The retail convenience store and gas station chain Sheetz is now accepting multiple cryptocurrencies at all its U.S. locations and is offering customers 50% off purchases when paying with digital assets during specific daily hours. Sheetz Adds Steep Discount Incentive for Crypto Spenders The convenience store chain Sheetz, operating over 750 stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, […] Source
Day: August 7, 2025
MARKETS in the MORNING, 7/16/2025, BTC $118,800, XRP $2.95, Gold $3,334
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Bitcoin ETFs Snap 4-Day Outflow Streak With $92 Million Inflow
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) broke their four-day red streak with a $92 million inflow, led by Blackrock and Bitwise, while ether ETFs extended their recovery with a $35 million gain. BTC and ETH ETFs See Gains As Market Finds Its Footing Signs of stabilization crept back into crypto markets on Wednesday, Aug. 6, as both […] Original
Is Monero at Risk? 5 Orphan Blocks Spotted Amid Qubic Mining War
Key Notes A Qubic core developer, CFB, has an ongoing campaign disclosed as an intention to dominate Moneroโs hashrate, active since May 2025. Respected names from the Monero community have called it a โPR stuntโ to bring fear, uncertainty, and doubt related to XMR, arguing there are no real risks. Orphan blocks are normal occurrences for proof-of-work blockchains, but the five recently spotted events display atypical signs. Between Aug. 6 and 7, the Monero network had five orphan blocks in approximately 24 hours, measured within the last 720 blocks. This…
UK oil company Union Jack plans to mine Bitcoin with stranded gas
Union Jack Oil, a publicly traded UK energy company, has announced plans to convert natural gas from its West Newton site into electricity to power Bitcoin mining, marking what could become one of the countryโs first โoil-to-cryptoโ monetization projects. The move could generate early cash flow from wells that would otherwise remain undeveloped, the company said on Thursday in an operations report. The project is being pursued in partnership with Rathlin Energy and Texas-based 360 Energy, which specializes in turning stranded or flared gas into power for on-site data centers.…
NYDFS Fines Paxos $48.5M Over AML Violations Related to Binance Partnership
Key Notes Settlement includes $26.5 million penalty plus $22 million for compliance improvements following regulatory failures. Paxos allegedly failed to monitor Binance properly, enabling $1.6 billion in illicit transactions between 2017-2022. Company states all identified issues were remediated over two years ago with no customer account impact. The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has secured a $48.5 million settlement with Paxos Trust Company for alleged anti-money laundering deficiencies and due diligence failures related to the firmโs partnership with the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. According to a NYDFS press…
5 Key Things To Watch Out For As The Bull Market Unfolds
A new analysis by popular crypto chartist EGRAG CRYPTO on the social media platform X provides an in-depth look at five technical markets on XRPโs path forward. Notably, XRPโs price action has been experiencing a slight retracement and consolidation in early August following a rally in July during which XRP broke above $3 and reached new all-time highs. Key Things To Watch Out For With XRPโs Price Action Currently trading just around the $3.00 psychological level, XRPโs price action is witnessing volatile candles across shorter timeframes. However, according to the…
Ethereum’s DARK Institutional Takeover Has Already Begun (BULLISH?)
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Bitcoin Jumps as Trump Prepares to Sign New Executive Order Allowing Crypto in 401(k)s
The executive order will allow cryptocurrencies and other alternative investments, such as private equity, to be held in U.S. retirement plans. Bitcoin Climbs as Trump Set to Greenlight Crypto in Retirement Plans U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday that paves the way for 401(k) retirement plans to hold alternative assets […] Original
Animoca Launches NUVA RWA Marketplace with Provenance Blockchain
Web3 company Animoca Brands has launched a new marketplace for investors to access tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), fixing what its CEO calls a โfragmentedโ tokenization marketplace at a time of growing institutional interest in the technology. The new platform, called NUVA, was developed in partnership with ProvLabs, the organization behind the Provenance Blockchain, according to a joint announcement on Thursday. The NUVA marketplace will leverage Provenance Blockchainโs existing ecosystem of RWAs, which currently holds assets valued at approximately $15.7 billion. At launch, NUVA will offer exposure to two tokenized products…