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The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty fell to 146.7 trillion on Friday as the network hashrate, the average of the total computing power dedicated to securing the decentralized protocol, hit an all-time high of over 1.2 trillion hashes per second.BTC mining difficulty is down by about 2.7% from the all-time high difficulty level of over 150.8 trillion reached during the previous adjustment period, according to CoinWarz.Bitcoin mining difficulty drops. Source: CryptoQuantHowever, network hashrate hit an all-time high on Tuesday, and remains elevated above 1.2 trillion, despite a small dip from Tuesday’s all-time high, data from CryptoQuant shows. CoinWarz also forecast:“The next…

XRP has shown some signs of recovery over the past 48 hours, climbing about 5.3 % from its recent low, according to on-chain analytics platform Santiment. The rebound comes as investor confidence appears to be returning, as it coincides with a steady rise in mid to large-sized XRP holders. Particularly, on-chain data shows that the XRP ecosystem now has more than 317,500 wallets holding at least 10,000 XRP tokens for the first time in its history. Related Reading Mid To Large XRP Holders Reach Record 317,500 Wallets Despite XRP’s recent price woes alongside the rest of the crypto market, on-chain…

Vector databases (DBs), once specialist research instruments, have become widely used infrastructure in just a few years. They power today's semantic search, recommendation engines, anti-fraud measures and gen AI applications across industries. There are a deluge of options: PostgreSQL with pgvector, MySQL HeatWave, DuckDB VSS, SQLite VSS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus and several others.The riches of choices sound like a boon to companies. But just beneath, a growing problem looms: Stack instability. New vector DBs appear each quarter, with disparate APIs, indexing schemes and performance trade-offs. Today's ideal choice may look dated or limiting tomorrow.To business AI teams, volatility translates into…

NEW YORK – October 17, 2025 – “UNBANKED,” an award-winning, feature-length Bitcoin documentary officially lands on Apple TV, Amazon Prime and Google TV on October 31st—the 17th anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto’s release of the famous Bitcoin White Paper on Halloween Day.     About the Film: From the 2008 financial disaster arose Satoshi Nakamoto, who released the Bitcoin protocol, then disappeared forever. Since then, over $2.4T has been poured into this decentralized digital alternative to the US dollar. Is Bitcoin a myth or a pathway to mass monetary self-determination? Featuring interviews with Jack Dorsey, Adam Back, Michael Saylor, Erik Voorhees, Ted Cruz and Meltem…

Google has announced DeepSomatic, an AI tool that can identify cancer-related mutations in tumour genetic sequences more accurately.Cancer starts when the controls governing cell division malfunction. Finding the specific genetic mutations driving a tumour’s growth is essential for creating effective treatment plans. Doctors now regularly sequence tumour cell genomes from biopsies to inform treatments that can target how a particular cancer grows and spreads.Published in Nature Biotechnology, this work presents a tool that uses convolutional neural networks to identify genetic variants in tumour cells with greater accuracy than current methods. Google has made both DeepSomatic and the high-quality training dataset…

Key Takeaways OpenSea will launch its native $SEA token in Q1 2026, allocating 50% to users and 50% of revenue to token buybacks. The $SEA token will support staking, community rewards, and is part of OpenSea’s expansion beyond NFTs into wider trading features. Share this article NFT marketplace OpenSea plans to launch its native token $SEA in Q1 2026, with half of the token supply allocated to community members and 50% of revenue at launch dedicated to token buybacks, said Devin Finzer, the platform’s co-founder, in an X post.The platform, which reported $2.6 billion in trading volume this month with…

The US-led trade war is having major repercussions for the Bitcoin mining industry, with looming disputes with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) potentially exposing American companies to massive liabilities.That was a key takeaway from The Miner Mag’s latest Bitcoin Mining Update, which examined how mining firms are navigating a complex tariff environment shaped by ongoing US-China trade tensions.With the White House modifying tariff rates on several Asian countries, the effective duty now stands at 57.6% on China-origin mining machines and 21.6% on those from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, according to the report.The Miner Mag also revealed that two publicly listed…

Key takeaways:XRP price dropped 8.75% on Friday despite Ripple’s $1 billion acquisition plans.A drop toward the $2 support level is possible in the coming days, as bulls pin their hopes on a rebound.Ripple is reportedly planning to raise $1 billion to purchase XRP (XRP) for its own digital asset treasury. This move could make it the world’s largest corporate holder of this top-five cryptocurrency.However, XRP bulls largely ignored the news on Friday, with the price falling 8.75% after the Oct. 17 announcement, while continuing its prevailing downtrend, as shown below.XRP/USD four-hour price chart. Source: TradingViewCan XRP break out of its…

The annual pilgrimage to TOKEN2049 this year wasn’t just another crypto conference. It felt like a collective, industry-wide exhale. Gone were the frenetic, speculative whispers of the last bull cycle. In their place, a grounded, almost sober confidence permeated the halls. This shift wasn’t a slowdown, it was a deep maturation, a profound pivot from chasing the next 100x token to architecting the next global financial system. The message from founders, CEOs, and developers was unanimous, crypto is no longer just about digital money, it’s about digital assets, and the great tokenization is finally at hand. The Quiet Institutional Alignment:…

Hyperliquid spent $644 million repurchasing HYPE, which accounted for 46% of all 2025 buybacks. Hyperliquid is leading the token buyback in 2025, according to CoinGecko. The platform has allocated over $644.64 million in revenue to repurchase its HYPE tokens through its Assistance Fund, which represents 46% of all token buyback spending this year. In fact, Hyperliquid’s buyback efforts are equivalent to the combined spending of the next nine largest buybacks. HYPE Buybacks Overshadow Market To date, at least 21.36 million HYPE tokens have been repurchased. This figure accounted for roughly 2.1% of the total supply. Monthly buybacks have averaged…