BitMine Files 9.5% Preferred Stock Offering To Fund Ethereum Strategy

A British Bitcoin investor has recovered 61 BTC more than a decade after losing access to the coins when early UK exchange Intersango disappeared, turning an inaccessible early-crypto holding into assets worth millions. The investor, identified only as Chris, bought the 61 BTC through Intersango in 2011 when Bitcoin traded at about £2.94. He regained the 61 BTC in full on May 28 after instructing CEL Solicitors in January to pursue the assets. The coins were valued at £3.33 million...

Bitcoin stolen during the third major Coldcard attack wave has begun moving from its original attacker addresses for the first time, with part of the funds converted into Ether through THORChain. Approximately 4.2 BTC was swapped into about 135 ETH as the attacker tested multiple routes through the cross-chain liquidity protocol. Several attempted swaps were refunded before being retried, while the resulting ETH was traced to a newly created Ethereum address. Wave 3 Funds Leave Original Addresses The movement marks...

British television personality Katie Price is reportedly moving to divorce husband Lee Andrews after a cryptocurrency wallet he had presented as evidence of a $50 million fortune was found with a balance of about $3. Andrews had told Price he held roughly $50 million in cryptocurrency and would give her access to part of the money. He later provided a recovery phrase that a financial expert used on August 31 to access the wallet, which contained £2.22 at the time...

Strategy has returned to Bitcoin buying after more than two months without a disclosed acquisition, purchasing 4,603 BTC for approximately $370 million during the week ending August 30. The company acquired the coins at an average price near $80,380 and increased its holdings to 845,050 BTC, reversing part of the decline in its treasury caused by Bitcoin sales during June, July and August. Strategy entered the latest week with 840,447 BTC after making no purchases or sales between August 17...

Ledger has patched a vulnerability in its Ethereum hardware-wallet app that could allow a malicious dApp to replace a transaction during the approval process while the device continued showing users the transaction they originally reviewed. Security firm TestMachine disclosed the signature-substitution flaw on August 21 after reproducing it on Ledger hardware. Ledger had already shipped Ethereum app version 1.22.2 on August 12, with its release history listing security fixes for the update. Malicious dApp Could Change the Transaction Before Signing...

Base creator Jesse Pollak has pushed back against criticism that Coinbase is selling ETH while benefiting from Ethereum, pointing to the exchange’s roughly 150,000 ETH corporate position and years of investment across the network. Pollak argued that Coinbase has held about 150,000 ETH through multiple market cycles, while describing the company as the largest ETH holder outside dedicated digital asset treasury companies by a wide margin. Coinbase’s latest regulatory filing backs up the scale of that position. The company held...

A crypto user lost 1,010 ETH after following an old Tornado Cash bookmark into a phishing frontend that captured the private withdrawal credentials needed to access the deposited funds. The victim deposited the ETH into legitimate Tornado Cash contracts, but the malicious interface obtained the private note generated during the process. The attacker then used those credentials to withdraw the assets within roughly 12 hours without compromising the underlying Tornado Cash smart contracts. Phishing Frontend Targeted Private Withdrawal Notes Tornado...

Ethereum’s network-growth metric has accelerated sharply in August, with new daily ETH addresses climbing from 121,210 on August 8 to 212,560 on August 16. The increase represents roughly 75.4% growth in eight days and adds another signal that activity is returning to the network. New-address creation measures the number of addresses appearing onchain for the first time rather than the number of unique people using Ethereum. A single user or automated system can control multiple addresses, so the metric is...

A crypto trading bot is a chain of dependencies. It reads a position, prices it, decides, places an order, and confirms settlement. Every one of those steps is an API call, and a failure at any single step stops the strategy. The provider choice shapes what a bot can actually do more than the strategy logic does. The common mistake is searching for one API that covers everything. No such API exists in 2026. Market data providers do not route...

Polymarket and Kalshi helped turn prediction markets into a mainstream trading category, but neither platform fits every trader. Access varies by country, market selection can lean heavily toward certain topics, and the tools available for entering, managing, and automating positions differ sharply across platforms. The strongest alternatives are not identical copies. Some emerging prediction markets platforms focus on professional order controls, some concentrate on fast crypto and financial markets, and others use onchain infrastructure or play-money forecasting. Users unfamiliar with...

A funded crypto trading account gives a trader access to more notional capital after they prove they can follow a firm’s risk rules. The usual route starts with a paid crypto prop firm challenge that requires a profit target without breaching daily or overall loss limits. Passing is not only about making money. Drawdown control, minimum trading days and rule compliance determine whether the account survives. The evaluation fee can be lost, and crypto prop firms use different account models,...

Tokenized stock perps allow traders to take long or short exposure to companies, ETFs and equity indexes through crypto-native derivatives markets. Positions can use stablecoin collateral, remain open without an expiry date and continue trading when the main stock exchange is closed. The trader receives price exposure, not ownership of the referenced shares. The interface often looks identical to a crypto perpetual futures market. The risk does not. A stock-linked contract can remain active overnight, through weekends and during holidays...

Trezor has expanded the scope of its ShipMonk data breach after discovering that personal information belonging to approximately 67,000 additional U.S. customers was exposed from orders dating back as far as 2019. The newly identified customers ordered Trezor devices between November 2019 and August 2021. Exposed records include names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses and order numbers, substantially widening an incident initially believed to be limited largely to recent purchases. ShipMonk Retained Data Trezor Expected Deleted The discovery conflicts...

U.S. authorities have seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency tied to Hamas fundraising campaigns while taking control of websites and servers used to solicit donations and communicate with supporters. The operation combined more than $560,000 in court-authorized crypto seizures with infrastructure actions spanning March 2025 through August 2026. Three cryptocurrency seizure warrants were executed in March, June and October 2025, followed by additional operations against online infrastructure in July and August this year. FBI Traced Donations Across Wallets and Bridges...

Tether AI Research has released three families of open-source translation models designed to run directly on smartphones, laptops and other edge devices without requiring an internet connection or cloud processing. QVAC TranslatePsy-AfriSLM supports 19 African languages, AfriNano covers eight, and EuroNano handles nine European languages. Local inference keeps text on the device, allowing translations to continue in areas with unreliable connectivity while avoiding the need to send user data to third-party cloud servers. AfriSLM Covers Languages Used Across Half of...

Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding was sentenced to nearly one year in federal prison on September 1 for stealing confidential technology used to build and operate the company’s artificial intelligence supercomputers. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria imposed 12 months minus one day, followed by two years of supervised release. Ding must also pay more than $198,000 in restitution to Google and a $2,500 fine. The sentence exceeded the federal guideline range of zero to six months. Chhabria characterized Ding’s...