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PH Government and Meta Agree on Rapid-Response Pact, Shelving Facebook Ban Threat

Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. The threat of a nationwide Facebook ban in the Philippines is off the table. Following days of escalating tensions over platform moderation delays during a violent crisis, Philippine regulators and Meta executives have agreed to…

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Genius Group plans $827M Bitcoin, $800M AI treasuries

Genius Group has proposed raising capital through perpetual preferred securities to build an $827 million Bitcoin treasury and an $800 million AI portfolio within a $2 billion total-asset target for fiscal 2031. Summary An initial preferred securities offering would seek $12.5 million from income-focused investors. Proceeds would be divided among Bitcoin, AI investments, and an…

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SHRINCS Draft Targets Smaller Post-Quantum BTC Signatures: Is Bitcoin Now Quantum Proof?

In Bitcoin news today, a group of cryptography researchers has published a draft specification for SHRINCS, a post-quantum signature scheme for Bitcoin transaction authorization. The draft, authored by conduition, Ethan Heilman, Mikhail Kudinov, Oleksandr Kurbatov, Jonas Nick, and a contributor known as remix7531, describes a hash-based design that combines a compact stateful signing path with…

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