The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a final order Friday that will cut offshore exchange MEXC Global off from the American banking system over alleged links to sanctions evasion by Iran, North Korea and Russia, the department said.

FinCEN’s order, published as a PDF pending Federal Register placement, finds MEXC a “primary money laundering concern in connection with Russian illicit finance” under section 9714(a) of the Combating Russian Money Laundering Act. Thirty days after that Register notice, covered U.S. financial institutions will be barred from any funds transfer — including convertible virtual currency — to or from MEXC.

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Bitcoin Magazine Books opened a third-anniversary campaign Friday for Aaron van Wirdum’s The Genesis Book, offering a redesigned Collectors Edition limited to 333 hand-signed, individually numbered hardcovers in an exclusive Genesis Block slipcase.

Each Collectors Edition hardcover is hand-signed and hand-numbered by van Wirdum, the former Bitcoin Magazine editor-in-chief whose book traces the people, projects and ideas that preceded Satoshi Nakamoto’s peer-to-peer cash design. The standard package is priced at $221 and pairs the book with a limited trading card carrying a Certificate of Authenticity, a collector pin, a sticker sheet, the slipcase and a digital package.

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Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission filed a criminal complaint Thursday against BG Limited, the operator of cryptocurrency exchange Bitget, alleging it ran an unlicensed digital-asset exchange for Thai users from 2022 to 2025, and notified the government to block the platform from Dec. 5.

The complaint, lodged with the Economic Crime Suppression Division, also names Mr. Kritsana Kritsananuwat as an alleged supporter who promoted Bitget through Facebook and YouTube channels, the SEC said in statement No. 241/2026.

From 2022 through 2025, the regulator found, Bitget offered a trading system in the ordinary course of business, charged fees, ran a Thai-language website…

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A former FBI agent pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing about $2.47 million in cryptocurrency with wallet credentials the bureau had collected in its own cases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced.

Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, of Ashburn, Virginia, entered pleas to wire fraud and money laundering in federal court in Alexandria. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles accepted the plea. He faces up to 20 years in prison and is scheduled for sentencing on March 4, 2027.

Court papers put the illicit haul at $2,474,380.66. Prosecutors say Yaroch made roughly 100 fraudulent transfers using credentials tied to 35 separate FBI investigations,…

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Strive reported $474.8 million of net income attributable to common stockholders for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, a print that arrived Friday alongside a company claim that Class A total return had outperformed bitcoin by 103.7% year to date through the same date.

GAAP net income was $509.0 million, or $5.24 a share on a fully diluted basis. Almost all of that came from a $533.7 million unrealized gain on digital assets marked to fair value. Operating revenue for the quarter was just $2.7 million, so the earnings line is a treasury mark, not a fee business.

In a post on X that led with the outperformance figure, Strive also highlighted a year-to-date bitcoin yield of 63.2%…

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A final DOL rule that would ease alternative assets such as private equity, real estate and cryptocurrency into 401(k) retirement plans arrived at the White House on Thursday for review, Bloomberg Law reported, a procedural step that usually precedes public release.

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs logged the package on Nov. 5 under the title “Fiduciary Duties In Selecting Designated Investment Alternatives,” RIN 1210-AC38. The filing lists the DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration as the authoring office, marks the stage as a final rule, flags it as economically significant and notes that there is no legal deadline for completion.

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Hackers tied to the record Binance theft have begun converting a large slice of the stolen XRP into bitcoin, blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said in an update dated through Friday, with about 42 million XRP — roughly $50 million — already swapped, mostly through THORChain.

Converted bitcoin from other stolen assets nearly doubled overnight to about 1,650 BTC, worth some $124 million, Elliptic wrote. Most of that jump came from the XRP route. About 192 million XRP, roughly $226 million, remained unswapped in addresses linked to the Binance theft.

The XRP was part of the Oct. 29 drain that Binance later put at $6.34 billion. Between 20:05 and 20:09 UTC that day, five hot…

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U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in October, nearly three times the 59,000 economists expected, the Labor Department said Friday, and the bitcoin price briefly pushed above $76,100 before settling near $75,500, Bitcoin Magazine Pro data shows.

The unemployment rate edged down to 4.1% from 4.2%, beating the Dow Jones forecast that called for it to hold. Average hourly earnings rose 0.4% on the month and 3.1% over the year, both ahead of estimates, CNBC reported.

Prior months were revised higher as well. August payrolls moved to 186,000, an upward revision of 53,000, and September rose to 60,000 after a 31,000 upgrade, leaving the two-month total 84,000 stronger than first…

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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Gopax suspended withdrawals and trading on Friday after receiving a hacking-threat email, and said it is moving all held virtual assets into offline cold wallets as a preemptive step to protect customer funds.

Gopax halted standard deposit and withdrawal services at 2:55 p.m. local time and stopped trading at 3:53 p.m., Yonhap News Agency reported, citing the exchange. Direct withdrawals through the website and app are unavailable. Customers who want coins out must apply through the customer support center, where requests are processed manually after internal verification.

“To ensure the safe custody of user assets, we plan to transfer all…

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“The Genesis of Satoshi Nakamoto,” a 2.4-meter, multi-dimensional cube, was presented on October 29 at Polo Dot as part of the Open Fest of LABITCONF 2026. Driven by Bitcoin.ar through the Premio B·Arte, the work combines art, technology, and education in a journey through Bitcoin’s fundamental principles. The inauguration featured guided remarks by Rodolfo Andragnes and a musical performance by Mayumaná, according to an announcement by the organization.

Buenos Aires now has a monument dedicated to Satoshi Nakamoto, the person—or group of people—behind the creation of Bitcoin, whose identity remains unknown. 

Driven by Bitcoin.ar through the fifth edition of the…

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