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Bitcoin jumps to $72,000 as Asia’s stock market meltdown deepens

The South Korean stock market (KOSPI) closed near 5,094 after falling 12.06% in a single session today. The index had already fallen 7.24% the prior session, taking the two-day slide to roughly 18.4% on a...

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Tether finally lands a Big Four auditor – but the $189B USDT question still isn’t answered

Tether has landed a Big Four accounting firm’s name on a reserve report tied to its US strategy. On Feb. 27, Deloitte issued an independent accountant’s report on Anchorage Digital Bank’s “USAT Reserve Report,” an...

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Bitcoin price surges to $70k today while stocks fall at the US market opened

Bitcoin rises over 6% on the U.S. open as CME premium spikes, and liquidations don’t explain it Bitcoin jumped over 6% to threaten $70,000 during Monday’s U.S. market open even as the broader macro environment...

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Did Bitcoin fail its safe haven test after US strikes on Iran? BlackRock’s 60 day data hints at what comes next

Bitcoin price opened US trading session strongly with a 3% surge above $68,000, according to CryptoSlate’s data. This marked a significant difference to its first response, which looked nothing like a clean safe-haven trade following...

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Ethereum usage is at record highs yet ETH nears its longest monthly losing streak since 2018

Ethereum is approaching a milestone that few investors would welcome: its longest run of consecutive monthly losses since the 2018 crypto winter. Since September 2025, ETH has posted six straight monthly declines, a stretch that...

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XRPL wants a Hyperliquid-like sidechain for the $40B options trading market, but one design choice could decide everything

A proposal circulating in the XRP Ledger (XRPL) community is aiming at one of crypto’s most entrenched trading businesses: options. The idea is to build a purpose-built XRPL sidechain that feels “Hyperliquid-like,” a venue designed...

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Cardano’s Project Catalyst is changing hands and the pause is forcing builders to face a brutal funding gap

Cardano’s community funding pipeline just stopped mid-cycle. Project Catalyst, the on-chain grants mechanism that has distributed over $150 million across 2,200 projects since launch, recently announced that stewardship is moving from Input Output Global to...

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The US is the only market buying Bitcoin right now while the international ‘smart money’ keeps taking profit

Bitcoin traded through a familiar sequence after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran: a fast weekend drop, a rebound that started before traditional markets reopened, and then a cleaner weekday repricing once U.S.-linked liquidity came...

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Bitcoin’s 15% difficulty spike allows one on-chain metric to flip miners from sellers to hoarders in days

Bitcoin difficulty just reset about 15% higher to roughly 144.40T. While this is neither the first nor the last, it is the largest since around 2021. The timing is important because the protocol tightened miner...

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Crypto investment cons now run like call centers and the DOJ $580M haul shows where the money pools

For years, the wrong-number text arrived like clockwork. A friendly mistake, then apologies, small talk, and gradual friendship. Eventually, the investment tip was a “sure thing” on a slick platform showing returns that seemed too...

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Bitcoin price rebound threatened after UN Security Council alarm and Hormuz oil scare from Iran escalation

Bitcoin is holding near $66,000 after a weekend geopolitical shock tied to U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, setting up Monday’s U.S. reopen as the first major liquidity and spot ETF flow test of the...

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Europe buys the dip as US funds keep bleeding – who is buying Bitcoin right now?

Five straight weeks of net redemptions from crypto investment products are enough to raise the alarm, as they point to a choice that keeps getting made, with the same logic, on the same cadence, by...

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M2 money supply is surging again – so why isn’t this bullish for Bitcoin anymore?

U.S. M2 hit a record $22.4T in January, why Bitcoin hasn’t followed, and what could change next U.S. broad money supply (M2) reached a record $22.442 trillion in January 2026. That put M2 up $922.4...

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Bitcoin’s self custody culture created an inheritance time bomb, and 2026 may be when it starts detonating

Bitcoin is turning into multi-generational wealth, and a large share of holders still run it with a single point of failure. One accident, illness, or a stretch of incapacity can be the difference between inheriting...

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Bitcoin recovers instantly after Iran war crashes price but one Monday number could flip the next move

Bitcoin defends $64K after U.S., Israel strikes on Iran as ETF flows return to center stage Bitcoin traded through a weekend macro shock after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran sparked regional retaliation. The largest...

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After Bitcoin ETFs drained $3.8 billion in five weeks it suddenly flipped positive, changing who controls the next move

For the better part of the last two years, spot Bitcoin ETFs were treated like a one-way door. They took Bitcoin out of keys and operational hassle and turned it into a ticker that fit...

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Bitcoin developer hides a 66KB image in a transaction to expose a governance blind spot vulnerable to spam

A Bitcoin developer embedded a 66-kilobyte image inside a single transaction without using OP_RETURN or Taproot. The transaction followed consensus rules. Anyone can verify the bytes using standard node software. Martin Habovštiak didn’t do this...

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Google Cloud and MoneyGram just signed on to run launch Midnight nodes for new privacy network banks want

Google Cloud, MoneyGram, Vodafone’s Pairpoint, and eToro will run launch-phase nodes on Midnight, a zero-knowledge privacy network targeting a mainnet launch at the end of March 2026. The pitch isn’t anonymity, but selective disclosure. It’s...

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