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MARA and Block rally while CoreWeave tumbles on margin pressure

Earnings season is wrapping up with a mixed bag of results across crypto miners, AI infrastructure plays and fintech names, including MARA Holdings (MARA),...

Jack Dorsey Cuts Over 4,000 Jobs as Block Shrinks Workforce Nearly in Half

Block Inc. will cut more than 4,000 jobs, reducing its workforce by nearly half as CEO Jack Dorsey calls it one of the hardest...

Block (XYZ) Surges 25% After Raising Profit Outlook

Block, Inc. will cut more than 4,000 employees, reducing its workforce by nearly half as the company restructures around artificial intelligence and...

Solo Miner Turns $75 Into $200,000 Bitcoin Block Reward Using Rented Hashrate

A rare and remarkable event in the Bitcoin mining world occurred recently when an independent miner validated an entire Bitcoin block —...

Warren Presses Fed and Treasury to Block Crypto Bailouts After $2T Collapse

Elizabeth Warren is pressing U.S. financial regulators to rule out any taxpayer-funded rescue of cryptocurrency billionaires as $2 trillion collapse fuels fears of federal...

Bitcoin improvement proposal to block spam draws heat from heavyweights

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)A new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal, BIP-110, which seeks to curb spam-like data clogging the blockchain, is...

Russia Moves to Block WhatsApp, Pushes 100M Users to State-Controlled ‘Surveillance App’

In brief WhatsApp said Russia attempted a full block of its service on Thursday, calling the move an effort to funnel over 100 million users...

EU warns Meta not to block rival AI bots from WhatsApp

The European Union told Meta that it is breaching anti-trust rules by blocking other companies’ AI chatbots from WhatsApp.In a strongly worded statement on...

Block (XYZ) weighs cutting up to 10% of jobs: Bloomberg

Block Inc. (XYZ), the payments company run by Jack Dorsey, may reduce its workforce by as much as 10%, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar...

Report: Arctic Storm Front Disrupts US Bitcoin Mining, Block Times Stretch Past 12 Minutes

On Sunday morning around 10 a.m., theminermag.com—a platform tracking bitcoin mining news, data, research, and analysis—reported that Foundry USA has seen roughly 60% of...

Babylon Code Vulnerability Risks Block Production Slowdown

A newly disclosed software flaw in the Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon may allow malicious validators to disrupt parts of the network’s consensus process, potentially...