Bitmine Nears Goal of Controlling 5% of Ethereum Supply With $11.8 Billion Treasury

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. AI labs are shipping new models nonstop. Besides being better and faster than their predecessors, every new model isn’t guaranteed to be a major step change, despite how the company’s PR may wax poetic about them. Model strengths really emerge in context:…

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Tax-free shopping typically runs in late July and early August. Only certain states support tax-free purchases on Apple products. iPhones, iPads, and Macs could qualify depending on the state. Looking to buy a new iPhone, iPad, or Mac but turned off by…

Public companies’ Bitcoin treasury reserves become something very different once pledged to lenders. They become collateral, measured against loan ratios that can force a company to post more Bitcoin, repay debt, or risk lender sale rights within hours. That risk is no longer theoretical. Fold received a formal collateral-maintenance notice in February and posted 50…

Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has established a dedicated cryptocurrency investigation unit to target money laundering and terrorism financing involving digital assets. The unit sits inside the FIA’s newly operational National Command and Control Centre, known as NC3. Pakistan Builds an Enforcement Arm for Digital Assets FIA Counter-Terrorism Wing Director Dr Muhammad Athar Waheed told…

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Ethereum’s EIP-8222 upgrade aims to boost validator privacy but may increase costs and delays for institutions.  Pluang