Crypto executive Johann Kerbrat said the purchase signals Robinhood's commitment to Bitcoin and its broader digital-asset strategy.
The trader used 40x leverage to short 200 BTC, with liquidation set at $82,703.32 per bitcoin.
A crypto-only dark web marketplace has brought its co-founder decades in federal prison and an agreement to surrender digital assets and real estate. The case involved drug trafficking, concealed payments, and vendor ratings for hiding shipments.
Babylon holds 40,573 Bitcoin; a year earlier the locked capital was worth more than twice as much. The reward comes in BABY, a token trading 92 percent below its peak.
Robin Linus' two-player Texas Hold'em design uses private card generation, presigned transactions and Bitcoin's existing rules to handle play and disputes off-chain.
Three transfers occurred over three hours on Oct. 8, including $133.8 million moving to unknown wallets and no tracked inflows into exchanges.
Nearly 18 years after Satoshi Nakamoto left an unfinished poker interface buried inside Bitcoin's original software, researcher Robin Linus has developed a cryptographic protocol that makes the game possible. His Bitcoin Poker design allows two people to play Texas Hold'em without a dealer, privately generate cards, and enforce payouts through Bitcoin's existing rules.
Bitcoin fell 1.81% over 24 hours after an earlier decline and modest rebound, while the Dow rose and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended lower.
The fix changes how misbehaving private-broadcast peers are handled, while the 31.x backport remains unreleased with no confirmed release date.
The opt-in private-broadcast repair is merged into 32.x, while the older-branch backport remains open and 31.1 is still the stable download.
TL;DR: PowerCompute mined 8.1 BTC in September, up 37% from a year earlier. Its month-end Bitcoin holdings fell to 63.7 BTC after the company used 267.4 BTC to help retire a $22.45 million Bitcoin-backed credit facility, leaving most of its secured debt eliminated.
The company will release third-quarter results after U.S. markets close and host a webinar at 5 p.m. ET (9 p.m.