The soft fork Blockhead flagged as a breaking-point dispute three weeks ago split off with 0.15% of the network's hashpower, mined two blocks in eight hours, and stalled — settling, for now, who actually gets to change Bitcoin's rules
A four-hour trial with 40 major Wall Street firms puts real securities on blockchain rails ahead of an October rollout — just as transfer agents lobby the SEC and the IMF warns tokenization could speed up the next financial crisis
More than 50 tokens, zero trading fees, and an AI-generated explainer tool arrive in Robinhood's main app — the payoff from a $200 million Bitstamp acquisition made specifically to unlock markets like this one
MARA and CleanSpark both posted double-digit revenue declines this earnings season, but Bernstein split their ratings — and new research shows the market's honeymoon with AI-pivot announcements is fading fast