Electricity distribution companies funded only 90,172 meters nationwide between 2019 and the third quarter of 2025, according to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s Third Quarter 2025 report, underscoring their limited contribution to closing Nigeria’s widening metering gap. This indicates that…

The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the decentralized blockchain ledger, fell slightly to 146.4 trillion on Thursday, in the first difficulty adjustment of 2026. “The next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is estimated…

The outage was the second major network disruption in 2025, with both incidents requiring a block reorganization that rolled back some activity.The team behind Starknet, an Ethereum layer‑2 (L2) scaling network, released a post-mortem report outlining the root cause of…

The Bitcoin (BTC) community is celebrating the anniversary of cypherpunk and Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney’s post on January 10, 2009, telling the world that he was running the Bitcoin node software“Running Bitcoin,” Finney said on X, formerly known as Twitter.…

Bitcoin whales began repeating a classic bull signal as they took BTC long positions off the table after a year of declining overall market exposure.Bitcoin (BTC) whales are “aggressively” reducing long exposure as a classic bull signal reappears.Key points:Bitfinex whales…

The chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has faulted the concerns raised by KPMG about Nigeria’s new tax laws, saying the bulk of the issues described by the firm as errors and loopholes are…

Asset manager Grayscale has taken an early step toward expanding its crypto investment lineup by forming new Delaware statutory trusts tied to potential products linked to BNB and HYPE, according to state records.According to Delaware records, the trusts were registered…

A crypto user known as The Smart Ape said he lost about $5,000 from a hot wallet after spending three days in a hotel, not because he clicked a phishing link, but because he made a series of “stupid mistakes,”…

Betterment has warned users to disregard a crypto promotion message that circulated on Friday, describing it as an unauthorized notification that was sent through a third-party system.The incident surfaced after multiple users reported receiving a message that appeared to promote…

Public companies and crypto-focused treasury firms are increasingly turning to staking as a source of passive income.Sharplink Gaming, the world’s second-largest corporate Ether (ETH) holder, generated 10,657 Ether ($33 million) in passive yield on its staking operations during the past…

In June 2013, the lens through which US citizens looked at their government was dramatically changed; it was now a PRISM. PRISM was the program that enabled the National Security Agency (NSA), with some help from the FBI, to obtain…

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) started 2026 with sharp outflows, shedding a combined $681 million over the first full trading week of the year. According to data from SoSoValue, spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded four consecutive days of net outflows…

Bitcoin’s long-term holders (LTHs) went through one of the most aggressive distribution phases on record in 2025. While the scale of selling rattled the market, onchain data analysis suggests that this pressure may be fading, possibly outlining the next bullish…

Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen said the Solana-based memecoin launchpad is overhauling its creator fee system after concluding that the existing model may have skewed incentives.“Creator fees need change,” Cohen wrote in a Friday post on X, acknowledging that the Dynamic…

Cryptocurrency markets experienced a limited recovery this week as investor liquidity gradually returned after the holidays.Bitcoin (BTC) topped a weekly high of $94,458 on Monday, before declining to about $90,937 at the time of writing on Friday.US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded…