Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 days ago
This week’s stories included crypto treasuries, legal drama, AI infrastructure and exchange fundraising. Evernorth showcased its 473 million XRP treasury after listing on Nasdaq, while HEX founder Richard Heart was reportedly detained in Istanbul. La...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 days ago
U.S. crypto ETFs closed Friday under renewed selling pressure, with bitcoin funds losing $82.39 million and ether ETFs shedding another $69.68 million. Solana, XRP and zcash also finished lower, while NEAR once again attracted fresh capital. Bitcoin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 days ago
Ethereum’s price has spent the week bouncing between $2,324 and $2,575, but beneath the price swings, derivatives traders are carrying $30.59 billion in futures exposure while options bulls command nearly 62% of outstanding positions. The catch...
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Bitmex co-founder Arthur Hayes says the artificial intelligence boom is burning cash on a government backstop, and that the bigger it gets, the higher bitcoin goes. The Arguments Put Forth by Hayes Hayes laid out the convictions on the Convergence po...
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Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone has put a $10,000 target back on bitcoin, and within hours, Cryptoquant CEO Ki Young Ju replied that the onchain floor sits much closer to $30,000. McGlone’s Domino Theory McGlone laid out the call...
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Binance is advertising up to 7.77% in XRP rewards for holding Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin, but its own payout table shows the base rate has dropped three weeks in a row. The Number Explained Binance promoted the campaign on X early Saturday, addi...
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Strategy shares lost 9.6% on Friday in the first full session after MSCI’s index ruling, even though the company’s 848,250 bitcoin still sit about $5 billion above cost. The Breakdown MSCI announced on Oct. 15, after U.S. markets closed,...
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NASA’s STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences mission launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on June 5, 1991 carrying 2,478 immature moon jellyfish polyps, and by the time it landed nine days later the population had multiplied to nearly 60,000. Led by Easter...
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LuAnn Chico of Lexington, North Carolina, has won a $100,000 prize twice on the same $20 scratch-off game, Ruby Red 7’s, the North Carolina Education Lottery said. She claimed the second $100,000 win at lottery headquarters in Raleigh on September 21...
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A new coalition of nine blockchain organizations is tackling a problem that could eventually put roughly 6.4 million bitcoin at risk, including an estimated 1.1 million BTC associated with Satoshi Nakamoto. Launched this week, the Quantum Alliance wa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 days ago
In a rare courtroom reversal, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) joined cryptocurrency exchange Gemini in asking a federal judge to overturn their $5 million settlement after the agency concluded its original lawsuit should never have be...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Solana generated $193.1 million in application revenue over the past 30 days, nearly twice Hyperliquid’s total, according to Castle Labs research. More importantly, the network’s growth is spreading beyond meme coins, with real-world assets surging f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
For 25 years, cryptographers suspected the NSA’s mysterious encryption seeds might conceal a backdoor. Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) cracked the puzzle in under 30 minutes, uncovering a surprisingly ordinary explanation....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Decentralized perpetual futures exchange Deepsigma has launched a live paper-trading platform across 77 traditional financial markets, including U.S. equities, indexes, commodities, and Treasury yields. Bridging Traditional Finance and Onchain Market...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
The Solana Foundation stated that the Accelerate event was canceled due to a surge in registrations, with people overwhelming the designated venue. Nonetheless, social media reports indicate the presence of law enforcement at the venue, with attendee...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
The company has moved its initiative from pilot to commercial deployment in partnership with Inyo Global, a payments infrastructure firm, using its Visa Direct service. With this move, Inyo Global enables receiving and prefunding stablecoin payments...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
On Friday, at block height 971712, bitcoin mining grew considerably more demanding as the network’s latest difficulty adjustment climbed 5.92% to 140.58 trillion, marking its highest reading since March 5. Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Seven-Month H...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has developed a privacy-focused setup for artificial intelligence agents that combines anonymous payments, encrypted network routing, and locally processed prompts, offering a glimpse of how AI services could opera...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Taiwan has blocked the websites of Coinbase and Kalshi under a court order sought by police investigating election betting, six weeks before the island’s Nov. 28 local elections. Kalshi’s own member agreement already bars Taiwanese users, yet it list...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Bitcoin slipped below $81,000 on Oct. 16 amid heightened market volatility, but analysts remained cautiously optimistic, suggesting a potential local bottom. Bitcoin Dips Below $81,000 After Midweek Reversal Bitcoin lost the $82,000 threshold...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Michael Saylor’s bitcoin treasury company Strategy has announced plans to begin paying daily cash dividends on its STRC preferred shares starting Nov. 2, pending shareholder approval of changes to its dividend structure. The company also intends to m...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
The banking giant stressed that this move is part of a strategy to achieve an 8% compound annual growth rate in its corporate banking services by 2028. Deutsche Bank co-head Gerald Podobnik said these services will complement the bank’s traditi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
The Ledger wallet crisis just took another twist that could, in theory, lead to movie-like battles between criminal groups, as “big boss task scam bros” reportedly lost millions to Ledger hardware wallet tamperers. Analysts at blockchain...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
An experimental OpenAI model accessed an Ethereum wallet using a publicly available recovery phrase and spent its funds without authorization to complete a coding assignment, according to a newly published research report. The incident highlights con...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan argues that bitcoin could benefit across radically different AI-driven economic outcomes, from a productivity boom to a recessionary crash. His thesis rests on one idea: Whether the world gets more abundance, more money creati...