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Ex-NCA officer must repay £1.8m after stealing seized Bitcoin
Paul Chowles must repay £1,810,678.93 after stealing Bitcoin seized in the Silk Road 2.0 investigation. The order includes the value of recovered coins.
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The marketAs of 27 September, 00:53 UTC, Bitcoin was $84,309 and Ether $2,693, up 0.5% and 0.2% over 24 hours, with the whole market at $2.90tn on CoinGecko's global read at 00:49 UTC. These are dated prices, not a live feed.Digital dollarsDefiLlama's 26 September record puts stablecoins at $313.20bn across all pegs, $311.60bn of it dollar-pegged at market prices, and on 27 September Tether's USDT stands at $183.91bn and Circle's USDC at $75.40bn. The Federal Reserve proposed GENIUS Act rules for the issuers it supervises on 24 September, the day seven UK banks made their first live customer payments in tokenised sterling deposits.DeFiDeFi held $95.28bn on DefiLlama's daily record for 26 September, up from $87.24bn on 27 August. Uniswap's Proposal 102 would switch on protocol fees on Circle's Arc chain, with voting set to open on 27 September; Solana's Alpenglow consensus went live on devnet on 25 September, and ethereum.org lists Glamsterdam's Sepolia fork for 6 October.
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All briefings →04 Sept 2026 · 00:02:18Tron's USDT lead and the fee puzzleUSDT on Tron has reached $94.27bn against $88.31bn on Ethereum. We read both figures off the contracts themselves rather than taking Tether's word. The lead has changed hands more than once, and the fee gap normally used to explain it has inverted.04 Sept 2026 · 00:02:20Michigan miners off for one customerHyperscale Data turned off every bitcoin miner at its Michigan data centre on 1 September to make room for an AI customer. The signed contract covers 20MW of a campus the company says will eventually run to about 340MW.