Oluwapelumi Adejumo

Articles by Oluwapelumi Adejumo

BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF barely beat the S&P 500 after putting investors through a 53% crash

Crypto September 3, 2026

BlackRocksBitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has narrowly outperformed the S&P 500 since launch despite subjecting investors to a drawdown nearly three times as deep. The iShares Bitcoin Trust, �...

Bitcoin’s 316-day hashrate drought shows why AI could make this mining downturn harder to reverse

Crypto September 3, 2026

Bitcoins hashrate has spent 316 days below its record as miners redirect power toward AI. The seven-day network average stood near 914 exahashes per second on Aug. 31, about 20.6% below its October �...

Bitcoin Knots is trying to fork Bitcoin again after its last chain died in two blocks

Crypto August 30, 2026

Bitcoin Knots is preparing a Sunday rehearsal for a BLAKE2b fork after its previous breakaway BIP-110 chain stalled. On Aug. 29, Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjrtold SHA-2 miners to stop mining ahead o�...

UK crypto investors declared £1.38B in gains, but half came from just 240 people

Crypto August 30, 2026

HMRC has disclosed £1.38 billion in reported UK crypto gains, with just 240 investors accounting for more than half. The figures mark the first time HM Revenue & Customs has published crypto-spe...

Ethena is targeting the $120 trillion Wall Street stock market to hunt yields 5x higher than Bitcoin

Crypto August 30, 2026

Ethena is expanding USDe into equity perpetual-basis trades, targeting funding yields more than five times higher than Bitcoins as the synthetic dollar looks to recover from its 2026 contraction. On�...

KuCoin can block your crypto transactions even if you never sent it to these 17 sanctioned platforms

Crypto August 29, 2026

KuCoin has expanded sanctions screening to indirect crypto transfers across 17 crypto platforms, including Justin Sun-linked HTX. Under an Aug. 27 compliance notice, KuCoin said Shelbit, Aban Tether�...

Crypto users lost at least $5.69 million because their wallet seeds were too predictable

Crypto August 28, 2026

A flaw in software used by at least five crypto wallets made some recovery phrases predictable enough for attackers to reconstruct, contributing to at least $5.69 million in traced thefts since May. �...

Thailand is rewriting its stock exchange rules to trap billions in Bitcoin ETF wealth strictly inside its own borders

Crypto August 28, 2026

Thailand is proposing a crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) framework that would give domestic fund managers, the Stock Exchange of Thailand and locally regulated custodians a structural advantage as t�...

Cardano and Solana just exposed crypto governance’s biggest weakness

Crypto August 28, 2026

Cardano and Solana are testing two competing approaches to on-chain governance, with one exposing the cost of voter absence and the other shifting more power to default representatives who may have t�...

Pakistan gives crypto platforms a September 5 deadline to comply or leave

Crypto August 24, 2026

Pakistan has given crypto platforms until Sept. 5 to enter its new licensing regime or stop serving the market, moving the country from broad crypto policy toward formal supervision. The Pakistan Vi�...