Crypto News

Bitcoin’s $71k rally has a problem most traders aren’t watching

Bitcoin entered the weekend hovering near $71,000, well off the previous week’s spike above $74,000, but far below the highs it touched at the beginning of the year. On price alone, the market looks pretty...

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Crypto holders in France are being violently targeted again — and it’s no longer just insiders

A French couple held at knifepoint in their home near Versailles and forced to transfer roughly €900,000 in Bitcoin would normally read like a rare, tragic story. But in France, it now fits a pattern...

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Miss this warning and you too could lose 99.9% in one swap while Ethereum bots walk away with the rest

A crypto trader lost over $50 million in Aave-wrapped USDT on March 12 after sending a single large order through the DeFi lending protocol’s swap interface and clearing a slippage warning on a mobile device....

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Why Binance suddenly isn’t afraid of negative press anymore

Binance suing the Wall Street Journal is not a new kind of signal, as the exchange has fought what it considered hostile coverage before. However, this time the market may read the move differently. In...

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Bitcoin price faces a crucial weekend test as US growth collapses to 0.7% while inflation stays stubborn

On Mar. 13, the US economy delivered a data dump that landed somewhere between uncomfortable and alarming. The GDP for the 2025 fourth quarter was revised down to 0.7% from an initial estimate of 1.4%,...

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Washington prepares $175B break for big banks — weakening protections against financial crisis

Washington is getting ready to potentially make life easier for the biggest US banks. That can sound pretty abstract if you don’t strip it down to the mechanics. Regulators decide how much capital banks must...

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Digital dollar power balance cracks as Circle’s growth spurt closes in on Tether’s dominance

A quiet shift is underway in the stablecoin hierarchy. While Tether’s USDT still dominates the digital dollar market, the gap between the two largest issuers is narrowing as USDC steadily expands its footprint and Tether’s...

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US gets first new oil refinery in 50 years but it will come too late for Bitcoin

President Donald Trump’s announcement of the first major new US oil refinery in nearly 50 years arrives as gasoline prices have become a political problem and energy has turned inflationary again. The Brownsville project is...

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White House admits Iran war burned equivalent of half the US Bitcoin reserve in 6 Days

The United States spent in the first six days of its war with Iran an amount equal to nearly half the current market value of the Bitcoin held by the federal government. The administration told...

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The AI reset is now underway as layoffs accelerate and one group is hit hardest

AI pressure points in tech labor are real, and Bitcoin will feel them through macro, not mystique After years of claims that AI will cause chaos in the labor market, sentiment seems to be at...

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Trump-linked memecoin insiders move $31M in tokens to Binance as price collapses 96%

Wallets linked to the team behind President Donald Trump’s Solana-based TRUMP memecoin sent a large batch of tokens to Binance on March 12, adding a fresh supply overhang to a project that has crashed to...

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Bitcoin shrugs off oil surge and geopolitical tension, setting up potential push toward $80k

Bitcoin held near $70,000 despite oil price briefly trading around $100 a barrel, a move that would once have pushed crypto sharply lower under the usual macro playbook. According to CryptoSlate’s data, the flagship digital...

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Mastercard frantically doubles down on crypto to avoid becoming irrelevant and losing control

Mastercard’s crypto partner push is really a plan to keep stablecoins inside its network Mastercard is trying to make sure the stablecoin era still needs its card services. On Wednesday, the company launched a program...

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Bitcoin surges over $72k to outperform gold and stocks since Iran strikes, but one brutal sell wall is looming

Bitcoin has outperformed gold, silver, and major US equity indexes since the US-Israeli attack on Iran began, recovering to over $72,000 even as oil surged above $100 a barrel and traders cut expectations for near-term...

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BlackRock’s new product just made Ethereum income impossible to ignore

BlackRock’s new staked Ethereum ETF (ETHB) is easy to misunderstand. This is not the first time ETH staking has finally reached exchange-traded products, as Grayscale has already crossed that bridge. What’s interesting about the launch...

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The Fed is readying to punish banks for holding Bitcoin as US crypto tensions boil over

The next big Bitcoin policy fight may have nothing to do with ETFs or government legislation, but with a dry Federal Reserve capital proposal that most investors will never read. The landscape is simple: will...

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A new US probe is testing Binance again — and the outcome could reshape crypto

Binance returns to Iran sanctions scrutiny after its $4.3 billion U.S. plea The Justice Department is reportedly probing Iran’s use of Binance to evade sanctions, pulling the world’s largest crypto exchange back into a national...

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XRP leverage collapses 78%, but $1.4B in ETF money still won’t leave because of Ripple’s expanding footprint

XRP’s price performance is stripping out fast-money participation while leaving behind a more durable class of holders. According to CryptoSlate’s data, XRP is trading at $1.37 as of press time, down 55% within the last...

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