Marathon Digital Posts $200 Million Quarterly Loss Amid Bitcoin Mining Sector Woes
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Public Bitcoin Miners Are Taking Over—But Their Stock Keeps Dropping

The largest Bitcoin mining companies are steadily claiming greater dominance over Bitcoin’s network security, even though their stock performance this year might not suggest such success. JP Morgan analysts summed up the current state of the market in their “September ’24 Bitcoin Mining Halftime Report” published Monday, noting that publicly listed U.S. mining companies saw their piece of the network…

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Microstrategy Announces $700M Private Offering for Debt Buyback and Bitcoin Acquisition
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Microstrategy Announces $700M Private Offering for Debt Buyback and Bitcoin Acquisition

On Monday, U.S.-based Microstrategy, the publicly traded business intelligence (BI) company, unveiled plans for a private offering of $700 million in convertible senior notes. The BI firm plans to raise capital to pay off existing debt and purchase more bitcoin. Microstrategy Reveals Another Private Offering According to Microstrategy’s (Nasdaq: MSTR) announcement, the notes, set to […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/microstrategy-announces-700m-private-offering-for-debt-buyback-and-bitcoin-acquisition/

Bitcoin Startup Babylon Raises $70 Million to Bring BTC Staking to Ethereum and Solana
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Bitcoin ETFs Bounce Back in a Big Way as Investors Expect Rate Cuts

Money flowed back into Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other crypto investment vehicles last week—just in time for the Federal Reserve’s key meeting tomorrow.  Data from Jersey-based digital asset manager CoinShares showed on Monday that a total of $436 million hit funds that give exposure to cryptocurrencies. This came after a period of outflows where investors cashed out $1.2 billion…

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New Brain Implant Allows Man with ALS to Control Amazon's Alexa with His Mind
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New Brain Implant Allows Man with ALS to Control Amazon’s Alexa with His Mind

A 64-year-old man paralyzed by ALS was able to communicate via his thoughts to his smart devices using a new type of brain implant that avoids potentially risky brain surgery. The man, identified only as “Mark” in a YouTube video uploaded Monday by Synchron, a New York-based company that makes the brain-computer interface, was apparently able to control a range…

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Bitcoin L2 BOB Launches ‘One-Click’ BTC Staking Solution
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Bitcoin L2 BOB Launches ‘One-Click’ BTC Staking Solution

BOB (Build on Bitcoin), a hybrid layer two (L2) solution integrating Bitcoin and Ethereum, has launched BOB Stake, a new one-click bitcoin staking product. The platform allows users to stake bitcoin (BTC) and utilize Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) across decentralized finance (defi) applications. BOB Introduces One-Click Bitcoin Staking Portal and SDK According to the announcement […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-l2-bob-launches-one-click-btc-staking-solution/