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Bitcoin is at risk of a talent drain because AI just created 1.3 million jobs

Within a span of weeks in early 2026, a cluster of senior crypto operators announced they were stepping back or switching domains. Akshay BD, who spent five years building Solana’s ecosystem, posted a “life update”...

This is what “Wall Street crypto” looks like: IBIT options went vertical as Bitcoin hit $60k intraday

Bitcoin’s slide toward $60,000 came with the usual noise from exchanges, but the sheer size of the panic was evident somewhere else. Options tied to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) traded about 2.33 million contracts...

Bitcoin shorts just hit their most extreme level in years as BTC defiantly holds above $70k

Bitcoin derivative traders are increasingly positioning for further downside rather than a clean bounce as the leading cryptocurrency continues to trade in a tight range below $70,000. According to CryptoSlate’s data, BTC price bottomed at...

Robinhood’s $221 million crypto revenue drop shows crypto winter isn’t on chain and retail already moved

Crypto winter has a branding problem. The phrase makes it sound like the chain goes quiet, wallets stop moving, and the whole machine turns cold. However, the cleanest proof of retail pulling back rarely lives...

Bitcoin difficulty just printed a historic -11.16% — if the next epoch stays red, miners are in trouble

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty decreased by 11.16% to approximately 125.86 trillion at the most recent retarget boundary around block 935,424. That marks the largest negative adjustment since the 2021 China mining ban, the sixth consecutive downward...

Wall Street’s biggest Bitcoin partner just lost $667M, which raises an uncomfortable question

Coinbase just posted a bruising earnings miss, and it’s triggering a question that hits far beyond COIN shareholders: what happens to Wall Street’s Bitcoin ETF boom if the custodian behind most of it has a...

This “quantum-safe” Bitcoin idea removes Taproot’s key-path — and raises fees on purpose

Bitcoin developer contributors just cleared a documentation hurdle that crypto Twitter treated like an emergency quantum patch. It wasn’t. On Feb. 11, a proposal for a new output type, Pay-to-Merkle-Root (BIP-0360), was merged into the...

CFTC’s 35-seat crypto “war room” changes the SEC fight — here’s what’s at stake

CFTC Chair forms a new Innovation Advisory Committee packed with crypto, exchange, and prediction-market CEOs Most crypto traders barely think about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission until something breaks, a lawsuit hits, or a Bitcoin...

Bitcoin spikes 6% on softer US inflation but government data has holes that haven’t been fixed

At 8:30 a.m. in New York, the world paused for the January U.S. inflation data, and it landed with a soft thud. Headline CPI printed +2.4% year over year, a shade under the +2.5% estimate...

Early Bitcoin bottom signals are starting to flash as BTC is still down $20k as stocks rip

Bitcoin bottom signals: ETF outflows, miner stress, and why a 2026 recession looks like the outlier Bitcoin could be approaching a cycle low as spot Bitcoin ETF flows keep leaking and miner economics stay tight,...

Bitcoin refuses to lose $70,000 this weekend. Was my $49k bottom call wrong?

Bitcoin is holding its ground this weekend. After Friday’s soft CPI rally, price keeps leaning into the same overhead zone around $70,300, and bids keep showing up above $65,000. That detail matters more than the...

Crypto enters a “16-day danger zone” as senior crypto talent rotates into AI

Within a span of weeks in early 2026, a cluster of senior crypto operators announced they were stepping back or switching domains. Akshay BD, who spent five years building Solana’s ecosystem, posted a “life update”...

BlackRock’s $2.2 billion BUIDL fund is coming to DeFi, but the trade access comes with a catch

On Feb. 11, Uniswap announced that BlackRock’s $2.2 billion USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) would trade on UniswapX via a partnership with Securitize. The integration enables BUIDL holders to swap into USDC via an...

Global economic uncertainty at its worst ever, doubling 2008 recession levels – can Bitcoin navigate it without a crash?

The World Uncertainty Index, a GDP-weighted measure constructed from the frequency with which “uncertainty” appears in Economist Intelligence Unit country reports, reached 106,862.2 in the third quarter of 2025 and remained elevated at 94,947.1 in...

Vitalik focuses on making Ethereum the AI settlement layer, but one hidden leak could ruin it

Vitalik Buterin just published a research proposal that sidesteps the question everyone keeps asking: can blockchains run AI models? Instead, the research claims Ethereum as the privacy-preserving settlement layer for metered AI and API usage....

Ethereum is testing Wall Street resolve as fund flows flip while a $1,800 retest looms

Ethereum’s slide toward $2,000 has left its exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors holding more than $5 billion in paper losses, extending a marketwide crypto drawdown that has also hit Bitcoin. According to CryptoSlate’s data, the move...

Bitcoin sets sight on $50,000 floor as recession fears retreat despite scary headlines

Bitcoin can bottom soon because a 2026 recession, or a stock market crash, keeps looking like the outlier scenario My core idea around the Bitcoin market has remained the same since last September, before we...

Binance bank run? Reserves show a $40B drop yet Bitcoin holdings rose to 655k BTC, so what changed?

Binance is at the center of renewed speculation as the specter of insolvency has once again cast a long shadow over the crypto sector. Over the past weeks, rumors have emerged that the world’s largest...