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Crypto-to-Fiat Payments Roll Out for First Time Ever

ExchangesAug 13

Shiba Inu token continues to strengthen its position in the UAE's real economy. Following the introduction of cryptocurrency payments for airline tickets, the popular meme token has now officially entered duty-free shopping zones. Major airport retailer Dubai Duty Free has integrated the Crypto.com Pay payment gateway, enabling customers to use $SHIB and 29 other cryptocurrencies at physical stores in DXB and DWC airports, as well as on its official website. Dubai Duty Free introduces regulated crypto-to-fiat payments settled in AED, Source: Dubai Duty Free via X For the Shiba Inu ecosystem, this marks another important milestone of expansion in the…

Bitcoin Mining Could Boost Wind Farm Revenue by 32%, Irish Study Finds

MiningAug 13

Installing Bitcoin mining operations alongside wind farms could significantly increase revenue by capturing electricity that would otherwise be wasted during periods of grid congestion, according to researchers in Ireland. A study published in the August issue of the peer-reviewed journal Energy Economics examined the economic potential of pairing a 100 MW wind farm with a 20 MW Bitcoin mining facility. The researchers, based at Technological University of the Shannon, found that the mining operation could utilize up to 83% of otherwise curtailed power, boosting combined revenue by approximately 32% compared to wind generation alone. Why This Matters for Renewable Energy…

Barça Mobile Plans Stellar Wallet With Wirex and Crossmint

BlockchainAug 13

Barça Mobile, FC Barcelona’s official mobile telecom service operated by New Era Visionary Group, is developing an in-app digital wallet using infrastructure from Wirex, Crossmint and the Stellar Development Foundation. New Era announced the partnerships on Aug. 5. Its announcement described the wallet as an integrated feature of the existing Barça Mobile app rather than a standalone product, intended to bring connectivity, payments, loyalty benefits and travel services into one interface. Wirex will provide payment and card infrastructure for future wallet-linked payment features. Crossmint will supply wallet infrastructure and user-onboarding technology, while Stellar will serve as the wallet’s blockchain network…

'I Reach a Different Asset…Buy Bitcoin'

BitcoinAug 13

SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci agreed with Peter Schiff’s concerns on Tuesday about soaring U.S. debt and inflation, but favored Bitcoin over gold as the solution. Scaramucci Concerned Over US Financing Needs Scaramucci took to X to break down Schiff’s blog post on America’s fiscal outlook, highlighting elevated deficits and interest burdens. Scaramucci said Schiff’s annualized government borrowing figures are overstated, though the real number—$2.5 trillion, by his count—is “still enormous outside a recession.” The national debt has soared to $39.89 trillion, while the deficit has swelled to $1.366 trillion as of this writing. The U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio was about…

‘Big Short’ Michael Burry just updated his stock portfolio again

RegulationAug 13

Michael Burry, a former American hedge fund manager and investor known as ‘The Big Short,’ has revealed some new stock portfolio updates, doubling down on his bearish outlook. As revealed in an August 4 Substack post, Burry exited his long position in Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), closed his short position in Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), and covered his January 2026 short on Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR). Furthermore, he rolled his Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) short position to June 2027 and extended his short on the Invesco QQQ Trust ETF (NASDAQ: QQQ) to February 2027. Currently, the investor also continues to hold short positions in…

TRON Network Releases Major Update to Improve Its Technical Infrastructure!

AltcoinsAug 13

TRON has implemented a significant update to improve its technical infrastructure. According to a statement from TRON, GreatVoyage v4.8.2 (Pyrrho) is now officially available. The new version enhances compatibility with the Ethereum ecosystem while also including various improvements in smart contract execution performance, node management, and network monitoring capabilities. With the released update, the TRON Virtual Machine (TVM) has been made more compatible with Ethereum’s Pectra and Osaka upgrades. Additionally, the CLZ (Count Leading Zeros) command has been added for developers, and a new precompiled function for secp256r1 digital signature verification has been introduced. These improvements aim to facilitate the…

XRP Wallet Activity Flips Negative as Withdrawals Surge

ExchangesAug 13

$XRP wallet activity across major exchanges, including Coinbase, Binance and Crypto.com, has dropped to negative territory. $XRP has continued to trade under pressure over the past few days. Notably, the token trades within the $1.05 to $1.08 range as sellers keep the market on the defensive. While the price has struggled to gain momentum, new on-chain data shows that Coinbase, Binance, and Crypto.com have moved into negative $XRP wallet territory. This indicates that more wallets are withdrawing $XRP than depositing it. Coinbase Records the Deepest Drop in $XRP Wallet Activity The latest on-chain figures show that $XRP withdrawal wallet activity…

Bitcoin miner HIVE’s $79M quarter runs into an $80M Swedish tax problem

MiningAug 13

Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital Technologies missed the Aug. 10 deadline for its quarter-ended-June 30 Form 10-Q even as preliminary revenue climbed to approximately $79 million. In an Aug. 11 late-filing notice, the firm said the delay relates exclusively to the accounting and disclosures for contested Swedish value-added tax assessments, and that it expects to file within the Rule 12b-25 extension period. HIVE said recent developments in the Swedish proceedings increased the probability that it would record a noncash accrual. It needs more time to decide the accounting amount and finish the related financial statements and disclosures. Until that amount is…

How Canton Lets Banks Share A Ledger Without Sharing Their Data

BlockchainAug 13

Canton Network solves a problem that has kept most banks off public blockchains: it lets multiple institutions record and settle the same transaction on shared infrastructure while each party sees only the portion of that transaction it is actually involved in. This is called sub-transaction privacy, and it is the core reason banks such as JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and DTCC now run live workflows on Canton instead of a private, closed-off ledger. What Is Sub-Transaction Privacy? On a public blockchain like Ethereum, every node stores every transaction. That works for open finance but fails for banks, which cannot let competitors…

Strategy’s $4.6 billion cash buffer gives it almost 3 years before Bitcoin sales create real stress

BitcoinAug 13

Strategy said it held 840,447 $BTC as of Aug. 9 and has begun treating its Bitcoin reserve as a source of balance-sheet flexibility. Michael Saylor said Strategy sold $108 million in Bitcoin and $653 million in MSTR shares to increase its dollar reserve by $650 million, and repurchased $109 million of STRC, its variable-rate preferred stock. The timing aligns the three moves without proving that each dollar from the Bitcoin sale directly funded the repurchase. Strategy is also willing to convert a small portion of its $BTC into liquidity while supporting a capital structure whose dividends and interest are measured…