Bitcoin

Bitcoin Whales Were Urging Friends to Buy Zcash Before Its Rally to $1,000

Bitcoin whales quietly urged investor Dan Held to buy Zcash months before the cryptocurrency surged past the $1,000 mark, according to his statements. This initiative shows how large Bitcoin...

Metaplanet’s Bitcoin boom quietly turned a 46 million-share executive pay plan into a 319 million-share windfall

Metaplanet, a Tokyo-listed company, saw its executive options pool expand from 46 million to 319.464 million potential shares due to Bitcoin-funded capital raising. The...

Why Bitcoin bulls shouldn’t mistake a shrinking dollar reserve share for central bank buying

An analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that the decline in the dollar's share of global reserves, from 64% at...

Bitcoin: Capital B overtakes Sweden’s H100 Group after 376 BTC buy

Capital B, a French company specializing in digital asset treasuries in bitcoin, purchased 376 BTC for 25.3 million euros on September 7th, its largest...

Bitcoin Calms Below $80K as Fed Hike Odds Climb: Bitfinex Alpha

Bitcoin fell below $80,000 as strong US jobs data pushed the odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike on September 16 to about 60%....

Strategy’s $250 Bitcoin Jordans sold out as Saylor turns 4% of BTC supply into a consumer brand

Strategy launched $250 Bitcoin-themed Air Jordans on September 4 through its online store. All nine advertised sizes were sold out by September 8, with...

Polkadot Leads A Rotation Into Old Layer-1s As Hike Odds Widen

Polkadot posted the strongest weekly gain among the 50 largest tokens, rising 42.5% over seven days and 16.7% in 24 hours to $1.25. The...

New York town weighs crypto mining and AI data center ban

The town of Plattsburgh in upstate New York is considering a temporary moratorium on cryptocurrency mining and AI data centers. If passed, the moratorium...

$47M Still Missing After Liquid Hack as Blockstream Bargains With ‘White Hats’

Blockstream is negotiating with the perpetrators of the Liquid network hack to recover approximately 598.5 BTC still missing, following the return of 3,400 BTC...

Block seeks federal charter for Bitcoin custody services through Builders Bank

Block, Jack Dorsey's payments company, has filed for a federal national trust bank charter. This move aims to allow Block to offer Bitcoin custody...

Lummis Blasts Democrats Ahead of Clarity Act Vote — But Adds Bill Can Get Passed

Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis criticized Democrats over the Clarity Act, saying that if the bill fails, it will be because they refused to join...