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Former U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is launching a 1 billion-token meme coin called LAPTOP on Wednesday, turning one of the biggest controversies surrounding his family into a cryptocurrency project aimed partly at Donald Trump’s...
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U.S. crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attracted about $1.24 billion in net inflows during the week of Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, led overwhelmingly by bitcoin funds. Bitcoin ETFs alone drew $986.85 million, while ether, XRP, solana and HYPE products also...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 days ago
Bitcoin price fell back below $79,000 on Monday after a brief spike to $80,537, down 1% over 24 hours to trade near $78,785. Long Liquidations Outpace Shorts Bitcoin price slipped under $79,000 on Monday, just hours after briefly reclaiming the $80,0...
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Self-described white-hat hackers who drained nearly all of Liquid Network’s bitcoin reserves have returned 3,400 BTC worth about $268 million, while keeping roughly 598.5 BTC valued at $47 million. The return marks a significant turn in an incident t...
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XRP derivatives exposure is returning after a sharp late-August contraction, but aggressive selling continues across perpetual and spot markets. A new analysis suggests bearish taker-side positioning remains active even as the token’s price sho...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 days ago
A Hyperliquid trader with 26 consecutive wins is $5.3 million underwater on an $18.95 million ZEC short, with liquidation at $1,317, roughly 10% above where zcash trades currently. $1,317 Is the Number on the Screen A Hyperbot dashboard revealed the...
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Hyperliquid’s HYPE token has surged to a record $89.67 as fresh exchange-traded fund (ETF) buying and institutional holdings reinforce demand. Bitwise’s BHYP has now accumulated $166.3 million since launch, while known institutional holders across HY...
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On most exchanges, XRP appears as a secondary listing—a sidebar, not a main stage. That choice reflects a philosophy: XRP is an asset among assets. On Bitrue, XRP isn’t a listing. It’s infrastructure. That single structural difference—XRP...
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Bitcoin’s price was trading between $79,300 and $79,500 on Sept. 7 after a significant rejection from $80,537 left its short-term price action caught between fading momentum and a still-constructive daily trend. The market remains inside a $79,...
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Open interest in altcoin perpetual futures moved above bitcoin’s this weekend for the first time since December 2024, a shift that preceded sharp mid-cap corrections the last time it happened. What Metric Flipped Actually? Aggregate open intere...
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As the major Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network has been paused due to a $320 million hack, the absolute majority of the key players in the network haven’t issued any statements, while L-BTC is now backed by only 4.7% of the required bitcoin, as...
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Eight days before the Senate’s Sept. 15 cloture vote, former federal prosecutor Mariotti says the message from lawmakers and staff in Washington is that the CLARITY Act is dead. What Mariotti Heard Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, spent t...
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ZEC has pushed past $1,200, and its largest short seller on Hyperliquid, Garrett Jin, is sitting on a $25.7 million paper loss on a position opened at $444. The Position, Line by Line Onchain analyst EmberCN posted the tally as ZEC printed above $1,2...
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Zcash surged past $1,200 to an intraday peak of $1,249, its highest level since Q4 2016, marking a weekly gain of over 45%. Market Cap Reaches $20B as Derivatives Liquidations Spike Zcash (ZEC) breached $1,200 Sunday, outperforming the rest of the cr...
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says he is taking “the opposite side” of a forecast that artificial intelligence will cut bitcoin’s price in half within two years, and he has roughly 90% of his net worth riding on it. The Wager...
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Carlos Érick Vázquez González, a Mexican national who worked with the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, has pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering in connection with drug trafficking in the U.S. and Mexico. Vázquez González used cryptocurrency...
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FBI agents combined blockchain analytics, human intelligence, and court orders to trace and seize more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency intended for Hamas. The operation followed funds through shared wallets, cross-chain bridges, exchanges, and stable...
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Robinhood Chain’s fee model has become the focus of a broader debate over how blockchains finance growth. BNB Chain executive Nina Rong argued that sustainable revenue and commercial structures now outweigh further transaction-cost reductions....
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The layer two (L2) sidechain known as the Liquid Network paused on Sunday following a so-called white hacker exploiting a bug in Blockstream’s Elements software, according to the X account Sideswap (Blockstream’s atomic-swap marketplace). 4,000 BTC E...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
The crypto economy gained 2% over the first week of September, peaking at $2.82 trillion before a pullback brought aggregate capitalization back under $2.8 trillion. Zcash (ZEC) led the market with a nearly 40% jump, breaching $1,200 for the first ti...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
This week’s stories spanned retail trading, portfolio diversification, regulation, privacy, and sanctions. Fomo broke into the top five U.S. finance apps, while Grayscale argued that record stock concentration strengthens the case for crypto. Predict...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
U.S. spot XRP ETFs have accumulated approximately $1.68 billion in net inflows, while their combined net assets stood at about $1.48 billion. The totals show continued demand for exchange-listed XRP exposure despite uneven daily flows and price volat...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Following the 2010 dormant bitcoin wallets that shifted 600 vintage BTC from the Satoshi-era, another whale with a wallet first created in 2016, shifted 1,260.77 BTC worth over $100 million at block height 965770. Decade-Old Bitcoin Stash Turns Into...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
According to several reports, nearly 4,000 bitcoin worth roughly $319 million appear to have moved out of the Liquid Network’s federation wallet Sunday, followed by an onchain message from an unidentified party claiming, “we are whitehats. contact us...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
While bitcoin’s price has fueled mining revenue, miners experienced a moderate difficulty rise of 1.31% at block height 965664. The latest change marks the eighth difficulty increase in 2026. Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Climbs 1.31% At present, Bitcoin...