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A miner using FutureBit’s Apollo Solo setup found Bitcoin block 973,262, collecting the full 3.154 BTC reward plus fees from 2,477 transactions. The event underscores both the possibility and extreme odds of solo mining outside major commercial pools.
BitArt’s Mosaic turns satoshis and bitcoin transaction data into a continuously evolving visual and musical artwork. Developed with the Bitcoin Art Society, the project explores collective authorship, digital preservation and bitcoin’s potential as a permanent medium for contemporary art.
A review of Samsung smart TV firmware has highlighted microphone, content-recognition, location and targeted-advertising functions. Cybersecurity experts say the capabilities are not unique to Samsung and warn that AI-assisted reverse engineering may reveal similar data collection across everyday connected devices.
Blur will close its website frontend on Nov. 12 while keeping its onchain marketplace operating and ending new Blend loan matching. The move has revived criticism of its optional royalty model and token incentives as NFT trading remains far below its 2022 peak.
Porsche is ending its Web3 project and Pioneers Circle community nearly four years after launching its 911 NFT collection. The NFTs will remain with holders, but activity has fallen from about $20 million in cumulative volume to roughly $38,000 over the past year.
Outgoing SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce backed privacy-preserving technology and criticized how regulators collect cryptocurrency users’ data, Bitcoin Magazine reported. Her comments add to debate over balancing digital-asset oversight with user privacy.
H.R. 10357 would ease rules for crypto payments, fees and qualifying loans while expanding loss-deferral and trader-accounting provisions. CryptoSlate reported that the proposal is expected to raise an additional $500 million in taxes.
Coin Center’s Laz Pieper says privacy-preserving identity verification could let users satisfy KYC requirements without surrendering underlying personal data, reducing the value of centralized information stores to hackers.
CryptoSlate highlighted operator-failure risks in a Solana AI payments system associated with a million-payments-per-second benchmark, including whether merchants can recover funds after delivering goods or services.
Thailand will require licensed crypto operators to add recipient data, collect extra details for transfers above 30,000 baht and verify some self-hosted wallets, while also increasing scrutiny of offshore crypto transfers.
Bitcoin Magazine features a conversation with artist Rupture ahead of his BMAG-presented New York solo exhibition, running September 2–8 at 46 Hester Street and exploring preservation, decay and collecting.
