Bitplanet Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nasdaq-listed fintech company Antalpha and its mining ecosystem partners to enter the Bitcoin mining business, the company announced.

Under the agreement, Bitplanet will deploy KRW 15 billion (approximately $10.8 million) in Bitcoin mining equipment and begin operations this month. The equipment is set for deployment at colocation sites in Oman and Paraguay — regions the company cited for competitive electricity costs and stable power infrastructure.

Antalpha, which operates the Antalpha Prime technology platform, provides BTC supply-chain and margin lending services to the Web3 industry. The partnership gives…

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Bitcoin mining pool DMND has mined the first known Bitcoin block produced using the Stratum V2 protocol, a technical milestone that shifts control over block construction from pools to individual miners. The block — number 955,318 — was mined through DMND’s pool for GoMining, which became the first miner to use Stratum V2’s Job Declaration feature to select its own transactions and build its own block template, according to a note shared with Bitcoin Magazine. 

Under the dominant model in Bitcoin mining today, miners contribute their computing power to a pool, and the pool decides which transactions go into each block. The miner has no say in that selection. 

Stratum…

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SBI Holdings has signed agreements to acquire all shares of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitbank in a deal valued at 46.7 billion yen, or approximately $288.6 million, the companies announced on June 24. 

The transaction will make Bitbank a wholly owned subsidiary of SBI Group through its investment arm, SBICAH GK.

The deal represents the largest consolidation move in Japan’s regulated crypto market to date. SBI and Bitbank entered into both a basic agreement and a share transfer agreement, with the transaction structured in two phases. 

SBI will acquire shares held by Bitbank’s founders and individual shareholders in August. Bitbank will then buy out shares held by existing…

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Bitcoin price has crashed through $60,000, touching lows not seen since October 2024 and erasing months of gains in a matter of days. At press time, bitcoin price trades at $59,566 — down more than 10% in 24 hours and roughly 53% off its all-time high of $126,277 set last October.

The drop has been brutal, fast, and — for many holders — a gut punch that raises a question nobody wants to ask: how much lower can this go? No single event really broke bitcoin price. What happened instead was a convergence of bad news that hit all at once.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted net outflows of approximately $113.8 million as of June 23, marking a fourth consecutive day of withdrawals….

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Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR) shares fell more than 10% Tuesday to $92, a two-year low, as bitcoin cratered below $60,000 and an analyst note from CryptoQuant warned the company has overextended itself and should halt bitcoin purchases before its financial situation deteriorates further.

Bitcoin fell to roughly $59,000 on the day, a drop of more than $6,700 or about 5%, its worst single-day loss in months. The selloff sparked a liquidation cascade across crypto derivatives markets, with roughly $1.1 billion in leveraged positions forcibly closed within a 24-hour window. The move pushed bitcoin below the average cost basis for all of Strategy’s purchases made in 2024, 2025, and 2026…

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By the year 2036, Bitcoin mining looks nothing like it did five years ago, much less ten. Long gone is the model of Bitcoin miners that dominated the landscape of the early to mid-2020’s. These large, often publicly traded, mining companies looked for large tranches of cheap power in mostly first-world countries they could monetize at scale. These corporations did not generate their own energy, nor did most design and manufacture their ASICs. They looked for a confluence of attractive power terms from an electric utility, available land near substation infrastructure, and timed the purchase of ASICs for as short a payback period as possible. 

The compressing margins had already…

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A coalition of four major law enforcement organizations and a separate group of nearly 100 Catholic leaders sent letters Tuesday warning that a provision in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act would weaken the oversight tools investigators and prosecutors rely on to combat financial crime. 

The law enforcement letter, addressed to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, came from the National District Attorneys Association, the National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the National Sheriffs’ Association. 

Together,…

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Shares of Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR) crossed below $100 on Wednesday for the first time since March 2024, extending a collapse that has erased more than 80% of the stock’s value from its all-time high of approximately $474 reached in November 2024.

The breach of the $100 threshold carries weight beyond the number itself. Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury company led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, built its investment thesis around the premise that its leveraged exposure to Bitcoin would generate returns that outpace traditional assets.

That thesis is now under pressure as Bitcoin trades near $61,000 — well below the company’s average acquisition cost of roughly $75,656 per…

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Bitcoin price is trading near $61,500 today, extending a decline that has erased more than half its value since the token hit a record high in October 2025. The sell-off is rippling through publicly traded crypto companies, where losses have at times outpaced Bitcoin itself.

The token fell to $61,877 earlier this week — its lowest level since June 11 — before sliding further. Bitcoin price briefly broke below $60,000 on June 5, a level not seen since late 2024, before a partial recovery that has since stalled.

Deutsche Bank attributed Bitcoin’s weakness to a convergence of institutional pressures. A shift in Federal Reserve expectations — the bank now forecasts two rate…

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