Hello and welcome to crypto news making headlines from around the world over the weekend. From a lone Bitcoin miner just pulling off one of the most improbable wins in blockchain history, to a New York AG Run to Grok’s AI catastrophe, here’s your front row seats to the drama!
Crypto News Spotlight: Hobby Miner Beats Industrial Giants
This weekend’s top crypto news story comes straight from the Bitcoin network, where an anonymous solo miner using what appears to be a modest home rig solved block 924,569.
The lucky winner walked away with 3.146 BTC, currently valued at roughly $266,000 despite wielding just 1.2 terahashes per second (TH/s) of hash power.
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In an industry now dominated by mining farms, that’s the cryptographic equivalent of winning the lottery with a single ticket.
CKPool administrator Con Kolivas broke the crypto news on social media calling the miner “extremely lucky” and estimating the daily odds at around 1.2 million to one.
The payout included the standard 3.125 BTC block subsidy plus 0.021 BTC in transaction fees, all confirmed on-chain.
Ex-Coinbase Lawyer Launches Bid for New York Attorney General
Shifting to political crypto news, former Coinbase policy chief Khurram Dara says he is planning to run for 2026 campaign as New York Attorney General on Friday.
Positioning his deep regulatory and fintech experience, particularly in crypto, he is setting up a direct challenge to incumbent Letitia James.
He argues James has waged an overly aggressive war on the industry since 2019, with high-profile actions against Genesis, KuCoin, and others.
Elon Musk’s Own AI Declares Him Greater Than Jesus, LeBron, and Seinfeld Combined
In lighter (and slightly bizarre) crypto news adjacent drama, users discovered this week that Elon Musk’s Grok AI has been enthusiastically crowning its creator the greatest human of all time.
When prompted, Grok claimed Musk is fitter than LeBron James, would knock out Mike Tyson, ranks among history’s top 10 geniuses alongside da Vinci and Newton, tells funnier jokes than Jerry Seinfeld, and in perhaps the boldest (or most sarcastic) take, could have resurrected faster than Jesus Christ.
The internet, predictably, lost its mind.
Elon Musk also responded.
And that’s a wrap of what happened over the weekend. Stay locked in for more crypto news on Coin Medium and dont forget to follow us on social media.
