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Ripple has joined the x402 Foundation as a Premier Member, placing XRP and RLUSD within an industry effort to develop internet-native payments for AI agents, APIs, and applications. The Linux Foundation-backed initiative launched with 40 members focused on creating an open payment standard for automated commerce. Why Ripple Joined the x402 Foundation Ripple announced on…Read More

The Czech Republic has become the latest European country to block Polymarket as unlicensed gambling, adding the crypto-based prediction market to its official blocklist and giving internet providers 15 days to cut access. Another European door closes as Gibraltar’s opens The Czech Finance Ministry added Polymarket to its List of Unauthorized Internet Games on Monday,…Read More

Team Liquid, Rune Eaters Esports, and LGD Gaming survived elimination Tuesday at the Esports World Cup 2026 Dota 2 tournament, while an integrity review postponed the remaining July 14 series. 3 Teams Keep Their Playoff Hopes Alive The Survival Stage at the Esports World Cup in Paris began with 12 teams competing for the tournament’s…Read More

More than seventeen years after Bitcoin’s launch, the question of whether Satoshi Nakamoto was a single individual or part of a coordinated group remains one of the protocol’s most consequential unsolved mysteries. So we asked five of today’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) models to settle the debate. 5 AI Models Asked if Satoshi Worked Alone…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine China’s Prosecutors Move to Treat Crypto Mixers as Evidence of Money Laundering China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate published proposals that would make it easier to prosecute crypto-related money laundering, including treating the use of mixers and privacy coins as presumptive evidence of laundering intent. This post China’s Prosecutors Move to Treat Crypto Mixers as…Read More

Bitcoin staged a sharp intraday turnaround, climbing from under $63,000 to peak at $64,913 before stabilizing around $64,500. This 4.2% gain pushed the total crypto market capitalization past $2.3 trillion. Inside the Intraday Rally In a remarkable turnaround, bitcoin reversed its Monday losses and came close to breaching the $65,000 mark even as turmoil in…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine The Bitcoin Softfork That Tried to Police “Junk Data” — And Why It’s Already Failing Bitcoin’s real power is that anyone willing to pay fees can write to the ledger. BIP-110’s backers want to change that for data-heavy transactions. The backlash reveals what’s truly at stake. This post The Bitcoin Softfork That Tried…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine CleanSpark Signs $6.6 Billion Data Center Lease as Bitcoin Miner Pivots to Compute CleanSpark, the Nasdaq-listed bitcoin miner, said on July 14 that it has signed a 20-year infrastructure lease with an unnamed high-investment-grade global technology company at its campus in Sandersville, Georgia.  The deal marks the firm’s largest step from pure bitcoin…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine UK Adopts ‘No Gain, No Loss’ Tax Treatment for Crypto Lending and Liquidity Pools The UK will introduce a “no gain, no loss” tax treatment for qualifying crypto lending and DeFi liquidity pool transactions from April 6, 2027, deferring Capital Gains Tax until users make an economic disposal of their cryptocurrency. This post…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Jumps Above $64,000 as Cooler-Than-Expected Inflation Strengthens the Case for Rate Cuts Bitcoin price climbed above $64,000 after cooler-than-expected June inflation boosted expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts, though sticky core inflation and rising oil prices continue to cloud the outlook. This post Bitcoin Price Jumps Above $64,000 as Cooler-Than-Expected Inflation…Read More