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The adjustment at block 975,744 lowered difficulty from about 148.4 trillion to 134.8 trillion, according to blockchain data. An early estimate points to another cut at the next adjustment, about two weeks away.
The federal complaint asks a court to declare Louisiana's gambling laws preempted for contracts on CFTC-regulated exchanges and to bar the state from enforcing a November 12 order against 32 entities. The CFTC says Louisiana is the 12th state it has sued.
Committee staff received nearly 1,700 pages of documents and five briefings from prediction market platforms. The memo says the markets first detected most reported insider-trading incidents, and suggests a ban or narrower limits for government personnel.
Goods prices rose 10.2% from a year earlier. The monthly gain was a little below forecasts, but the annual rate rose to its highest in almost four years ahead of the Fed's December meeting.
The Chicago Fed president told CNBC that inflation is "going the wrong way" and pointed to demand from the AI data center buildout. He did not say directly whether the Fed should move more aggressively, CNBC reported.
Investigators suspect the group traded crypto without a license, did not report it to the Israel Tax Authority and moved the proceeds into bank accounts presented as loans, according to Ynetnews and The Jerusalem Post. No charges have been reported.
Its new headline measure, total platform margin, rose 12% from the second quarter to $487 million but was 12% lower than a year earlier. The company also gave no net income figure.
Customers traded $17.0 billion of crypto on the app and Bitstamp, against $32.5 billion a year earlier. Event contracts rose 136% to 5.9 billion, according to the company's monthly figures.
The Tether-backed company held 43,514 BTC on September 30. Its chief executive told shareholders that "a balance sheet is not a business," and the company still lost $186.5 million over nine months.
House chairmen asked the former Nvidia chief for a closed-door interview on December 1 and said a subpoena will be issued if he does not accept. Lutnick has agreed to testify to the Senate Banking Committee, NBC News reported.
Project Meridian FX APAC tested a way to tie the two payments in a foreign exchange trade together across different settlement systems. The Bank of England plans a live interface in 2028.
The Nasdaq-listed company owed about $64.1 million against 46,676 ether on November 9. By our calculation, Aave could start selling that collateral at an ether price near $1,717 if those figures have not changed.
The federal complaint asks a court to declare Arkansas law preempted for contracts on CFTC-regulated exchanges and to bar the state from investigating them.
Microsoft's status page still showed service degradation on Friday morning. The stock was about 2.8% below Thursday's close in premarket trading at 10:57 UTC.
The draft rules apply to transfers through licensed crypto firms. Public comments are open until November 26.
The Indian exchange, which suspended all services on November 9, says BitGo's freeze of its account worked as intended. It has not said whether it lost any crypto.
CoinGecko's hourly data shows a slide of about 6.9% in 24 hours. A sentiment index fell to its lowest reading since July, Cointelegraph reported.
The amount is part of more than $2.7 billion frozen since the October 29 theft. The department also announced the seizure of infrastructure behind a fake video-call scheme it links to North Korea.
A state judge granted a temporary restraining order against the platforms the same day, WBRZ reported. Robinhood and Coinbase say their event contracts are regulated by the CFTC.
The Bitcoin company now has no loan principal scheduled to mature this year. The loan is bigger than its stock market value, CoinDesk reported.
The White House sent the four names to the Senate on Thursday. Both agencies are operating with most of their seats empty, and Democrats are projected to take control of the Senate in January.
The exchange says it replaced the affected tokens with company funds. Users will be able to verify the 198-token snapshot only after a proof that takes 40 to 50 hours to generate.
CoinGecko's hourly data shows the first reading under $72,000 in 12 weeks. Outflows from US spot Bitcoin funds picked up again on Wednesday, Cointelegraph reported, citing Farside Investors.
The company at the center of US securities settlement plans to connect its two-week-old tokenization service to a public blockchain. The tokens keep the same investor protections, DTCC says.
A revised schedule published on Thursday drops the policy decision from the October 26–27 meeting and makes November 17 the last decision of 2027.
