Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
The failure of the bulls to start a strong recovery in Bitcoin and the major altcoins suggests that the bears intend to remain active at higher levels.Key points:Bitcoin bulls are struggling to sustain the intraday rallies, indicating that every mino...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty climbed to 144.4 trillion after January storms briefly slashed hash rate, while some US miners offset downtime by selling electricity back to the grid.Bitcoin’s mining difficulty jumped about 15% to 144.4 trillion on Feb....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
After four years contributing, BGD Labs said it would be leaving the DAO, citing changes to the organization and taking an “adversarial position“ to its liquidity protocol.BGD Labs, a core technical contributor to decentralized finance protocol Aave,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin stayed rangebound within a "downward trajectory" as the Supreme Court concluded that some US trade tariffs were illegal and liable for a refund.Bitcoin (BTC) saw choppy price action after Friday’s Wall Street open as markets reacted to the US...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Private equity, which has the second-highest risk weighting, carries a 400% weight under the current Basel III banking framework.Crypto treasury executives are calling on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), an international banking reg...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
US Federal Judge Aleta Trauger granted Kalshi a preliminary injunction against Tennessee, finding its sports event contracts fall under CFTC jurisdiction.A US federal judge in Tennessee temporarily blocked the state from enforcing its gambling laws a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Stablecoin ecosystem A7A5 has faced accusations of sanctions evasion and, according to some analysts, is creating an alternative, sanctions-free financial network.As cryptocurrency is becoming increasingly intertwined with the traditional financial w...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
House Democrats are pressing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over World Liberty Financial’s push for a national trust bank charter, citing systemic risk.Democrats in the US House of Representatives are pressing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Tether’s USDT is nearing its largest monthly supply drop since the collapse of FTX, with whales and smart money traders continuing to reduce their USDT holdings.Update (Feb. 21, 12:45 am UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from Te...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Spot Bitcoin ETFs are approaching a five-week outflow streak, with $2.7 billion in net redemptions year-to-date, as BTC posts one of its weakest starts to a year.Selling pressure in US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs continued Thursday, with analysts noting...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Metaplanet’s Simon Gerovich addressed critics who accused the company of hiding losses and key details of its Bitcoin bets, as investor anger over leveraged Bitcoin treasuries spreads.Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich pushed back against accusations from...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Lawmakers criticize South Korea’s Financial Services Commission after Bithumb mistakenly credited 620,000 BTC and the probe faces delays.South Korean lawmakers are stepping up pressure on financial regulators after crypto exchange Bithumb mistakenly...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
The on-chain analytics firm‘s focus on decentralized finance and non-fungible tokens had fallen out of step with the industry‘s current trajectory.On-chain analytics firm Parsec is closing down after five years, as crypto trader flows and on-chain ac...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt reportedly refocused crypto and bank lobby talks on a crypto bill to allow stablecoin rewards tied to transaction activity.The White House has reportedly refocused talks between crypto and bank lobbyists on lim...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitdeer has launched its second-ever convertible senior note offering, which has seen its shares tumble 29% so far this year.Shares in Bitdeer Technologies Group took a hit on Thursday after the Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence infrastructu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari says crypto is “utterly useless” compared to AI, and that pro-stablecoin arguments are “a buzzword salad.”Neel Kashkari, the president of the US Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, says that crypto is “utterly...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Sanctions evasion networks, guarantee marketplaces, and large-scale money laundering schemes dominated illicit stablecoin use, says TRM Labs.Illicit entities received around $141 billion via stablecoins in 2025, the highest level observed in the last...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin developer Matt Carallo says Bitcoiners are looking to “blame something” for the asset’s sluggish price, dismissing quantum fears as the culprit.Bitcoin’s recent sell-off isn’t due to quantum computing fears, because if that were the case, Eth...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin developer Matt Carallo says Bitcoiners are looking to “blame something” for the asset’s sluggish price, dismissing quantum fears as the culprit.Bitcoin’s recent sell-off isn’t due to quantum computing fears, because if that were the case, Eth...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Making Bitcoin quantum secure is the biggest challenge the protocol has ever faced. Here are the six biggest obstacles to be overcome.
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Jason Calacanis says he’s spending about $110,000 a year on an AI agent that runs at a fraction of capacity, raising doubts about replacing human workers.The high costs of deploying and running artificial intelligence agents in the workforce may prev...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin may stay capped under $70,000 as traders deploy bearish options strategies, and spot BTC ETF outflows point to a retest of the yearly low.Key takeaways:Professional traders are paying a 13% premium for downside protection as Bitcoin struggles...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Blockchain-based versions of US stocks are drawing growing investor activity, with onchain wallets and cross-venue trading expanding rapidly.Kraken’s tokenized equities platform, xStocks, has surpassed $25 billion in total transaction volume less tha...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Analysis by Bitcoin services company River forecasts a transaction surge as individuals and businesses experiment with AI agentic payments.Monthly transaction volume on the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network, a secondary layer for BTC that enables payme...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 months ago
Bitcoin is on course to lock in another negative month, but one analyst says major differences in the current market structure could be a sign of a pending trend reversal.Bitcoin (BTC) is forming what may prove to be a fifth consecutive red monthly c...
