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Friday, October 2, 2026

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IMF Praises El Salvador — But Still Tries To Scale Back Its Bitcoin Project

Bitcoin Magazine IMF Praises El Salvador — But Still Tries To Scale Back Its Bitcoin Project The International Monetary Fund approved a $139 million disbursement to El Salvador but still wants it to

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Buying RTX 5090 At Micro Center Reportedly Now Requires Paperwork, Including A No-Export Declaration

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Significantly higher price for the original 128GB model $6,950 USDCryptoParadigm-backed Layer 2 Blast to wind down network as costs exceed revenueCryptoBitcoin Heads Higher on Macro Moves: Where Does BTC Go Next?CryptoWhy Strategy’s STRC calculator shows $210 for a share it can redeem at $101Crypto71% of UK finance leaders expect tokenization to reshape financial services: LloydsAIQwen3.8-27B-Humanlike-Chat 2.0: texts like a human, now with tool calls and better instruction followingCryptoUnpatched Eclair Bitcoin Lightning nodes could crash again every time they restartCryptoCrypto’s billions are back, but the premiums aren’tAIStrata on a power limited 5090 and 96GB of DDR5-6400 is cranking out 150-200 tok/s decode and 5-6k prefill! Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at IQ3_S, CTX at 128k tokens (8-bit).CryptoBitcoin briefly hits $87K as weak US jobs data sends bond yields lowerAIOpen-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in AstaCryptoBitcoin Price Surges Above $87,000 on Softer-Than-Expected Jobs DataCryptoWhy an $88 billion bank reserve drop doesn’t prove a Bitcoin liquidity squeeze – yetAINew in llama.cpp: Decision ModelsCrypto‘Euro stablecoin isn’t enough’: EU issuers make case for USD tokensCryptoCardano’s DeFi has shrunk by more than half and RealFi is betting credit can revive itCryptoBitcoin nears highest level since January as $85,000 sell wall clears, US jobs data disappointsCryptoFurious debate about THORChain vs NEAR shows idealism has limitsCryptoAmerica at a crossroads: Commissioner Peirce’s parting challengeCryptoImpacts of Daily Dividends on Digital CreditCrypto'Uptober' Off With a Bang as Bitcoin Surges to $86KAITwo 96 GB Ascend cards crun Qwen3.8-flash-next hardware notes, vLLM work, benchmarks, and what is nextCryptoU.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, with unemployment rate rising to 4.2%CryptoBitGo CEO says Clarity’s failure left capital markets exposed to risk potentially worse than LehmanCryptoCircle urges EU to revise stablecoin reserve rules in MiCA reviewCryptoBitcoin survived 5% yields but crypto’s cheap-money era did notCryptoMorning Minute: NEAR Intents Hacked for $3.8M - Was It A Bullish Hack?CryptoBNB Chain crosses $1B in tokenized stocks, ETFs as market hits $3.7BCryptoBitcoin sees big overnight rally as ETF demand returns before the next US jobs testCryptoCboe wants to turn VIX into a never-ending tradeCryptoUS Designates Russia's A7 Network as Transnational Criminal OrganizationCryptoLive updates: Bitcoin reverses big early gains following soft U.S. jobs dataCryptoBitcoin treasuries may struggle to match Strategy, says AmmousCryptoCrypto traders are in risk-on mode as bitcoin dominance nears return to 60%AIllama, server: add /v1/systemone API (models: laya, julia-1, lev, openjev, kev) by ngxson · Pull Request #29818 · ggml-org/llama.cppCryptoCONNECT recap: Arthur Hayes on money printing, Wall Street moves onchainCryptoECB outlines three models for putting central bank money onchainAIDoes anyone know if any new releases from Mistral are planned?CryptoBitcoin reaches for $87K as short liquidations top $120M CryptoAave founder says V3 unaffected after third-party adapter exploit drains $305KCryptoBitcoin open interest jumps $2.3 billion as traders pay more for bullish positionsCryptoSpanish Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Accused of Running KillSec Ransomware GroupCryptoTether's USDT is 'coming home' to Bitcoin after more than a decadeCryptoBitcoin tops $86,000 ahead of U.S. jobs reportCryptoSpot bitcoin ETFs log $2.7 billion in September inflows as institutional demand holdsCryptoSEC’s innovation exemption poses constraint on bringing stock tokens to US, Robinhood crypto chief saysAIAutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise AgentsCryptoEthereum Foundation launches zkAPI to let users pay for AI models without revealing identityAIPi 1.0 released - MCP support now included by defaultCryptoFrank Holmes: They Will Print $100 Trillion – Why to Buy Bitcoin & GoldCryptoZcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be OverCryptoNico Lechuga: Bitcoin Will Revolutionize the $4T Private Equity IndustryCryptoDarius Dale: Will Global Liquidity Send Bitcoin Higher in 2027?CryptoSEC Proposes New Rules On Crypto Custody CryptoSazmining Launches the Wild Sats Club, a Loyalty Program That Discounts Mining Management Fees as Customer Hashrate GrowsCryptoSEC proposes framework allowing investment advisers, funds to self-custody cryptoCryptoSEC Proposes Rules to Clear Up How Advisers and Funds Can Hold CryptoCryptoReddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI ScrapersCryptoSEC proposes new crypto custody rules for investment advisers and fundsCryptoOpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden ReasoningCryptoHyperliquid Policy Center, Circle press EU on perps and stablecoin reserves in MiCA reviewCryptoAnother Trump memecoin dinner advertised for token's top investorsCryptoEthereum staking reward burn proposal EIP-8363 pulled from Hegota upgradeCryptoEvernorth shareholders approve $1 billion XRP treasury deal, clearing path to Nasdaq debutCrypto Crypto for Advisors: The CLARITY Act failed, but the rules came anywayCryptoNEAR Intents halts services after $3.8 million exploit, promises full compensationCryptoRobinhood Wallet integrates Arcus RFQ system for stock token swapsCryptoBitcoin ETFs’ 9-day, $3 billion inflow streak comes to an end as $149 million exits the fundsAIQuoting Matthew GreenAIHe Built This CityAIOpen TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice CloningAIQuoting Anthropic Frontier Red TeamAIGPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the priceAIPhoto Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removalAIOpenAI DevDay 2026 live blogAINVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular PredictionAIGetting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP AgentsAILanguage Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to JevAIClaude Sonnet 5.5AIQuoting @joedarooAIImport AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loopAIHolo4: powering generalist computer-use agentsAIQuoting Muse AI AgentAI2026 in LLMs (so far)AIS3 Is the Future, S3 Is the PastAIBluesky reply bot checkerAIKākāpō PartyAIQuoting John GruberAINorthern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown PelicanAIAccelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSparkAIDebating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AIAIHow UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results ReproducibleAITransformers now runs llama.cpp quantsAIJun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX communityAIImport AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics AIThe current balance of power in open modelsAItokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measuredAIWhy I still haven’t bought into true RSIAIYour Agent Aced the Task. 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