FutureBit is putting its Apollo III Full Node on sale Friday at four Micro Center stores, the first time customers can walk into a shop and take home one of the Brooklyn company’s bitcoin miners.

The compact home miner, which also runs a full bitcoin node, will be sold in Brooklyn, Miami, Tustin, California, and Austin, Texas, as those stores open Friday, FutureBit said in a release. The four-store launch coincides with the grand opening of Micro Center’s new Austin store, the chain’s 31st U.S. location and its third in Texas.

Customers will also be able to reserve a unit online for in-store pickup, the company said. It did not say how many units each store has in stock,…

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Crypto trading on Robinhood fell by almost half from a year ago in October, the company said Thursday, as customers traded $17 billion of digital assets while their bets on event contracts more than doubled.

The $17 billion figure was down 21% from September and 48% from October 2025, when crypto notional volume reached $32.5 billion. It covers both the flagship Robinhood app and Bitstamp, the crypto exchange the company bought in 2025.

Volume in the Robinhood app fell to $6.8 billion, down 24% from September and 51% from a year earlier. Bitstamp handled $10.2 billion, down 18% month over month and 45% year over year.

Average daily crypto volume across both platforms came to…

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President Donald Trump sent the Senate four nominees for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Thursday, his first picks for either agency in about a year and the first Democrats he has put forward for them.

Former CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson, a Democrat, and Republican Steven Levine were nominated to the SEC. Republican Nathan Anonick and Democrat Matthew Rowland were nominated to the CFTC, Bloomberg Law reported.

Each nominee needs Senate confirmation. The Senate Banking Committee will handle the SEC picks, while the Senate Agriculture Committee will take up the CFTC pair before any vote by the full chamber.

Who the nominees are

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Bitcoin price traded near $69,800 on Friday morning after briefly crashing to about $67,555 around midnight Eastern, its lowest level since mid-August, according to Bitcoin Magazine Pro data. The rebound held after October producer prices rose less than economists had expected, though the U.S. dollar remained near a 19-month high and traders still fully priced a December Federal Reserve rate hike.

Bitcoin price was trading near $72,800 at this time Thursday. It slipped toward $71,000 by Thursday evening, then gave way late at night, breaking below $70,000 and sliding to that midnight low. The move also pushed the bitcoin price below its 200-week moving average, a long-term trend…

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Digital credit is an emerging asset class that transforms corporate Bitcoin balance sheets into income producing securities. Strategy pioneered the market with five perpetual preferred equity instruments: STRK, STRF, STRD, STRC, and STRE (the first four are listed in the U.S.). Strive subsequently introduced SATA and SATS, bringing the category to six U.S. instruments across two issuers.

These securities offer investors preferred equity (read: credit-like) exposure to companies whose balance sheets are dominated by Bitcoin. Their perpetual structure means investors principally rely on recurring dividends and the continued financial strength of the issuer. Unlike term debt, there is…

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The DOJ said Thursday it has court authority to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance, part of a freeze of more than $2.7 billion that officials said halted about half of North Korea’s October exchange heist.

In a Thursday announcement, the department said that on or about Oct. 29, members of the North Korean military, referred to by the FBI as TraderTraitor, stole more than $6 billion worth of virtual assets from Binance. That is below the $6.34 billion figure Binance has covered since the attack.

Binance said it had completed coverage of the assets hit in the breach, replacing the tokens from company funds rather than by recovering…

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Bitcoin price traded near $71,200 on Thursday evening, after slipping to a fresh session low near $71,000, according to Bitcoin Magazine Pro data. U.S. stocks closed modestly lower and the 10-year Treasury yield held above 5% after Nvidia said CEO Jensen Huang had resigned.

The decline started in the morning. Bitcoin price fell below $72,000 before the opening bell and dropped to about $71,150 shortly after 10 a.m. Eastern. A bounce later faded, and the bitcoin price printed a new session low near $71,000 around 6:23 p.m., its weakest level since Aug. 20. It now stands roughly $30,400 below where it closed one year ago.

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Jane Street Group raised its Strategy (MSTR) stake 53.8% in the third quarter, to 4,119,097 shares, a Form 13F filed Thursday shows, a position dated to Sept. 30 that does not capture any trades the firm may have made since then.

Those caveats matter as much as the increase. Jane Street is a trading firm, and one of the largest market makers in stocks, ETFs, and options, and the same filing lists call options covering 13,573,000 Strategy shares and put options covering 13,991,800 shares, each more than three times the size of the common stake. Some of that stock is likely a hedge for the options and market-making book rather than a straight bet on the company. The 13F does not say…

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The Justice Department and Europol said Thursday that Operation TorNado has produced 354 arrests and the seizure of more than $234 million in cash and virtual currencies, in what the FBI called the largest takedown yet of dark web drug vendors and buyers.

The announcement came from the department’s Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement team, or JCODE, an FBI-led group created in 2018. Officials said Operation TorNado is the sixth, and most extensive, internationally coordinated action since then, and that it builds on last year’s Operation RapTor. The sweep ran from May 2025 to October 2026.

Europol, which coordinated work with agencies in 14 countries, published a…

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Binance said Thursday it has completed coverage of the $6.34 billion Oct. 29 hack from company funds, two weeks after the largest crypto theft on record, even as withdrawals continue to reopen in phases.

In a Thursday announcement, the exchange wrote that it “has completed coverage of assets impacted in the security incident” and published a new proof-of-reserves snapshot. It repeated the same message on X.

That wording matters. Coverage means Binance has replaced the affected tokens from its own books, not that it has recovered the stolen coins from the attackers. The exchange said it committed more than $6.34 billion in company funds and bought the affected tokens through…

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