• Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin
    Cryptocurrency

    Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin Pioneers Crypto Payments for Spaceflights

    August 13, 2025 - By 

    Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is in the process of transforming the future of space tourism by integrating cryptocurrency payments.  In a Business Wire release, the company announced a groundbreaking partnership with payments processor Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) for its New Shepard suborbital flights.  Accordingly,  Blue Origin now accepts Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and select dollar-pegged stablecoins, including USDT and USDC. Crypto payments are accepted for seats on its commercial spaceflights,  effective immediately.  The innovative payment system allows customers to book their journey using popular cryptocurrencies via a seamless checkout process.  Shift4’s integration supports direct connections to widely used self-custody…

  • Tether and Rumble announced they plan to jointly buy all shares of Northern Data, giving them full control of the AI infrastructure firm.
    Cryptocurrency

    Tether and Rumble aim to buy 100% of Northern Data

    August 11, 2025 - By 

    Tether and Rumble announced they plan to jointly buy all shares of Northern Data, giving them full control of the AI infrastructure firm. In a Monday update, Rumble said the proposal would build on Northern Data’s current AI and high-performance computing (HPC) business. Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin and already Northern Data’s largest shareholder, would support the deal. Tether has also signaled future collaborations in AI, peer-to-peer communications, and data storage. Tether links the deal Tether is the key link in this potential deal. It invested $775 million in Rumble in late 2024, and the two companies deepened…