Month: August 2026
Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up
PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm’s new CEO attempts to turn the [more…]
Taken to jail in Music City, Actor Chris ‘CB’ McCarty Returns for an Episode of ABC’s ‘9-1-1: Nashville’
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 13, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Hollywood film and television actor and hit songwriter Chris “CB” McCarty has officially returned to Music City, [more…]
Coinbase Expands Derivatives Trading To UK Professional Clients
Coinbase has launched futures, options, and perpetuals for professional clients in the United Kingdom, expanding its derivatives offering through its MiFID authorization. The rollout is [more…]
Riot’s Anthropic Deal Shows Bitcoin Miners Are Moving Deeper Into AI Compute
Riot Platforms has signed a long-term data center lease agreement tied to Anthropic, giving the Bitcoin miner another route into AI and high-performance computing as [more…]
BlackRock Cuts IBIT In-Kind Conversion Minimum To $1M
BlackRock has reduced the in-kind conversion minimum for its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, potentially making the mechanism available to a [more…]
BitMine Pushes Ethereum Treasury Past 5.8M ETH
BitMine Immersion Technologies has added another 7,391 ETH to its balance sheet, pushing its Ethereum treasury to about 5.81 million ETH. The company’s Ethereum position [more…]
Strategy Boosts Cash Reserve As Bitcoin Treasury Model Gets More Complex
Strategy has added $650 million to its USD reserve and repurchased $109 million of STRC preferred stock, showing again that the company’s Bitcoin strategy is [more…]
SharpLink Reports $394M Q2 Loss As Ethereum Revaluation Hits Results
SharpLink reported a $394.3 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026, with the result driven largely by non-cash Ethereum revaluation losses and liquid [more…]
Empery Digital Sells 1,635 Bitcoin As Treasury Buffer Shrinks
Empery Digital has disclosed the sale of 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million, using the proceeds to support debt repayment and share buybacks as its unrestricted [more…]
Wintermute Says Institutions Drove 72% Of Its Spot OTC Volume In H1 2026
Institutional investors accounted for 72% of Wintermute’s spot OTC trading volume in the first half of 2026, up from 59% a year earlier, showing how [more…]
