Category: Bitcoin News

A solo Bitcoin miner has become the latest lucky person to win the “Bitcoin mining lottery,” pocketing a $347,455 block reward. Bitcoin node infrastructure company Umbrel said the solo miner won the block via the Public Pool Bitcoin mining pool — earning the 3.125 Bitcoin (BTC) block reward and a 0.016 BTC transaction fee on top. It took place at block height 920,440, on Thursday at 7:32pm UTC, Mempool.space data shows. While solo Bitcoin miners winning blocks isn’t uncommon, this one was more impressive as the miner secured the block…

Crypto market observers have locked their gaze on the delayed US inflation report for September, which is expected to be published on Friday and to exceed 3% for the first time in 2025, which could have a knock-on effect on crypto markets.  The US Bureau of Labor Statistics is scheduled to publish the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September on Friday. It has been delayed due to the ongoing government shutdown, which is now in its 24th day. Economists forecast that September inflation rose 0.4% monthly and 3.1% annually, so…

Crypto-friendly banks Custodia Bank and Vantage Bank have launched a turnkey blockchain solution allowing traditional banks to issue tokenized deposits that will work with stablecoins. The solution enables banks to leverage blockchain’s near-instant, low-cost transactions in an interoperable manner with other banks while being able to retain customer deposits, the two banks said in a statement on Thursday. “The patent-protected framework is designed to provide institutions and their customers with the efficiencies and security of tokenization while safeguarding core deposits from the risk of disintermediation.” Source: Caitlin Long Tokenized deposits…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says he’s optimistic that US senators are moving closer to advancing key cryptocurrency market structure legislation by Thanksgiving, suggesting that there’s now far more agreement on both sides of the aisle than there are differences. “Even though the government is shut down, the Senate is working hard on getting market structure legislation passed for crypto,” Armstrong said in a video posted on X. According to Armstrong, roughly 90% of the legislative framework has already been agreed upon, with the remaining 10% focused on issues like decentralized…

Fintech Pave Bank has raised $39 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital firm Accel. The company offers programmable banking solutions for businesses, combining crypto and fiat services. The round included participation from Tether Investments, Wintermute, Quona Capital, Helios Digital Ventures, Yolo Investments, Kazea Capital, Financial Technology, and GC&H Investments, bringing the company’s total funding to about $45 million, according to the Economic Times. Founded in 2023 by fintech veterans Simon Vans-Colina, Salim Dhanani, and Dmitry Bocharov, Pave Bank provides institutional and corporate clients with both…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Spark has rotated a portion of its treasury reserves from US government bonds into crypto-native yield strategies, signaling new approaches to onchain yield generation as Treasury returns continue to compress. On Thursday, Spark said it allocated $100 million of its stablecoin reserves to Superstate’s Crypto Carry Fund (USCC), a regulated basis-trading fund that generates yield from price differentials between spot and futures markets across major digital assets. The fund allows DeFi protocols to earn market-neutral yield from the same derivatives markets traditionally used by hedge…