Two British men, Robert Barr and Barry Letham, are facing trial at the High Court in Glasgow. They are accused of devising a cryptocurrency theft plan valued at nearly $23 million. Most surprisingly, the plot was allegedly organized while one of them was already in prison.
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The Bitcoin ETF complex absorbed $1.19 billion on 6 October 2025, the biggest single-day intake since July, pushing Bitcoin past $125,000 with an intraday high of $126,000 and restoring institutional size to spot and derivative order books.
Rezolve AI (NASDAQ – RZLV) completed its purchase of Smartpay, a platform that lets buyers pay with digital assets. Smartpay moved more than 1 000 million USDT across about 19 million transactions in the twelve months that ended on 30 September 2025. The takeover adds USDT and BTC besides ETH to Rezolve’s retail checkout stack and impacts stablecoin issuers, emerging market merchants and RZLV shareholders as rapid uptake and weak finances sit side by side.
Amdax has gathered €30 million ($35 million) and created AMBTS, a vehicle that will buy Bitcoin until it holds about 210,000 BTC, or one percent of all coins that will ever exist. The group also plans to list AMBTS on Euronext Amsterdam, combining large-scale institutional buying. With compliance with the EU’s MiCA rules, and a public scarcity message. Traders and fund managers track such moves because they alter coins available to borrow, hedge or deliver against futures and options.
Pavel Durov, the billionaire and founder of the Telegram messaging platform, has rocked global financial markets with a bold Bitcoin $1 million prediction. The statement was recently made during his appearance on the popular Lex Fridman Podcast, reinforcing the bullish sentiment surrounding the digital asset. This forecast arrives just as the price of Bitcoin trades at all-time highs, compelling investors to re-evaluate its role as a monetary hedge.
The payment infrastructure developer Breez, in collaboration with industry giants like Lightspark, Tether, and Plan ₿ Network, has announced the launch of Time2Build. This new program is designed for incentivizing Bitcoin Lightning adoption by rewarding developers for integrating Lightning Network features into existing open-source applications. The main news is the shift in focus: it is not a hackathon or a simple bounty, but a sustained economic incentive to drive the real utility of Bitcoin as a means of payment. A Breez representative noted that the initiative seeks lasting and impactful adoption.
A recent report from the blockchain analysis firm Elliptic has revealed alarming figures. Groups of North Korean hackers steal cryptocurrency at an unprecedented rate, accumulating over $2 billion in 2025 alone. This amount represents the highest annual total ever recorded, showcasing a growing sophistication in their criminal operations.
Leap Therapeutics’ share price surged after it closed a $59 million private placement led by Winklevoss Capital. Part of the cash will be placed in digital assets and the investors can appoint two board nominees, one of whom will serve as chair. The move shifts Leap away from standard biotech funding and into crypto holdings, a change that shareholders, risk officers, and traders who track corporate cash and price swings must now weigh.
The European Union is preparing sanctions that single out A7A5 after evidence it helps users dodge the financial blockade on Russia. The proposed ban would hit crypto platforms, linked banks and the tracking of cross-border transfers. A7A5 has already shifted large sums despite earlier U.S. and U.K. blacklisting, raising compliance and operational hazards for exchanges, custodians and risk teams.
The cryptocurrency market presents a scenario of sharp contrasts during 2025, where the Bitcoin vs memecoins performance has become the main indicator of a profound divergence. While the price of Bitcoin (BTC) has posted impressive growth of over 32% this year, driven by institutional capital, major memecoins like Dogecoin (DOGE) have suffered significant declines. This trend, highlighted by analysts using data from TradingView and Dune Analytics, reflects a shift in the epicenter of crypto investment.
