Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 month ago
Crypto users can lose access to legitimate funds when stablecoin issuers and institutions freeze assets because enforcement measures are not always precise enough to distinguish illicit funds from lawful holdings, according to Jan Philipp Fritsche, c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 month ago
The Consumer Technology Association, which represents more than 1,200 technology companies, urged Senate leaders to advance the CLARITY Act as digital asset developers face uncertainty over federal oversight. CTA Calls for Swift Senate Action on CLAR...
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Strategy’s bitcoin position has swelled to 846,842 BTC after surviving a dramatic 2022 crypto market downturn that put its balance sheet and stock price under intense pressure. Michael Saylor said the company raised over $60 billion, added 716,000 BT...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 month ago
Bitcoin traded at $64,159 at 6:45 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday, and the derivatives market around it tells a story of retreat and repositioning. CME‘s bitcoin options open interest, measured in dollar terms, has dropped from a peak near $290 million...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 month ago
Prediction markets set a weekly trading record as volume reached $10.8 billion, according to A16z crypto. The surge coincided with major finance, sports, and geopolitical events, with activity topping the $10 billion mark for the first time. Predicti...
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Republican Rep. Bryan Steil has introduced the Stop Lawmakers from Predicting Act, a bill that would bar House members, their spouses and their children from wagering on political and policy outcomes via prediction markets. A New Line Between Lawmaki...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 month ago
This week’s crypto stories cut across market structure, adoption, sentiment, and policy. STRC’s sharp drop stress-tested Saylor’s bitcoin credit machine, UNI rallied on fresh long-term optimism, and Latin America extended its lead in stablecoin use f...
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Cryptoquant CEO Ki Young Ju says the consensus among top bitcoin analysts has flipped bearish, leaving him among the few still expecting a rebound as BTC trades roughly $25,000 below where it began the year. A Sentiment Shift Among the Pros Founder o...
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The Ethereum Foundation has lost at least eight senior figures in five months after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang resigned this week, further deepening a leadership vacuum at the organization that stewards the second-largest blockchain. A Seco...
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Cryptoquant CEO Ki Young Ju says the bitcoin-to- altcoin rotation that once powered every alt season has “basically disappeared,” with BTC-pair altcoin volume collapsing to levels unseen since 2021. A Rotation That Stopped Rotating For years, the cry...
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The measure, announced by the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, was taken in response to violations by the U.S. government of the memorandum of understanding signed to end the war. Nonetheless, reports indicate that no ground moves have been mad...
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A New York Supreme Court dispute involving 39,069 bitcoin wallet addresses took another turn this week after attorney Ian R. Cohen opposed an effort to lift a court-ordered stay, and new onchain data showed billions of dollars worth of bitcoin moving...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 month ago
Charles Schwab is moving into prediction markets, but only on its own terms. The brokerage Charles Schwab has reportedly partnered with Cboe Global Markets to offer binary-style options contracts tied to the S&P 500, according to a Wall Street J...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 month ago
Bitcoin trades at $63,629, up 1.64% over the past 24 hours, as the asset holds a recovery range carved out after a sharp selloff from roughly $81,600 down to a low near $59,100. Daily Chart The bounce off $59,000 produced a string of higher lows on t...
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Strategy faces about $1.5 billion in annual preferred-stock dividends against roughly $477 million in software revenue, a cash-flow gap that Grayscale’s head of research, Zach Pandl, warns is a financing problem, not a bitcoin one. A Cash-Flow Proble...
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As Bitcoin miners are increasingly monetizing their power allocations and cooling infrastructure for artificial intelligence, Gomining founder Kirill Solovev argues that pure-play infrastructure remains severely undervalued. The AI Pivot and Network...
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JPMorgan analysts say bitcoin has traded below its estimated production cost for five straight months, pushing about 20% of miners into unprofitable territory. Public miners have responded by selling more than 32,000 BTC in the first quarter to fund...
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The Cuban National Assembly passed a set of reforms that would open the Cuban system to private investment and private banks in the island’s financial system. The measure came after the Trump Administration imposed sanctions on the Cuban state oil co...
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Ireland has launched a National Risk Assessment and a 30-point action plan to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and sophisticated financial crime. Targeting Digital Assets and Crypto Loopholes Ireland announced a sweeping crackdown on fin...
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The administration of Javier Milei has issued an executive order establishing exemptions to the 1.2% tax affecting money flows involving VASPs. The measure directly benefits users, who will now save these funds when depositing (or withdrawing) fiat f...
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Patel stressed that the bureau would find those involved in these crypto crimes to “bring them to justice.” The FBI has been battling social crypto fraud, commonly known as “pig butchering” schemes, to prevent elderly Americans from being financially...
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House lawmakers will review how digital assets could support people living under repressive governments or failing financial systems, tying cryptocurrency access to U.S. national security. House Roundtable Will Review Digital Assets and Repressive Fi...
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A family was held at gunpoint for more than eight hours and forced to transfer more than $8 million in cryptocurrency in a violent Minnesota home invasion that has now resulted in guilty pleas from the two men who admitted carrying out the scheme Gar...
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Coinbase is moving closer to its vision of an “everything exchange,” adding pre-IPO perpetual futures, stock options, and soon tokenized stocks as part of a broader expansion beyond traditional crypto trading. Trading Expansion Adds Pre-IPO Perps, Op...
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Federal jurors convicted a former cryptocurrency promoter after prosecutors tied him to investment fraud schemes that cost investors nearly $1 million. The case centered on Crypto-Pal, which was marketed as a cryptocurrency trading business offering...