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The BabyDogePAWs team, a Telegram-based clicker game developed by the BabyDoge Coin initiative, announced changes to the Season 1 airdrop eligibility requirements. Previously, players needed to recruit two friends who reached Level 5 to qualify. This rule drew complaints from community members struggling with referral tasks. Responding to feedback, the team introduced a Virtual Friend feature, allowing solo players to meet the criteria. The update, rolled out on May 29, 2025, aims to broaden participation but comes with a cost, sparking varied reactions among users. This article explores the adjustment, its implications, and what it means for the community. The…

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has passed House Bill 4488 (HB4488), a bill that protects select state funds, including any Bitcoin reserve created outside the state treasury, from being swept into general revenue. Governor Abbott has not yet made a decision on Senate Bill 21 (SB21), which would authorize Texas to invest in Bitcoin and other crypto assets with a market capitalization of at least $500 billion. Only Bitcoin meets this threshold as of now. In addition to the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, the legislation names other protected funds, including the Texas Advanced Nuclear Development Fund and the Gulf Coast Protection…

HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) has signed an agreement to buy a 7.2-megawatt data center in Toronto, Canada, aiming to transform it into a cornerstone for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure through its subsidiary BUZZ HPC. The facility is expected to become BUZZ HPC’s first Tier 3 data center. It will be upgraded to support liquid cooling and host up to 5,000 next-generation GPUs, enabling large-scale AI model training and inference. The company says the infrastructure will also support Canadian enterprise and government workloads, reinforcing the country’s digital sovereignty. “With the explosion of demand for HPC and AI compute capacity, this Toronto…

Prominent author Adam Livingston has urged investors to fire their “stupid financial advisor” and buy Bitcoin, citing its exceptional ROI since 2015. This comes at a time when Bitcoin’s price saw a decline, dropping below $101,000 from last week’s range of $103,000 to $106,000. Despite this short-term decrease, Bitcoin’s long-term growth potential continues to attract the attention of analysts. A market watcher is now comparing Bitcoin’s future prospects with traditional assets, offering a broader view on where investors should have directed their capital. Bitcoin vs. Traditional Assets Adam Livingston, author of The Bitcoin Age and The Great Harvest, shared an…

Bitcoin-friendly Donald Trump won the election in November, and was inaugurated in January as the 47th President of the United States of America. But ahead of being formally sworn in, the commander in chief dropped a meme coin. Yes, you read that right. Running on the Solana network, the TRUMP token at one point had a market cap of $14 billion. It’s since plunged to $1.8 billion but the move signaled the new President’s growing enthusiasm for the digital asset space after campaigning to help Bitcoiners and the fast-moving sphere as a whole. Trump branded himself as a crypto-friendly candidate…

Japan’s long-dormant inflation is roaring back to life, rippling through the nation’s bond markets and fiscal projections. Amid rising concerns, Metaplanet, a rather unlikely company, has captured the market’s attention and skepticism. Metaplanet, the Tokyo-listed firm that skyrocketed over 5,000% in 2024 following its bold Bitcoin treasury strategy, is now the most shorted stock in Japan, according to its CEO. Metaplanet: Japan’s Most Shorted Stock Amid Financial Turmoil The rise in short positions against Metaplanet comes amid an unraveling in Japan’s long-term debt market. Inflation in the country has reached 3.6%, now exceeding the US Consumer Price Index (CPI). “Apparently,…

Shiba Inu’s (SHIB) trading volume has crashed within the last 24 hours as prices continue to experience downward movement within the same time frame. After breaching the $0.000013 support, SHIB has continued to fluctuate despite bullish sentiment in the community. Shiba Inu volume plunges despite market activity According to CoinMarketCap data, Shiba Inu recorded a 12.3% decline in volume to $135.73 million. This amounts to 10,620,000,000 SHIB within the past 24 hours. This massive crash is one of the highest among altcoins within this period. This suggests that the dog-themed meme coin remains troubled as investors monitor trends. SHIB’s volatility…

Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a warning to the general public regarding the CMTrading trading platform. According to the regulatory agency, the platform is unregistered and as such is not fit to offer trading or financial services to residents in the country. In its statement, the Commission said that the platform reportedly claims to be affiliated with GCMT South Africa Pty Ltd, which is allegedly licensed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FSCA) of South Africa and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) of Seychelles as a securities dealer. The Nigerian SEC also said that the platform, which has…

Cipher Mining (CIFR) has begun bitcoin BTC$103,760.80 production at its 300-megawatt (MW) Black Pearl facility in Texas, the company announced on Monday. The launch marks a key milestone for the firm, which now operates five active bitcoin mining data centers.Phase I of the site, currently running at 150 MW, has reached an initial hashrate of 2.5 exahashes per second (EH/s). That number is expected to rise to 9.6 EH/s by the end of the third quarter, as new mining rigs arrive and replace older units. Once fully operational, Cipher’s total fleet will push toward a self-mining capacity of 23.1 EH/s.…

This is a daily technical analysis by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. Bitcoin’s BTC$103,882.59 broader outlook is constructive, but its short-term prospects remain bleak, according to technical analysis. The leading cryptocurrency by market value has bounced back to nearly $104,000 from its overnight low of $104.30, alongside positive action in U.S. equity futures. However, a closer look at the hourly price chart reveals that the bounce is likely a classic breakdown and retest play – the cryptocurrency dove out of a head-and-shoulders pattern on Thursday, signalling a short-term bullish-to-bearish trend change, and prices are now revisiting the…