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MELBOURNE: Austr­alia will host eight white-ball matches against India in August-Nove­mber bef­ore beginning their bid to retain the Ashes title against England, according to Cricket Australia’s latest home fixture list released on Sunday. With Darwin hosting two T20 Internationals against South Africa in August, international cricket will be played in every state and territory in Australia in the same calendar year for the first time in 17 years. After the six white-ball matches against South Africa, Australia will play three One-day Interna­tionals against India, who beat them in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy earlier this month. It will be…

So far, crypto markets haven’t behaved as expected under the Trump Administration. Investors hoped that regulatory reform and policies like a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve would drive prices appreciably higher. But it’s been the opposite. Bitcoin has fallen from highs well above $100,000 at the beginning of the year to a trough in the mid-80,000s for most of March. Crypto prices have suffered from being increasingly correlated with traditional assets like stocks and bonds, which have been hit by macroeconomic uncertainty. Tariffs — surcharges the U.S. places on imports from other countries — have Wall Street worried about a global recession.…

Mitchell Hay just missed out on a hundred before Ben Sears took five wickets as New Zealand beat Pakistan by 84 runs in their second one-day international in Hamilton on Wednesday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. Wicketkeeper-batsman Hay reignited New Zealand after a lull midway through their innings, smashing 22 runs in the final over bowled by Mohammad Wasim with two sixes and two fours to finish on 99 not out off 78 balls. It was the 24-year-old’s highest score, and his pyrotechnics later on guided New Zealand to 292-8, with Muhammad Abbas scoring 41,…

Veteran investor Jon Najarian says the key to success in crypto — and any market — is sticking to timeless advice — buy when others are afraid. In a chat with Rob Nelson on TheStreet Roundtable, Najarian said he leans on the wisdom of investing legends like Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett. “Buy when people are panicking and sell when people are greedy,” he quoted. “Sounds easy. A lot of us talk that, and few of us actually do it because it’s hard to pull the trigger when everybody’s selling.” That advice is especially relevant to Bitcoin’s recent market cycle.…

Hackers stole $1.63 billion in cryptocurrency in the first quarter of 2025, a 131% increase from Q1 2024’s $706 million, according to blockchain security firms PeckShield and Immunefi. The biggest attack was on Bybit, which lost $1.46 billion, making up 92% of total losses. Phemex was also hit, with hackers stealing $69.1 million. Centralized exchanges accounted for 94% of all stolen funds, a shift from previous years when decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms were the main targets. February was the worst month, with $1.53 billion lost, mostly due to the Bybit breach. Other incidents in February included a $50 million attack…

A rollicking 99 not out by Mitch Hay lifted New Zealand to 292-8 in the second one-day international against Pakistan in Hamilton on Wednesday. Hay’s lusty hitting snapped New Zealand’s mid-innings doldrums as he raced to a career-best score which included 22 off the final over by Mohammad Wasim. The wicketkeeper-batsman smacked seven fours and as many sixes in his 78-ball innings after going into the middle with the hosts struggling at 132-5 in the 27th over. New Zealand won the opening game in the three-match series by 73 runs, having triumphed 4-1 in the preceding T20 series. Mohammad Rizwan…

Coinbase shares dropped 33% in the first quarter of 2025, making it the company’s worst quarter since FTX collapsed in 2022. The stock opened the year at just over $257 and ended March at around $172. Despite this decline, Coinbase expects to report between $685 million and $765 million in subscription revenue, with analysts estimating total Q1 earnings at $1.87 billion. Bitcoin has fallen more than 20% from its all-time high, and Ethereum has dropped over 45%. Crypto-linked stocks followed a similar pattern. Marathon Digital Holdings lost over 37%, Riot Platforms fell by 32%, and Bitfarms saw nearly half its…

Grayscale Investments has filed to convert its private Digital Large Cap Fund into an exchange-traded fund (ETF), allowing public investors to access a portfolio that includes Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano. Currently, the fund is only available to accredited investors through private placement. At the time of filing, Bitcoin makes up 79.4% of the fund, followed by Ethereum at 10.69%, XRP at 5.85%, Solana at 2.92%, and Cardano at 1.14%. Cardano was added in January 2025 after the removal of Avalanche due to index rebalancing. Since its launch in 2018, the fund’s market price has increased by 478.83%, according…

Circle Internet Financial, a leading U.S. crypto firm that issues the stablecoin USD Coin, filed long-anticipated paperwork for an initial public offering on Tuesday. The 225-page financial disclosure includes previously unreported insights into one of the world’s largest crypto firms, illustrating Circle’s outsized presence in the booming stablecoin space, as well as the risk factors that might give investors pause ahead of an IPO. Founded in 2013, Circle has attempted to go public before, resulting in a failed SPAC agreement in 2022 that cost the company over $44 million in costs, according to the S-1 filing.  But with the crypto…

On Apr. 1, a leading Dogecoin Foundation developer wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the Dogecoin blockchain “is no more.” They claimed that the central servers controlling the blockchain stopped working due to an internal error. However, the developer’s claim turned out to be an April Fool’s Day prank. Several users posted mock-horror emojis under the developer’s post. The developer posted another humorous post about a cat guarding the blockchain server that “overclocked the Starlink connection.” Dogecoin is built on a decentralized blockchain; it means there is no central server controlling the blockchain. Besides, the meme coin has been trading…