The Canadian teenager was getting anxious. It was May 2024, and he was in Copenhagen, running out of money after leaving Moscow a week earlier. He’d booked the cheapest room he could find in the Danish capital, but the hostel was still more expensive than he’d expected. The teen, Laken

French police have reportedly made more arrests in the abduction of a crypto entrepreneur’s father whose finger was severed as part of the ransom demands. The state-owned media outlet France 24 reported on Wednesday that police have arrested several people suspected of involvement in the kidnapping,

Crypto analysts are skeptical of veteran trader Peter Brandt’s recent speculation on X that Bitcoin could repeat its 2022 pattern and correct by 75%.“Never say never; it just feels very unlikely at the moment,” Swyftx lead analyst Pav Hundal told Cointelegraph.Peter Brandt says it “doesn’t hurt to a

Disney and Universal have sued artificial intelligence firm Midjourney for copyright infringement over its AI-powered image generator.In a legal complaint filed in Los Angeles on Wednesday, the entertainment giants accused Midjourney of using works related to copyrighted characters to train its larg

An extended technical review aired Tuesday on Sistine Research’s YouTube channel has placed XRP at the top of the current market hierarchy and mapped a price trajectory that—if historical analogues and present chart structure hold—could lift the token as high as $73 in a late-cycle blow-off.Speaking

Bitcoin sell pressure will have evaporated once it crosses the $130,000 mark, according to Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley. “I think once Bitcoin breaks through, e.g., $130-150k, no one is going to sell their Bitcoin,” Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley said in an X post on Wednesday. Galaxy Digital founder Mike

Bitcoin’s recent price surge hasn’t stopped warnings of a steep drop. After rising 1.87% in 24 hours and 3.61% over the past week, Bitcoin trades near $109,192. According to Peter Brandt, a veteran trader, these gains could be setting up the biggest crash in years.Crash Scenario OutlinedAccording to

CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index is down $781.48 today or 0.71% to $108775.24Snaps a five day winning streakUp 3.83% month-to-dateUp 16.44% year-to-dateDown 2.87% from its all-time intraday high of $111986.44 on May 22, 2025Up 60.96% from 52 weeks ago (June 12, 2024), when it traded at $67577.31Down 2.8

GameStop announced Wednesday it will offer $1.75 billion of 0.0% convertible senior notes, seemingly in a bid to raise money for potential bitcoin purchases. The company also intends to grant the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase up to an additional $250 million aggregate princip

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