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Türkiye has blocked 47,493 illegal betting websites and detained 5,629 suspects in 680 operations since the start of 2026. Authorities are increasingly following the payment infrastructure behind the sites, with recent investigations targeting thousa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
BNY Mellon is launching a digital transfer agency that will record fund transactions and investor ownership onchain. Baillie Gifford, Blackrock and BNY’s Dreyfus unit are expected to be among its first users. Baillie Gifford to Use BNY Platform for U...
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Bitcoin briefly surged to $64,500 before pulling back to $63,700, ending down 0.6% on the day with its market cap holding at $1.277 trillion. Moderate Pullback Limits Liquidations Bitcoin seesawed July 29 as global markets reacted to a surprise Irani...
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The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady at 3.50% to 3.75% on July 29, but the decision came over the objections of three officials who wanted to raise borrowing costs instead. The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9 to 3 to keep...
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Stablecoin market value has declined by about $14 billion from its May peak, marking the sharpest monthly contraction since 2022. Yet record settlement volumes suggest the sector is becoming a faster-moving payments network rather than a store of idl...
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Moonpay launched a payment vault built for artificial intelligence agents on Wednesday, giving Claude and ChatGPT users a way to trade tokens, book travel and move money without handing an AI custody of their funds. The Moonpay new product, called Pa...
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced Wednesday that it has formally charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorist activities and placed him on an international wanted list. The charge against Durov is the latest step i...
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Sui Network’s native token SUI is releasing an estimated $15.4 million in new supply this week through its ongoing vesting schedule, part of a broader token unlock wave topped by artist-token platform Audiera (BEAT) at roughly $81.66 million. A...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Bitcoin traded near $64,400 on Wednesday morning at 8:30 a.m. EDT, up roughly 1.6% over the previous 24 hours as positioning accelerated ahead of the Federal Reserve’s afternoon rate decision. Price Rebounds From Overnight Low The move higher c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Twelve years after the first hardware wallet shipped, holding your own bitcoin has never been easier, and more people than ever are handing that job to someone else. There is a difference between owning bitcoin and owning a claim on bitcoin, and most...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in Jordan yesterday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed, sending West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude up nearly 4% and putting bitcoin’s fragile...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
South Korea’s Kospi index triggered a market-wide circuit breaker for the second consecutive time today, tumbling to an intraday low of 5,532.33 after opening more than 1% higher. Bitcoin (BTC), by contrast, climbed 1% above $64,000 even as Kor...
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Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) says its stock has returned 42% annualized since the company adopted bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset in August 2020, outpacing bitcoin itself, the Magnificent Seven and the S&P 500. A Long-Term Bet, Rest...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold its benchmark rate at 3.50% to 3.75% for a fifth straight meeting when Chair Kevin Warsh delivers the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) decision on July 29, but TD Securities says the U.S. dol...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
MARA CEO Fred Thiel says scarce electricity can produce far higher returns when directed to artificial intelligence than to bitcoin mining. The company still plans to mine bitcoin where low-cost or surplus energy makes the economics attractive. MARA...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
On March 24, 2026, Antpool mined block 941,881 at 15:49:35 UTC while Foundry USA mined its own, completely different version of block 941,881 just 12 seconds later, splitting Bitcoin’s blockchain into two competing versions of history until one...
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Nexo has restructured its operations in the European Economic Area to meet the European Union (EU)’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) standards by using two regulated German partners rather than obtaining a direct single license. Uninterru...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
A shipwreck discovered in 1995 in Salcombe Bay off England’s south coast left divers and researchers with more than 400 gold coins but no confirmed identity for decades. In June 2026, a nearly 30-year effort by the British Museum, Bournemouth Univers...
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Psalion, a Singapore-based digital asset firm, has launched a $50 million venture fund targeting pre-seed and seed-stage startups building blockchain infrastructure, trade finance, real-world assets and stablecoins. Bridging Web2 and Web3 Singapore d...
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India’s Narcotics Control Bureau dismantled the alleged “Team Kalki” darknet drug network with blockchain intelligence from Binance and the Data Security Council of India. The investigation helped authorities trace illicit crypto tr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Hundreds of shared Claude AI conversations briefly appeared in Google Search, exposing legal, technical, and personal discussions. The discovery highlights how public sharing features can create unexpected privacy risks as AI tools become part of eve...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Three bitcoin investors say they lost nearly $1.8 million after downloading a fake Sparrow Wallet from Apple’s App Store and entering their recovery phrases. The lawsuit now challenges Apple’s app review practices as crypto scams continue...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
A group of 134 banking association officers and bank leaders from across the United States is urging the Senate to revise the CLARITY Act before final passage, warning that stablecoin incentives could challenge the role of bank deposits. Bank Leaders...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a criminal complaint against crypto exchange Bitkub Online and two former directors for allegedly making false entries in official reports between May and October 2021. SEC Allegations and Rep...
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Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi says crypto venture capital could lose relevance as dominant platforms capture more users and liquidity. The warning comes as the number of active crypto investors falls to its lowest level since late 2020. C...