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Wall Street is turning AI’s massive electricity appetite into a $61 billion bond market
News Article Sep 05, 2026
Wall Street is turning AI’s massive electricity appetite into a $61 b…

Every interaction with AI uses electricity in a data center. Servers calculate the answer, cooling equipment carries aw…

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XRP Ledger has fewer active accounts than last year, but bigger trades and more value
News Article Sep 05, 2026
XRP Ledger has fewer active accounts than last year, but bigger trade…

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Southeast Asia’s crypto funding rebounds to $680 million as investors focus on mature firms
News Article Sep 05, 2026
Southeast Asia’s crypto funding rebounds to $680 million as investors…

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Bitcoin dips below $80,000 as a hot August jobs report shifts Fed policy expectations
News Article Sep 05, 2026
Bitcoin dips below $80,000 as a hot August jobs report shifts Fed pol…

August payrolls weakened the case for patience, leaving Sept. 11 CPI as Bitcoin’s next decisive volatility test. The po…

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A major outage and corporate backlash hit Robinhood Chain at the peak of its growth
News Article Sep 05, 2026
A major outage and corporate backlash hit Robinhood Chain at the peak…

Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth ran into two problems at once on Sept. 4 as the network briefly stopped producing blocks…

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El Salvador added 1,540 Bitcoin, but the IMF says Bukele’s government didn’t pay for them
News Article Sep 04, 2026
El Salvador added 1,540 Bitcoin, but the IMF says Bukele’s government…

A new IMF disclosure says no public resources funded the accumulation since its first review, exposing a gap in the cou…

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Hidden Solana upgrade bug can freeze network readers and silently disable fee limits
News Article Sep 04, 2026
Hidden Solana upgrade bug can freeze network readers and silently dis…

Mainnet activation is still pending, but incompatible indexers, streams and sponsors must update before the first v1 tr…

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TikTok's Parent Company Just Borrowed $30 Billion to Go All-In on AI
News Article Sep 04, 2026
TikTok's Parent Company Just Borrowed $30 Billion to Go All-In on AI

Nearly 30 banks backed the rare unsecured facility as TikTok’s parent company spends heavily on AI chips, models, and o…

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Hargreaves Lansdown Reverses Course, Rolls Out Bitcoin Trading
News Article Sep 04, 2026
Hargreaves Lansdown Reverses Course, Rolls Out Bitcoin Trading

Bitcoin Magazine <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/hargreaves-lansdown-to-allow-bitcoin-etns" rel=

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G7 Warns Quantum Threat Demands Action as Crypto Industry Weighs Fixes
News Article Sep 04, 2026
G7 Warns Quantum Threat Demands Action as Crypto Industry Weighs Fixes

The group is urging organizations to adopt post-quantum security before powerful computers can compromise today’s encry…

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Bitwise 14% yield gap in XRP futures shows how institutions are quietly extracting cash from traders
News Article Sep 04, 2026
Bitwise 14% yield gap in XRP futures shows how institutions are quiet…

Its 10.8 million-XRP custody position is 97.5% offset by futures, and CFTC categories complicate the obvious answer. Th…

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Polymarket Launches Crypto Perpetual Futures With Up to 20x Leverage
News Article Sep 04, 2026
Polymarket Launches Crypto Perpetual Futures With Up to 20x Leverage

The prediction market platform's new Perps product scaled from 10 markets to 67 on its first day—though the 20x leverag…

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