Strategy reportedly bought 2,543 Bitcoin in a single day, pushing its holdings to nearly 4% of Bitcoin’s fixed 21 million supply. That is a monster-sized bet on BTC as a corporate reserve asset — and a reminder that Michael Saylor still treats the orange coin like the hardest savings vehicle on the planet. 2,543 BTC […]
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A Bitcoin holder says he recovered 5 BTC from a wallet that had been locked for more than 11 years, with help from Anthropic’s Claude AI and the open-source wallet recovery tool btcrecover. At current prices, that’s nearly $400,000 pulled back from the dead — a reminder that forgotten Bitcoin doesn’t always stay forgotten. 5 […]
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U.S. lawmakers are moving to give blockchain developers some much-needed breathing room, with the CLARITY Act reportedly folding in the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, a long-running push to keep open-source builders from being treated like money transmitters just for writing code. CLARITY Act now includes the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act Aims to protect blockchain developers […]
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Stablecoins are being pushed out of the “crypto side hustle” bucket and into the plumbing of modern finance, with a new Korean-language book arguing they’re less like speculative tokens and more like core financial infrastructure. Core thesis: stablecoins as a financial operating system, not just crypto assets Big claim: stablecoin payment volumes have reportedly surpassed […]
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The Clarity Act is picking up unusual momentum in Washington, with backing from the Trump administration and crypto industry executives ahead of its Senate Banking Committee markup. That kind of alignment usually means the fight over U.S. crypto regulation is getting serious. Trump administration support Crypto executives are lobbying hard Senate Banking Committee markup is […]
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Strategy’s STRC preferred stock may be quietly shaping Bitcoin’s mid-month liquidity cycles Bitcoin is being influenced by more than spot buyers and ETF inflows now. K33 Research says Strategy’s STRC mechanism may be creating a recurring flow of capital that helps drive Bitcoin buying pressure around the middle of each month. STRC may be adding […]
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Aave CEO Stani Kulechov says the U.S. Clarity Act could be a major turning point for DeFi regulation, but Bitcoin near $80,000 shows the market is still stuck under macro pressure and the Fed’s “higher for longer” hangover. DeFi regulation could finally get clearer lines Non-custodial protocols may gain legal breathing room Bitcoin near $80K […]
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Bitcoin institutional holdings have swelled to a scale that would have sounded ridiculous just a few years ago, with ETFs, corporate treasuries, and sovereign entities now sitting on a combined 3.24 million BTC. 3.24 million BTC is now in institutional hands Bitcoin ETFs hold the largest share at 1.39 million BTC Corporate treasuries follow with […]
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Arkham says it has identified crypto wallets linked to Iran’s central bank, and the US Treasury’s sanctions response has already frozen roughly $344 million tied to the network. The money trail runs through Tron, Tether, and a mess of brokers, bridges, and DeFi tools built to make sanctions evasion harder to spot. Public wallet map: […]
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Quantum computing is no longer just a nerdy thought experiment on the edge of Bitcoin Twitter. Alex Pruden is warning that it could eventually threaten the elliptic curve cryptography, or ECC, that protects Bitcoin signatures — and that the network should stop treating the issue like some far-off museum exhibit. ECC risk: Bitcoin’s signature system […]
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