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China stepped up rare earth export controls on Thursday in a rare move that could have widespread implications for global supply chains and both traditional and crypto market sentiment.China’s Ministry of Commerce announced sweeping new export restrictions on rare earth materials, processing technologies and derivative products used in semiconductors, AI systems and defence.The new rules, set to take effect on Dec. 1, will require foreign companies exporting products containing Chinese-origin rare earth elements or related technologies – including those outside China – to obtain a dual-use license from the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).This is a major escalation as China dominates…

Bitcoin BTC$121,638.12 miners are extending gains in pre-market trading as the artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (AI/HPC) boom accelerates, particularly benefiting those pivoting their operations toward AI infrastructure. IREN (IREN) is up 4% at $66 after a 6% rise on Thursday, now up more than 520% year-to-date. TerraWulf (WULF) is 5% higher pre-market after a 10% surge on Thursday, bringing its YTD gain to 150%. Other notable movers include Cipher Mining (CIFR) CleanSpark (CLSK) and Bitfarms (BITF), which all trade 2%-4% higher in pre-market.The total market capitalization of the miners is nearing $90 billion, according to Farside data, and on…

Bitcoin holders may want to rethink their price targets for 2025, with one Bitcoin analyst arguing that $110,000 has been firmly established as Bitcoin’s new bottom.“You can kind of start lifting some of your targets and saying, “Well, because we’ve proven 110, that’s the floor, where do we go from here?” James Check said in an interview published on YouTube on Thursday.“We’ve built an enormous base up here at $2 trillion,” he said, referring to Bitcoin’s (BTC) market capitalization, which is currently sitting at around $2.42 trillion. “We proved a trillion [in 2024], we’ve proved $2 trillion in [2025], so…

Key points:Bitcoin’s Mayer Multiple suggests that BTC is closer to “oversold” than “overbought,” even at all-time highs.The gauge has barely moved in recent months as BTC price struggled to seal a decisive breakout.Expectations no longer favor a blow-off top this month.Bitcoin (BTC) is “ice cold” at all-time highs, says a classic BTC price metric that shows room to run to $180,000.The latest readings from the Mayer Multiple revealed that even at $120,000, BTC/USD was far from overheated.BTC price gauge still close to “oversold”Bitcoin’s lack of a blow-off top this bull market has placed onchain indicators in focus as market participants search…

The SEC finally cleared the road to fast-track altcoin ETFs, but a government shutdown may keep applications for a ADA$0.8182 ETF stuck in limbo until 2026 – and bettors on Polymarket are undervaluing that.After scrapping 19b-4 filings and approving “generic listing standards” to fast-track altcoin ETFs, traders are betting 90% odds that ADA’s ETF approval would arrive by year-end 2025. But with a 36% chance of a month-long government shutdown, that 10% “No” side may prove the smarter play as even “absurdly fast” approvals can’t happen when the lights are out.According to the SEC’s contingency plan, only about 390 of…

George Town, Cayman Islands, October 9th, 2025, Chainwire Dreamcash announces custom Rolex Submariner giveaway for top referrer as decentralized perpetual trading reaches historic highs Dreamcash, the next-generation crypto wealth platform, today announced it has surpassed 100,000 signups for its invite-only waitlist since launching earlier this year. To celebrate this milestone and build momentum toward its September launch, the company is unveiling an exclusive giveaway series rewarding the community’s most active evangelists. The announcement comes as the decentralized perpetual derivatives (perp DEX) market experiences unprecedented growth. Hyperliquid recorded approximately $2.7 trillion in perpetuals trading volume in September 2025 with $86.6 million…

What is Bitcoin mining? Bitcoin mining is the process that keeps the BTC network secure and operational.Bitcoin (BTC) miners collect pending transactions, bundle them into blocks and repeatedly perform hashing attempts (trial and error) until they produce a hash that meets the network’s difficulty target.The first miner to find a valid solution broadcasts their block. Once the rest of the network verifies it, that miner earns a reward.If another miner solves the block before you, your result becomes invalid, known as a “stale block,” and you must start over with a new set of transactions for the next block.As of…

Roger Ver — once dubbed “Bitcoin Jesus” for his early evangelism of bitcoin — has reached a tentative deal with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve criminal tax fraud charges, according to The New York Times reporting. The agreement, still awaiting court approval, would require Ver to pay roughly $48 million in back taxes. In return, prosecutors would drop the case if he meets the terms of a deferred-prosecution deal. The case against Ver, filed in 2024, accused him of evading taxes tied to his massive bitcoin holdings before renouncing his U.S. citizenship in 2014. He was arrested in Spain…

Willemstad, Curaçao, October 10th, 2025, Chainwire Whale.io Launches Battlepass Season 3: First Paid Casino Battlepass Offering $77K in Rewards Whale.io, a crypto casino and sportsbook, has announced the release of Battle pass Season 3. As the first online casino to introduce a purchasable Battlepass, Whale.io offers players access to $77,000 in bonuses, cashbacks, and exclusive rewards—surpassing traditional welcome or wagering bonuses in the industry. With 11 ranks, 101 levels, and a cashback system that scales up to 22% cashback, Season 3 provides a structured, rewarding experience for its global community of over 20 million users. Priced at $1.99 or 4,999…

South Korea’s National Tax Service (NTS) is expanding its crackdown on tax evasion, warning that even crypto assets stored in cold wallets will be subject to seizure.According to a report from local news outlet Hankook Ilbo, an NTS official said the agency is prepared to conduct home searches and confiscate hard drives and cold wallet devices if it suspects that tax delinquents are hiding their crypto assets offline. “We analyze tax delinquents’ coin transaction history through crypto-tracking programs, and if there is suspicion of offline concealment, we will conduct home searches and seizures,” the NTS spokesperson reportedly said. Under the country’s National…