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- Bitcoin pulls back to as low as $81,000 as horrendous day continues Bitcoin's (BTC) price continued to pull back in late Thursday evening U.S. hours, tumbling to as low as $81,000 before bouncing to the current $82,000. The world's largest cryptocurrency has now lost nearly $10,000 over the past 24 hours of trading. More than $777 million in crypto longs were liquidated over the past hour, with that sum rising to $1.75 billion over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass. The broader cryptocurrency market likewise saw prices tank by 7% to 9% over the past 24 hours, with ether (ETH) hovering around $2,700, BNB (BNB) around $843, and XRP (XRP) around $1.74. A CoinDesk analysis suggested that bitcoin's price falling below $85,000...

- Bitcoin slid 7% to around $82,000 on Friday as Asian markets opened to volatile trade, after President Donald Trump endorsed a bipartisan deal to avert a fresh US government shutdown and said he has decided who he will nominate to lead the Federal Reserve. The crypto move came with a wave of forced unwinds. CoinGlass data showed $1.75B of liquidations over the past 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $1.65B and shorts at $105.63M, as 276,308 traders were liquidated. Bitcoin dominated the damage on the heatmap, with $826.63M of liquidations tied to BTC over 24 hours, while Ether followed with $428.48M. XRP and Solana also showed sizable hits at $72.35M and $70.34M. Market snapshot Risk Appetite Softens As Futures Slip...

Bitcoin sold off sharply early Friday Asian time, plunging more than 5% from $89,000 to a low of $83,400 during US daytime trading. Unlike gold and equities, it failed to recover—exposing a troubling identity crisis for the so-called "digital gold." The market is re-pricing trust in currencies and institutions, but that trust is flowing to gold vaults, not crypto wallets. Same Storm, Different Outcomes The sell-off was triggered by an escalation in US-Iran tensions after President Trump issued warnings on Truth Social, threatening military strikes unless Tehran agrees to a nuclear deal. Middle Eastern governments are attempting to push both sides into talks, but efforts have failed to gain traction as the US moves more firepower into...

- Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK) reported that approximately 72% of licensed crypto exchanges in the country remained unprofitable as of the end of 2025, even as the number of crypto users surpassed 20 million. The figures highlight a structural challenge: a booming user base that increasingly prefers overseas platforms, leaving domestic exchanges struggling to compete. Indonesia's Cost and Liquidity Gap According to OJK data cited by local media, the total value of crypto transactions fell to IDR 482.23 trillion (~$30 billion) in 2025, down from IDR 650 trillion in 2024. OJK attributed this to Indonesian investors increasingly trading through regional and global platforms rather than domestic exchanges. Indodax CEO...

- Strategy, BitMine Stock Prices Dive as Bitcoin and Ethereum Sink Ethereum giant BitMine Immersion Technologies and top Bitcoin treasury Strategy and have seen their stocks slide amid a fresh round of investor worry, with both of their respective assets of choice both falling hard Thursday. Upon the close of markets on Thursday, BitMine, which trades under the BMNR ticker on the Nasdaq, had shed nearly 10% and was changing hands for $26.70. BMNR dipped as low as $26.02 on the day, matching its $26.02 close on November 2, 2025. At the start of the week, BitMine made its biggest buy yet in 2026 by acquiring $116 million worth of ETH. Since the start of the year, the company has made three other purchases: $108 million, $76 million...

- The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee voted by a narrow margin to advance its own proposal of the long-awaited crypto market structure bill, bringing the overall CLARITY Act process a step further toward a full Senate test. After a markup session that lasted a little more than an hour, the committee voted on the bill, 12–11, in a party-line vote. The amendments put forward were all voted down, mostly along partisan lines. Clarity Bill Draws Lines Between the SEC and CFTC The bill is intended to shift the U.S. crypto regulations from an enforcement-first model to more explicit statutory guidelines. It would have the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with primary supervision over digital commodity spot markets of digital...

- Ripple Treasury won’t force crypto on sceptical clients, exec says Three months after it spent $1 billion to acquire GTreasury, Ripple has released a revamped corporate treasury management service dubbed Ripple Treasury — and the crypto is optional, an executive said on Wednesday. “We wanted to make sure we were going to a partner and a final home that would not drive and force adoption of anything our clients didn’t want to do,” GTreasury CEO Renaat Ver Eecke said on a Wednesday webinar. “The digital asset space is just going to be another option.” At a Ripple conference in November, Ver Eecke said he was eager to educate clients on the benefits of using stablecoins in treasury management. His comments this week suggest some...

- Bit Digital spins out AI unit as banks shy away from crypto exposure, CEO says As Bitcoin miners increasingly pivot toward high-performance computing and AI infrastructure, Bit Digital took a more drastic step, choosing to separate its AI infrastructure business after concluding that investors and lenders evaluate high-performance computing and digital assets through entirely different lenses. During a recent interview, Bit Digital CEO Sam Tabar said the decision to carve out the company’s AI infrastructure unit, now operating as WhiteFiber, was driven by two core factors: investor alignment and access to credit. By separating the businesses, Tabar said Bit Digital was able to align each operation with investors who better...

The crypto market is facing an identity crisis. While gold blasted past $5,600 per ounce and silver topped $121 this week, Bitcoin has been getting hammered. It's a painful reminder that when macro uncertainty hits, investors still reach for traditional safe havens first—and crypto second, if at all. All three assets are billed as stores of value, hedges against currency debasement and government overreach. But gold and silver are casually adding hundreds of billions in market value in a matter of days while BTC bleeds. Why? Rising odds of a U.S. government shutdown, Fed uncertainty, and the looming threat of Japanese yen intervention have investors scrambling for assets with decades of crisis-tested reliability. Bitcoin's 15-year...

- SEC Chair Atkins Walks Back Timeline for Crypto Innovation Exemptions SEC Chair Paul Atkins appeared to walk back a timeline for issuing sweeping crypto-related exemptions on Thursday, just days after Wall Street leaders met with agency officials to express concerns about the plan. The exemptions would hand crypto companies a guarantee that activity in certain areas, such as tokenized securities and decentralized finance (or DeFi), would not trigger any enforcement action from the SEC. Atkins said last month that he wanted the exemptions released in January, and felt his agency was able to move swiftly on the matter—despite holdups on crypto-related legislation currently pending in Congress, and even after the longest government...

- Bitcoin sold off sharply on Wednesday, falling more than 6% in 24 hours and briefly dipping into the low $83,000 range. The decline unfolded rapidly late in the session, cutting through intraday support levels with little immediate buying response. US-Iran Tensions Reignite Global Risk-Off Positioning Geopolitical risk resurfaced after Washington issued fresh warnings toward Tehran, while Iran signaled readiness to respond forcefully to any military escalation. Naval movements in the Middle East and new sanctions rhetoric have raised concerns about miscalculation, particularly as diplomatic channels remain strained. Markets typically treat early stages of geopolitical escalation as a risk-off signal rather than a hedge scenario...

- The top officials of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission indicated increased consensus on crypto regulation this week, suggesting that more consistent regulation could be at hand. In an appearance on CNBC prior to a joint public appearance in Washington, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and CFTC Chairman Mike Selig declared that the regulatory environment of crypto is nearing a tipping point following years of confusion due to the absence of clarity in jurisdiction and enforcement-based oversight. Their remarks coincide with Congress getting closer to enacting legislation that will help clarify whether a specific agency regulates various aspects of the digital asset market. Atkins...

- Broadly speaking, issuers of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are willing to try new things and address perceived demand for products that extend beyond the plain-vanilla, pure-beta realm. Think about the explosion of ETFs addressing thematic investing. There's demand for these funds, as evidenced by their combined $779 billion in assets under management (AUM) globally as of the end of the third quarter of 2025. One of the success stories among thematic ETFs is the Bitwise Crypto Industry Innovators ETF. This ETF has nearly $431 million in AUM and turns five years old in May, confirming it attracted investor interest and has staying power. The Bitwise fund could also generate impressive returns this year and beyond, but prospective...

- Dogecoin, XRP and Cardano Hit Lowest Prices Since 2024 as Altcoins Fall Harder Than Bitcoin Some of crypto's largest altcoins, like the Ripple-linked XRP and leading meme coin Dogecoin (DOGE), are trading at their lowest marks since 2024 on Thursday as Bitcoin extends its slide. The top crypto asset has fallen below $84,000 amid a broader market reset, following a rapid run-up in precious metals prices and a new all-time high for gold above $5,600 per ounce. Bitcoin fell to a two-month low price Thursday, but some altcoins are hitting prices not seen in more than a year. DOGE is now down 8% in the last 24 hours, recently changing hands at $0.115. That mark is down 84% below its 2021 all-time high of $0.73. The last time the token...

- Japan's Biggest Bitcoin Treasury Firm Just Raised $137 Million to Buy Even More BTC Japanese Bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet just closed a $137 million sale of shares and one-year warrants to buy more BTC. The raise includes 24,529,000 newly issued common shares sold through a third-party allotment to overseas buyers, the company said in a company filing it shared Thursday on X. The company explained that it selected this structure for its raise to "distribute dilution over time," setting warrant exercise prices above current trading levels. "While this fundraising will result in dilution to the company's ordinary shares, allocating the proceeds primarily to Bitcoin acquisition is expected to increase BTC holdings per share,"...

- Assure DeFi brings accountability to crypto Crypto has always been built on a contradiction. It promises trustless systems; yet repeatedly breaks down because of trust in people. Code can be audited. Smart contracts can be locked. But when founders disappear, funds vanish, and responsibility dissolves into anonymity, the system shows its weakest point. That gap is exactly where Assure DeFi positions itself; not as a cure-all, but as a structural fix to one of crypto’s most persistent failures: the inability to verify and hold accountable the people behind projects. Jeff Leggett's fascination with crypto The company’s origins are inseparable from the experience of Jeff Leggett, better known in the space as “Chapo”. Leggett didn’t...

- Coinbase vs. Wall Street: Tokenization Battle Threatens Crypto Bill A deepening dispute over tokenized stocks threatens to derail Washington’s push for comprehensive crypto regulation as industry executives split over language in the Senate Banking Committee’s portion of the landmark digital assets bill. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called the contested section a “de facto ban” on tokenized equities earlier this month, while traditional finance stalwarts, including Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities, argue firms should follow identical rules whether dealing in blockchain-based or conventional securities. The fracture emerged after Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott released bill text containing provisions that affirm the Securities and...

- Cathie Wood used to purchase crypto stocks every few days last year. She made sure that her portfolio reallocation always had space for the trending crypto stocks. After all, Wood is a veteran investor in the digital assets space and moved ahead undaunted by criticism. When her asset management firm, ARK Invest, revealed that it was the first public asset manager to gain Bitcoin (BTC) exposure as early as 2015, the move was met with skepticism. As the crypto market expanded in later years, ARK Invest became more confident and began to acquire crypto stocks, such as: The flash crash on Oct. 10 last year didn't deter Wood from scooping up more crypto stocks. But after mid-December, she paused her crypto buying spree. As we entered...

- Bitcoin's Next Move: Pump to $100K or Dump to $69K? Long touted as “digital gold,” Bitcoin continues to range while its physical counterpart surges to all-time highs. That has predictors conflicted about its next stop, with odds moving closer over the last week to a “dump” to $69,000. BTC has dropped nearly 5% in the last seven days, recently changing hands at $84,167 and hitting a two-month low earlier Thursday. Odds of a “pump” fell around 20% as predictors now give the chances of hitting $100K first just 55% odds. As recently as two weeks ago, those odds stood as high as 88% while BTC had rallied above $97,000. Michael Saylor and Strategy continue to slam the buy button, but there's been no relief to the price, which actually...

- Crypto bill advances in US Senate but faces obstacles Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, which oversees commodities trading, advanced a bill on Thursday that would establish a federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies on a party-line vote, an indication that the legislation likely lacks enough support to be passed by the full Senate. If passed, the bill would give the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission the authority to oversee spot crypto markets and create rules for digital commodity exchanges, brokers, and dealers. The Senate Banking Committee's companion bill has proven to be more contentious, with banks and crypto firms engaged in a bitter lobbying fight over whether crypto companies should...