Tether just brought 15 Bitcoin mining players together around one software framework.

Bitmain. MicroBT. Foundry. F2Pool.

The pitch: connect the machines, cut operational friction, and build the foundation for AI automation.

The stakes go deeper.

Shared software could help smaller miners compete. It could also leave independent operators depending on the same code—and exposed to the same mistakes.

Owning the machines doesn’t automatically mean operational independence.

That’s what makes Tether’s MDK worth watching.

Will miners gain more freedom—or become dependent on software they can’t afford to leave?

I posted this to Buttcoin. But please, those of you here, come at me with whatever you got. And I need to make this intro 100 characters so here are some extra words.

OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cognition’s Devin are all competing for attention from developers. Robinhood’s venture arm now has money riding on two of the companies behind them.

Robinhood Ventures has cut Cognition a check for $10 million, the company exclusively told Fortune, which follows a $75 million investment in OpenAI back in April.

Sarah Pinto, head of Robinhood Ventures, has no issue with backing rivals. “It’s not a winner-take-all market,” she said. Robinhood’s own engineers use multiple AI coding tools, she noted, adding that within its consumer business, Robinhood lets customers choose between different AI models to run its trading agents.

The Cognition investment was part of the startup’s Series E funding round in September, which raised more than $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. Robinhood is disclosing its participation for the first time, joining high-profile backers including Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, and Founders Fund. Cognition said in September that its annualized revenue run rate had reached almost $900 million, up from $492 million in May. 

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/10/23/exclusive-robinhood-bets-10-million-ai-coding-tool-maker-cognition/?utm_source=reddit/

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Introducing Chainlink CustodySync, a new solution that lets qualified custodians give their institutional clients access to DeFi lending markets, all while assets remain securely in custody.

With @Anchorage as the official launch partner, together we’re establishing a new standard for institutional DeFi.

CustodySync keeps custody and lending systems in sync across the full lifecycle of a loan:

→ For custodians: faster time to market and lower operational overhead, with custodian-managed controls
→ For lending markets: independent, verifiable data and a consistent risk framework
→ For institutions: passive capital becomes productive capital

More than $80 billion sits in DeFi lending markets. Meanwhile, the roughly $700 billion in digital assets under custody is less than 0.5% of all $250 trillion in traditional assets under custody. The opportunity to connect traditional institutional capital to onchain finance remains vast.

Large institutions have lacked a secure way of accessing these markets. Regulations require many of them to keep their digital assets with a qualified custodian, a firm that meets specific requirements for holding assets on behalf of clients, and custody systems were never built for DeFi. Even when custody and lending systems are connected, inconsistent loan valuations can trigger premature liquidation or delayed liquidations, exposing borrowers and lenders to significant financial risk.

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Why does the United States Congress treat foreign central bank currencies 20x better than Bitcoin?

Under Section 988(e) of the Internal Revenue Code, an American citizen can spend $1,500 worth of Euros or Swiss Francs, realize up to $200 in exchange-rate profit per transaction, and owe $0 in taxes with zero IRS paperwork.

Meanwhile, under the flagship crypto tax bills moving through Congress right now (H.R. 10357 and the ADAPT Act), if a working-class American spends $14.50 over the Lightning Network to buy lunch, it triggers a taxable barter disposition on IRS Form 8949.

Even worse: the much-hyped "$10 de minimis exemption" inside H.R. 10357 only exempts the network transaction fee—not the purchase itself. Congress exempted the postage stamp and kept the letter inside fully taxable.

Why? Follow the incentives:

1. Wall Street got everything it asked for: Institutional lending safe harbors, mark-to-market accounting, and ETF trust protections.
2. Dollar stablecoins got a monopoly: Zero capital gains on spending and immunity from wash-sale rules—because stablecoins force everyday spenders to hold T-bill-backed dollars that silently pay the annual inflation tax.
3. Everyday Bitcoiners got handcuffs: A 30-day wash-sale ban, constructive-sale rules, and permanent taxation of miners on unsold block rewards.

Inside "The $10 Insult"—and why the state is terrified of letting Bitcoin circulate as everyday money

While incidents such as the hugging face incident are scary and OpenAI staff had no clue their own AI agents hacked into hugging face and were so oblivious that they emailed hugging face once a breach was announced and asked, "Are we at OpenAI affected by this hack?" the same day it was announced, AI isn't something you can just point at bitcoin and say, "Break it."

Once the ColdCard hack happened, a movement called "red-teaming bitcoin" got started. For those of you who don't know, red-teaming means basically "white hat hacking" with relevant stakeholders in the know. Anyone can view bitcoin's open source code on github and I have to ask the question, "Has no one already tried pointing to the github page and doing that already?"

Quantum computing's limitations extend to the fact that hardware used in quantum computing must be kept at extremely cold temperatures while performing quantum computations. And one quantum computer cannot just steal millions of wallet addresses' private keys all with the push of one button.

With all incentives in place, there are very real motivations to keep bitcoin protected from these things. I think the announcement of a bitcoin-protection grant from galaxy digital below speaks volumes to those motivations:

https://www.galaxy.com/newsroom/galaxy-launches-bitcoin-quantum-readiness-initiative

EDIT: The red-teaming bitcoin fund is an ongoing project as well find that below.
https://opensats.org/funds/red

Hey everyone!

Concordium Town Hall #6 is happening this Wednesday, October 28, at 15:00 UTC. 🎙️

The EMG team will be joining live to look back at what Concordium has delivered, discuss the latest Agent Registry developments, ecosystem updates, and share what’s next for the project.

From the progress made since the last Town Hall to the developments ahead, this session is an opportunity to hear directly from the team about where Concordium stands and where we’re heading.

📅 Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026

⏰ Time: 15:00 UTC

🔗 Add to calendar: https://calget.com/e/concordium-townhall-6

See you there!

This is a graph of Dash’s CoinMarketCap rank since Jan 2021, from CMC’s monthly historical snapshots. It went from #36 to a low of #196 in Jun 2024, then jumped to #68 in Nov 2025 and has held in the #63–#89 range since. Setting aside stablecoins and gold-backed tokens, only about 10 cryptos fell that far and later recovered to #75 or better. Of those, Dash is the only one that had previously been a top-10 coin, and only 2 of the other 9 are currently ranked above Dash: JUST (#58) and Injective (#70).

We still have a good ways to go, but we are far from dead and we are still the best actual cryptoCURRENCY in the world. Faster, cheaper, more secure, optional privacy, innovative, etc.

Hello everyone.

As the title of this thread says, there is a somewhat finely doctored email coming from a group of nefarious actors pretending to be trust wallet staffers that links people to a fake website telling people to download a malicious update to their trust wallet.

Needless to say, DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING. Legitimate updates are only deployed via apple appstore and Google play. If anything you should be updating through those two device-specific channels.

Stay safe friends.

Honestly it’s becoming a hassle to hold crypto and for novices it must be a minefield. What with exchange hacks and more recently cold wallet exploits, not to mention the seemingly more and more common practice of exchanges freezing transactions and holding funds, demanding proof of funds, history and even having the audacity to ask why the transfer and what the funds will be used for.
Personally I haven’t been affected because I’m holding, but it’s a significant amount and dread if I ever have to convert to fiat. What’s more, I’ve interacted and exchanged via XMR as an investment and because I like the concept,but this will no doubt raise further red flags with exchanges. Yes, I’m aware of DEXs but when the day comes when I want to take profit I will need a CEX for an Australian bank deposit.
Rant over.
Cheers.

I've been thinking about the current AI trend and how the infrastructure might evolve.

Phase 1 was clearly the GPU boom for training the models.

Phase 2 seems to be the inference and edge computing boom for actually running them everywhere.

Does it make sense that Phase 3 could be autonomous AI agents needing a native settlement layer?
Since an AI can't open a traditional corporate bank account or pass KYC to use services like Stripe, crypto seems like the most practical way for them to transact with each other (AI-to-AI) and pay traditional companies for things like APIs, web scraping, or cloud storage (AI-to-Business).
If this scenario actually plays out, do you think networks like ETH, SOL, or LINK are well-positioned to capture this volume? Or is the idea of AI agents driving blockchain adoption still too far off?
Would love to hear your thoughts on this timeline.