Natasha Lyonne is taking on Silicon Valley’s AI obsession in "Uncanny Valley," a new sci-fi film that blurs the line between human performance and artificial intelligence. The move comes two years after Lyonne joined over 1,000 members of the Writers Guild of America in signing a petition calling for more AI guardrails in the entertainment industry. Joining the "Poker Face" and "Slums of Beverly Hills" star, who will direct and star in the satirical dystopian film, are actress and director Brit...

The numbers show promise, but the whales don't seem too convinced.

Medical device company Semler Scientific purchased another 165 Bitcoin for $15.7 million between the dates of April 25-29, bolstering its Bitcoin treasury to 3,467 BTC.  The purchase marks the firm’s second major Bitcoin acquisition in the last week after it announced that it added 111 BTC for $10 million on April 25. As of Wednesday, Semler’s Bitcoin treasury is valued at more than $327 million. “We bleed orange,” Semler Scientific Chairman Eric Semler posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), j...

Visa will enable customers in six Latin American countries to execute transactions in stablecoins via a pilot program it is seeking to expand, the payments giant announced on Wednesday. Card holders in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Chile will be able to make everyday purchases from a stablecoin balance at any merchant location that accepts Visa with the new cards, the San Francisco-based multinational said in a press release. Visa will be looking to expand the service to Europe,...

Could this reshape crypto markets or quietly serve bigger interests?

Popular mobile game Flappy Bird launched in the Epic Games Store for Android this week, but the game’s latest reboot doesn’t contain any crypto elements—despite plans to launch a token tied to the now-shuttered Telegram version. The tap-to-flap game maintains its classic mode that asks users to navigate a pixelated bird through a continuous field of pipes, as well as introduces a quest mode in the “Web-2 only” release.  “The Flappy Bird app available on Epic Games Store will never have any Web3...

Galaxy Digital Holdings plans to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market next month, the firm said Wednesday in a statement, a byproduct of the pro crypto pivot of U.S. federal regulators and policymakers. The listing, which is subject to shareholder approval, will tentatively go live on May 16, according to Galaxy Digital's statement. The company's Class A common stock will trade under the ticker GLXY. In listing on the Global Select Market, Galaxy Digital aims to broaden its access to capital,...

Gaming giant Ubisoft announced Wednesday the launch of its Decentralized Verification Network, or DVN, a blockchain-based system designed to secure digital asset transfers across multiple blockchain platforms. The maker of popular games like Assassin's Creed, Just Dance, and Far Cry collaborated with LayerZero to leverage its interoperability protocol, allowing gamers to move digital assets seamlessly across Ethereum, Solana, Polygon and more than 130 other blockchains. "With the launch of the D...

Crypto payments firm Ripple made a multi-billion-dollar offer to acquire USDC stablecoin issuer Circle, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The offer was said to be in the range of $4 billion to $5 billion, but was reportedly rejected as being too low. At the start of April, Circle filed paperwork with the SEC to go public. A Circle spokesperson told Bloomberg news that the company was “currently in a quiet period with the SEC,” meaning its ability to comment on...

There's nowhere to go but up.

Solana's price action hinted at a potential major move but the direction was unclear.

The story of a Wales man who believes he accidentally threw away $750 million worth of Bitcoin is now poised to get the Hollywood treatment.  On Wednesday, a new Los Angeles-based production company, Lebul, announced that it secured the exclusive rights to tell the story of James Howells, an IT engineer who mined 8,000 BTC back in 2009—when the tokens were effectively worthless—and then lost them all.  Howells maintains that a former lover threw away a hard drive containing the tokens back in 20...

Digital assets may be firmly in the mainstream, with institutional involvement and a crypto-friendly president in the White House.  But hackers and fraudsters are having a field day so far this year. Crypto users have lost over $1.7 billion to these groups—already 14% more than 2024’s total losses of $1.49 billion, according to blockchain security firm Immunefi. In the same period last year, losses totaled $420 million, the firm said.  The report comes amid ongoing concerns about the vulnerabil...

Shuttered Russian exchange Garantex has rebranded as Grinex, according to on-chain analysis from blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs. Garantex handled over $100 billion in transactions prior to its dismantling by international enforcement agencies in March of this year. Yet analysis from UK-based TRM Labs suggests that Grinex has been onboarding Garantex users and redistributing their assets in the form of A7A5, a ruble-pegged stablecoin available on Tron and Ethereum. Garantex wallet addresse...

Bitcoin fell on Wednesday after the U.S. economy shrank for the first time in three years, underscoring recession concerns.  But an economic contraction might actually be bullish for the asset, according to one analyst. The growing prospect of a U.S. recession–typically defined as a decline in GDP for two straight quarters–is lifting rate cut hopes as the dollar appears to be weakening, André Dragosch, European head of research at crypto asset manager Bitwise, told Decrypt. “I think the bull mar...

BTC season persists in 2025, when will capital rotate back to altcoins?

A discarded hard drive, a billion-dollar Bitcoin wallet, and a trash-strewn landfill in Wales are now the foundation for a high-stakes docuseries

U.S. stocks closed mixed on Wednesday, wrapping up a turbulent April marked by economic contraction and trade policy uncertainty. 

An elderly American has been identified as the victim of a $330.7 million Bitcoin theft—one of the largest crypto heists on record—according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT

Coinbase has made an official statement in the landmark Supreme Court case, which challenges IRS's powers to demand crypto-related data.