Strategy Buys More Bitcoin and Retires Nearly 2M STRC Shares – Bitcoin News
Key Takeaways Strategy acquired another 250 BTC for $21.5 million, bringing its total bitcoin holdings to 848,250 BTC. Michael Saylor confirmed the purchase Monday, following Sunday’s teaser about adding more bitcoin. Strategy also repurchased $192.4 million in STRC shares while…
Strategy Buys Another $21M in Bitcoin as Accumulation Streak Rolls On
Despite the modest purchase, the company’s stash hit another ATH. After hinting on X yesterday that the company he co-founded decades ago has completed another BTC purchase, Michael Saylor announced the development minutes ago, indicating that Strategy has indeed…
China probes P2P giant CreditEase, founder faces police action
Chinese authorities have opened a criminal investigation into companies linked to former peer-to-peer lending giant CreditEase, with founder Tang Ning and several other suspects placed under compulsory criminal measures as the group faces a major investor repayment crisis. Summary Beijing…
XRP ETF Buyers Refuse to Quit Despite Sitting on a $230M Paper Loss
Key Takeaways Bitwise’s XRP fund supplied $10.55M of the Oct. 5-9 inflow, while Canary’s XRPC lost $3.34M. Sosovalue data puts XRP ETF assets at $1.57B against $1.8B in lifetime inflows, a gap near $230M. Evernorth’s XRPN starts trading on Nasdaq…
Kraken parent Payward secures full Dubai license for UAE crypto launch
Kraken’s parent company Payward has secured full regulatory approval in Dubai to launch cryptocurrency trading and financial services for retail, professional and institutional customers in the United Arab Emirates. Summary Kraken parent Payward has received full market approval from Dubai’s…
Bitcoin Price is $4K Away From Wiping out the Next Wave of Shorts
Key Takeaways BTC closed the week of Oct. 11 at $83,773 after a low of $80,393, down 3.2% week over week. Kook Capital data showed 93.3% of $26.34M in BTC liquidations were shorts as ETH shorts lost $29.5M. KillaXBT flags…
Coinbase AI Agent Cuts Fraud by 30% in Onramp Experiment
The adapted model caught a larger share of fraudulent transaction value, a measure that can matter more than simply counting detected cases. Coinbase has fine-tuned an open-weight AI model on its proprietary transaction data to outperform a leading closed-source…
Who Will Lead the DICT Next? Three Contenders, Three Vastly Different Futures for Pinoy Cyberspace
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Whether you use the eGovPH app to handle official documents, run an online business through digital payment gateways, rely on…
Jeonbuk Bank becomes first South Korean lender to offer Bitcoin backed loans
South Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank has introduced the country’s first bank issued won loans backed by Bitcoin, allowing corporate customers to use their cryptocurrency holdings as collateral for business financing. Summary Jeonbuk Bank has become the first South Korean bank to…
DATA Network joins Sui and Walrus to scale the supply chain for AI training data
[PRESS RELEASE – Palo Alto, United States, October 12th, 2026] Trace, the onchain registry for rights-cleared AI training data with more than 250 million verifiable receipts, brings its training data to Sui and Walrus to power the next generation of…
