AI Rig Complex (ARC/IDR) Price Today
STRK token longs face heavy losses and forced liquidations amid price drop on Hyperliquid.
On October 17, the STRK token price on Hyperliquid dropped about 13% from the previous day, causing significant unrealized losses for major long holders. The largest STRK long position, holding 64.2 million tokens with five-times leverage, showed a n...

Arthur Hayes' fund trades altcoins mainly to buy more Bitcoin, aiming to accumulate BTC despite altcoin disappointments.
Arthur Hayes, CIO of Maelstrom and co-founder of BitMEX, revealed that his fund trades altcoins primarily to generate profits for purchasing additional Bitcoin. He expressed disappointment with altcoins' performance in recent years but continues to f...

Tax treatment of swapping Bitcoin to Wrapped Bitcoin in Germany remains unsettled with two conflicting views.
In Germany, converting Bitcoin (BTC) to Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) is legally ambiguous for tax purposes. One view treats the swap as a taxable disposal, restarting the one-year holding period and potentially triggering income tax on gains. The other vie...

Strive buys $235M in bitcoin, Binance US seeks $100M at $1B valuation, and Richard Heart arrested in Istanbul.
Strive made two large bitcoin purchases totaling $515 million, becoming the fourth-largest public bitcoin holder, signaling renewed corporate demand for BTC. Binance US is reportedly seeking $100 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation, a steep ...

Nearly 150,000 Bitcoin options worth $12.2B expire Oct 30, with max pain at $79K, signaling potential price pressure.
On October 30, 149,686 Bitcoin options contracts, representing $12.2 billion in notional value, will expire on the Deribit exchange. Most calls are clustered at strike prices well above the current Bitcoin price of around $81,420, with max pain calcu...

XRP ETFs see first weekly outflow in 13 weeks as price retests $1.30 amid market caution
XRP ETFs experienced their first weekly outflow in over three months, with investors withdrawing more than $1.84 million last week. This shift follows a 13-week streak of steady inflows and coincides with XRP's price retesting the $1.30 level, reflec...

NAKA token drops nearly 11% in five minutes, hitting key $0.10 support level
The NAKA token experienced a sharp 10.94% drop within five minutes on Saturday, falling to $0.100857 and extending its 24-hour loss to 12.77%. This decline brought the price close to the $0.10 support level that traders have been monitoring. Earlier,...

Bitcoin mining costs split evenly between hardware and power, AI inference mainly spends on hardware, says Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin compared the cost structures of Bitcoin mining and AI inference. Bitcoin mining expenses are roughly split between hardware (40%) and electricity (43%), making power costs a significant factor for miners. In contra...

Bitcoin's gains could grow with the AI investment bubble, says BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes.
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, linked Bitcoin's potential price rise to the size of the artificial intelligence (AI) investment bubble. Speaking on the Convergence program, he noted that major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are ...

$12M Triple-A hack funds and Cryptobills Ledger flows traced moving into Zcash to hide stolen assets
Blockchain investigator Specter tracked funds linked to the $12 million Triple-A hack and the Cryptobills Ledger incident moving into Zcash (ZEC). This follows a report by ZachXBT that Bitget attackers used Zcash to conceal stolen funds. Specter's mo...
