This Week in Crypto Games: Major ‘Off the Grid’ Update, GameStop's $5 Billion Bitcoin Proposal
Catch up on this week’s biggest crypto and NFT gaming news and find some weekend reads in our latest roundup.
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How thin weekend Bitcoin liquidity turns minor geopolitical news into massive Monday price gaps for ETF holders
An investor who owns Bitcoin through a brokerage account can finish work on Friday, check the closing price of a spot ETF, and ass...
Bitcoin miners saved Texas power grid from collapse, but their lucrative pivot to AI is stripping away the emergency brake
Texas broke its all-time electricity demand record twice in two days last week. ERCOT served a preliminary 91,308 megawatts around...
Coldcard’s $89M wallet bug triggers the biggest Bitcoin movement since FTX and completely distorts market signals
Coldcard’s wallet crisis has shaken Bitcoin sentiment, blurred on-chain signals and exposed a recurring weakness in AI-assisted cy...
A major Japanese Bitcoin mining pool just pulled the plug on its Bitcoin service just as 3 mega-miners claimed 60% of the network
By the time SBI Crypto pulled the plug on its Bitcoin pool in Japan on July 31, its seven-day average hashrate had fallen 64% in a...
If Bitcoin breaks $62k over the weekend, a $1.1B short overhang stands ready to pull price down to $60k
Bitcoin enters the weekend near $62,900, less than 1% above the July 31 intraday low, and Deribit has already settled roughly $9.6...
Saylor hints at Strategy bitcoin buy after five-week pause as STRC rate stays at 12%: ‘Bitcoin Drive engaged’
Strategy has gone five consecutive weeks without a disclosed bitcoin purchase; the firm last reported holding 843,775 BTC acquired...