BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo and Tether investor Christopher Harborne each donated £36 million to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party within 24 hours, representing the largest single donations in British political history. The combined £72 million ($97 million) is intended to help the insurgent party prepare for the next general election.
Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has resigned from Ocean mining pool, with parent company Mummolin repurchasing his entire equity stake. The split follows disagreement over BIP-110, a Bitcoin improvement proposal that failed to gain sufficient miner support, reaching only 2.6% hashrate backing versus a 55% target.
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio recommended investors shift 10-15% of portfolios to gold and Bitcoin while selling bonds, citing concerns about a potential US debt crisis as federal debt surpasses $40 trillion.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly criticized crypto firms pivoting to AI as 'zero-sum thinking,' arguing instead that cryptocurrency will become more important in the AI era as autonomous AI agents need programmable money for transactions without traditional banking infrastructure.
Strategy executives, including Michael Saylor, announced the company may sell Bitcoin to fund dividend payments or other corporate needs, reversing years of hardline 'never sell' rhetoric as the firm reported its third consecutive quarterly loss.
Paul Sztorc announced a Bitcoin hard fork that would introduce a competing layer-1 blockchain and seven layer-2 networks, with plans to reallocate Satoshi Nakamoto's estimated 1.1 million BTC reserve to investors.
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson releases a video calling BIP-361 a mischaracterized soft fork that would render 1.7 million BTC permanently unrecoverable. He tweets "Have fun stealing Satoshi's coins" directly at supporters of the proposal and argues Bitcoin's lack of on-chain governance makes the quantum problem unsolvable, while positioning Cardano's governance model as the alternative.
China has ordered Apple to pull Bitchat, a peer-to-peer messaging app that runs over Bluetooth and mesh networks without internet, from its App Store. The app has been used during protests in Iran, Madagascar, Uganda, Nepal, and Indonesia when authorities restricted internet access.
