Crypto & Fintech
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Mississippi HB 1625 Joins Growing State Wave Against Crypto Kiosk Fraud
A crypto ATM looks like a regular cash machine. The scam it enables is not complicated. A caller impersonating a government official, a tech support agent, or a law enforcement officer tells the target their account has been compromised, their Social Security number is being used for fraud, or they owe back taxes. The only…
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Digital Assets Weekly: CLARITY Act Advances, Bitcoin Sells Off, Fannie Mae Goes Crypto
Bitcoin started the week at $80,015. It ended Monday at $76,009. The CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee on May 14. Fifteen to nine. Two Democrats crossed the aisle. Markets responded by liquidating $657 million in crypto positions over the next 24 hours, $584 million of which were longs. The Fear and Greed Index…
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Canaan Posts 10.97 EH/s Hashrate and Record BTC Holdings as Mining Margins Tighten
Canaan Inc. (Nasdaq: CAN) shipped the world’s first ASIC Bitcoin miners in 2013 under the Avalon brand. Thirteen years later, the economics of the business it helped create have become unforgiving for everyone running older hardware. The company released its unaudited April 2026 Bitcoin mining update this week. Self-mining operations produced 90 BTC during the…
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How Bermuda Is Building the World’s First Fully Onchain National Economy
Bermuda merchants pay up to 10% per transaction in card fees. There is no dominant mobile money app. Traditional payment rails are expensive and built for somewhere else. That is the problem the Stellar Development Foundation and the Government of Bermuda announced they are solving this week, with Bermuda beginning to move core payments, wages,…
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Mastercard Partners With Yellow Card to Build African Stablecoin Payment Rails
Sending $200 to Sub-Saharan Africa costs an average of 8.78% of the transfer value, according to World Bank data from Q1 2025. The global average is 6.49%. When banks handle it, the average jumps to 14.55%, the highest of any provider category worldwide. Those numbers explain, better than any press release can, why stablecoins are…
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Digital Assets Weekly: Wall Street Goes Onchain
Bitcoin crossed $80,000 Sunday. First time since January. The move triggered over $116 million in liquidations, nearly all of them shorts. April closed up 13% for BTC, its best month in a year. Ethereum held near $2,381. Solana at $84.79. XRP rangebound at $1.39. Prices aside, this was a week of structural decisions. Congress cleared…
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ATTOM’s New AI Property Valuation Model Works Where Traditional AVMs Break Down
The US housing market has a valuation problem that most people outside mortgage and insurance underwriting never think about. Transaction volume collapsed from its 2021 peak and has stayed low. Elevated mortgage rates froze move-up buyers in place. The result is a market with far fewer recent comparable sales than traditional automated valuation models were…
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South Korea’s Oldest Bank Just Joined MoonPay’s Won Stablecoin Consortium
South Korea’s won is one of the most traded currencies in Asia. It is almost entirely absent from global digital finance. That gap is what MoonPay Korea is positioning to close. On April 30, 2026, MoonPay Korea announced it will support the global distribution, cross-border settlement, wallet access, and currency conversion infrastructure for Korea’s emerging…
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Why Taiwan’s Case for Bitcoin Reserves Is Unlike Any Other Country’s
Taiwan holds $602 billion in foreign exchange reserves. More than 80% of it is in US dollars. For most countries that concentration is a policy footnote. For Taiwan it is something else. On April 29, 2026, Legislator Dr. Ko Ju-Chun stood up in the Legislative Yuan and formally delivered a Bitcoin Policy Institute report to…
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Thunes and WireBarley Just Made Real-Time Payments Into South Korea a Reality
South Korea sent $7.45 billion in outbound remittances in 2024. The digital segment of that market is growing at 16.7% annually through 2030. Most of it still moves too slowly. Thunes and WireBarley announced a strategic collaboration on April 27, 2026, connecting WireBarley’s 1.1 million users across seven sending countries and 520 payout corridors to…
