Malik Sokolov
Malik Sokolov covers guides for Doctorcrypto, with a focus on breaking news and the day’s biggest stories.
OpenAI Chief Scientist Warns AI Labs May Need to Slow Down
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has raised the prospect that the world's leading artificial intelligence labs may soon need to ease off the accelerator, warning that…
Liquid Hackers Return $270M in Bitcoin After Swiping $320 Million
Hackers who drained roughly $320 million from Blockstream's Liquid Network have returned approximately $270 million in Bitcoin, leaving nearly 600 BTC still unaccounted for after…
Bitcoin Starts the Week Flat, But Chainlink Is Flying—Here's Why
Chainlink's LINK token surged to an eightmonth high on Monday even as Bitcoin opened the week largely unchanged, following news that a major financial infrastructure provider had…
Stablecoin wallets challenge traditional bank accounts as main consumer money hub
A growing chorus of fintech and crypto executives argue that stablecoin wallets are poised to compete directly with traditional bank accounts as the primary place where consumers…
DBS and Citi complete weekend USD payment via Swift’s Digital Ledger using tokenized deposits
Two of the world's largest banks have completed a live crossborder dollar payment over the weekend using tokenized deposits on Swift's new blockchain ledger, marking a fresh…
'Purported White-Hat Hackers' Withdraw $320M in Bitcoin From Liquid
A group claiming to be whitehat hackers has moved roughly $320 million worth of Bitcoin out of the Liquid Network, sparking an unusual public exchange with sidechain operator…
Philippines eyes payment operator registration freeze, tighter VASP checks
The Philippine central bank is weighing a temporary halt on new payment operator registrations alongside stricter oversight rules for arrangements that involve virtual asset…
Stablecoins Won't Scale Without Banks
Stablecoins may be one of crypto's fastestgrowing sectors, but their path to mainstream adoption runs directly through traditional banks. As more institutions weigh how to issue…
Satoshi-era Bitcoin wakes after 16 years of dormancy as 600 BTC moves
A cache of 600 Bitcoin that had sat untouched for 16 years suddenly sprang to life this week, reigniting speculation about the earliest days of the cryptocurrency network before…
IMF confirms El Salvador’s bitcoin growth was funded by private donations, not public money
The International Monetary Fund has confirmed that El Salvador's expanding bitcoin reserves have been financed entirely through private donations rather than taxpayer money,…
U.S. banking agency gives blockchain bank OpenReserve initial OK to operate
A blockchainfocused institution called OpenReserve has received preliminary approval from a top U.S. banking regulator to begin operating as a fullservice bank, marking another…
CFTC files to dismiss CME lawsuit over crypto perpetual futures
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has moved to dismiss a lawsuit brought by CME Group over the regulator's approach to crypto perpetual futures, with agency lawyers…
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Outages Leave Users Asking How to Work Without AI
A wave of nearsimultaneous outages hit three of the world's most popular artificial intelligence chatbots on Thursday, leaving users temporarily unable to access ChatGPT, Claude,…
Bybit Pay integrates with Mesh to expand crypto payments
Bybit Pay has teamed up with crypto payments infrastructure provider Mesh in a move designed to let users spend their digital assets directly from their exchange balances across a…
Mamdani Imposes One-Year Moratorium on Generative AI in NYC Schools
New York City has imposed a oneyear moratorium on generative artificial intelligence tools across its public schools, cutting off access for roughly 600,000 students while…
The yen is surging and it’s helping bitcoin, for now
A strengthening Japanese yen is rippling through global markets, weakening the U.S. dollar and providing an unexpected tailwind for bitcoin and gold — at least in the near term.…
Coldcard hacker swaps stolen Bitcoin for ETH via THORChain
An attacker involved in the recent Coldcard wallet exploit has begun laundering stolen Bitcoin, converting a portion of the funds into Ether using the crosschain protocol…
Norway Moves to Regulate 'Pervert Glasses,' Weighs Facial Recognition Ban
Norwegian authorities are moving to rein in smart glasses equipped with facial recognition technology, with the country's data protection agency proposing new rules and its…
BTC will hit $1M by 2030... but Arthur Hayes is buying ETH instead
Arthur Hayes, the cofounder of BitMEX, has reaffirmed his conviction that Bitcoin is on a longterm path toward $1 million by the end of the decade — yet the veteran trader says…
CrowdStrike and federal authorities dismantle Russian malware that secretly stole crypto for 8 years
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, working alongside federal law enforcement, has taken down a longrunning Russian malware operation that spent roughly eight years quietly siphoning…
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