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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Codex made him feel useless. X users responded by roasting his vulnerability—and airing months of anger over AI job losses.

We hacked Elon's Grok AI to predict has tested prompt engineering on Grok and has outlined 2026–27 price paths: XRP up to $8, Solana up to $500, and Bitcoin toward $250,000. It has cited ETF demand, post-halving supply limits, U.S. policy shifts and geopolitics plus Solana TVL gains and RWA use too. The post We Hacked Elon’s Grok AI to Predict the Price of XRP, Solana and Bitcoin By the End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Vitalik Buterin has weighed in as Ethereum core devs have advanced Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) as a Hegota headliner candidate, describing how the new transaction type can inherit ERC-4337-style paymaster mempool acceptance rules and gas sponsorship, with ETH around $2,305 after the development The post Vitalik Buterin Weighs In as Devs Add Frame Transactions to Ethereum’s Next Upgrade Debate appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin is a $1.5 trillion prize pool secured by nothing more than numbers, private keys, generated by math, that unlock wallets holding real money. That’s the seductive idea behind Keys.lol: a site that spits out batches of Bitcoin private keys and their corresponding addresses, like an infinite roll of digital lottery tickets. Refresh the page, […] The post The trillion dollar Bitcoin lottery you can play now for free – but will never win appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The enforcement action over wagers on sports event contracts followed Coinbase announcing the launch of prediction markets in all 50 US states. The Nevada Gaming Control Board announced that it had filed a civil enforcement action against Coinbase over wagers on sports event contracts. In Monday filings in the First Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada in and for Carson City, the Nevada Gaming Control Board sued Coinbase Financial Markets over allegations the company offered unlicensed wagers on sporting events. Authorities followed by requesting that the court grant a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction preventing Coinbase from “operating a derivatives exchange and prediction market” related to sporting bets. “The Board takes seriously its obligation to operate a thriving gaming industry and to protect Nevada citizens,” said Mike Dreitzer, chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, in a Tuesday statement. “The action taken yesterday reinforces this obligation.” Read more

Momentum indicators suggest that the historical $100 launchpad level could still hold weight – this could be the moment Solana price predictions flip bullish. The post Solana Price Prediction: RSI Screams Oversold at $100 – Is the Market About to Snap Back Hard? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Riding OpenClaw’s viral moment, a new startup called RentAHuman.ai pitches itself as the “meatspace layer” for autonomous agents—letting bots pay people to do the things software still can’t.

Bitcoin’s volatility spiked, and its price plummeted to fresh lows as worrying US economic conditions emerged. Will credit stress data signal the next accumulation phase for BTC? Bitcoin (BTC) scratched new lows below $73,000 on Tuesday as data shows troubling macroeconomic challenges bubbling below increasingly volatile markets. New data highlights tightening credit conditions, even as the US debt and borrowing costs stay elevated, and one analyst says this gap between credit pricing and credit market stress may define Bitcoin’s price trajectory for the upcoming months. Key takeaways: The ICE BofA US Corporate Option-Adjusted Spread is at 0.75, its lowest level since 1998. Read more

The Nasdaq-listed insurance brokerage said an unnamed investor would contribute BTC as part of a deal that also includes an AI- and crypto-focused strategic partnership. Tian Ruixiang Holdings Ltd (Nasdaq: TIRX) said it has entered a strategic agreement under which an unnamed investor would contribute 15,000 Bitcoin in exchange for an equity stake in the company.  At Bitcoin’s (BTC) price of about $75,000 at the time of writing, the proposed contribution would be valued at about $1.1 billion. Tian Ruixiang said the agreement also includes a strategic partnership focused on artificial intelligence and crypto initiatives, including the creation of a joint innovation lab to develop AI-powered trading and risk management tools, blockchain infrastructure, decentralized applications and products spanning layer-2 networks, DeFi and nonfungible tokens. Read more

A French official said the government is looking at ways to stop the use of VPNs to evade an incoming social media ban for kids under 15.

Bitcoin fell around 8% on Feb. 3, briefly losing the $73,000 level. A quick rebound took prices to $74,500 as of press time, dampening the intraday correction to 5.8%. The decline marks the lowest price point in the President Donald Trump administration and the weakest level since the November 2024 Presidential Election. The selloff pushed […] The post Bitcoin in freefall hitting lowest price since Trump took office as leverage turns a macro wobble into a brutal cascade appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Whales are betting on the same launchpad that set up every major ADA bull run – this could be the moment that Cardano price predictions flip bullish. The post Cardano Price Prediction: ADA Just Touched a Level That Sparked Explosive Rallies in the Past – Is It About to Repeat? appeared first on Cryptonews.

CIRO’s new digital asset custody framework takes effect immediately, raising standards for crypto trading platforms as regulators push to reduce investor risk.

Patrick Witt, the president's digital assets adviser, told CoinDesk that anti-corruption provisions targeting Trump would not be acceptable.

Retail crypto suffered most since January 2025, while ETFs and DATs masked true losses for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP, according to Hougan.

At the Ondo Summit in New York, top asset managers said tokenization has moved beyond theory but warned that trust, education, and real-world utility are now the biggest hurdles.

Adam Back confirmed that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein invested in Blockstream as newly released emails point to a planned island visit.

The US House of Representatives approved a bill on Tuesday that will fund most of the government through the end of September. Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have approved a bill that will mostly reopen the government after a four-day partial shutdown. In a Tuesday House vote of 217 to 214 in favor of the bill, the chamber approved a roughly $1.2 trillion package already passed by the Senate that will ​​fund most of the US government through Sept. 30. The measure passed with some support from Democrats, many of whom were opposed to provisions in the bill over immigration enforcement policies. US President Donald Trump is expected to sign the legislation and reopen the government, provided there are “no changes” to the Senate bill. The legislation provides the Department of Homeland Security with funding for only two weeks before lawmakers return to negotiate changes related to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol. Read more

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is scrutinizing crypto platforms, not just wallets, for enabling Iran’s sanctions evasion, according to TRM Labs’ Ari Redbord.

Bitcoin fell under $73,000 as futures liquidations soared and worries over this week’s US corporate earnings triggered a stock sell-off. Will traders finally step in to buy “discounted” BTC? Bitcoin (BTC) tumbled to a new 2026 low of $72,945 on Tuesday as bulls failed to hold the $80,000 level as support. Year-to-date, Bitcoin trades at a 15% loss and remains nearly 45% down from its $126,267 all-time high, raising investor concerns that BTC’s cyclical bull market may have reached an end.   Rocky price action in US stock markets is an alleged driver of the selling across the crypto market. Since the end of Q4 2025, investors questioned whether the costs associated with the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out and the lofty fundraising and valuations were sustainable. Investors fear that product demand and revenue may fall short of industry projections, and this souring sentiment is visible across the Magnificent 7 stocks, along with the S&P 500, DOW and NASDAQ, which are currently trading down 0.7...