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America’s grip on Bitcoin mining is slipping as firms race to build out infrastructure for artificial intelligence, providing an opportunity for countries like China—despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision for technological dominance. In 2025, North American pools, where miners combine computing power to better their chances of solving a block and obtaining the block reward, saw a consistent decline in block share, or the percentage of total Bitcoin blocks successfully mined, according to a recent report from BlocksBridge Consulting. As of December, BlocksBridge said that Foundry USA, MARA Pool, and Luxor Technologies accounted for 35% of all Bitcoin blocks, down…

Network News BUTERIN SAYS STABLECOINS HAVE DEEP FLAWS: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the crypto industry has yet to solve some of the most basic design problems behind truly decentralized stablecoins, arguing that many existing systems rely on fragile assumptions that could break down over time. In a post published on X, Buterin laid out what he described as three core challenges that remain unresolved. Rather than promoting a specific project or proposing a new stablecoin, he framed the post as a critique of how decentralized stablecoins are designed and why those designs may not hold up over the long…

An Ethereum price collapse could break the blockchain’s ability to settle transactions and freeze over $800 billion in assets, a Bank of Italy research paper warns. The paper, authored by Claudia Biancotti of the central bank’s Directorate General for Information Technology, outlined a contagion scenario where ETH’s price collapse degrades the blockchain’s security infrastructure to the point of failure. Such a breakdown, the report argues, would trap and compromise tokenized stocks, bonds, and stablecoins that major financial institutions are increasingly placing on public ledgers. Essentially, the paper challenges the assumption that regulated assets issued on public blockchains are insulated from…

Despite the Fed’s interest rate cut, the cryptocurrency market has continued its negative trend over the past week. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, is set to close the week down 2.86%. However, the cryptocurrency market will see numerous economic developments and altcoin events in the coming week. Here is the cryptocurrency calendar we have specially prepared for you at Bitcoinsistemi.com. (All times are given in UTC+3 Turkish time) Monday, December 15 STRK – A 5.07% dilution will occur upon token unlocking. VANA – A dilution of 8.63% will occur with the token unlocking. The SEC will be holding a roundtable…

The recent crypto market rally experienced earlier this year stalled recently as traders booked profits. Summary The crypto market is wavering ahead of the upcoming CLARITY Act markup. Senator Tim Scott confirmed that the markup will take place on January 15. The CLARITY Act will likely not lead to a crypto market rally. Bitcoin (BTC) price plunged from the year-to-date high of $94,500 to the current $90,000. Other top altcoins like Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) have also pulled back in the past few days. CLARITY Act markup to happen on January 15 The crypto market will be in focus…

Solana surpassed Base in x402 on-chain transactions for the first time on Sunday. On-chain data revealed that Solana recorded 518,400 x402 payments while Base recorded 505,000 payments on the x402 protocol. Transactions in agent-to-agent services recorded the most payments at $548,500, followed by transactions in infrastructure and utilities at $267,100. Transactions in AI-generated services were the lowest at $14,200. Coinbase facilitates over 50% of all x402 payments x402 is doing $600m in annualized payment volume >50% is going through the Coinbase facilitator, but there are several others hot on its heels The beauty of this being an open standard is…

Ethereum price failed to clear the $3,160 resistance and dipped again. ETH is now consolidating and might make another attempt to surpass $3,200. Ethereum started a downside correction below $3,180 and $3,150. The price is trading below $3,120 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a key bullish trend line forming with support at $3,085 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could continue to move up if it stays above the $3,080 zone. Ethereum Price Starts Consolidation Ethereum price failed to surpass $3,150 and trimmed gains, like Bitcoin. ETH price declined below $3,120…

Federal Reserve chairman contender Kevin Hassett has once again repeated that the central bank will stay independent even if he ends up as chair. He said he would hear President Trump out because the president has “very strong and well-founded views,” but the rate path would still come from the Federal Open Market Committee. He also said Trump’s opinions would not override the votes of the policymakers who set the federal funds rate. He made that point after Trump said he “should have a role” in speaking to whoever is running the central bank. Hassett explained that he already talks…

Banks are fighting stablecoin rewards to protect a secret $360 billion revenue machine. When Coinbase chief policy officer Faryar Shirzad posted a thread on Jan. 8 warning that stablecoin rewards “remain under debate” as Congress marks up market structure legislation, he attached numbers that banking groups would rather keep quiet. US banks earn $176 billion annually on roughly $3 trillion they park at the Federal Reserve, and they collect another $187 billion from card swipe fees, nearly $1,400 per household. That’s over $360 billion in revenue from payments and deposits alone, and stablecoins with competitive yields threaten both streams at…

Pundi AI, a decentralised protocol that aims at turning AI training data into community-owned assets, has declared a strategic partnership with 4AI, a decentralised marketplace of AI agents built on BNB Chain. The collaboration seeks to help address one of the most significant issues in decentralised AI access to high quality, transparent and auditable data to train and deploy AI agents. Pundi AI is excited to collaborate with @4aibsc, the leading AI marketplace on @BNBCHAIN.Together, we are growing the AI ecosystem on BNBChain and unlocking new possibilities for builders and users.https://t.co/JtfgRMTP5D — Pundi AI (@PundiAI) January 14, 2026 Addressing the…