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Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Oct 20, 2025
Bolivian President-elect Rodrigo Paz plans to use blockchain for public procurement and include crypto in asset declarations for a new fund. Bolivian President-elect Rodrigo Paz plans to tackle corruption in his country’s government using blockchain technology. The Associated Press reported Monday that Paz defeated rival Jorge Quiroga 54.5% to 45.5% and is set to take office on Nov. 8. Paz won Sunday’s runoff on a centrist, pro-market message and inherits an economy strained by fuel shortages and a US dollar squeeze, according to the AP. For crypto observers, Paz’s government plan includes two concrete proposals related to digital assets and blockchain. The first is a plan to use blockchain and smart contracts in public procurement. The Partido Demócrata Cristiano’s official 2025 government platform program pledges the application of blockchain technologies and the use of smart contracts to remove discretion from state purchasing. The proposal aims to tackle corruption in state purchasing by automating some c... -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:41 Oct 20, 2025
After its latest modest purchase, Michael Saylor’s Strategy has 59,582 BTC to go before hitting 700,000 BTC on its balance sheet. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, added to its BTC stash last week amid another market sell-off following the Black Friday crypto crash. Strategy acquired 168 Bitcoin (BTC) for $18.8 million last week, according to data published by Strategy on X on Monday. The latest Bitcoin acquisition was made at an average price of $112,051, though Bitcoin slipped below $104,000 on Friday amid the shockwaves of the market crash on Oct. 10, according to Coinbase data. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Oct 20, 2025
Brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink concentrate mental control in corporate hands. Decentralized science offers shared governance over neural data. Opinion by: Andreas Melhede, co-founder of Elata Biosciences Neuralink’s first-ever brain implant is turning science fiction into reality. It’s a coin-sized device with hair-thin electrode threads that a surgical robot weaves into the brain’s cortex to read and send neuron signals. These signals are then transmitted wirelessly to a computer, allowing the person wearing the implant to perform actions without needing to move. Elon Musk, Neuralink’s founder, once highlighted that the company will “give people superpowers.” Silicon Valley’s vision of a direct brain-computer interface (BCI) sounds exciting. Designed to help people with severe paralysis, Neuralink’s implant allows people to move a cursor, type, or even control a robotic limb using their thoughts alone. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Oct 20, 2025
James Craig and Louis Giles’ new film “Code Is Law” examines infamous crypto hacks and the moral reckoning used by the perpetrators. “A world where ‘the market’ runs free and the ‘evil’ of government is defeated would be, for them, a world of perfect freedom.” — Lawrence Lessig, Code: Version 2.0 Recently, I got the chance to watch a preview of James Craig’s upcoming documentary “Code is Law.” The film, which debuts on Oct. 21 on Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video, and YouTube Movies, tells two distinct but related stories of crypto hacks: the people involved and the ethos of the perpetrators. Its position is clear, but the question deserves a deeper investigation. If code is not law, should it be? After the 2014 Mt. Gox hack, the first hack explored in “Code is Law,” the DAO hack is probably the most famous in crypto’s history. The DAO was the first decentralized autonomous organization, becoming an eponym in the process. In 2016, when Ethereum was still young, it was one of the first decentralized applications t... -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:29 Oct 20, 2025
The Floki memecoin jumped almost 29% after Elon Musk posted a video of his Shiba Inu dog working as “CEO” of the social media platform X. American entrepreneur Elon Musk triggered a short-term rally in the memecoin market after posting a playful message on his social media platform X. On Monday, Musk shared a post saying that Floki, his pet Shiba Inu dog, was “back on the job” as the CEO of X. The post was accompanied by an AI-generated video of his dog sitting at a desk, donning a tie and glasses, saying “Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers? Is this working? Yay.” CoinGecko data showed that on Monday, the Floki (FLOKI) memecoin’s price bounced from a low of $0.00006572 to a high of $0.00008469 after Musk’s post, a 28.8% increase. At the time of writing, the asset had corrected to $0.00007998. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:23 Oct 20, 2025
XRP showed renewed strength after weeks of declines, emerging as one of day’s top performers among major cryptocurrencies. Key takeaways: The number of XRP whale addresses hit record highs of 317,500, indicating accumulation. XRP price must first break the $2.59 resistance for a chance to regain $3. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:09 Oct 20, 2025
Grok 4 generated a 500% gain on the first day after identifying the crypto market bottom and switching to leveraged long positions. Grok and DeepSeek outperformed other major artificial intelligence chatbots in cryptocurrency trading, timing the market’s local bottom before a recovery rally and hinting at a possible edge for users who rely on their insights. Grok 4 and DeepSeek were the two best-performing generative AI chatbots in a crypto trading competition launched by developers that received viral attention. DeepSeek generated a total unrealized profit of $3,650 as the most profitable chatbot, followed by Grok with about $3,000 in unrealized profits, according to blockchain data platform CoinGlass. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:18 Oct 20, 2025
Onchain investors were more bearish about the Binance liquidity cascade, while crypto ETP traders largely shrugged off the Friday crash, according to CoinShares. Cryptocurrency investment products were unable to sustain their two-week inflow streak, with fund flows turning negative last week following crypto’s “Black Friday” market crash. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) saw $513 million in outflows last week, ending the two-week streak that totaled $9.1 billion, CoinShares reported on Monday. Addressing the total $668 million of outflows following the “Binance liquidity cascade” on Oct. 10, CoinShares head of research James Butterfill said the ETP market saw less panic than the spot market. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:41 Oct 20, 2025
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETP debuts on the London Stock Exchange as UK regulators ease rules on crypto-linked investment products. BlackRock launched a Bitcoin-linked exchange-traded product (ETP) in the United Kingdom following the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) decision to ease restrictions on crypto investment vehicles. On Monday, the asset manager’s website showed that the iShares Bitcoin ETP had been listed on the London Stock Exchange. According to the Sunday Times, the product, which is structured as a Bitcoin-linked security, will allow investors to buy fractions of Bitcoin (BTC) through units starting at about $11. The ETP is designed to mirror BTC prices while trading within a regulated framework, allowing investors to participate in the crypto market through traditional brokerage accounts. It allows UK-based retail investors to gain exposure to Bitcoin without directly holding the asset or trading it on crypto exchanges. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:29 Oct 20, 2025
This marks the second major Amazon AWS outage since April, when “connectivity issues” created usability problems for at least eight large crypto exchanges. Update Oct. 20, 1:15 p.m. UTC: This article has been updated to include comments from Dr. Max Li, founder and CEO of OORT. Coinbase and Robinhood were among several major platforms distressed by an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center outage on Monday, underscoring the risks of relying on centralized cloud providers for critical financial infrastructure. Coinbase, the third-largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange (CEX) by trading volume, was hit by an AWS data center outage, which reported “increased error rates and latencies” for multiple AWS Services in the Northern Virginia region. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:23 Oct 20, 2025
Bitcoin rebounded into the new week as bulls were challenged to squeeze out shorts and avoid filling the $102,000 candle wick on Binance. Bitcoin (BTC) started a new week in fighting form as bulls staged a rebound past $111,000. BTC price action improved around the weekly close as hodlers get some well-earned relief. Is a short squeeze next? Downside price targets remain popular, with longer time frames raising questions about the strength of the bull market. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:33 Oct 20, 2025
Jack Dorsey, long rumored to be Satoshi Nakamoto, reignited debate by declaring “Bitcoin is not crypto,” arguing BTC stands apart from other digital assets. Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter and a strong supporter of Bitcoin, has reignited debate in the crypto community with his latest comments on what BTC truly is. Dorsey took to X on Sunday to post a brief message stating “Bitcoin is not crypto,” prompting a massive response with more than 4,000 comments. While some argued that the anonymous BTC creator Satoshi Nakamoto described Bitcoin (BTC) as a “peer-to-peer cryptocurrency” on the Bitcointalk forum back in 2010, Dorsey highlighted the word “currency,” underscoring its monetary roots. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:28 Oct 20, 2025
The recovery came as Bitcoin achieved a weekly close above $108,000, with the technical setup on the charts targeting significant gains ahead. Key takeaways: Bitcoin surged above $111,000 on Monday, driven by improving macro conditions and a potential US-China trade deal. Technical analysis shows bull flags targeting $186,000-$192,000 BTC price in the weeks ahead. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:55 Oct 20, 2025
Aster’s return to DefiLlama came with missing historical data, leaving transparency questions unresolved across DeFi dashboards. Decentralized finance (DeFi) data aggregator DefiLlama quietly reinstated decentralized exchange (DEX) Aster to its analytics platform, weeks after delisting the project over disputed trading data. Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi flagged the development on X, noting that there was no public discussion or announcement from either Aster or DefiLlama. Qureshi noted “big gaps” in the historical data, and asked the pseudonymous DefiLlama founder 0xngmi if the numbers are now legitimate. Responding to the post, 0xngmi said the team still could not verify the numbers, describing it as a “black box.” He added that while DefiLlama is developing a new system to include more metrics, Aster’s team requested to be relisted in the meantime. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:22 Oct 20, 2025
Jackson Denka, CEO of Azura, believes crypto airdrops will eventually take a backseat to IPO’s, but what if there was a way to save them? Airdrops are a common practice among new crypto projects, but as much as 88% of airdropped tokens lose value within three months, according to data collected over the last seven years. A Sept. 18 report by DappRadar analyst Sara Gherghelas found that since 2017, projects have distributed over $20 billion in airdrops, but 88% of the airdropped tokens lost value within months, “highlighting the gap between short-term hype and long-term sustainability.” Speaking to Cointelegraph, DappRadar’s head of content, Robert Hoogendoorn, said token distribution is key to success in an airdrop; projects want to place their token in the hands of diamond holders. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 05:59 Oct 20, 2025
Long-term Bitcoin holders took profits at record levels with realized gains hitting $1.7 billion daily as older coins re-entered circulation. The price of Bitcoin will have a challenging road ahead as long as long-term holders continue to take profits, according to analysts. The failure of crypto markets to recover was not due to manipulation, paper Bitcoin, or suppression, “just good old-fashioned sellers,” said analyst James Check on Sunday. Check added that the sheer volume of sell-side pressure from existing Bitcoin (BTC) holders is still not widely appreciated, and that it was “the source of resistance” at the moment. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 04:52 Oct 20, 2025
AI will automate most retail purchases in the future, with blockchain used to finalize payments, Shark Tank co-host and venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary says. AI and blockchain will spark the “next revolution in business,” according to multimillionaire Kevin O’Leary, with AI being able to autonomously make retail purchases and using blockchain to take care of payments. In a three-minute video posted to X Saturday, the Shark Tank co-host and venture capitalist said that blockchain will support an incoming wave of AI-driven transactions, handling everything from orders at Walmart and Target to burger shops and cafes: “So what happens there is the AI analyzes where you are, looks at the geography of what retailer [is nearby] and determines that that’s the one, and then uses a blockchain to actually do a digital payment system for the tall low-fat latte,” explained O’Leary. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:22 Oct 20, 2025
NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo wants to make New York City the world’s leading crypto and tech hub. Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo is reportedly betting big on crypto and AI as part of his bid to return as the city’s next mayor. The New York City mayoral candidate plans to make NYC “the global hub of the future” by coordinating initiatives across the blockchain, AI and biotech industries and modernizing how the city integrates new technology, co-host of Crypto in America, Eleanor Terrett, said on Saturday. Part of this will also involve creating a new chief innovation officer position aimed at attracting more investments and jobs to boost innovation, she said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:00 Oct 19, 2025
Bitcoin and other hard money assets are the only way to fix the economic problems caused by currency debasement, analyst Luke Gromen said. The US dollar’s hegemony is over, as evidenced by China’s recent announcement of export controls on rare earth minerals, a critical component in electronics manufacturing and military defense applications, according to analyst Luke Gromen. China’s rare earth mineral export controls prohibit the sale of the critical minerals to the US military industrial complex, which backs the value of the dollar through military force, Gromen told Marty Bent, founder of Truth For the Commoner (TFTC), on Sunday. The export controls prompted US President Donald Trump to announce additional 100% tariffs on China, and revealed that China “has a lot more leverage than a lot of the Western commentators are admitting,” Gromen said. He added: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:02 Oct 19, 2025
Bitcoin's network hashrate hit an all-time high of over 1.2 trillion on Tuesday and remains elevated despite a drop in difficulty. The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty fell to 146.7 trillion on Friday as the network hashrate, the average of the total computing power dedicated to securing the decentralized protocol, hit an all-time high of over 1.2 trillion hashes per second. BTC mining difficulty is down by about 2.7% from the all-time high difficulty level of over 150.8 trillion reached during the previous adjustment period, according to CoinWarz. However, network hashrate hit an all-time high on Tuesday, and remains elevated above 1.2 trillion, despite a small dip from Tuesday’s all-time high, data from CryptoQuant shows. CoinWarz also forecast: Read more
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