Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 6 days ago
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio told Bloomberg on Oct. 6 that the U.S. could face a debt crisis within three years as interest payments crowd out the rest of the federal budget. The Clock Has Not Moved, but the Bond Market Has The billionair...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 6 days ago
A Visa-commissioned study found that stablecoin adoption has room to grow in the APAC region, with nearly 50% of those polled being open to using these digital assets in the next five years. Nonetheless, awareness of what stablecoins really are and h...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 6 days ago
The blockchain sleuth revealed that he infiltrated a Chinese crypto money laundering group following the theft of over $1.5 billion by North Korean hackers in 2025. ZachXBT stressed that this incursion allowed him to gather intelligence and helped fr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 6 days ago
$988 million in stock options Oracle awarded to co-founder Larry Ellison and new co-CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia in fiscal 2026 wound up out of the money by the May 31 year end. In its Sept. 25 proxy filing, the company said the grants “had no...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Licensed Tanzanian tour operator Zatatep Tours now accepts bitcoin alongside credit cards for booking trips across Tanzania. Streamlining Travel Financing Travelers heading to East Africa can now pay for wildlife safaris, Mount Kilimanjaro treks, and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Polymarket is asking a Dutch court to overturn the Netherlands’ ban on its prediction market, arguing it offers financial products that belong under the country’s markets watchdog – an argument the regulator has already rejected. The Regu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Greek police dismantled an unauthorized cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that defrauded over 10,000 investors of approximately $9 million in total by promising to double their money in 50 days via automated artificial intelligence (AI) trading. A Facade...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Investors face rising scams built on personal trust and borrowed authority as regulators across six continents participate in World Investor Week. The SEC’s new warning highlights relationship investment fraud and impersonation, including incre...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Federal efforts to coordinate artificial intelligence (AI) policy will fall to a new Super Intelligence Force, President Donald Trump announced. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton joins three other officials tasked with maintaining U.S. le...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Federal crypto initiatives are advancing across trading, asset custody, and tokenized stocks as Washington pursues global digital asset leadership. The CFTC’s new consultation joins SEC measures aimed at keeping innovation domestic while protec...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Turkey’s large crypto market is creating opportunities for bank custody and dollar-backed stablecoins, according to Ripple. The company ties its local strategy to currency pressure and evolving regulations as institutions follow consumers into...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
XRP’s recent price recovery may be forming a bullish chart pattern, judging from a coffee cup image Peter Brandt placed beneath the cryptocurrency’s trading history. His latest post hints at a possible setup awaiting a breakout. A Coffee...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Blockchain fee revenue is a poor performance metric, according to Ripple’s David Schwartz. Responding to an XRP Ledger fee suggestion, he described transaction charges as friction the chain failed to remove and questioned whose interests the me...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Plume opened nBND on Oct. 5, giving investors blockchain-based exposure to Fidelity’s roughly $28 billion Total Bond ETF. But there’s a small catch. The exchange-traded fund (ETF) itself wasn’t tokenized, and its $28 billion hasn’t moved onchain. The...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Brazil’s government has asked the Supreme Court to strike down the core of the laws that created its licensed betting market, two years after defending them. The filing landed days before licensed sites go dark on Oct. 6, with Justice Luiz Fux...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Sports-centric prediction market platform Novig says its trading volume nearly doubled around the launch of its Sydney Sweeney campaign, with first-time depositors more than tripling. The company-reported figures cover a window that also included the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Brazilian markets, including Ibovespa futures and the iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (EWZ), rose up to 12% overnight after Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, seen as a more market-friendly option, defeated President Lula in the first round of Sunday’s Brazilia...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
This weekend, the crypto exchange OKX and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) submitted a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and said the duo intends to create a 24/7 platform for tokeni...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Strategy and Blackrock’s IBIT now control a combined 1.653 million bitcoin worth roughly $140.82 billion, nearly 8% of the network’s absolute 21 million supply ceiling. The two piles are almost the same size, but that’s where the resemblance ends. St...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
The CFTC took the wraps off a potentially sweeping U.S. crypto market framework Monday, opening a 60-day public comment period on rules covering retail crypto commodity transactions. Chairman Michael S. Selig paired the move with an unusually direct...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Geneva, Switzerland — October 5, 2026 — The Office of Justin Sun today announced the newest recipients of the Justin Sun Prize: independent researcher Wouter van Doorn, mathematics Ph.D. student Quanyu Tang, and mathematics researcher Yanyang Li from...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Bitcoin rallied to an intraday peak of $86,969 before erasing most of the gains and returning to trade near $85,200 with a $1.71 trillion market cap. Bitcoin Rejection Near $87K Triggers Intraday Volatility Bitcoin wiped out early gains on Monday as...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
S&P Global Ratings has introduced a new framework for assessing onchain lending vaults after deposits in the sector surged to $10 billion. S&P Global Brings Wall Street Risk Ratings to DeFi Vaults S&P Global is pushing deeper into crypto...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
FinCEN, a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department, is planning to kill two crypto surveillance proposals that spent years hanging over self-custody and privacy tools without ever becoming law. One would have required banks and money transmitters to co...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 week ago
Bitcoin’s notorious halving event is getting closer, and as of Monday, there are now fewer than 80,000 blocks left until that point. When that happens, at block height 1050000, on or around April 12, 2028, block rewards will shrink from 3.125 BTC to...
