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- KuCoin Presents KuMining: Embodying "Simple Mining, Smart Gains" for Effortless Crypto Accumulation PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, September 3rd, 2025 KuCoin, a leading global cryptocurrency exchange, is pleased to announce the launch of KuMining, an innovative cloud mining brand incubated by KuCoin. Positioned as a next-generation platform under the banner "Simple Mining, Smart Gains," KuMining is committed to democratizing industrial-scale mining, delivering transparent, cost-effective, and accessible solutions to users of all experience levels. This initiative provides direct access to authentic, industrial-grade hashrate for Bitcoin (BTC) and Dogecoin (DOGE), with merged mining capabilities for Litecoin (LTC)...

- "Is It Too Late To Buy Bitcoin?" Crypto’s latest downturn has investors questioning how to protect and grow wealth amid volatile markets and changing adoption trends. Major digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum have seen both thrilling highs and disappointing corrections, fueling anxiety about what happens next for crypto portfolios. According to The Wall Street Journal, businesses and individuals alike are eyeing new buying strategies and defensive measures this summer as crypto prices remain highly unpredictable. Financial pros highlight risk control and diversification as top priorities for investors facing market turbulence. Furthermore, mainstream investment groups and smaller buyers are both incorporating Bitcoin, while...

- Can Ethereum Institutional Demand Counteract Bearish Options Traders? Experts highlight a stark divergence between Ethereum’s bearish options activity and bullish institutional inflows. The second-largest crypto by market capitalization has seen perpetual open interest decline by 2% from $24.6 billion to $24.1 billion since September 1, according to Coinanlyze. Bitcoin’s bullish outlook in the same period, however, is bullish, accompanied by growing open interest. Ethereum’s bearish positioning is evident in Deribit’s data, which shows “a large increase in open interest of puts since the end of August,” Andrew Melville, head of research at crypto derivatives analytics platform Block Scholes, told Decrypt. This rush to buy...

- Riot mines 477 Bitcoin in August, down 2% from previous month Riot Platforms’ (RIOT) August update reported 477 bitcoin mined in August, representing a 48% increase over the 322 BTC mined in August 2024 and a 2% drop from July 2025’s 484 BTC. Average daily production was 15.4 BTC, compared with 15.6 BTC in July and 10.4 BTC a year earlier. Riot added 22 BTC to its treasury in August and holds 19,309 BTC at month-end. The company sold 450 BTC in August, generating net proceeds of $51.8 million. Riot’s deployed hashrate rose to 36.4 EH/s from 35.5 EH/s in July, while the average operating hashrate climbed to 31.4 EH/s. Power management continued to drive value: total power credits reached $16.1 million (up 148% year-on-year), and...

- Key Points YieldMax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEMKT: MSTY) is kind of a weird beast. Let's walk down the ladder of strangeness, starting with a really basic stock market tracker and ending up with the YieldMax fund. The route goes straight through the cryptocurrency corner of Wall Street: Why the payouts jump around As you might imagine, the ETF's payouts aren't stable at all. After 18 monthly cash distributions in this ETF's short history, the monthly payout has varied from $1.09 to $4.42 per share. The peak payouts have come in periods of extreme Strategy volatility, usually based on corresponding Bitcoin moves. To be clear, the total return (with DRIP enabled) on the YieldMax ETF usually sticks fairly close to...

- Pump.fun’s New Fee Model Hands Out $2M to Creators in First 24 Hours Popular Solana token launchpad Pump.fun has revamped its fee model, which it claims will increase the earnings of creators on the platform tenfold. Streamers on the platform believe it is a major step towards the platform rivalling established platforms like Twitch, as Pump.fun’s earnings for small creators look to outsize non-crypto livestreaming platforms. Over the past 24 hours following the update, $2 million was distributed to creators on the platform, according to Dune data. To put this into perspective, on Monday, just $198,000 was handed out to creators under the previous fee structure. Rasmr, one of the top streamers on Pump.fun, earned $2,290 via...

- American Bitcoin debuts on Nasdaq, Gryphon shares soar in pre-market American Bitcoin Corp. begins trading on the Nasdaq today under the ticker “ABTC” following the completion of its stock-for-stock merger with Gryphon Digital Mining (GRYP), according to a company press release. American Bitcoin aims to be an institutional-grade bitcoin accumulation platform. Its dual accumulation strategy is designed to maximize bitcoin per share by mining at a structural cost advantage and deploying capital flexibly across market conditions. “Today, American Bitcoin becomes a premier public vehicle for investors seeking scalable, singular exposure to the defining asset class of our time,” said Eric Trump, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer...

Spot Crypto on U.S. Exchanges? SEC & CFTC Just Opened the Door A rare joint staff statement from the SEC and CFTC says registered U.S. exchanges are not prohibited from facilitating trading in certain spot crypto products. This indicates that a real path for spot crypto trading is now visible. What Happened The SEC and the CFTC issued a joint statement saying that SEC- or CFTC-registered exchanges can facilitate trading of certain spot crypto asset products, under current law. This means that spot BTC and ETH trading is coming, along with several other crypto majors. The statement serves as staff guidance and outlines evaluations on margin, clearing, settlement, market surveillance, and trade-data dissemination. It is a part of the...

- U.S. Bancorp is restarting its bitcoin custody service after a more than three-year pause, as the Trump administration's pro-crypto posture has encouraged traditional financial institutions to delve deeper into digital assets. U.S. Bank Bitcoin Custody Program U.S. Bank's bitcoin custody program—which the firm first announced it would offer in 2021—is geared toward institutional investment managers with registered or private funds and, for the first time, bitcoin exchange-traded funds. Crypto firm NYDIG will act as the sub-custodian, meaning NYDIG will provide custody of the underlying asset while U.S. Bank will serve as the client-facing intermediary, the bank said. "Having a bank-owned provider that has that strength and...

- Venus Protocol, a major lending platform on BNB Chain, said it fully restored operations after suspending withdrawals and liquidations in response to a suspected exploit on Tuesday. The protocol confirmed on Wednesday that lost funds had been recovered and that the pause allowed security teams to complete full checks to ensure its front end was not compromised. The incident, which stemmed from a malicious contract update that drained an estimated $27 million, prompted Venus to halt key functions while investigating. On-chain sleuths had initially flagged suspicious movements from the platform’s Core Pool Comptroller contract, which seemed to route user assets including vUSDC and vETH to the hacker's wallet. Despite the platform’s...

- Winklevoss Twins Back $147M Raise for Treasury’s Landmark European Bitcoin Listing Treasury BV said it raised 126 million euros ($147 million) in a private funding round led by Winklevoss Capital and Nakamoto Holdings, allowing it to acquire more than 1,000 bitcoin (BTC) as it seeks to become the largest publicly traded European bitcoin treasury company. For the public listing, the company led by CEO Khing Oei entered into a binding agreement with MKB Nedsense NV (MKBN), a Dutch investment company focused on small and medium-sized enterprises, to execute a reverse listing on Euronext Amsterdam. Backed by bitcoin pioneers including Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, Treasury said it plans to lead Europe’s bitcoin strategy. The...

- Gold Rally: What Does It Mean for the Mining Sector? BlackRock Thematic and Sector Investing Global Head Evy Hambro discusses the current situation in the gold market as the precious metal extended a six-day rally to print a fresh all-time high, and what this means for the gold mining industry. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Hambro says there is a "rather surprising trend of share buybacks across the space." He also says there is a tactical allocation to gold in multi-asset portfolios, and central banks are looking to build gold reserves. "As long as these trends continue, then we're going to have these tailwinds for gold price and that will flow through into the equities." This article has been published in Yahoo News via...

- Investors Bought the XRP Hype -- Is It Now Time to Sell the News? Over the past century, no asset class has rivaled the annualized return of stocks. But when the lens is narrowed to just the trailing decade, cryptocurrencies have absolutely crushed the benchmark S&P 500 in the annualized return column. Though Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has led the way with its first-mover advantages, it's XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) that's been flying the highest of all the major digital assets of late. Over the trailing-12-month period, XRP has practically quintupled, up 396%, while Bitcoin has gained a more "modest" 84%, as of the late evening on Aug. 29. Whereas stocks tend to ebb and flow because of tangible financial metrics, such as their operating results...

- Winklevoss twins-backed bitcoin treasury firm to list in Amsterdam Netherlands-based Treasury, a bitcoin treasury company backed by US billionaires the Winklevoss twins, announced on Wednesday that it plans to list in Amsterdam via a reverse listing transaction with Dutch investment firm MKB Nedsense. Treasury, which has raised 126 million euros ($147 million) through a private funding round led by Winklevoss Capital and Nakamoto Holdings, stated its goal to attract bitcoin investors in a region where investment options remain limited. ($1 = 0.8542 euros) This article has been published in reuters.com via Yahoo News. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/winklevoss-twins-backed-bitcoin-treasury-061112866.html

- Veteran trader sees key economic signal in surging gold prices The price of gold is going over the rainbow, reaching new heights. Human beings have had a fascination with gold since ancient times, with evidence of its use and mining dating back to around 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia and Eastern Europe. The first gold coins were minted by King Croesus of Lydia in western Anatolia, marking gold's transition into a standardized medium of exchange and an early form of currency. The king, legendary for his riches, inspired the expression, “as rich as Croesus.” Today, the price of gold would likely astonish him. Gold surged to a record on Sept. 2, rising above $3,500 per ounce and surpassing its April peak. The precious metal has nearly...

- SEC, CFTC-Registered Exchanges Receive Blessing to Facilitate Spot Crypto Trading Exchanges registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission should be allowed to facilitate trading of some spot crypto products, the two agencies announced in a joint statement on Tuesday. The SEC and CFTC, the primary regulators of asset markets, did not mention specific digital assets, but said their joint staff statement covers crypto products centered on "leverage, margin, and financed spot retail commodity transactions.” Earlier this year, a report, dubbed “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology" and issued by the President's Working Group on Digital Asset...

- Solana co-founder wants a fair launch for 'Trump Corruption' coin Anatoly "Toly" Yakovenko, a co-founder of Solana, has commented on California Governor Gavin Newsom's parody proposal to create “Trump Corruption Coin,” calling for the governor to use a fair launch protocol should he continue with his proposal. In a post on X, on September 3, Yakovenko said: He then followed up and tagged another dev proposing that they use a Dutch auction model for celebrity tokens to continue his initiative of fair and transparent launches of tokens – even of parodies. What's a dutch auction? Dutch auctions start high and drop until buyers bid. In crypto token launches, the issuer sets a maximum price that decreases until all tokens are sold or...

- U.S. Congressman discloses 2 bizarre crypto trades A sitting member of Congress has reported fresh exposure to cryptocurrency markets, adding both a mainstream token and a meme coin to his financial disclosures. Rep. Michael A. Collins Jr. is a Republican representing Georgia’s 10th District. First elected in 2022, Collins has positioned himself as a pro-business conservative with a focus on transportation, small business, and agriculture. Collins' crypto trades disclosed According to a filing with the House Clerk’s office, Collins purchased Ethereum (ETH) on Aug. 7, in a transaction valued between $1,001 and $15,000. Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of $516 billion and is widely used...

- Hollywood is turning its lens towards crypto with "Killing Satoshi," a conspiracy thriller that will explore the secret identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Director & Cast Director Doug Liman, known for "The Bourne Identity," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," and “Swingers,” will helm the project starring Oscar winner Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson, according to a report from Variety. The film's screenplay, written by Nick Schenk—who previously collaborated with Clint Eastwood on "Gran Torino" and "The Mule"—traces what's described as an elite cabal's efforts to prevent the truth from surfacing. "I love David and Goliath stories," Liman told Variety. "'Killing Satoshi' follows unlikely antiheroes taking on the most powerful people on the planet in...

- Tahini’s, a Canadian restaurant chain offering Middle Eastern fare, has been buying Bitcoin since 2020 and hasn't stopped shopping the cryptocurrency since. This is despite the fact that the chain owner's "investor idol" Warren Buffett referred to Bitcoin as "rat poison." COVID 2020 forces Tahini’s to embrace Bitcoin The Hamam brothers, Omar, Aly, and Ahmed, have been running the Tahini’s restaurant chain across Canada since 2012. But the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 hit the business hard. The Canadian government's assistance programs didn't help either, as employees who were fired didn't see any incentive in returning to work. The government had been printing a lot of cash, and Tahini’s chain owners got worried about the...