Yesterday, at block height 963648, Bitcoin logged its 17th difficulty adjustment of 2026, and the numbers tell a brutal story. This has not been a year of steady hashrate expansion. It has been a grind of miner capitulation, sharp rebounds and repeated failures to make those recoveries stick. The latest 1.31% drop only drives that […]
Bitcoin.com News•Jamie Redman23 Aug
Michael Saylor says bitcoin’s defining advance is converting economic energy into digitally controlled value for people, companies, machines, and nations. His own company, Strategy Inc., sits on 840,447 BTC bought for $63.36 billion, and has been selling over the past few months. Saylor Defines Bitcoin’s Core Breakthrough Bitcoin can place economic value under digital control […]
Bitcoin.com News•Kevin Helms23 Aug
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is demanding an enforceable ban on presidential crypto profits in market structure legislation. Her renewed push follows a new poll finding 63% of Americans consider Trump and his family’s crypto profits inappropriate. Gillibrand Makes Crypto Ethics a Condition for Her Vote Congress should bar presidents, their spouses, and senior officials from […]
Bitcoin.com News•Kevin Helms23 Aug
Since Paul Sztorc’s ECX hard fork kicked off, more than 25,092 blocks have been mined during the Alpha phase, and block times have swung wildly. The network has already chewed through several difficulty adjustments, with some delivering massive upward jolts. ECX Blasts Through 25,000 Blocks in 13 Hours Bitcoin’s latest fork has kicked off its […]
Bitcoin.com News•Jamie Redman23 Aug
This week, bitcoin awoke from its slumber, springing out of bed. Going in, bitcoin volatility was as compressed as it has been in a decade, with BVOL 7D at 2.82, the sixth-lowest reading in ten years, described at the time as a “historically stretched elastic band.” Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer, writing days before the move, had […]
Bitcoin.com News•David Sencil23 Aug
Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether’s USDT at $0.88, and Terra’s UST collapsed to virtually zero in a crash that erased roughly $40 billion. As recently as November 2025, a DeFi stablecoin called xUSD lost more than half its value in a single day. The Peg Is a Promise, […]
Bitcoin.com News•Shiraz Jagati23 Aug
Metaverse platform The Sandbox confirmed recently that an exploited bridge let an attacker mint unbacked SAND on Base and BNB Smart Chain, prompting an immediate shutdown. Exploit Hits Base and BSC Bridges Sandbox, the metaverse gaming platform behind the SAND token, contained a vulnerability affecting its cross-chain bridges on Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC). […]
Bitcoin.com News•Shiraz Jagati23 Aug
The study, published by three Vietnamese investigators, found a positive relation between the EU’s carbon emissions pricing and a so-called “leakage” to cheaper jurisdictions, such as Russia. This means that as carbon allowance pricing grows, some of this mining activity shifts to Russia to maximize profits. Study Suggests High EU Carbon Pricing Causes Mining Migration […]
Bitcoin.com News•Sergio Goschenko23 Aug
Over the last four days, Bitcoin’s hashprice has climbed 20.41%, punching into territory not seen since May. Bitcoin miners are pocketing fatter revenue from the latest price rally, delivering a badly needed reprieve after months of tighter margins. Bitcoin Mining Revenue Rises Bitcoin miners are finally catching a break from the price jump, with hashprice […]
Bitcoin.com News•Jamie Redman23 Aug
The Bank Policy Institute, representing the massive U.S. banking lobby, filed a comment letter asking FinCEN to apply customer identification requirements to secondary stabilization markets, extending the provision applied to stablecoin issuers to exchanges with a direct relationship with retail customers. Big Banks Ask For Customer ID Requirements to Be Extended to Secondary Stablecoin Markets […]
Bitcoin.com News•Sergio Goschenko23 Aug
Bitcoin holders are lined up to receive a matching balance of a new asset called ecash (ECX) when the project kicks off its three-stage hard-fork rollout with an alpha launch around Bitcoin block height 963648. The launch comes from Layertwo Labs, founded and led by longtime Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc, also known as Truthcoin. The […]
Bitcoin.com News•Jamie Redman23 Aug
Grayscale says bitcoin’s sharp weekly rally could mark a turning point after a relatively shallow bear market. Historical cycle comparisons and improving institutional demand suggest the market may be forming a more durable bottom. Grayscale Sees Potential Bitcoin Turning Point Bitcoin’s rapid recovery may signal that its latest bear market has reached a turning point, […]
Bitcoin.com News•Kevin Helms23 Aug
Robert Kiyosaki says expanded U.S. Treasury debt buybacks amount to quantitative easing and renewed his preference for bitcoin, gold, silver, and selected real estate. Treasury describes the operations as liquidity support for longer-dated markets. Kiyosaki Calls Treasury Buybacks Money Printing Renewed concern about the dollar prompted Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki to endorse […]
Bitcoin.com News•Kevin Helms23 Aug
Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick says record bitcoin short liquidations and renewed ETF demand have increased the market’s upside risk. He now sees a possible year-end run from $79,500 toward bitcoin’s $126,000 record, a 58% climb. Record Short Liquidations Reshape Bitcoin Outlook Bitcoin’s sharp recovery has raised the possibility that Geoffrey Kendrick’s $100,000 year-end forecast may […]
Bitcoin.com News•Kevin Helms22 Aug
Ethereum (ETH) surged 29.8% higher over the past seven days, smoking bitcoin’s 22.9% gain as returning exchange-traded fund (ETF) buyers, squeezed shorts, and a shrinking pile of readily tradable coins drove ETH to a weekly high of $2,546 on Saturday afternoon. ETH was trading around $2,435 late Saturday at 5 p.m. EDT after cooling from […]
Bitcoin.com News•Jamie Redman22 Aug
Grayscale sees three conditions aligning for people asking whether now is a good time to buy bitcoin. The crypto asset manager points to continued adoption, a mature bear market, and a supportive macro outlook, while acknowledging that prices could still fall. Grayscale Sees 3 Factors Converging for Bitcoin Buyers Bitcoin may now offer a worthwhile […]
Bitcoin.com News•Kevin Helms22 Aug
ZachXBT pointed out that Canada was the worst jurisdiction for crypto crime victims and pinpointed Toronto as one of the global hotspots for fraud. Canada ranks even higher than countries like the U.K and India, with Nigeria, Algeria, Bangladesh, and Morocco also mentioned among the worst. Canada Ranked As Worst Jurisdiction For Crypto Crimes by […]
Bitcoin.com News•Sergio Goschenko22 Aug
A mystery whale sold another 2,700 BTC (about $211.8 million) earlier today, pushing its three-day total to 7,700 BTC (roughly $576.6 million). The selling lands just as bitcoin trades within reach of $80,000, capping its strongest weekly rally in years. Whale Offloads $577 Million in Three Days An unidentified wallet sold 2,700 BTC worth roughly […]
Bitcoin.com News•Shiraz Jagati22 Aug
Nomura Holdings’ Laser Digital Japan has cracked Japan’s crypto licensing wall, ending a roughly four-year drought without a new industry entrant and planting one of the country’s financial heavyweights squarely inside regulated digital-asset trading. Laser Digital Japan said this week that it completed registration as a Crypto Asset Exchange Service Provider under Japan’s Payment Services […]
Bitcoin.com News•Jamie Redman22 Aug
Bitcoin’s current 50-week moving average, which lies near $82,470, has become a closely watched level for traders assessing whether the current bear market has ended. Historical data from Galaxy Research suggests a weekly reclaim has been far more reliable than shorter-term signals. Galaxy Finds 11 of 13 Bitcoin 50-Week Reclaims Held After Bear Markets Bitcoin […]
Bitcoin.com News•Emmanuel Musa22 Aug