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BitcoinWorld Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Plunges Over 10% as Price Decline Squeezes Operators Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has recorded a sharp decline of more than 10%, marking one of the large
Bitcoin has climbed above $65,400, marking a notable move higher as the leading cryptocurrency recaptures a price level that traders have been watching closely. The push past $65,400 places B
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is tightening its scrutiny of cryptocurrency token listings and ongoing monitoring requirements, raising compliance expectations for exchanges and issuer
May was a month of convergence: fraud-proof infrastructure moving steadily toward production, agentic development tooling that changes how builders ship on Cartesi, and a growing signal that
Key Takeaways Journalist Eleanor Terrett calls the July 4 CLARITY Act timeline “logistically impossible.” Galaxy’s Mike Novogratz says the bill will pass and is down to three solvable issues.
XRP is having a rough June. It opened the month at $1.33 and has since fallen to very low levels. Yet, long-term Bitcoin trader AltcoinFox (@AltcoinFoxx) took to X with a confident assertion,
Fifteen years ago, WikiLeaks began accepting Bitcoin donations after traditional payment processors cut off the whistleblowing organization, marking one of the earliest and most consequential
Bitcoin and Ethereum have led a sharp 2026 selloff that erased more than $810 billion in total cryptocurrency market value, marking one of the most significant drawdowns of the year. How the
US Sonic Dollar: The Blueprint for a Native L1 Stablecoin We’ve seen this movie before: a hot L1 launches, liquidity floods in from bridged USDC and USDT, then fragments across a dozen DEXs.
Ethereum could face a wave of forced short covering if its price rises above $1,742, with data indicating that cumulative short order liquidation intensity across mainstream centralized excha
TLDR: Aerodrome will replace its weekly voting system with Predictive Allocation when it launches in July 2026. Participants who correctly forecast future liquidity demand will earn a larger
Tokenized Treasuries are having a moment. Institutional and on-chain investors are parking cash in compliant, yield-bearing wrappers while crypto-native yields compress. The practical questio
