Key takeaways:Bitcoin onchain data shows a steady depletion of exchange and OTC balances, pointing to long-term accumulation and tightening supply.With BTC open interest near record highs and liquidity drying up, the market is tightly coiled, raising the probability of a sharp move.Bitcoin (BTC) pri

Two of the men charged with the kidnapping and torture of a cryptocurrency holder visiting New York City have reportedly pleaded not guilty to all counts.In a Wednesday hearing in the New York Supreme Criminal Court, John Woeltz and William Duplessie pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and false impris

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is once again showing cracks. Today, on social media, a public dispute erupted between Geth team lead Péter Szilágyi and EF leadership over the future of Ethereum’s most-used execution client. Geth (Go Ethereum) is the original and dominant Ethereum execution client. It

Stany Zjednoczone oficjalnie rozpoczęły budowę Rezerwy Strategicznej Bitcoina, a Bitcoin Hyper($HYPER) wspiera rozwój warstwy drugiej króla kryptowalut.Nowa struktura powstała z inicjatywy administracji Donalda Trumpa, która zdecydowała się wykorzystać skonfiskowane środki w celu zabezpieczenia cyfr

Key takeaway:The crypto market’s strength sustains even as investors continue to ponder the impact of raising the US debt ceiling. The cryptocurrency market responded positively to today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report and reduced prospects of an escalating trade war between the US and China. De

Péter Szilágyi, a former Ethereum Foundation researcher and lead developer of Geth, claims he turned down a $5 million offer to spin out the Ethereum core client as a private company, according to a series of posts on X this week. He also alleged the foundation secretly funded a rival Geth developme

What is a supply chain attack in crypto? A supply chain attack in the crypto domain is a cyberattack where hackers target third-party components, services or software that a project relies on instead of attacking the project itself. These components may include libraries, application programming i

The recent departure of a high-ranking US consumer protection regulator comes amid concerns that market participants, including crypto holders, are being left to fend for themselves.On June 10, Cara Petersen, acting enforcement director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), reportedly

Two men pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges they kidnapped a man for three weeks in Manhattan's upscale SoHo neighborhood, shocked him with electric wires and dangled him over a staircase to try to get him to give up his bitcoin password. John Woeltz, 37, and William Duplessie, 33, have b

Key takeaways:An Ethereum whale opened a $11.15M leveraged long position just as ETH broke out of a bull flag.ETH’s price surged above $2,850, pushing the whale’s trade into a $366K unrealized profit.Ethereum options skew turned sharply negative, indicating growing bullish trader positioning.A high-

Connecticut lawmakers unanimously passed a bill prohibiting state and local government divisions from accepting cryptocurrency payments and holding crypto assets.The House Bill 7082, titled “An Act Concerning Various Revisions to the Money Transmission Statutes, State Payments and Investments in Vir

Bitcoin acquisition vehicles like Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) have significantly amplified institutional demand for bitcoin, but their increasingly aggressive and leveraged approach to accumulating BTC risks undermining the asset's credibility as a central bank reserve, according to a report f

The FTX Recovery Trust and FTX Digital Markets announced Tuesday that global fintech firm Payoneer will help distribute payouts from the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange.Payoneer is available as a distributor for customers with payments dated after May 30, 2025, the press release said. Payoneer is t

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s top enforcement official has reportedly resigned, accusing the Trump administration of undermining the agency’s mission in a fierce farewell email.The agency’s acting enforcement director, Cara Petersen, said in the email seen by Reuters on Tuesday that

The Librarian Ghouls hacker group has compromised hundreds of Russian devices and used them to mine crypto in an apparent case of cryptojacking, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says.The hacker group, which is also known as Rare Werewolf, gains access to systems through malware-ridden phishing emails di

The market’s expectation of Bitcoin surging to new highs could prevent it from happening in the near term, but that doesn’t rule out the possibility of Ether surprising investors, analysts say.Santiment analyst Brian Quinlivan told Cointelegraph on Wednesday that the analytics firm is “seeing an ant

Connecticut has passed legislation barring the state and local governments from investing in crypto or establishing a crypto reserve.The Connecticut General Assembly published the final text of the bill on Tuesday. The bill, H.B. 7082, passed both the House and the Senate unanimously without dissent

Bullish, a crypto exchange that counts billionaire Peter Thiel as an investor, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the U.S., the Financial Times reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter.Bullish filed the paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission in rec

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s top enforcement official has reportedly resigned, accusing the Trump administration of undermining the agency’s mission in a fierce farewell email.The agency’s acting enforcement director, Cara Petersen, said in the email seen by Reuters on Tuesday that

According to crypto entrepreneur Edoardo Farina, most individual XRP holders could find themselves shut out as inflation and tight budgets squeeze their options. He argues that owning more than 10,000 XRP – which costs about $23,100 at a price of $2.31 per token – has become a barrier for anyone liv