

Zynga’s Crypto Gaming Team Just Spun Out and Revealed a New Game

Zynga, the mega mobile and casual game publisher behind FarmVille, has relinquished control of the Sugartown crypto game and its IP. The team that was working on the game has now relaunched as a new independent company, called D20 Labs, picking up where Zynga left off—and has already revealed a brand new game. D20 Labs was co-founded and is led by Matt Wolf, formerly the VP of Web3 gaming at Zynga, alongside ex-Zynga Web3 General Manager Tommy Ngo. By breaking off from the mobile gaming publishe...

Bitcoin Critic Elizabeth Warren Urges Fed Chair to Make Massive Rate Cut

Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates dramatically this week, with the outspoken crypto critic arguing that higher borrowing costs have threatened the U.S. economy for too long. “Now is the time to swiftly move forward with rate cuts,” the Senator from Massachusetts wrote in a letter addressed to Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The letter was also signed by Senators John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). In the letter, lawmakers called for a 75...