Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
Since Paul Sztorc’s ECX hard fork kicked off, more than 25,092 blocks have been mined during the Alpha phase, and block times have swung wildly. The network has already chewed through several difficulty adjustments, with some delivering massive upwar...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
This week, bitcoin awoke from its slumber, springing out of bed. Going in, bitcoin volatility was as compressed as it has been in a decade, with BVOL 7D at 2.82, the sixth-lowest reading in ten years, described at the time as a “historically stretche...
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Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether’s USDT at $0.88, and Terra’s UST collapsed to virtually zero in a crash that erased roughly $40 billion. As recently as November 2025, a DeFi stablecoin called xUSD l...
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Metaverse platform The Sandbox confirmed recently that an exploited bridge let an attacker mint unbacked SAND on Base and BNB Smart Chain, prompting an immediate shutdown. Exploit Hits Base and BSC Bridges Sandbox, the metaverse gaming platform behin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
The study, published by three Vietnamese investigators, found a positive relation between the EU’s carbon emissions pricing and a so-called “leakage” to cheaper jurisdictions, such as Russia. This means that as carbon allowance pric...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
Over the last four days, Bitcoin’s hashprice has climbed 20.41%, punching into territory not seen since May. Bitcoin miners are pocketing fatter revenue from the latest price rally, delivering a badly needed reprieve after months of tighter margins....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
The Bank Policy Institute, representing the massive U.S. banking lobby, filed a comment letter asking FinCEN to apply customer identification requirements to secondary stabilization markets, extending the provision applied to stablecoin issuers to ex...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
Bitcoin holders are lined up to receive a matching balance of a new asset called ecash (ECX) when the project kicks off its three-stage hard-fork rollout with an alpha launch around Bitcoin block height 963648. The launch comes from Layertwo Labs, fo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
Grayscale says bitcoin’s sharp weekly rally could mark a turning point after a relatively shallow bear market. Historical cycle comparisons and improving institutional demand suggest the market may be forming a more durable bottom. Grayscale Sees Pot...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
Robert Kiyosaki says expanded U.S. Treasury debt buybacks amount to quantitative easing and renewed his preference for bitcoin, gold, silver, and selected real estate. Treasury describes the operations as liquidity support for longer-dated markets. K...
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Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick says record bitcoin short liquidations and renewed ETF demand have increased the market’s upside risk. He now sees a possible year-end run from $79,500 toward bitcoin’s $126,000 record, a 58% climb. Record...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
Ethereum (ETH) surged 29.8% higher over the past seven days, smoking bitcoin’s 22.9% gain as returning exchange-traded fund (ETF) buyers, squeezed shorts, and a shrinking pile of readily tradable coins drove ETH to a weekly high of $2,546 on Saturday...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Grayscale sees three conditions aligning for people asking whether now is a good time to buy bitcoin. The crypto asset manager points to continued adoption, a mature bear market, and a supportive macro outlook, while acknowledging that prices could s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
ZachXBT pointed out that Canada was the worst jurisdiction for crypto crime victims and pinpointed Toronto as one of the global hotspots for fraud. Canada ranks even higher than countries like the U.K and India, with Nigeria, Algeria, Bangladesh, and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
A mystery whale sold another 2,700 BTC (about $211.8 million) earlier today, pushing its three-day total to 7,700 BTC (roughly $576.6 million). The selling lands just as bitcoin trades within reach of $80,000, capping its strongest weekly rally in ye...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Nomura Holdings’ Laser Digital Japan has cracked Japan’s crypto licensing wall, ending a roughly four-year drought without a new industry entrant and planting one of the country’s financial heavyweights squarely inside regulated digital-asset trading...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Bitcoin’s current 50-week moving average, which lies near $82,470, has become a closely watched level for traders assessing whether the current bear market has ended. Historical data from Galaxy Research suggests a weekly reclaim has been far more re...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Two heavyweight crypto trade groups have dragged Illinois into court over a first-in-the-nation 0.2% tax that could hammer digital asset trades, transfers, and storage when it kicks in Jan. 1, 2027. The Blockchain Association and Crypto Council for I...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs closed Friday with $307.45 million in net inflows, completing five consecutive positive sessions worth $1.92 billion. Ether funds added $184.93 million, while XRP and solana ETFs also drew fresh capital. Ether ETFs Add $184.93M...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Hyperliquid’s native token HYPE touched a fresh all-time high above $77 at the same time venture firm Multicoin Capital kept shuffling large batches of the token into Coinbase Prime. Fresh High Amid Trump-Fueled Momentum HYPE hit a fresh all-ti...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Bitcoin has surged roughly $10,000 over the past week, breaking above $77,000 for the first time since May after the U.S. Treasury doubled its long-dated bond buybacks. The rally briefly touched $79,500 yesterday, wiping out billions in short bets al...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Real-world asset credit vaults are drawing more capital into tokenized lending, but GensynAI COO Jeff Amico says many investors may have weaker legal protections than they realize. He argues that clearer creditor rights and stronger offchain verifica...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Zcash (ZEC) jumped 47.1% in 24 hours to lead a broad altcoin rally on August 22, with bitcoin cash, cardano, dogecoin and chainlink all posting double-digit gains as bond buybacks and Clarity Act optimism lifted the wider crypto market. Zcash Extends...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park outlines South Korea’s transition from a retail-driven crypto market to an institutional digital finance hub. However, he believes institutional adoption relies on resolving unglamorous ba...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
As major crypto exchanges evolve into all-things-financial-services platforms, they’re investing more in new products to grow and diversify, while increasing trading revenues has become challenging. As the bear market persisted during the secon...
