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Paolo Ardoino, CEO of top stablecoin issuer Tether, said USDT’s dollar-proxy function has scaled globally, giving developing countries access to foreign currency for domestic and cross-border commerce. Ardoino stressed that the company’s...
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While even the oldest Bitcoiners disagree on what the Bitcoin network and its asset, bitcoin (BTC), are, a new survey showed that the existing knowledge gap among the general public might be turned into a major boost for this market. However, the sam...
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Jon Atack, a longtime Bitcoin Core contributor, commented on the declining level of adoption of bitcoin payments in El Salvador. During a lunch in El Zonte, AKA Bitcoin Beach, Atack, who has lived in the zone since 2022, was told his payment was the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Ceffu, Binance’s institutional custody partner, deposited 136.54 million USDC onto Binance and then withdrew 1,524 BTC and 59,484 ETH worth a combined $263.8 million in a single 30-minute window on Aug. 24. A Familiar Custody Pattern Repeats On...
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Bitmine added another 32,447 ETH to its treasury last week as ether posted its strongest weekly gain since May 2025. The company now holds 5.85 million ETH, with more than 5.06 million tokens staked. Tom Lee Says 30% ETH Weekly Gain Could Signal a Bi...
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A federal jury convicted Block Bits co-founder Japheth Dillman on five fraud-related counts after prosecutors showed how nearly $1 million flowed from investors into a cryptocurrency trading operation built around an automated system that never exist...
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A wallet tracked by onchain analysts opened its 15th bitcoin short in five days on August 24, a 40x leveraged bet on 300 BTC worth roughly $23.13 million, after 14 straight losing trades wiped out a combined $4.56 million. An Embarrassing Losing Stre...
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Bitcoin derivatives markets are running hot while bitcoin’s price tagged an intraday high of $79,989 Monday, with traders stacking billions into futures and options while paying increasingly steep premiums to chase even higher prices. Bitcoin O...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin rebounded to an August high of $79,989 after briefly dipping below $77,000, recovering from a weekend market slump. Market Recovery and Bitcoin Price Swings Bitcoin nearly tapped $80,000 on Monday as the cryptocurrency market appeared to reco...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs drew $1.92 billion in net inflows during the week of August 17 to August 21, while ether funds added $697.18 million. Solana, XRP and HYPE ETFs also finished the week in positive territory as institutional demand broadened acro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Prediction market traders are already throwing enormous sums at the 2028 U.S. presidential race, with JD Vance leading the overall field and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) breaking out as the strongest early Democratic contender. While hundreds of mi...
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Strive grabbed another 1,110 bitcoin for $81.5 million last week, pushing its holdings to 21,356 BTC as the asset manager keeps feeding investor capital straight into its expanding digital asset treasury (DAT) strategy. The company bought bitcoin bet...
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The price of bitcoin blasted past $79,000 around 9 a.m. EDT on Monday, August 24, 2026, as buyers kept their foot on the gas following last week’s blistering rally. Bitcoin Blasts Through $79,000 as Bulls Keep the Pedal Down Monday is shaping up as a...
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Pakistan has officially thrown the switch on its virtual asset licensing regime, putting existing crypto businesses against a hard deadline to secure regulatory clearance or stop operating. The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) ope...
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Washington, D.C., August 24, 2026 — The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing clear and ethical public policy, research, and education surrounding emerging technologies, today announced the completion of...
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Strategy bought zero bitcoin last week, choosing instead to stack billions in cash and buy back preferred stock as Michael Saylor’s company loaded its balance sheet for whatever bitcoin or its own securities throw at it next. The Tysons Corner, Virgi...
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Abraxas Capital has piled into a $783 million short position on Hyperliquid even as bitcoin’s biggest weekly rally since March 2023 forces billions of dollars in bearish bets to unwind elsewhere. Whales Hold Short Positions Through the Surge Ab...
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Solana kicked off its first formal governance vote on August 22, 2026, putting three proposals, including a plan to double annual disinflation to 30%, in front of validators through August 27. Three Proposals, One Vote The Solana network continued on...
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Gold surged to its highest price in three months this week, climbing past $4,600 an ounce and brushing $4,650 in futures trading, as the U.S. Treasury’s expanded bond buybacks revived fears of a weakening dollar. Gold’s Breakout Above $4,...
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The team behind Donald Trump’s TRUMP memecoin collected 3.39 million USDC over a 10-hour stretch by adding and removing liquidity on Solana, per Lookonchain. A Liquidity Pool Sale, Not a Straight Dump President Trump’s team received the f...
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An integration between PeaqOS and World ID allows autonomous machines to verify that they are interacting with real, unique humans without collecting personal data. Zero-Knowledge Identity Verification for Robotics Autonomous machines can now verify...
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Microsoft is retiring Microsoft Publisher in October 2026, ending service for Microsoft 365 subscribers on October 1 and cutting off support for perpetual-license users on October 13. The shutdown puts years of proprietary .pub archives at risk unles...
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Ethereum client Besu remediated five security vulnerabilities discovered by Certik in version 26.7.1, released July 27. Certik’s Jialiang Chang highlighted that the “patch-first, details-later” model protects node operators against...
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Lawrence Lepard, author of “The Big Print,” explained that even with CLARITY passing, demand for U.S. Treasuries used to back most stablecoins in circulation was insufficient to prop up the debt market, as issuance is less than 3% of the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Every blockchain eventually hits a hard wall: thousands of independent computers have to settle on one history without a central referee deciding which version wins. That process is called a consensus algorithm, and the design determines who can add...
