Day: November 3, 2025

Lava Debuts Bitcoin-Backed Line of Credit, Secures $200M Funding

2025-11-03 By admin

Lava, a bitcoin-focused financial platform, disclosed it has raised $200 million and launched a global bitcoin-backed line of credit (BLOC) offering borrowing rates starting at 5%, marking an expansion in the crypto-collateralized lending space. Lava Secures $200M to Advance Bitcoin Lending CEO Shehzan Maredia announced the move on X, calling it “the biggest day in […]

Cipher Mining Seals 15-Year Deal With Amazon for 300MW Data Center

2025-11-03 By admin

Cipher Mining Inc. has signed a 15-year data center campus lease with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to supply 300 megawatts of capacity for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, marking one of its largest high-performance computing (HPC) initiatives to date. Cipher Mining’s $5.5B AWS Lease Anchors AI Hosting Expansion Bitcoin miner and HPC provider, Cipher Mining Inc. […]

Discussion – Apple Silicon SoC thread

2025-11-03 By admin

M15 nmUnified memory architecture – LP-DDR416 billion transistors 8-core CPU 4 high-performance cores192 KB instruction cache128 KB data cacheShared 12 MB L2 cache 4 high-efficiency cores128 KB instruction cache64 KB data cacheShared 4 MB L2 cache(Apple claims the 4 high-effiency cores alone perform like a dual-core Intel MacBook Air) 8-core iGPU (but there is a […]

Bitcoin Dips as Polymarket Predicts a Decisive Zohran Mamdani Victory

2025-11-03 By admin

The prediction market has assigned Zohran Mamdani a 93% probability of becoming New York City’s next mayor. Bitcoin Slips as Traders Fret Over Potential Mamdani Win Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani will likely be New York City’s next mayor according to Polymarket, and bitcoin traders don’t seem too pleased by it. The 34-year-old Ugandan-born New Yorker […]

ETF Recap: Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $799 Million as Solana ETFs Soar in Debut Week

2025-11-03 By admin

The final week of October delivered a mixed performance for crypto ETFs. Bitcoin funds bled nearly $800 million, ether products held steady with modest inflows, and solana ETFs stole the spotlight with a $199 million debut, signaling a shifting behavior in investor sentiment. Solana ETFs Shine Amid Heavy Bitcoin Outflows and Ether Stability October’s final […]

Onchain Analyst: Long-Sleeping Bitcoin Whale Resurfaces, Shifting 2,300 BTC to Paxos Wallet

2025-11-03 By admin

On Monday, onchain analyst Emmett Gallic spotted a heavyweight bitcoin whale making waves after dropping 2,300 BTC into a Paxos-tagged deposit address. Despite that hefty move, the whale is still swimming in deep crypto waters—holding 32,490.38 BTC worth a cool $3.44 billion. Analyst Emmett Gallic Flags $245M Bitcoin Move From Long-Inactive Whale Bitcoin’s price has […]

IREN Inks $9.7 Billion AI Cloud Deal With Microsoft

2025-11-03 By admin

IREN Limited announced it has inked a multi-year GPU cloud services contract with Microsoft, marking a major partnership in the rapidly expanding field of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Microsoft Taps IREN for Next-Gen GPU Infrastructure As explained in the release, under the five-year agreement, IREN (Nasdaq: IREN) will supply Microsoft with access to Nvidia GB300 […]

Balancer Suffers Major Exploit: Over $116 Million Drained From V2 Pools

2025-11-03 By admin

On Nov. 3, Balancer was exploited for over $116 million after attackers used a smart contract vulnerability to manipulate vault calls during pool initialization. Balancer Confirms Incident The decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Balancer has suffered a major exploit, resulting in the theft of over $116 million in digital assets. Preliminary investigations revealed that attackers exploited […]