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Bitcoin did not merely invent a new asset class. It ignited a quiet revolution. In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto handed the world a tool that could not be inflated by decree, seized by intermediaries, or censored by gatekeepers. Bitcoin paved the road to fi...
On September 28, 2026, Tether publicly celebrated freezing nearly $550 million in USDT linked to Iranian networks. The company framed it as responsible cooperation with U.S. authorities under the expanding sanctions campaign. In April they locked ove...
Bitcoin, Litecoin, DigiByte and the broader family of UTXO-based cryptocurrencies were born from a clear, radical idea: create money and value-transfer systems that require no permission, no central gatekeepers, and no reliance on the very institutio...
In the final days of September 2026, another centralized exchange cracked. Attackers drained hundreds of millions—estimates ranging from roughly $350 million to nearly $390 million—from Bitget’s hot and warm wallets across Ethereum, the XRP Ledger, B...
In exciting news for the DigiByte community, Scrypt Wallet has announced full DigiDollar ($DD) integration. Users can now mint DigiDollars directly within Scrypt Wallet—without needing to download or sync the entire DigiByte blockchain. This developm...
Coinbase recently expanded its crypto-backed lending product, allowing users to borrow USDC against Bitcoin without selling it. The service (powered by Morpho on Base) has grown significantly, with both variable- and fixed-rate options now available....
Traditional DeFi protocols took the old banking model—lend, borrow, charge interest, seize collateral when prices drop—and put it on-chain. The result? You gain permissionless access, but often lose control of your assets the moment you borrow. DigiD...
Wealthy individuals have long used a simple but powerful strategy: they rarely sell their appreciating assets. Instead, they borrow against them. This approach — sometimes summarized as “buy, borrow, die” — lets them access liquidity while deferring...
On September 17, 2026, the DigiByte community marked Global Time Lock Day (also referred to as Global Lock Day or International Lock Day)—a coordinated event where holders time-locked DigiByte (DGB) as collateral to mint DigiDollar, the network’s nat...
