References to Bitcoin in songs, movies, and televised media indicate that the digital asset is breaking into mainstream popular culture.
Vince Quill
Vince Quill is a writer and journalist covering cryptocurrencies, macroeconomics, and financial news at Coinpectra. His work has been syndicated on ZeroHedge and featured on the Coin Bureau YouTube channel. Before working as a financial journalist, he was a political opinion writer with over five years of experience and a real estate investor. He holds a bachelor's degree in communication from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Vince has no crypto holdings above Coinpectra’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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Brazil’s central bank service provider hacked, $140M stolen The theft occurred after the hackers allegedly compromised an employee of C&M, a software service provider, by buying the employee’s login credentials.
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World Liberty Financial publishes proposal to make token transferable The community proposal aims to transition the protocol from closed governance to a more open, decentralized finance-oriented model.
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US Senator Cynthia Lummis drafts standalone crypto tax bill The Wyoming Senator seeks to end double taxation and add clarity to the tax treatment of crypto staking, mining, and lending transactions.
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Bitstamp granted MAS license to operate in Singapore The license was granted after a new policy from Singapore’s Monetary Authority required all crypto firms based in the country to register.
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OpenAI says Robinhood tokens are not equity in the company The platform’s OpenAI private equity tokens were disavowed by the company, prompting OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk to call the AI firm “fake.”
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Crypto should be about freeing people, not esoteric tech — Vitalik Buterin Vitalik Buterin’s presentation at the EthCC event comes amid an inflection point for the crypto industry as it attempts to reconcile growth and the Cypherpunk ethos.
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Cake Wallet onboards dEURO decentralized stablecoin, offers 10% yield on collateral The dEURO is overcollateralized by other digital assets such as Bitcoin, Ether and Monero.
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SEC approves conversion of Grayscale's large-cap crypto fund into ETF Grayscale has slowly narrowed the arbitrage opportunities on its crypto trusts by converting them into exchange-traded funds.
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US regulator considers simplified path to market for crypto ETFs The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly considering simplifying the listing process for certain crypto ETFs.
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Swissquote ordered to curb impersonation, fraud attempts The company offers crypto trading on the platforms that it manages, including the mixed-asset trading platforms Swissquote and Yuh.
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Growing dissatisfaction among young people to drive BTC price: Analyst Jordi Visser argued that growing dissatisfaction among those 25 and younger with the current financial system will increase BTC adoption.
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Saylor signals impending Bitcoin buy for 11th consecutive week Michael Saylor's Strategy is up over 52% on its Bitcoin investment, representing an unrealized capital gain of over $21.8 billion.
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How mass decoy messaging protects whistleblowers — CoverDrop inventor The growing sophistication of the mass surveillance state has created the need for new tools to obfuscate identity and restore anonymity.
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Bitcoin takes pressure off the US dollar — US President Trump Trump praised Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in a Friday press conference and said Bitcoin may help relieve pressure on the US dollar.
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Few Bitcoin treasury companies will survive ‘death spiral’: VC Report Bitcoin treasury companies have become a major trend in 2025; however, only the most seasoned and disciplined firms are likely to survive.
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Coinbase makes TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025 list The crypto exchange company is often used as a proxy to gauge the health and growth of the nascent crypto industry in the United States.
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Fake IT insiders behind $1M in crypto losses across NFT protocols — ZachXBT Hackers and threat actors continue to infiltrate companies, blockchain projects and Web3 firms by exploiting remote work arrangements.
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Trump sidesteps question on crypto divesting to pass key bills Several Democratic lawmakers have said they will oppose passing crypto regulations unless potential conflicts of interest are resolved.
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Trump’s World Liberty Financial signs partnership deal with London hedge fund The Trump family–tied decentralized finance platform has seen growing interest from institutional investors.
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Meta hires former OpenAI top talent amid AGI push Meta's latest AI hire follows several developments and partnerships aimed at making the tech giant a leader in the burgeoning sector.
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US judge denies Ripple, SEC joint request to reduce $125M penalty Judge Analisa Torres wrote that Ripple is still required to follow federal securities laws regardless of the SEC's regulatory pivot.
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Tokenized US Treasurys increase market risk vectors Tokenized US government debt used as collateral in leveraged trading exposes crypto markets to further geopolitical and liquidity risks.
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Telegram's Pavel Durov approved to leave France temporarily The Telegram founder will once again be allowed to travel to Dubai for a short period before returning to France, where his case is ongoing.
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Pavel Durov warns France is experiencing societal collapse According to the Telegram founder, France’s political leaders continue to make poor choices regarding censorship.
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Deribit, Crypto.com integrate BlackRock's BUIDL as trading collateral The move will lower collateral requirements to access leverage for crypto trading due to the relatively stable value of US government debt.
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AI race between US and China resembles Cold War — Marc Andreessen The venture capitalist warned that virtually all artificial intelligence platforms are being developed in either China or the United States.
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Bitcoin mining difficulty falls slightly from recent all-time high BTC miners continue to face economic headwinds and challenges, including gradually rising computational requirements to mine blocks.