Bitcoin’s $80,000 ceiling looks fragile after stocks shrugged off near-5% Treasury yields
With Bitcoin near $77,743 and weekend options volatility elevated, Wednesday’s Fed decision will test whether the gap persists.
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The biggest vulnerability in your Bitcoin wallet might be the shipping label
Hardware wallets might be able to protect your keys, but the paperwork from buying them could expose your identity. To buy a hardware wallet, you give a company your name and address so it can send you a device designed…
Why Bitcoin initially held its gain as rate traders put September hike odds at 85%
Gasoline drove much of August's headline jump, but faster monthly core inflation kept Waller's warning alive.
Stablecoins make sending money easy until someone needs to spend it
When you send money to someone abroad, the confirmation on your phone is only your half of the transaction: the other half belongs to the person who has to use it. Their rent may be due in local currency. Their…
The challenge for AI agents is deciding who pays for automated errors
Imagine asking an AI assistant to book a decent hotel for a weekend away. You give it a budget and say you’d like somewhere near the center, then it finds a room, pays, and sends you the confirmation. The hotel…
XRP’s 30% monthly rebound meets a $4.6 million liquidity trial inside XRPL’s $1.1 billion stablecoin boom
Monthly DEX volume more than doubled, yet XRP routing and market-maker holding time remain unmeasured.
Revolut tricked into handing hackers the passports and Bitcoin histories of wealthy customers
Revolut disclosed customers’ passports, verification selfies and Bitcoin transaction histories after treating a fraudulent government request as legitimate. Affected customers were told Friday that the disclosed information could include passport or driver’s license copies, verification selfies, names, dates of birth,…
XRP Ledger just quietly activated critical foundation for its upcoming new lending protocol
fixCleanup3_3_0 corrects AMM, vault, lending, Checks and pseudo-account code paths without launching XRPL’s pending feature amendments.
The dilution trap where Bitcoin holdings rise while shareholder value stalls
Buying shares in a Bitcoin treasury company gives ownership in a business that holds Bitcoin, and management decides how to pay for the coins and when to buy or sell them. The company also has bills to pay and may…
Wall Street is building tokenized deposits to lock in customer balances
Imagine your company has enough money to pay a supplier, but the money is in its Singapore account and the bill must be paid from New York. If the transfer between those accounts has to wait until Monday, having enough…
Bitwise is closing the lowest-fee Dogecoin ETF after rivals captured nearly all the capital
BWOW held about $687,730 while the three spot products tracked by SoSoValue held $11.83 million as of Sept. 10.
Blockstream bets 600 Bitcoin by rejecting Liquid hacker’s $50 million bounty demand
Blockstream is refusing to pay the Liquid attacker nearly 600 Bitcoin (roughly $50 million), escalating a dispute over how the crypto industry should reward partial restitution. The standoff follows an unusual recovery from the Sept. 6 exploit, when a vulnerability allowed…