US government moves $1B in seized Bitcoin after $770M transfers
Blockchain analysts identified the US government wallet tied to the recovery of funds from the Bitfinex hack.
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Bitcoin pulls back as analysts forecast $80,000-$90,000 Q4 trading range
Bitcoin traded near $82,000 on Thursday, with analysts at QCP expecting a fourth-quarter range of $80,000 to $90,000.
Quantus Takes Aim at Bitcoin’s Quantum Problem
QTC is now tradable through NEAR Intents, giving the quantum-resistant L1 its first real liquidity test against Bitcoin and Zcash.
Alloc Init Proposes Zcash-Style Privacy for Bitcoin
The proposed Shielded Bitcoin metaprotocol would use Zcash-style private notes to hide BTC transfers without changing Bitcoin consensus.
ZEC and NEAR Are Eating the Blue Chips' Bid
BTC:ETH::ZEC:NEAR! How Zcash and NEAR are drawing capital away from Bitcoin and Ethereum.
🏴 Will BTC Underperform?
Last cycle mainstreamed Bitcoin. This one may belong to Zcash and alts with real revenue, buybacks, and newly opening U.S. markets.
This is Not Bitcoin’s Cycle
Last cycle mainstreamed Bitcoin. This one may belong to Zcash and alts with real revenue, buybacks, and newly opening U.S. markets.
Hyperliquid takes aim at Kalshi, Polymarket targeting $24bn prediction markets
Hyperliquid is nibbling away at Kalshi and Polymarket. The decentralised finance exchange processing $6 billion in daily derivatives volume...
Strategy shares soar 50% in a month as Bitcoin tops $80,000 ahead of Q1 earnings call
Strategy is on a tear. Shares of the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder have surged more than 50% over the past month, riding the top...
‘Every hit earns crypto’? App that gives users Bitcoin for getting stoned deemed ‘dangerous’ and ‘unethical’
A California-based cannabis vape pen company that says it rewards customers with crypto for using its product is raising alarm among health...
Bitcoin tops $80,000 price as Clarity Act nears Senate floor with new Fed chair imminent
Bitcoin punched through $80,000 on Monday, up 19% over the past month, as a twin engine of institutional demand and legislative momentum roars...
Hegseth recasts Bitcoin as national security asset amid Russia, China expansion
Bitcoin just got a war upgrade. On Thursday, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told Congress that Bitcoin projects inside the Pentagon are...
Anthropic’s new Mythos AI will hit crypto. Bitcoin investors don’t care, says Coinbase
Artificial intelligence is a Sword of Damocles dangling over crypto — but Wall Street isn’t quailing, says Coinbase. Anthropic’s new Claude...
Vitalik-backed MegaETH sees token fall 55% on first day trading
MegaETH’s token is off to a shaky start. On Thursday, the layer 2 blockchain, which lists Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin among its early...
XRP held back by ‘two forces’ analyst says as traders bet on price to plunge
XRP has a lot going for it. The cryptocurrency is intimately linked to Ripple, the company whose founders developed it, and the venture’s...
Bitcoin price slips on ‘discord’ risk at Fed amid messy regime change. ‘No choice but to stay’
Bitcoin stumbled after Jerome Powell’s final presser at the helm of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, sliding 2% to $75,000 as cracks inside the...
Billionaire trader Paul Tudor Jones made bank in gold. Now he calls Bitcoin the ‘best inflation hedge’
Paul Tudor Jones is heaping praise on Bitcoin. In a Wednesday appearance of the Invest Like The Best podcast, the billionaire hedge fund manager,...
Robinhood primed for rebound after shares tank 8% in Q1 miss, Bernstein says
Robinhood is primed to rebound from a bruising first-quarter where crypto-driven revenue plunged 47%, according to research and brokerage firm...
Bitcoin traders flip bullish on price ahead of Powell’s final FOMC as Fed chair
Bitcoin is holding firm near $77,000 ahead of Jerome Powell’s final press conference as Federal Reserve chair. Now, traders’ risk appetite is...
Bitcoin mining meltdown? Why IREN’s real future is in AI, according to Bernstein
Artificial intelligence is the real opportunity for Bitcoin miners, analysts say. IREN’s future now rests on transforming into a hyperscale AI...
Bitmine buys $294m more Ethereum ahead of Clarity Act ‘markup in May’
Bitmine continues to amass the largest Ethereum war chest as US lawmakers debate crypto’s future. On Monday, the crypto treasury firm bought up...
Bitcoin treasury Metaplanet bets on splashy advertising to turn around its ailing share price
High-tier conference sponsorships, an award-winning Japanese dance troupe, and most recently an appearance on the imposing Las Vegas...
French police record 135 crypto kidnapping cases since 2023 as crime wave swells
Police in France say 75 suspects are in pre-trial detention after attempting to kidnap crypto owners or their families — and demand Bitcoin and...
Bitcoin traders eye $90,000 price after Kevin Warsh’s confirmation chances skyrocket. Here’s why
Bitcoin is lining up a push toward $90,000 as investors zero in on a changing of the guard at the US Federal Reserve, analysts say. Iggy Ioppe,...