Category: Bitcoin News

Russia is preparing to intensify its crackdown on unregistered cryptocurrency mining, proposing criminal penalties including hard labor and prison terms, just over a year after formally legalizing the industry. The Ministry of Justice on Monday published a draft amendment to the Penal Code that would reclassify many forms of illegal crypto mining from administrative offense…

Crypto analyst Matt Hughes, publishing as “The Great Mattsby,” called the $0.11-$0.12 zone “incredible” risk/reward for Dogecoin in a Dec. 30 X post, sharing a weekly DOGE/USDT chart to argue that support is clearly defined. Another trader responded, saying that traders could “better pick a good chart,” sparking a quick dispute over whether DOGE is…

Cryptocurrency Market Will Bleed Through 2026 Despite Other Major Assets Gaining; However, there will be a chance for cryptocurrencies to catch up in the new year, according to market intelligence platform Santiment. In a post from Since the beginning of November, gold is up 9%, the S&P 500 is up 1% and Bitcoin is down…

Prenetics (PRE), a health sciences company that raised $48 million earlier this year, in part to build a bitcoin treasury, said it decided to stop buying BTC amid prolonged weakness in the cryptocurrency market. The company launched its bitcoin accumulation strategy in June, following a model championed by Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc, in which companies…

TLDR Ethereum price is trading around $2,972, showing intraday volatility with sharp declines and recoveries. The price is confined in a narrow range, indicating consolidation near the $2,950-$3,000 zone. Ethereum faces key resistance at $3,000 and $3,100, requiring a breakout for an uptrend. The market capitalization is $358.81 billion, down 0.93%, with a 15% increase…

Bitcoin held near $87,000 on Tuesday, setting a steady tone for cryptocurrencies as Asian stocks took a breather after a seven-day skid and investors downgraded U.S. tech stocks through the end of the year. MSCI’s gauge of Asia Pacific stocks fell 0.1% in early trading, and S&P 500 futures fell after the US benchmark fell…

A buy signal Canary in the coal mine Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz predicted that 2026 could be a big year for cryptocurrencies. Still, he acknowledges the technical reality that the asset is “stuck.” Novogratz claims that Bitcoin would need to recover $100,000 to start gaining momentum. “I need to see it start to gain momentum…

Flow (FLOW) was left out of the broader market rally, with the token seeing a double-digit drop over the past 24 hours. The reduction comes as the network continues its remediation efforts after suffering a recent vulnerability. Sponsored Why is the FLOW token price going down? The cryptocurrency market is up almost 2.3% today, with…

Journalist Aware: December 29, 2025 Zcash posted a 30% rally in Santa despite Bitcoin’s sideways structure and flipped Solana with speculative interest. Notably, on December 27, ZEC rose 17% to $515, marking a 43% monthly rally and erasing half of its fourth-quarter losses. In the futures market, Zcash [ZEC] It effectively surpassed SOL in global…

AMLBot data shows that USDT issuer Tether freezes were about 30 times higher than USDC by value and address count. A new on-chain study published by the AMLBot team shows that Tether has frozen more than $3.29 billion in USDT on the Ethereum and Tron blockchains between 2023 and 2025, blacklisting 7,268 addresses in the…

In summary Caltech, Google and IBM obtained results that changed expectations about practical quantum systems. Bitcoin developers reevaluated long-term security as quantum schedules became less speculative. Researchers said the threat remains distant, but 2025 showed a clearer view of the next decade. When Caltech scientists activated their new quantum array of neutral atoms in September,…

The Chinese yuan is rising against the US dollar, prompting the country’s central bank to buy dollars. The yuan rose 0.2% against the dollar earlier this week to 6.9964 yuan per US dollar, forcing the People’s Bank of China to take action, Bloomberg reports. Sources familiar with the matter who wish to remain anonymous say…

La extensión de Chrome de Trust Wallet envió una actualización maliciosa en diciembre, filtrando datos de billeteras y drenando aproximadamente $7 millones de cientos de cuentas antes de que la compañía implementara una solución. La versión comprometida 2.68 estuvo activa durante días y se actualizó automáticamente en segundo plano, como están diseñadas las extensiones del…

It has been a turbulent and volatile fourth quarter for Bitcoin in 2025. BTC has endured a turbulent December, with prices falling nearly 9% and volatility rising to levels not seen since April 2025. In their latest “ChainCheck” report in mid-December, digital asset analysts at VanEck painted a nuanced picture: while on-chain activity remains weak,…

Amid already fragile sentiment across the cryptocurrency market, attackers exploited Trust Wallet, undermining trust in self-custody solutions. The breach has affected hundreds of users, and on-chain data shows that more than $6.77 million has already been stolen. The timing has amplified concern, as it comes at a time when investors are already experiencing increased uncertainty,…

USX, a Solana-native US dollar-pegged stablecoin, briefly traded below its peg on decentralized exchanges early Friday after heavy selling pressure overwhelmed available liquidity on Orca and Raydium, prompting issuer Solstice Finance to step in with liquidity support. In a post from Fountain: PekShield Alert Aggregate DEX data shows less extreme movement. A 15-minute USX/USD chart…

Trust Wallet users lost more than $7 million shortly after it released an updated version of its extension for the Chrome web browser. The stolen funds will be refunded, said Changpeng Zhao, co-founder of crypto exchange Binance, which owns the utility. The breach, reported on December 25 by on-chain detective ZachXBT, was confirmed by the…

TLDR: Walrus Protocol and Nautilus Extend Sui Infrastructure with Programmable Storage and Verifiable Computing (104 characters) Partnership with Google Cloud positions Sui as foundational layer for automated, programmable payment systems (105 characters) Multiple institutional ETF filings from Canary Funds, 21Shares and Grayscale indicate growing market interest (105 characters) Network TVL Reaches $930 Million with Daily…

Changpeng Zhao, co-founder and former CEO of Binance, has called on the crypto industry to take stronger and more coordinated measures to eliminate address poisoning scams. The warning comes after a single victim lost nearly $50 million worth of USDT in what analysts describe as one of the largest chain phishing losses in recent months….

Bitcoin (BTC), the leading cryptocurrency, saw a staggering drop below $25,000 on Christmas day. As highlighted According to financial analyst Jacob King, this drop occurred in the Binance BTC/USD1 trading pair. What Triggered Bitcoin’s Sudden Crash? According to King, the crash was a “flash crash,” meaning it happened suddenly, and very few users noticed it…

NVIDIA agreed to pay approximately $20 billion to acquire assets of artificial intelligence chip startup Groq, marking the company’s largest transaction on record and continuing its strategy of absorbing potential competitors before they can challenge its market dominance. The chipmaker’s latest licensing deal mirrors a similar transaction just three months ago, reinforcing the narrative that…

Journalist Aware: December 24, 2025 Ethereum [ETH] The price seems unstable, but its foundation remains solid. Behind the short-term pressure, the network dominates DeFi. ETH is leaving exchanges, so available supply is decreasing. However, what makes this moment stand out is who intervenes. Institutional players are increasing their exposure, even in cautious times. Prices and…

CC is the best performer today, while UNI is in the red. Bitcoin’s latest rejection above $90,000 on Monday resulted in a continued decline to below $86,500, and the asset is close to ending the year in the red. Most of the larger cap alts are also in the red today, with XRP moving further…

In summary Cryptocurrency-linked stocks surged in early 2025 as Bitcoin surpassed $100,000, sending miners, treasuries and crypto-adjacent companies into a wave of speculative inflows. Mid-year volatility exposed a stark divergence, with narrative-driven highers returning gains as investors shifted their focus to funding quality, dilution risk and the value of underlying assets. Late in the year,…

December 23, 2025 – George Town, Cayman Islands The first-of-its-kind DEX eliminates wrapped tokens and centralized exchanges, enabling direct exchanges of native assets across multiple blockchains. THORChain today announced the public beta launch of swap.thorchain.orga dedicated DeFi exchange interface designed to serve as the protocol’s primary interface for seamless cross-chain cryptocurrency trading. The platform allows…

US inflation was softer than expected and the Federal Reserve made its third consecutive rate cut. The Bank of Japan raised rates for the first time in three decades without causing a crisis. On paper, the year-end macroeconomic picture looks friendlier than it has in months. As of press time, Bitcoin (BTC) is up 4%…

The price of bitcoin briefly crossed the $90,000 mark early Monday, rising from $88,000 during Asian trading hours to just over $90,000 in afternoon trading in Europe and the United States. The rise did not last long as the price of bitcoin fell to around $88,000 by late afternoon. BTC has shown a pattern in…

They say journalists never really clock out. But for Christian, that’s not just a metaphor, it’s a lifestyle. By day, he navigates the ever-changing tides of the cryptocurrency market, juggling words like a seasoned editor and crafting articles that decipher the jargon for the masses. However, when the PC enters hibernation mode, its goals take…

The Indonesian Financial Services Authority (OJK) has published a whitelist of 29 licensed crypto platforms, officially detailing which exchanges are legally allowed to operate in the country. The list, which includes names of entities and their applications or platforms, is intended to serve as an official reference for users to verify whether a provider has…

Galaxy Digital’s head of enterprise-wide research, Alex Thorn, says 2026 may be one of the most difficult years to forecast for bitcoin, even as the company maintains a long-term bullish outlook. In a December 21 post on Thorn said the comments were based on Galaxy Research’s Dec. 18 report, “26 Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, DeFi, and AI…