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Financial services giant Fidelity Digital Assets predicts several countries will begin stockpiling Bitcoin this year, bringing about broader adoption of the world’s oldest crypto.
Several nations could establish strategic Bitcoin reserves in 2025 to hedge against “debilitating inflation, currency debasement, and increasingly crushing financial deficits,” the firm wrote in a report on Monday.
That’s because global leaders are warming up to the crypto following the U.S.’s touted plans to embrace B…

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Solana decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator Jupiter is set to airdrop JUP tokens to its community over the next two Januaries after the Jupiter DAO—the collective of JUP token holders—approved a revised airdrop proposal following a failed first try to hand out $1.7 billion worth of tokens.

More than 87% of votes were in favor of the second proposal, which made a few key changes from the first that only received 58% votes in support late last month, below the required 70% to pass the proposal…

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The crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in!
Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games.
Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week-plus—this is an extended ed…

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One of the hottest Bitcoin trades in 2024 is slumping into the New Year.
As of Thursday, MicroStrategy’s share price had fallen 45% from its November peak—sliding to $300 from a record price of $543 around six weeks ago.
The Tysons, Virginia-based software firm went gangbusters on Bitcoin last year, purchasing billions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency using equity and debt. On Monday, the company topped off its stash of 446,400 Bitcoin, worth $43 billion, with a $200 million Bitcoin purcha…

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After a record-breaking 2024, Nvidia is kicking off 2025 with a bang, unveiling a slate of products that could solidify its dominance in the fields of AI development and gaming.
CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at CES in Las Vegas to showcase new hardware and software offerings that span everything from personal AI supercomputers to next-generation gaming cards.

Nvidia’s biggest announcement: Project DIGITS, a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer that packs a petaflop of computing power into a deskt…

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Sam Altman started 2025 with a bold declaration: OpenAI has figured out how to create artificial general intelligence (AGI), a term commonly understood as the point where AI systems can comprehend, learn, and perform any intellectual task that a human can.
In a reflective blog post published over the weekend, he also said the first wave of AI agents could join the workforce this year, marking what he describes as a pivotal moment in technological history.
Altman painted a picture of OpenAI’s jou…

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When it comes to game releases, the only time of year as traditionally slow as December is January. Holiday shopping is done, people are busy chasing resolutions, and they’ve spent all the money they want to spend for a little bit. Also, The Game Awards have already happened, and games from December and January are often forgotten for consideration the next time around.
There’s not a lot of reason to release a game right now. As such, this month is pretty slow—especially when you consider what a…

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It’s Bitcoin’s birthday: The very first Bitcoin block was mined 16 years ago today. 
And the network is stronger than ever, with mining difficulty reaching a new all-time high mark as the biggest cryptocurrency rides into the new year. 
Data from Bitinfocharts shows that Bitcoin difficulty hit a new all-time high of 109.78 trillion hashes as of Monday—the highest ever seen for the original blockchain network. That means it takes that huge amount of hashes to mine a new block.

Hashing is the com…

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