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- Bitcoin Plunges as US and Israel Launch Military Strike on Iran Israel and the United States carried out a joint strike on Iran early Saturday, marking a major escalation in regional tensions. Bitcoin reached extremely to the news, dropping straight to $63,000 and extending daily losses to nearly 7%. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz described the operation as a “preemptive strike.” The Israeli government declared a nationwide state of emergency, warning of possible Iranian retaliation using drones and ballistic missiles. US Iran War Officially Starts According to CNN, the strike was coordinated between Washington and Jerusalem. Officials said the action aimed to counter what they described as an immediate threat. Details on...

- dYdX CEO says institutions are now major force in crypto derivatives Crypto derivatives were not built for just speculation. In traditional finance, derivatives exist to hedge risk. Farmers lock in crop prices. Corporations manage exposure to commodities or currencies. In crypto, that original purpose was largely lost. For years, derivatives in digital asset markets were dominated by retail traders using leverage to amplify short-term bets. According to Charles d’Haussy, CEO at DyDx, that balance has now shifted. In an interview with TheStreet Roundtable, d’Haussy said 2025 marked a turning point as institutions entered crypto derivatives markets at scale. Institutions join the party alongside retail traders What stands out is...

- Bitcoin price shows ‘absurd strength’ as ETF investors continue to hold the asset, analysts say When Bitcoin exchange-traded funds went live, some scoffed that elderly investors could finally buy Bitcoin in peace. Now it seems that those investors are keeping Bitcoin’s price afloat. “ETF investors have largely displayed diamond hands during [the] recent Bitcoin downturn,” Nate Geraci, co-founder of the ETF Institute, said on X on Friday. Diamond hands refers to holding a financial asset and not selling it, regardless of its volatility. As Bitcoin plunged to the lower $60,000 range from its October 2025 peak of $126,000, around $6.5 billion flowed out of ETFs, according to Geraci. That’s a “drop in the bucket” compared to the $107...

- South Korea National Tax Service just made a costly mistake resulting in a huge crypto loss. In an official press release, the agency published unredacted photos that exposed crypto wallet seed phrases. Within hours, an unknown actor used the information to drain 4 million Ethereum-based tokens, nominally worth $4.8 million, from seized wallets before returning them. The funds were not dumped, but the incident exposes a serious operational security failure. It highlights the risks governments face when handling self-custodied digital assets without proper technical safeguards. Key Takeaways The Leak: Tax Agency Publishes Ethereum Private Keys On February 26, the National Tax Service announced it had seized roughly 8.1 billion...

- Trump to Takeover Cuba, Iran War Tensions Rise, Bitcoin Crashes Again Bitcoin fell sharply on February 27 as geopolitical tensions intensified, pulling the price back to around $65,200 after several days of attempts to recover toward $70,000. The drop came as US President Donald Trump suggested the possibility of a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, while Washington simultaneously increased its military posture in Israel. The combined headlines injected fresh uncertainty into global markets. Crypto, which had been stabilizing, reacted quickly. Trump on Cuba: “Maybe We Will Do a Friendly Takeover” Speaking earlier today, Trump said the Cuban government is “in big trouble” and “talking with us,” adding that the US could pursue a...

- Bitcoin Rebound Stalls at $65K as Stocks Fall and Gold Rises After peaking above $69,000 on Wednesday and suggesting a potential rebound for the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin dropped more than 3% on Friday to nearly $65,000 as stocks dipped and gold enjoyed a 1.4% bump. The S&P 500 has fallen 0.7% and the Nasdaq has slipped 1.15% since the New York opening bell on Friday. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was changing hands for $65,222 and has lost 3.5% compared to the same time last week, according to crypto price aggregator CoinGecko. The world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has been trading for nearly half its all-time high price of $126,080 for the better part of the past week. Bitcoin had a bumpy week...

- Magic Eden Pulls Plug on Bitcoin and Ethereum Support, Doubles Down on Solana Magic Eden co-founder and CEO Jack Lu disclosed that the NFT marketplace and token trading platform is ending support for Ethereum-compatible and Bitcoin-based assets. In less than two weeks, Magic Eden users will no longer be able to trade assets associated with the networks on its platform. That includes assets minted on Ethereum scaling networks like Polygon and Base, as well as Bitcoin Ordinals and Runes meme coins. Magic Eden’s self-custodial wallet will see similar changes, with plans to no longer support the assets at the beginning of April. The marketplace will continue to support those within Solana’s ecosystem, where the NFT marketplace debuted...

- Coinbase exec says crypto 'corrections' are simple math, not a catastrophe Even in crypto, what goes up must come down. "You really just mathematically can't have that [explosive upside] forever," Coinbase head of institutional strategy John D'Agostino told Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid. He noted that if bitcoin's growth continued indefinitely at its historical compounding rates, the asset would eventually become "larger than the global economy." Bitcoin has seen its price fall over 25% year to date. The digital asset's value now is far below its $125,000 high reached in October 2025. But these periods of "mean reversion" or so-called corrections are a "very natural" part of a scarce asset's life cycle, D'Agostino argued. While...

- Key Takeaways Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Bitcoin is “a complete failure as a currency” and predicted the world’s largest crypto could fall to under $10,000 in today’s dollars by 2050. Wales’ claim comes even as institutional inflows into U.S. spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) show signs of stabilizing. In a series of posts on X this week, Wales said investors betting on Bitcoin going to zero were “likely mistaken.” However, he argued that the currency would plummet dramatically in the coming decades. “Complete Failure” Wales argued that Bitcoin could “decline to a price consistent with hobbyist tinkering.” The Wikipedia founder suggested a 2050 price target of “under $10,000 in today’s dollars. Possibly much lower.”...

- Global Money Supply Hits Record High: Why Gold Is Rallying but Bitcoin Is Not Global money supply surged to a fresh all-time high in December 2025, reinforcing a liquidity backdrop that has historically supported hard assets. Gold has responded accordingly, maintaining its upward trajectory despite sharp but brief drawdowns. Nonetheless, Bitcoin, often described as “digital gold,” has delivered choppier price action. Bitcoin’s Dual Identity Weighs on Price as Risk Appetite Fades Global liquidity has continued to expand at a rapid pace. According to the Kobeissi Letter, global broad money supply rose to a record $144 trillion in December 2025. On a year-over-year basis, it increased by $13.6 trillion or 10.4%. The December figure...

- Bitcoin price has drifted lower in recent sessions, reflecting cautious sentiment across the crypto market. BTC continues to struggle beneath key resistance, limiting upside momentum. Despite the slow decline, structural signals show accumulation beneath the surface. Whether that conviction translates into price recovery is yet to be seen. Bitcoin Holders Near New Milestone Santiment data shows Bitcoin is nearing a significant milestone. The network is about to surpass 20,000 wallets holding at least 100 BTC. At current prices, a 100 BTC wallet represents roughly $6.78 million in value. Such wallets are typically controlled by high-net-worth individuals, institutional investors, funds, or long-term holders. Growth in this...

- If someone told you that the U.S. government would announce plans for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and pass the Genius Act for a regulatory framework on stablecoins, you'd probably assume that cryptocurrencies would have a fantastic year. But that's not how it played out. While there were some good moments, cryptocurrency prices tumbled since the summer. XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) and Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) have declined by 37% and 52% respectively, over the past 12 months. The market has seemingly shied away from speculative assets, which helps explain the slide. Remember, cryptocurrencies are notoriously volatile, both up and down. Perhaps the more important question is, which crypto has the better risk/reward right now? What exactly...

- MARA Shares Rise After Bitcoin Miner Strikes AI Data Center Deal MARA Holdings, one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miners in the U.S., said Thursday it will team up with Starwood Property Trust to develop AI-focused data centers, sending its shares higher in after-hours trading. Under the agreement, MARA will work with Starwood to convert a portfolio of its U.S. Bitcoin mining sites, excluding those already held in third-party joint ventures, into hyperscale data center campuses, with projects structured on a site-by-site basis. The partnership will allow the two to turn select Bitcoin mining sites into large-scale data centers that could also serve enterprise and AI workloads, transforming “power certainty into capacity...

- Investors love to talk about Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as if it were carved in stone. But, the truth is that its protocol is actually capable of being altered, even dramatically so, under certain narrow circumstances. The circumstances warranting those dramatic changes are now coming about. The protocol will get at least one major patch over the next few years, and there's a fresh sign that supports the idea of buying Bitcoin with the intention of holding it forever. This threat is distant, but it's real Most of the time, the biggest risks to your Bitcoin holdings are fairly boring, like storing your coins somewhere that you then forget how to access. But there's one big theoretical risk that sounds like it's from science fiction that...

- Morgan Stanley 'Absolutely' Plans to Offer Bitcoin Custody, Trading, Yield and Lending: Exec Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley, which oversees nearly $9 trillion worth of assets on behalf of its clients, wants them to be able to custody and trade Bitcoin on its platform, according to Amy Oldenburg, its recently appointed digital assets strategy head. When asked if the bank is interested in offering Bitcoin-based yield and lending services, as well, she was very supportive. "Of course," she told Strategy CEO Phong Le at the company's Bitcoin for Corporations conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. "Absolutely. That's part of the discussion and exploration. It's a natural part of the roadmap to continue to explore. I think we're very...

- Circle (NYSE: CRCL), the fintech company best known for issuing the USD Coin (CRYPTO: USDC) stablecoin, went public at $31 on June 5, 2025. It now trades at about $87. Circle's stock skyrocketed as the demand for its USD Coin stablecoins rose. USD Coin is directly backed by cash and U.S. Treasuries held by regulated custodians, which sets it apart from other stablecoins that rely on opaque assets to maintain their peg to the U.S. dollar. Circle generates most of its profits by investing its own USD Coin reserves into U.S. Treasuries, bank deposits, and other low-risk instruments to earn interest. It's also generating more platform and infrastructure fees by tethering more financial customers and countries to its ecosystem. Those...

- MicroStrategy’s Latest Bitcoin Buy Triggers New Worries For MSTR Stock Price The MicroStrategy stock price couldn't continue its upswing despite the company continuing to buy more Bitcoin. Its latest $40 million purchase, on February 23, came just as the stock began sliding again. But that wasn't the entire story. While MSTR stock dipped by over 9% on February 24, a 16% bounce followed on February 25, showing excitement. At press time, it's down over 3% since yesterday's close. The stock is now down about 4% from last Friday’s high and almost 63% over six months, raising fresh concerns about a deeper breakdown, all while the BTC stash was loaded again. Latest $40 Million Bitcoin Buy Fails to Stop MSTR's Slide MicroStrategy added...

- Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the crypto firm popular for its USDC stablecoin, reported Q4 2025 earnings on Feb. 25. The firm reported earnings per share (EPS) of $0.43, beating Wall Street estimates of $0.35 by 22.86%. The quarterly revenue stood at $770 million, slightly above the estimated $745 million. USDC on-chain transaction volume in Q4 stood at $11.9 trillion, up 247%. As per DeFiLlama, the USDC market cap stands at $75 billion and accounts for 24% of the total stablecoin market cap. Tether's USDT continues to maintain its dominant position with around 60% market share. Following the earnings release, several leading analysts shared fresh stock assessments on Circle Internet Group. William Blair reiterates...

- To the uninitiated, the concept of crypto lending might seem contradictory. Since cryptocurrency is often viewed strictly as a long-term store of value, the idea of lending it out can appear confusing. However, once you grasp the underlying model, the utility becomes clear. At its core, this financial mechanism allows holders to use their digital assets as leverage. Instead of selling Bitcoin or Ethereum to raise cash, borrowers pledge these assets to receive liquidity. This strategy is ideal for long-term investors who need short-term funds but wish to maintain exposure to their original market positions. The mechanics of overcollateralization The safety net of the crypto lending world is a concept known as...

- With just days left in February, crypto whales are quietly repositioning. The broader market remains uncertain, but on-chain data tells a different story. Large holders are selectively adding exposure across three tokens — one seeking direction, one seeking a breakout, and one targeting greater upside. As March approaches, the big holders appear to be making their move early. Uniswap (UNI) Uniswap is among the more interesting names showing crypto whale activity heading into March. Despite a broader market pullback, UNI is up nearly 15.5% over the past 24 hours, briefly spiking to $4.29 before pulling back sharply. Yet crypto whales are not flinching. On-chain data shows large holders increased their UNI holdings from 639.06...