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Bitcoin’s security-budget debate usually starts with one total: how much miners collect in transaction fees as the block subsidy shrinks.A July 2026 NBER working paper by Fabian Schär, Dario Thürkauf, and David Yermack points to a second variable. Using data from 2017 through 2025, the authors report that larger fee differences between adjacent Bitcoin blocks are associated with more competing blocks at the same height and a longer wait for the next block.The evidence is observational and identifies a network-level relationship, while miner intent and the cause of any individual block race remain unresolved. The finding still gives wallets, miners,…

Banks defend themselves against stablecoins by saying they are building tokenized deposits to modernize payments, with programmable money and around-the-clock settlement.Falcon Finance chief RWA officer Artem Tolkachev told CryptoSlate that the explanation covers only half the reason:“It is the balance sheet, not the technology.”A tokenized deposit keeps the money a stablecoin would move off a bank’s balance sheet, leaving it as a deposit the bank can still lend against. Tolkachev said:“A stablecoin competes with the deposit. A tokenized deposit is the deposit, just programmable.”Underneath stablecoins and tokenized depositsTolkachev said that, to whoever is holding them, a tokenized deposit, a reserve-backed…

At 8:30 a.m. ET on Aug. 26, Bitcoin’s seven-session spot ETF inflow streak faces a concentrated macro test as three U.S. reports land at the same minute.The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis is scheduled to publish July Personal Income and Outlays, including the PCE inflation indexes, alongside its second estimate of second-quarter GDP. The U.S. Census Bureau will release July advance durable-goods orders at the same time.Ahead of the data, CryptoSlate’s Bitcoin market data put BTC near $78,508, down about 2% over 24 hours but still up roughly 22.8% over seven days. The asset therefore enters the release window with…

Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, raised $2.0065 billion by selling common shares from Aug. 17 through Aug. 23 and bought no Bitcoin. The transaction left its $1.59 billion USD Cash balance at the center of a wider capital-allocation contest.The company sold 18,261,118 shares of MSTR, its common stock, then used $136.4 million to repurchase 1,431,212 shares of STRC, a variable-rate preferred stock. It transferred another $300 million to its separately designated USD Reserve. The remainder, $1.5701 billion, went into USD Cash, according to Strategy’s Aug. 24 filing.Strategy reported ending balances of $5.10 billion in the reserve…

LND, a Lightning Network node implementation, has disclosed a channel-close flaw that can put an entire channel balance at risk in the reproduced maximum-loss scenario. Operators using standard releases below 0.21.0 should treat their nodes as lacking the official fix unless they were independently patched.The Aug. 13 disclosure describes how a malicious channel peer could combine a one-block Bitcoin reorganization with an old, revoked commitment transaction after a cooperative close. Bastien Teinturier, who published the disclosure, said no affected users were known. Related ReadingResearchers discover vulnerabilities in Bitcoin layer-2 Lightning Network Before the fix, LND could forget a cooperatively closed…

XRP is on course for its strongest monthly gain in more than a year after recovering from below $1, even as a fresh pullback and heavy whale activity test the durability of the rally.CryptoSlate’s data shows the token trading near $1.40 as of press time, down about 5% over the past 24 hours, after climbing as high as $1.70 during last week’s broader crypto market surge.This price performance contrasts with the fact that XRP is on track for a roughly 32% gain in August, per CryptoRank’s data. This would mark its best monthly performance since July 2025, when it advanced…

Extending the United States Mint’s 2026 Semiquincentennial quarter program, the 1776 ~ 2026 U.S. Constitution Quarter launches today in rolls and bags as the fourth of five one-year-only quarter designs planned for the year. Both sides of the 1776 ~ 2026 US Constitution Quarter feature James Madison and Independence Hall Circulating-quality coins from the Philadelphia and Denver Mints will go on sale at noon ET in 100-coin bags and a two-roll set containing 40 coins from each location. Demand will be brisk: U.S. Mint-branded rolls and bags for the first three 2026 quarters sold quickly and are unavailable. Outside the…

Bitcoin’s brief pullback below $78,000 triggered more than $300 million in crypto liquidations as traders took profits after a sharp $80,000 rally driven by Treasury developments, ETF inflows, and a squeeze on bearish positions.Data from CryptoSlate shows that the largest cryptocurrency fell as low as $77,870 during the last 24 hours before recovering above $79,000 as of press time. The retreat spread across major cryptocurrencies, with XRP falling 4% to $1.43 and Solana sliding 3% to $97 after trading above $101.Ethereum dropped to about $2,467, while Zcash declined 7% to $789. Cardano and Dogecoin each fell roughly 5%, with ADA trading…

A federal jury convicted Profit Connect owner Brent C. Kovar on 15 fraud and money-laundering counts after prosecutors said he obtained $24 million from at least 400 investors through false claims about an AI-powered crypto business.The Justice Department said the verdict followed a nine-day trial, with jurors finding Kovar guilty of 11 counts of wire fraud, two counts of mail fraud, and two counts of money laundering.The Justice Department placed the conduct between late 2017 and July 2021, when Kovar marketed Profit Connect as a profitable technology business capable of generating the promised returns.Kovar told investors that Profit Connect used…

Key takeaways Pi Network trades around $0.0900 on Wednesday, maintaining mild upside momentum above the critical $0.0853 support. The broader cryptocurrency market is retreating as investors take profits following last week’s double-digit gains. A break above $0.1022 could open the path toward $0.1204. Pi Network is showing modest upside movement on Wednesday, with PI trading around $0.0900 and remaining above an important technical support level. However, the broader cryptocurrency market’s recovery is losing momentum as investors lock in profits following last week’s sharp gains. PI’s technical indicators also remain mixed, reflecting a lack of decisive buying pressure. Profit-taking slows the…