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A 4-year-long dispute between residents of rural Hood County and a nearby Bitcoin mining operation has exposed the social costs of Texas’ crypto boom. Homeowners turned against one of the state’s largest digital-asset miners. At the center of the conflict is a large Bitcoin mine operated by MARA Holdings near Granbury in unincorporated Hood County. Bitcoin Mining Becomes a Constant Mental Torture Neighbors say a constant, low-frequency hum from the facility’s cooling systems has turned daily life into what they describe as a never-ending ordeal. MARA (formerly Marathon Digital) says it operates legally, brings investment and jobs, and has taken…

CheersLand, an innovative GameFi metaverse aggregator, has formed a partnership with KimberLite Token to develop the next generation of diamond tokenization technology. This represents new progress toward combining tangible, physical asset ownership with an expanding network of decentralized gaming ecosystems. Kimberlite’s tokenization technology will allow CheersLand players to possess and trade actual diamonds through their avatars. The Diamond Tokenization Revolution KimberLite Token is the pioneer species in the real-world asset tokenization field with “eDiamonds”, the first blockchain-based raw diamond tokenization. Built on the Ethereum network, KimberLite exists in a sector of industry that has shown explosive growth in recent years.…

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Upshift, Clearstar, and Flare have unveiled earnXRP, a new onchain yield vault that allows XRP holders to earn compounded, XRP-denominated returns. Upshift, Clearstar and Flare are launching earnXRP, a new XRP-denominated yield vault designed to make earning onchain XRP yield simpler, more transparent, and more accessible. XRP holders can now generate yield directly denominated in XRP, without managing complex DeFi strategies themselves. The Flare XRP Yield Vault is made possible by Flare’s FAssets system, supported by Upshift’s vault infrastructure,…

Ethereum spot ETFs recorded $75.89 million in net outflows on December 19, extending the losing streak to seven consecutive trading days. Summary Ethereum ETFs posted $75.89M in outflows, extending the streak to seven days. BlackRock’s ETHA accounted for all redemptions while other ETH ETFs saw zero flows. Cumulative ETH ETF inflows fell to $12.44B as ETH struggled below $3,000. BlackRock’s ETHA accounted for all redemptions while the remaining eight Ethereum ETFs posted zero flow activity. Total net assets under management for Ethereum (ETH) ETFs fell to $18.21 billion as of December 19. ETH struggled to reclaim the $3,000 level amid…

As American semiconductor giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) gears up for its November 19 Q3 earnings release, the stock is displaying extraordinary strength, likely propelling it toward its $250 record high. In this regard, analysis by charting platform TrendSpider in an X post on November 9 indicated that the stock is showing the “biggest green flag” for bullish investors. Notably, the stock ended the last week in the red amid a broader market sell-off, dropping nearly 10% to close at $188. The chipmaker’s stock has surged from roughly $46 per share in 2023 to around $188, even as its valuation multiple…

On Dec. 15, Elizabeth Warren put two names at the top of a letter that signals where she thinks US crypto policy is actually written: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Attorney General Pamela Bondi. The ask is simple on paper but awkward in practice. Are their departments investigating what she calls “national security risks” tied to decentralized exchanges, and if so, how far does that scrutiny go when the president’s business orbit is part of the story? The hook she chose is PancakeSwap, a DeFi venue that, in Warren’s telling, sits at the uncomfortable intersection of “no account needed” trading…

Bitcoin’s hashrate fell 4% over the month to Dec. 15, which could be a positive sign for the cryptocurrency’s price in the months ahead as miner capitulation is “historically a bullish contrarian signal,” VanEck analysts say. “When hash rate compression persists over longer periods, positive forward returns tend to occur more often and with greater magnitude,” VanEck crypto research lead Matt Sigel and senior investment analyst Patrick Bush noted in a report on Monday. They noted that since 2014, Bitcoin’s 90-day forward returns have been positive 65% of the time when the network’s hashrate had declined over the prior 30…

WINkLink has formed a new strategic alliance with Klever Wallet to work on the practical applications of web3. The partnership will combine the oracle infrastructure of WINkLink and the all-in-one crypto experience of Klever Wallet to make the process less complicated when it comes to dealing with blockchain-based applications. 🚀WINkLink x Klever Wallet: Strategic Ecosystem PartnershipWe are thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with @klever_io, a leading all-in-one crypto wallet to browse, buy, sell, pay, and swap crypto seamlessly, as the newest ecosystem partner of WINkLink.As the… pic.twitter.com/OA2e2Pf9e2 — WINkLink (@WinkLink_Oracle) December 19, 2025 The alliance is being positioned as…

Orbiter Finance, a Layer-2 cross-chain bridge protocol, today disclosed an important partnership with TRON, a Layer-1 blockchain network that aims to facilitate high-speed, low-cost transactions and the deployment of DApps (decentralized applications). Through this alliance, the two networks joined their respective technological strengths to enable further advancement of blockchain interoperability and decentralized finance interconnectivity. Orbiter Finance, popularly recognized by its native OBT token, is a decentralized cross-chain bridge protocol that utilizes ZKP (zero-knowledge proofs) to facilitate rapid, secure asset movements across various chains, helping to resolve fragmentation problems in the decentralized multichain environment. Since its launch in April 2021, Orbiter…

Ethereum developers, fresh off last month’s successful Fusaka upgrade, which cut down costs for nodes, are already moving full-steam ahead on planning the blockchain’s next major change. Enter “Glamsterdam.” The name is a portmanteau of two simultaneous upgrades taking place on Ethereum’s two core layers. The execution layer, where transaction rules and smart contracts live, will undergo the Amsterdam upgrade, while the consensus layer, which coordinates validators and finalizes blocks, will see an upgrade known as Gloas. At the heart of Glamsterdam is enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS), formally tracked as EIP-7732. The proposal would bake into Ethereum’s core protocol a…