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ForumPay Expands Payment Infrastructure with New Card and Bank Transfer Acceptance Solution
Milton, Georgia, August 11th, 2026, Chainwire Businesses are increasingly looking for ways to offer more payment options without adding operational complexity. ForumPay, a crypto payment infrastructure company, enables merchants to acceptDecryptOpenAI's Only Dedicated Ethicist Has Left With No Replacement: FT
OpenAI's head of ethics has left less than a year after joining, and the company has not replaced her, the Financial Times reported on Monday. Chloé Bakalar joined as AI ethics lead last August and departed in July with no public announcemeDecryptSaylor’s Strategy Racks up $102M in Bitcoin Losses, per Cryptoquant
Strategy has realized more than $102 million in losses from its 2026 bitcoin sales, as Michael Saylor’s company keeps selling coins below its average purchase price to fund dividend and buyback obligations. Key TakeawaysCryptoquant anbitcoin.comWhy Strategy Is Selling Bitcoin and How Much It Has Sold So Far
Since 2020, publicly traded technology company Strategy has spent billions buying Bitcoin. After years of its leadership saying it would never sell, the world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin is now selling some of its stockpile. StratDecryptZuckerberg Says Everyone Will Soon Have AI With Invention Superpowers
Meta plans to give billions of people a free personal AI agent that writes code, builds businesses and manages the household. The company is backing that pledge with up to $145 billion in spending this year. Key TakeawaysMeta promises billibitcoin.comKeel Shuts All Bitcoin Mining With $819M Ready for AI Pivot
Keel Infrastructure has decommissioned all of its U.S. bitcoin mining operations as it converts power-rich sites for AI and high-performance computing. The transition comes with weaker earnings and continued bitcoin sales, but the company sbitcoin.comBitcoin ETFs Shed $144.67M as 5-Day Inflow Streak Breaks
Bitcoin ETFs opened the week with $144.67 million in net outflows, snapping a five-session inflow streak. Ether funds also slipped into the red, while solana and HYPE ETFs attracted fresh capital. Key TakeawaysBitcoin exchange-traded fundsbitcoin.comLuke Dashjr Removed as BIP Editor After BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls
Luke Dashjr has lost his role as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor, days after the soft fork he championed split off a chain that mined two blocks and stopped. Fellow editor Mark Erhardt, who goes by Murch, put the motion to the BitcoinDecryptLuke Dashjr, Comms Chief Step Away From Dorsey-Backed Mining Pool Ocean
Luke Dashjr is taking a sabbatical from his leadership roles at the Jack Dorsey-backed bitcoin mining pool Ocean as he turns his attention toward the BIP-110 fork and open-source development, just as developers behind the stalled minority cbitcoin.comNorth Korea Now Leans on Crime Networks to Launder Stolen Crypto: RUSI
North Korea is increasingly pushing stolen cryptocurrency through the same money-laundering networks used by scam syndicates and organised crime, blurring the trail investigators follow, according to a research paper published this month byDecryptXRP Slides 3% to $1 as Thin Binance Books Put $0.95 in Play
XRP fell over 3% to hit a year-to-date low of $1 on Tuesday, extending its slide to nearly 60% since its January peak. Key TakeawaysXRP slipped over 3% to $1 on Bitstamp, hitting a year-to-date low.XRP ranked 6th in market cap at $62.8B debitcoin.comCoinbase Opens UK Derivatives Trading With Up to 50x Leverage
Coinbase is opening derivatives trading to professional investors in the UK, announcing on Tuesday more than 170 contracts spanning crypto, commodities, equities and foreign exchange, with leverage of up to 50 times. The offering covers thrDecryptFormer Irish PM Bertie Ahern’s Crypto Charity Shutting Down
The AB Foundation, an Irish nonprofit crypto charity chaired by former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, is being dissolved through a voluntary strike-off after failing to conduct operational meetings beyond its launch. Key TakeawaysBertiebitcoin.comUK Lawmakers Write to Bank CEOs Over Crypto Account Refusals
The co-chairs of Parliament's Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group have written to the chief executives of every major UK bank, asking them to explain how they treat crypto and digital asset firms. The letter, sent TuesdaDecryptArthur Hayes: Yen Rescue Could Fuel a Bitcoin Rally
Arthur Hayes argues Washington and Tokyo are quietly coordinating to push the yen higher, a shift he says would flood markets with fresh dollar liquidity and become a powerful bullish catalyst for bitcoin. Key TakeawaysArthur Hayes publishebitcoin.comCT3 Begins Preparing its Ecosystem for the Launch of the CT3GB Economy
London, UK, August 10th, 2026, Chainwire. CT3 has announced the start of comprehensive preparations for the future listing of the CT3GB token. The company has begun scaling its data storage infrastructure, building financial and infrastructbitcoin.comBlackrock Cuts IBIT Bitcoin Conversion Minimum From $25M to $1M
Blackrock has slashed the in-kind conversion minimum on its iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) to $1 million, a 96% cut from the prior $25 million threshold, opening the fund’s redemption mechanism to a far wider pool of investors. Key Takebitcoin.comChangeNOW's Fast Track Program approves its first participant: the Dreamster wallet
Kingstown, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, August 11th, 2026, Chainwire ChangeNOW has named the first participant in its Fast Track Program: the Dreamster wallet, a product built around music ownership. The program, running for several mDecryptUK FCA Eyes Tokenized Gold as London Defends 70% Market Share
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority is exploring how tokenized gold could fit into wholesale markets, including its use as collateral. The discussions come as London seeks to defend its dominance in bullion trading against growing competbitcoin.comToledo, Ohio Resident Wins Two Scratch-off Jackpots in a Single Day, Nets $384,562 After Taxes
$100 on two “Millionaire Blowout” scratch-off tickets turned into a $1 million top prize for a Toledo, Ohio player on July 27, with the winner choosing the $500,000 lump-sum option. After a 26.75% federal and state tax hit, the payout camebitcoin.com
