Bitcoin

Argentine Analysts Believe Economic ‘Tetherization’ Might Be in 2026’s Congress Roadmap

Martin Yeza, deputy of the new Congress, stated that stablecoins might fulfill a new pivotal role in the country’s payment structure. He considers that allowing the central bank to hold cryptocurrency and state companies to mine crypto would be positiv...

25 Dec 2025

Dubai Charities Begin Accepting Crypto Donations Under IACAD Initiative

Dubai’s Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department has launched a new service enabling charities in the emirate to accept cryptocurrency and virtual asset donations. Establishing a Regulated Framework The Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activi...

20 Dec 2025

Coinbase Issues Direct Warning: ‘If You Try to Steal From Our Customers,’ Law Enforcement Will Close in

Coinbase sent a clear message to scammers, warning that anyone who tries to steal from its customers will face law enforcement action, as the company vows to track offenders, recover funds, and bring perpetrators to justice. Coinbase Sends a Direct War...

20 Dec 2025

Bitcoin Mining Stocks End Friday Strong as a Choppy Year-End Awaits

The market cap of bitcoin mining stocks climbed 9.43% on Friday, finishing the session with every one of the top ten publicly traded miners by market value in the green, including three names that logged double-digit advances. With just one week left o...

20 Dec 2025

Bitcoin Futures and Options Positioning Suggests a Measured Reset Ahead

Bitcoin hovered at $88,202 per coin at 2:30 p.m. EST on Dec. 20, as derivatives markets quietly shifted into a more cautious posture following the Dec. 19 options expiry. Futures leverage eased, options positioning has thickened, and traders appeared m...

20 Dec 2025

Bitcoin’s inability to reclaim $90,000 exposes a deep structural fracture that could trap investors during the next unwind

Bitcoin’s inability to reclaim $90,000 is looking less like a debate about narratives and more like a test of market plumbing. For the better part of 2025, the surface story was institutional momentum. The US moved toward a workable regulatory perimeter, capped by President Donald Trump signing the GENIUS Act to federalize payment stablecoins. At […]
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20 Dec 2025

Study Maps Data Centers in Hot Climates Across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

A new global analysis finds that hundreds of the world’s data centers are operating in climates that are too hot for optimal performance, raising costs, energy demand, and long-term sustainability concerns. Nearly 7,000 Data Centers Sit Outside Optimal...

20 Dec 2025

Stablecoin Sector Stalls Near $310B as Big Names Swap Seats

Stablecoins caught their breath this week, with $823.09 million slipping out of the sector over the past seven days, nudging the total down by 0.27%. The heaviest hit came from Blackrock’s BUIDL, which logged a 6.22% trim and was bumped from the top te...

20 Dec 2025

Bitcoin’s Cycle Turns as Cryptoquant Flags Demand Slowdown

Bitcoin’s latest market phase looks less like a pause and more like a pivot, as Cryptoquant researchers say onchain demand exhaustion is now signaling the early stages of a bear market, according to a new analysis. Analysis Warns Bitcoin Demand Growth ...

20 Dec 2025

Bitcoin ETF outflows look terrifying, but a hidden derivatives pattern proves the smart money isn’t actually fleeing

Bitcoin’s ETF data is doing that annoying thing where it looks terrifying if you only read the headline. Big chunks of ETF buyers are sitting on losses, and every red flow day gets framed as the start of a stampede. But if you look closely at the numbers, they tell a different story. Outflows are […]
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20 Dec 2025

Bitcoin Consolidates Near $88K as Traders Strap in for a Technical Reckoning

Bitcoin’s price stands at $88,195 as of Dec. 20, 2025, giving the asset a market cap of $1.76 trillion while 24-hour trading volume registers at $37.07 billion. The session has respected a defined intraday band between $86,929 and $88,759, pointing to ...

20 Dec 2025

Central Bank of Russia Acknowledges Bitcoin Mining as a Ruble Strengthening Activity

The Central Bank of Russia recently referred to the properties of bitcoin mining and how it could help strengthen the Russian ruble. Elvira Nabiullina, head of the institution, stated that it was still difficult to assess the contribution of the activi...

20 Dec 2025

Milestone: Bitso Processes Stablecoin Payments for Over $80B in Latam

Bitso Business, the business-to-business arm of Bitso, announced that it was on the way to process nearly $82 billion in stablecoin payments in 2025. Felipe Vallejo, Bitso Chief Corporate Affairs Officer and Country Manager at Bitso Mexico, highlighted...

20 Dec 2025

Japan’s rate hike ends the ‘free money’ era and puts Bitcoin on notice

The Bank of Japan tightened policy on Dec. 18, lifting its benchmark rate to 0.75%, the highest since 1995. Governor Kazuo Ueda framed the move as a formal break with the “ultra-accommodative” regime that has helped fuel global risk-taking for decades. Following the news, Bitcoin was little changed near $87,800, but the calm surface belies […]
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19 Dec 2025

Crypto index ETFs will dominate 2026 because the SEC is about to break the single-asset model

US spot crypto ETFs have attracted more than $70 billion in net inflows since January 2024, making traditional financial investment vehicles the primary entry point for new money into the emerging industry. That surge, driven by products linked to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more recently Solana and XRP, has validated the industry’s view that many investors […]
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19 Dec 2025

Bitcoin Dips Lose Meaning With Hundreds of Trillions Near Entry, Says Bitwise

Expanding institutional access is setting bitcoin for broad future growth as massive global capital pools gain new entry points, a shift underscored by Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley that highlights the asset’s potential well past softness. Bitcoin Red Day...

16 Nov 2025

‘Mr. 100’ Mania Returns: Viral Whale Myth Falls Apart Under Scrutiny

On social media, the tall tale of a wallet dubbed ‘Mr. 100’ is making the rounds again, with claims that this mysterious figure is scooping up bitcoin while prices sit in the bargain bin. Yet the wallet has long been tied to the crypto exchange Upbit, ...

16 Nov 2025

Privacy Coin Fever: Zcash’s $741 Intraday Spike Sets the Market Buzzing

The privacy coin zcash (ZEC) blasted past the $700 range this weekend, tapping an intraday high of $741 per coin on Bitfinex. Over the past month, ZEC has rocketed 236% against the greenback, giving traders plenty to talk about. Are Privacy Coins Being...

16 Nov 2025

XRP Teeters on the Edge: $2.16 Support Stands Between Rebound and Ruin

On Nov. 16, 2025, XRP is clinging to a narrow range of $2.20 to $2.21, backed by a market cap of $132 billion and 24-hour trading volume of $3.68 billion. The intraday volatility flirted between $2.16 and $2.28, but the charts reveal there’s more benea...

16 Nov 2025

Bitcoin’s Price Stumbles Again: Longs Get Wrecked and Bears Take the Wheel

Bitcoin is wobbling yet again today, slipping 1.7% over the past 24 hours as the leading crypto asset dipped under the $94,000 line and scraped an intraday low of $93,989. At the moment, bitcoin is hovering just above the $94,000 threshold after its la...

16 Nov 2025

Harvard SEC Filing Shows Blackrock’s Bitcoin ETF Now Leads Its Public Portfolio

Recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings show that Blackrock’s Ishares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has become the single largest position in Harvard Management Company’s latest 13F portfolio, putting a bitcoin ETF at the top of one of the most ...

16 Nov 2025

Saylor Says Bitcoin Has Found Its Floor, Says ‘Most of the Liquidation Selling Is out of the System’

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said he believes bitcoin has stabilized and the market bottom is already in, telling host Grant Cardone that most liquidation pressure has “washed out” of the system. Saylor Seems Confident Bitcoin Has Bottome...

16 Nov 2025

Bitcoin Price Watch: Stuck in the Basement—Is a Bounce or Breakdown Next?

Bitcoin entered Nov. 16, 2025, treading carefully at $95,455, supported by a market capitalization of $1.90 trillion and a hefty 24-hour trading volume of $51.29 billion. With a daily intraday price range stretching from $93,961 to $96,736, bitcoin’s p...

16 Nov 2025

Latam Insights: Brazil Implements Stringent Stablecoin Ruleset, Libra Probe Advances

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, the Central Bank of Brazil finalizes a new stringent ruleset targeting stablecoins, the Libra case keeps advancing ...

16 Nov 2025

Bitcoin Friendly Franchise Steak ‘n Shake Targets El Salvador for Latam Expansion

The company aims to build its first Latam restaurant in the country due to its bitcoin allegiance. During the Bitcoin Historico event, Dan Edwards, COO of Steak ‘n Shake, stated that El Salvador was a “bitcoiner country,” and they just had to be there....

16 Nov 2025

Shutdown’s End Sparks Bitcoin Recovery: Will the Rally Hold?

Growing predictions that the protracted U.S. government shutdown is finally coming to an end are driving a larger sense of confidence returning to global financial markets at the same time as this rebound.

14 Nov 2025

Bitcoin Surges Above $123K, Nearing New Record as Bullish Q4 Sentiment Fuels Weeklong Rally

This recent run has been fueled by institutional demand and a shifting macro environment.

3 Oct 2025

MARA Holdings Produced 736 Bitcoin in September, Holds 52,580 BTC in Treasury

MARA Holdings (MARA) produced 736 BTC in September, up 4% from August, and won 218 blocks on the Bitcoin network, the company said in an update on Friday.The company, which positions itself as both a miner and a bitcoin treasury operation, said it was ...

3 Oct 2025

Record $300B stablecoin liquidity ready to fund Bitcoin and Ethereum purchases

The stablecoin market has crossed a landmark $300 billion capitalization, reflecting its growing role as the connective tissue between traditional finance and the crypto ecosystem. This milestone reflects heightened investor demand and the diversification of stablecoin models, which range from fiat-backed giants to yield-bearing challengers. Tether’s USDT continues to dominate with a market share of […]
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3 Oct 2025

Bitcoin above $120k: Here’s 3 data points bulls must watch next

Bitcoin price is back above $120,000, and the market has clean data to read instead of just vibes. Spot pushed through the important $120,000 level on Oct. 2 with a close near $120,606 after a +5.5% climb from Sept. 29, and it’s holding the level today even with a small give-back. The spike in spot […]
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3 Oct 2025