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 lawmakers this week that the war cost at least $11. дальше »

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Prosecutors push to retry Tornado Cash founder even after Washington said crypto mixers have legal uses

Washington sent two messages about crypto privacy in the same week. Treasury told Congress that lawful users of digital assets may leverage mixers to protect personal wealth, business payments, charitable donations, and consumer spending habits from public view on transparent blockchains. дальше »

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Crypto Court Fight Not Over As Prosecutors Seek Retrial For Roman Storm

The US Treasury told Congress this month that crypto mixers have legitimate uses — including protecting consumer privacy. Related Reading: Crypto Funding Soars 50%, But Most Startups Are Getting Shut Out: Analysts Days later, federal prosecutors in Manhattan moved to put the man who built one of the most-used mixers back on trial. A Split […] дальше »

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Robert Kiyosaki’s Warning: Bitcoin, Silver, and Oil Are Your Only Shields Against the Coming Debt Collapse

Robert Kiyosaki has been sounding the same alarm for over a decade. Now he says the moment he warned about is finally here. Back in 2013, Kiyosaki published Rich Dad’s Prophecy and told the world that the biggest stock market crash in history was still coming. дальше »

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U.S. Treasury Recognizes Legitimate Uses for Crypto Mixers, Proposes “Hold Law” for Suspicious Assets

Bitcoin Magazine U. S. Treasury Recognizes Legitimate Uses for Crypto Mixers, Proposes “Hold Law” for Suspicious Assets The U. S. Treasury Department told Congress that Bitcoin or crypto mixers can serve legitimate financial privacy purposes. дальше »

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Next Crypto to Explode: Pepeto Shows Explosive Growth Potential While Grayscale Predicts Bitcoin All Time High

Grayscale just told the world that Bitcoin is likely to reach a new all time high in the first half of 2026 and that the four year cycle is ending. But if you are looking for the next crypto to explode, Bitcoin hitting a new high from $67,000 is measured in percentages, not life changing […] The post Next Crypto to Explode: Pepeto Shows Explosive Growth Potential While Grayscale Predicts Bitcoin All Time High appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

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Ripple CEO Recalls 2018 XRP Community Night Featuring Snoop Dogg

Fun flashback story was told by Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse at a recent XRP event. дальше »

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Next 100x Crypto to Buy in 2026: SEC Chair Calms Markets While Trump Coin Fades, but Pepeto’s Utility Could Deliver 100x to 300x as Morpho Climbs

SEC Chair Paul Atkins told a packed room at ETHDenver that regulators should not panic over falling crypto prices. Speaking alongside Commissioner Hester Peirce, he argued that day to day volatility is not the job of the SEC. дальше »

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Bitcoin pioneer Jack Dorsey wants 50% staff cut to feel “awkwardly human” as AI-era reset begins at Block

Block shares jumped more than 20% in premarket trading after CEO Jack Dorsey told employees the company will cut more than 4,000 roles and reorganize around an “AI-era” operating model. The reduction takes Block from more than 10,000 employees to just under 6,000 (“nearly half,” in Dorsey’s wording), while the company’s 8-K describes a “Workforce […] The post Bitcoin pioneer Jack Dorsey wants 50% staff cut to feel “awkwardly human” as AI-era reset begins at Block appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

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AI tool catches critical XRP Ledger bug that could have drained wallets

The vulnerability in the Batch amendment's signature validation was found during the voting phase and never reached mainnet, but the exploit path was severe enough that validators were immediately told to vote it down. дальше »

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Insider Trading Reform Takes Priority as CLARITY Act Advances Behind the Scenes

Industry leaders from Stable, Wintermute, tx, and DonaFi told DeFi Rate that crypto's absence from the State of the Union is procedural, not a setback. However, experts were divided on whether insider trading and ethics reform should advance ahead of the CLARITY Act. дальше »

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Curve founder says DeFi must ditch token emissions for real revenue

Curve founder Michael Egorov told Cointelegraph that protocols cannot “live without real revenues flowing” as token incentives lose power to attract liquidity. дальше »

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KuCoin told to halt new EU business due to compliance staffing shortfalls

Austria's financial regulator said KuCoin EU must appoint an anti-money-laundering officer and deputy officer, as well as a sanctions compliance officer and deputy. дальше »

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Vitalik Buterin proposes using AI to strengthen DAO governance

A researcher at the Near Foundation told Cointelegraph last year that he was working on AI-powered digital twins that vote on behalf of DAO members to address low voter participation. дальше »

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LONGITUDE recap: Bitcoin’s 2-step quantum plan, US crypto policy

Tron founder Justin Sun told the Hong Kong conference that crypto needs to prepare for AGI, while a Bitcoin analyst says quantum's threat needs to be priced in. дальше »

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Prediction Markets Enter NBA Spotlight as League Signals Growing Interest

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told reporters during All-Star Weekend the league is "paying enormous amount of attention" to prediction markets following Giannis Antetokounmpo's investment in Kalshi. дальше »

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Urgent Crypto Reform: Treasury Secretary Says The Clock Is Ticking

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that Congress should move fast on the Clarity Act to give investors and companies a firmer sense of what counts as allowed activity in crypto markets. He argued that clearer rules would calm the recent swings traders have seen and help restore confidence. дальше »

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White House Crypto Adviser To Banks: Don’t Panic Over Stablecoin Returns

Patrick Witt, a senior White House crypto adviser, told reporters that banks should not see stablecoin yield programs as an existential threat. Related Reading: Crypto’s Dark Side: Funds To Suspected Human Traffickers Climb 85% In 2025 He argued that banks and crypto firms can both offer similar products to customers and that the controversy over […] дальше »

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McHenry predicts fast crypto deal as Witt brokers talks

Patrick McHenry and Patrick Witt told CoinDesk Live at Ondo Summit that crypto law momentum grows, even as disputes over yield and ethics continue to sharpen. дальше »

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Crypto market bottom is closer than you think as Bitcoin miner reserves crash to historic lows

Bitcoin’s price story lately has been told like it only has one main character, the ETFs. Money goes in, price goes up, money goes out, price goes down. It’s a clean narrative, and it’s not wrong, but it’s incomplete, because Bitcoin is not just a ticker. дальше »

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Strategy says BTC needs to fall to $8K for holdings not to cover debt as losses top $10B

Strategy has told investors that Bitcoin would have to collapse to around $8,000 before its crypto holdings no longer cover the company’s net debt, even as paper losses continue to deepen. The Michael Saylor-led firm made the disclosure in investor… дальше »

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Governments Will Try to Buy 1 Million Bitcoin Each Within 3 Years: Pantera CEO

Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead told attendees at Ondo’s conference that sovereign competition could become the next big driver of bitcoin demand, predicting what he called a “global arms race” for BTC “within the next two or three years” as countries rethink reserve strategy in a more fractured geopolitical environment. “I would say my one […] дальше »

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Bitcoin faces a brutal irony as the Treasury refuses to save BTC from its own political success

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Congress he has no authority to bail out Bitcoin. The exchange came during a Senate Banking Committee hearing, when Senator Brad Sherman asked whether the Treasury could intervene to support cryptocurrency prices. дальше »

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U.S. Treasury chief says Washington can’t bail out Bitcoin or order banks to buy it

Congress hears that Treasury can’t bail out Bitcoin or force banks to buy it, even as Trump’s strategic reserve keeps seized BTC that has swelled from $500m to $15b. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Congress on Wednesday that the… дальше »

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U.S. Treasury confirms it has no authority to bail out Bitcoin as BTC slumps

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told lawmakers this week that the federal government lacks the legal authority to bail out Bitcoin or direct banks to purchase cryptocurrencies. His remarks emphasized the limits of government intervention as digital assets face renewed… дальше »

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NYSE's 24/7 plan could fix key problem for stock tokens, Ondo's de Bode says

NYSE and Nasdaq introducing 24/7 trading with tokenized stock would be a "godsend," solving thin weekend liquidity, Ondo Finance President Ian de Bode told CoinDesk in an interview. дальше »

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Aero DEX aims to fix liquidity fragmentation and dethrone the incumbents

The rollout of Aero, targeted for the second quarter of 2026, will take direct aim at incumbents like Uniswap and Curve, the team told CoinDesk. дальше »

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Why Bitcoin’s $100k breakout silently crippled its adoption curve as on-chain metrics crater

Bitcoin Is Being Bought, Not Used For most of Bitcoin’s history, price and usage told broadly the same story. When price moved higher, more people showed up. More wallets became active. More transactions hit the chain. дальше »

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Terrifying Solana flaw just exposed how easily the “always-on” network could have been stalled by hackers

When Solana maintainers told validators to move quickly on Agave v3. 0. 14, the message arrived with more urgency than detail. The Solana Status account called the release “urgent” and said it contained a “critical set of patches” for Mainnet Beta validators. дальше »

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From Boom To Goodbye: NFT Marketplace Nifty Gateway To End Operations

Nifty Gateway, the marketplace that once helped bring NFT drops to a wider audience, will stop running its marketplace on February 23, 2026. The company put the site into a withdrawal-only mode the same day it made the announcement, and users were told they must move any remaining funds and NFTs off the platform before […] дальше »

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Bitcoin regret is coming for anyone ignoring Coinbase CEO’s 5% rule as banks fight to cap gains

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told Bloomberg at Davos that investors who don't have at least 5% of their net worth in Bitcoin will “probably be pretty sad” by 2030. Recently, Morgan Stanley's wealth management division published portfolio guidelines capping crypto exposure at 4% maximum for even its most aggressive growth models. дальше »

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XRP Targets $6–$14 After Final Shakeout: Certified Elliott Wave Analyst

Certified Elliott Wave analyst XForceGlobal (@XForceGlobal) told followers on X that “$5+ remains on the horizon,” arguing that the token’s past year of range-bound trading is validating an Elliott Wave “flat” correction that typically resolves with a sharp, final move before a continuation higher. дальше »

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Trump Hopes To Sign Crypto Market Structure Bill “Very Soon” Amid Plans To Make U.S. Crypto Capital Of The World

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Saylor Defends Bitcoin Treasury Firms Amid Rising Criticism

Strategy chairman Michael Saylor pushed back on critics who say companies that hold Bitcoin are reckless. He told a podcast that buying Bitcoin should be seen as a choice about where to put cash, not as a moral failing. дальше »

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Discord is suddenly locking down servers for the same alarming reason X just purged these crypto developers

X revised its developer API policies to ban applications that financially reward users for posting, and enforcement has already begun. Nikita Bier, who joined X's product team after selling his social app tbh to Meta, framed the move as part of a broader effort to reduce low-quality engagement and told displaced builders that X would […] The post Discord is suddenly locking down servers for the same alarming reason X just purged these crypto developers appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »

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SEC Chair predicts 2-year timeline to put US fully on chain but the real $12.6 trillion opportunity isn’t equities

SEC Chair Paul Atkins told Fox Business in December that he expects US financial markets to move on-chain “in a couple of years. ” The statement landed somewhere between prophecy and policy directive, especially coming from the architect of “Project Crypto,” the Commission's formal initiative to enable tokenized market infrastructure. дальше »

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Tennessee orders Kalshi, Polymarket and Crypto.com to cease sports betting contracts

The firms, federally regulated by the CFTC, were told to shut down Tennessee-based activity, refund deposits, and void open contracts by Jan. 31. дальше »

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India tax authorities warn crypto undermines tax enforcement

Officials told a parliamentary panel that private wallets, offshore exchanges and cross-border DeFi activity make tracking taxable crypto income difficult. дальше »

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Barclays invests in stablecoin infrastructure firm Ubyx to explore digital money

Barclays has made its first direct investment in a stablecoin-related company by becoming a stakeholder in U.S. stablecoin-settlement firm Ubyx. Without disclosing the exact details or nature of the investment, the multinational financial services company told Reuters that the move… дальше »

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Robinhood projects positive 2026 stock market performance

Robinhood's Stephanie Guild told CNBC that the company has observed increased customer participation and net buying activity, particularly during the summer. дальше »

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Hidden script caught harvesting private keys as Trust Wallet issues emergency warning for Chrome users

Trust Wallet told users to disable its Chrome browser extension version 2. 68 after the company acknowledged a security incident and pushed version 2. 69 on Dec. 25, following reports of wallet drains tied to the Dec. дальше »

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Pepe Coin Price Prediction 2026: Meme Sentiment Stirs Up as DeepSnitch AI is On Track to Launch Soon

Bitcoin won’t crash hard in Q1, says Anthony Pompliano. The entrepreneur told CNBC that BTC’s lack of a “crazy” year-end rally means the typical 70-80% drawdown is unlikely this cycle. дальше »

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Why 2026 could be another tough year for Venezuela’s economy under Maduro?

Despite official claims of recovery, Venezuela is heading toward 2026 burdened by deep structural weaknesses and rising uncertainty. Economist Aldo Contreras and political analyst Pablo Quintero told Invezz the country remains trapped in a prolonged downturn that began more than a decade ago. дальше »

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JPMorgan weighs crypto trading for institutions amid growing demand

The largest U.S. bank is exploring spot and derivatives services for hedge funds and pensions as regulatory clarity improves, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. дальше »

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Incoming voter on interest rate policy, Cleveland Fed's Hammack says no more cuts

"My base case is that we can stay here for some period of time," Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack told the WSJ. дальше »

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Fed’s Hammack tilts hawkish on rates, questions CPI drop as distorted

"My base case is that we can stay here for some period of time," Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack told the WSJ. дальше »

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America’s Largest Banks Quietly Embrace Bitcoin Loans, Saylor Says

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, told attendees at Binance Blockchain Week that the wall of skepticism inside big banks is breaking down faster than he once expected. Related Reading: All-In On XRP: Why This Leading Investor Sold His Entire Bitcoin Stack He said he had thought it might take four to eight years for major financial firms to move fully into Bitcoin. дальше »

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Canadian Crypto Traders In Trouble? Regulator Flags 40% For Possible Tax Fraud

Canada’s tax authority has told investigators that roughly 40% of people using crypto platforms are at risk of not paying the right amount of tax. Related Reading: Bitcoin Back In Argentina: Central Bank Removes 3-Year Restrictions Reports have disclosed the figure as part of a wider push by the Canada Revenue Agency to bring crypto […] дальше »

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Western Union plans stablecoin prepaid card for countries battling inflation

Western Union is building a stablecoin-backed prepaid card targeting countries with high inflation rates. The money transfer giant plans to offer the product in markets where local currency depreciation erodes purchasing power, CFO Matthew Cagwin told the UBS Global Technology… дальше »

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Abu Dhabi Investment Tripled IBIT Holdings in Q3 as Bitcoin Headed to Record High

The company sees bitcoin as a store of value, similar to gold, a spokesperson told Bloomberg. дальше »

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