Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
An ethereum whale who bought in during 2022 and 2023 capitulated on August 8, selling at a loss now exceeding $19 million, the same day a separate fresh wallet received $87.28 million in bitcoin from Galaxy Digital. Three Years, One Capitulation Onch...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
The aggregate crypto market cap rose from under $2.2 trillion to $2.9 trillion during the first week of August 2026. Bitcoin gained over 3% to peak above $65,300, pushing its market cap past $1.3 trillion while Cardano logged a second week of double-...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Onchain data confirms the BIP-110 activation period is live, and Bitcoin’s blockchain has fractured into two versions. Stats show Bitcoin block 961632 was mined by mining heavyweight Antpool, while BIP-110 supporter Roughnecks produced a rival versio...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
A new bill, presented by Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, would expand the exchange of cryptocurrency activity data with 48 nations to curb tax evasion. The bill would allow the automatic exchange of this data with countries...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Senator Bernie Moreno clarified that CLARITY Act negotiations between Senate Democrats and Republicans had ended and that the upcoming vote, scheduled for September 15, will decide whether the industry will be delivered to China or continue to be dom...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Gate, a leading global digital asset platform, today announced that Gate DexBuilder, its DEX infrastructure platform, has officially launched its first Event Contracts Builder, alongside a $3 million grant program. The initiative provides project tea...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
The new controls include a precautionary 24-hour retention of funds exceeding $10,000 for an individual or aggregate transactions per day, to allow VASPs to conduct a risk analysis of these movements. The bank stressed that these measures are prevent...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
The cryptocurrency exchange platform Bybit has sued North Korea in a U.S. federal court over last year’s record-breaking $1.5 billion hack. The company filed the civil lawsuit under seal on June 18, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Dist...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) added $98.85 million on August 7, stretching their inflow streak to five straight trading days, while spot ether ETFs pulled in $49.60 million the same day for a fourth consecutive day of gains. A Fifth...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
The upcoming Bitcoin hard fork known as ECX will not launch all at once on Aug. 23. Instead, its creator says the rollout will happen in three separate stages stretched across more than two months. Paul Sztorc, the developer behind the Drivechain pro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
BIP-110 mandatory signaling begins today, putting block 961632 under a microscope as the risk of a blockchain split moves from theory to a live test. At the time of writing, the decisive block is expected to arrive roughly a hair less than eight hour...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Grayscale filed a Form 10-Q with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its Chainlink Trust exchange-traded fund (ETF) on August 7, disclosing $72.2 million in net assets after a rough second quarter for LINK. A Routine Filing With Ala...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin logged 2.27 million new wallets and 751,000 active wallets this week, its strongest onchain activity in months, as holders raced to move funds off Coldcard hardware wallets following a firmware exploit that has drained more than $116 million....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Tokenized SpaceX shares saw nearly $700 million in trading volume on Gate as the underlying stock rallied 6.1% to around $114.92, bucking expectations that a 911.5 million-share unlock would send Elon Musk’s space company lower. A $700 Million...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Michael Saylor said Bitcoin can advance without the CLARITY Act while urging the United States to establish clearer digital asset rules. The comments came as lawmakers pushed a potential Senate vote on the crypto market structure bill to September. S...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis is renewing her push for the CLARITY Act as Senate action stalls. The legislation would establish digital asset market rules, strengthen customer protections, and give federal authorities clearer enforcement powers. Lummis...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin ETFs attracted $128.69 million on Thursday, marking a fourth straight day of inflows. Ether funds added an even stronger $92.15 million, while XRP and HYPE also finished in positive territory. Bitcoin Streak Hits 4 Days With $128.69M Inflow C...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s office has reportedly indicated that he intends to file for a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the CLARITY Act before the August recess. The move is seen as a positive sign indicating that the bill is...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
The self-hosted crypto payment processor alerted on a critical vulnerability that was being actively exploited by threat actors and recommended updating or turning off the service to avoid loss of funds. BTCPay Server reported that the Bitcoin Red Te...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
ForumPay’s crypto payment infrastructure has now integrated with Shopify, giving one of the world’s largest e-commerce communities a simple way to accept all major cryptocurrencies while receiving the fiat currency of their choice. ForumP...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin breached $65,000 on Friday, hitting an August peak of $65,340 before consolidating just under the mark with a 0.5% daily gain. Market volatility drove total crypto liquidations to $192 million, heavily dominated by $112 million in short posit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
By Danny Sanders, Chief Commercial Officer, Trezor If you own a hardware wallet and you have spent the last few days worried, I completely understand. The recent Coldcard incident was serious, and real people lost real money, which is never something...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Wintermute’s U.S. arm has registered as a broker-dealer, giving the crypto market maker a path into regulated securities trading. The firm plans to expand from digital-asset ETFs and related markets into tokenized equities if U.S. regulators permit t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
In its Q2 2026 Form 13F filing, Italian banking giant Intesa Sanpaolo revealed a 94% reduction in its flagship spot bitcoin ETF while tripling its position in Blackrock’s iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF. Strategic Expansion into Staked Ethere...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin developer Chris Guida has dusted off code that could swap the mining algorithm on a breakaway BIP-110 chain if supporters fail to overcome miners’ resistance. With the activation height closing in fast, supporters are now openly floatin...
