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Gustavo Petro Wants to Turn Colombia’s Caribbean Coast Into a Green Mining Hub — Three Months Before He Leaves Office
There’s a version of this proposal that deserves serious analysis. Colombia has genuine renewable energy advantages. Its Caribbean coast has wind and solar potential that makes industrial-scale green mining economically plausible. The regional precedents — from El Salvador’s volcano-powered Bitcoin experiment to Uzbekistan’s newly structured mining zone — demonstrate that emerging market governments can build…
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Ripple Is Sharing Its North Korea Hacker Intelligence — and the Timing Couldn’t Be More Urgent
Two weeks ago, North Korea was busy denying it had stolen $577 million from the altcoin ecosystem since January. This week, Ripple is sharing the internal intelligence it has built on the groups doing the stealing — domains, wallet addresses, indicators of compromise, LinkedIn profiles, emails, phone numbers — with the industry body designed to…
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North Korea Says It Didn’t Steal $577 Million in Crypto — the Blockchain Disagrees
Pyongyang has a response to the mounting evidence that state-affiliated hackers have extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from the altcoin ecosystem since the start of 2026. That response is, in its entirety: no we didn’t, and the people saying we did are politically motivated liars. The specific language North Korean officials deployed — “absurd…
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Tether Just Turned Its Wallet Into a Bitcoin On-Ramp — and the Faucet Is the Most Interesting Part
The Bitcoin faucet is one of the oldest concepts in the altcoin ecosystem’s history. The first one appeared in 2010, built by Gavin Andresen, who gave away 5 BTC per visitor — worth fractions of a cent at the time — specifically to get Bitcoin into as many hands as possible and accelerate the kind…
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The RWA Market Just Grew 420% in Months — and It’s Only Getting Started
Numbers like 420% growth in a single year tend to get dismissed as altcoin hype — the kind of figure that shows up in bull market marketing decks and disappears when the cycle turns. The tokenized real-world asset market’s surge past $30 billion deserves a different reading. Because unlike most altcoin growth narratives, this one…