Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
With a little over a month until the new crypto regulatory regime’s deadline, local sources indicate that only five VASPs have submitted authorization requests to the Central Bank of Brazil, and one has already been rejected. Only Five Exchange...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
With bitcoin’s price almost hitting the $82,000 range on Saturday, at block height 967732, a wallet first created on Nov. 2, 2011, shifted 100 BTC worth more than $8 million using current bitcoin exchange rates. Bitcoin From 2011 and 2013 Suddenly St...
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Wall Street Journal is preparing a story blaming him for the CLARITY Act’s Senate defeat, and he went public with his defense before it ran. A Pre-Emptive Strike Armstrong did not wait for the alleged artic...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
U.S. crypto ETFs closed the week with a broad surge in demand, led by $433.03 million flowing into bitcoin funds. Ether, solana, Zcash and HYPE products also attracted fresh capital, while XRP ETFs posted a marginal outflow. Bitcoin Leads as Crypto F...
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On Saturday, the Lightning Network payments platform Blink Wallet, which provides both custodial and non-custodial services, revealed that an attacker had infiltrated a limited number of custodial accounts and moved the funds. Blink Wallet Says Every...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
This week, Japan’s first licensed yen stablecoin, JPYC, landed on South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, and promptly shot higher, briefly reaching the equivalent of more than 3 yen. At present, the JPYC/KRW pair ranks among the trading platfo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Turkey’s lira has fallen to a fresh record low near 48.8 per dollar, while bitcoin’s price now costs roughly 3.95 million lira. Five years ago, a dollar bought about 8.3 to 8.9 lira. Today it buys nearly six times as many. Behind that slow-moti...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
The Federal Reserve waited 1,148 days to raise interest rates again, and speculators are already betting it won’t stop at one. Polymarket, Kalshi, and CME futures now lean toward another quarter-point hike at the Oct. 28 meeting, while CME puts the o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Bitcoin derivatives traders are carrying more than $56 billion in futures exposure and roughly $42 billion in options open interest, while bitcoin sits near $81,273. The stranger part is where the options money is leaning. Market data shows that call...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
A wallet linked to BIT, the firm formerly known as Matrixport, dropped another 1,000 BTC worth $81.06 million into Binance on Saturday, its second large deposit to the exchange this week. The Wallet in Question The address, which begins with ‘b...
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South Korean police spent five months identifying individual Polymarket traders through public blockchain records and booking them on suspicion of illegal gambling, all while the platform was still legally accessible in the country. The platform is n...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Vietnam has built a pilot legal framework and plans to license its first crypto-asset service providers in 2026. Building Guardrails Vietnam reportedly plans to license its first crypto-asset service providers in 2026 under a pilot legal framework as...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
SBI Group is backing Singapore-based Dtcpay as the regulated payments company expands its stablecoin merchant network and product suite. The investment extends Dtcpay’s Series A to $25 million and deepens SBI’s digital asset push across A...
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Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty is calling for greater coordination across the crypto industry after the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate. He said the setback exposed divisions in messaging and political support surrounding digi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
XRP demand could increase as payments, stablecoins, decentralized finance, and tokenized assets bring more activity to the XRP Ledger, according to 21shares. The asset manager says activity could support XRP demand through fees, reserves, and bridge...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Evernorth has agreed to issue a $30 million convertible note to fund XRP purchases and broader ecosystem activity. The financing remains contingent on its proposed merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II closing during the fourth quarter. Evernorth T...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Bitcoin’s price climbed as high as $81,377 on Friday, Sept. 18, putting the leading crypto asset within striking distance of $84,000. Prediction traders think that short hop is increasingly likely, but the optimism starts falling apart as the t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Michael Blaugrund, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at ICE, the parent company of NYSE, stated that the company was considering Avalanche to host the trading and on-chain settlement platform currently under development to enable 24/7 trading o...
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The exchange network will give Argentine tax authorities new tools to curb tax evasion linked to cryptoassets in transactions involving virtual asset service providers registered abroad. Over 77 jurisdictions have agreed to implement this framework b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Grayscale’s Zcash ETF is preparing a 3-for-1 forward share split less than two months after becoming the world’s first Zcash exchange-traded product. The move will lower the ETF’s per-share price without changing investor value, potentially making ZE...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
The joint operation resulted in the arrest of seven individuals: the leader of the Sweden-based laundering ring in the UAE and six others in the gang in Sweden. The organization had laundered over $7 million using crypto, with links to other activiti...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Bitcoin surged past $81,000 on Friday, hitting an intraday high of $81,238, before settling around $80,800 with a $1.62 trillion market cap. CFTC Draft Rules Spark Rally Beyond $81,000 Bitcoin’s price breezed past $81,000 Friday amid reports th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
U.S. bitcoin ETFs returned to inflows on Thursday with $159.45 million, led by a sharp rebound in Blackrock’s IBIT. Ether and XRP funds remained under pressure, while the recently launched Zcash ETF drew $46.56 million in fresh capital. Blackrock Dri...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Bitcoin’s price ripped from the mid-$76,000s to nearly $81,000 on Friday at 10:45 a.m. ET, after traders spent the week absorbing a failed U.S. Senate crypto vote and two central-bank rate hikes. The final leg wasn’t simply buyers charging in....
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SBI Digital Practice and Kyobo Life completed a cross-border pilot that directly converted yen-linked test tokens into won-linked tokens. The trial examined whether stablecoin infrastructure could reduce delays, conversion steps, and costs in institu...
