Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 8 hours ago
Metaplanet posted a dramatic swing in its latest results after shifting much of its business toward Bitcoin. Revenue surged by over 700% year-on-year to close to ¥9 billion (about $58 million), a jump the company ties to income from BTC options and r...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 10 hours ago
A new technical projection is circulating in the crypto market after pseudonymous analyst and XRP Ledger (XRPL) developer Bird forecast a sharp rise in the cryptocurrency’s market capitalization. The analyst predicts that the altcoin could soon reach...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 11 hours ago
YouTube star Logan Paul has turned a pop culture prop into a record. Based on reports, his pristine Pikachu Illustrator Pokémon card sold for about $16.5 milion at auction, and Guinness World Records confirmed it as the highest price ever paid for a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 13 hours ago
Zashi, the flagship mobile wallet built by Zcash’s original engineering team, is rebranding to “Zodl” as its developers formally operate outside the Electric Coin Company (ECC) structure. The change matters less as a cosmetic refresh than as a signal...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 14 hours ago
Kraken, the crypto exchange, said it will fund “Trump Accounts” for every baby born in Wyoming in 2026, a pledge that ties a private firm to a new federal savings program named after US President Donald Trump. The move was announced on the Wyoming f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 16 hours ago
Shiba Inu has put its long-trailed SOU recovery framework into production, opening claims for users affected by last year’s Shibarium bridge exploit and turning those claims into transferable, on-chain NFTs on Ethereum. The launch matters because it...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 17 hours ago
After emerging as a major political player in the 2024 elections, the cryptocurrency industry is once again preparing to flex its financial muscle—this time ahead of the 2026 midterms. Two years ago, crypto-focused super political action committees...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 18 hours ago
Crypto lender Nexo has officially reentered the United States market, marking a return three years after it withdrew operations and paid a $45 million fine to settle charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company confirmed...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 22 hours ago
Crypto’s week is stacked: ETHDenver pulls builders into Denver, a major DAO votes on supply, and US macro hits just as liquidity comes back after the holiday. Here’s what to watch: Ethereum (Feb. 18): ETHDenver Kicks Off ETHDenver’s main programming...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 23 hours ago
Retail investors appear to be holding their ground through the latest wave of crypto market volatility, according to new data shared by Brian Armstrong, chief executive of Coinbase. The exchange says many individual users have continued accumulating...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Binance and news reporters are locking horns over a set of serious claims that have put more heat on the exchange’s compliance record. The matter centers on alleged transfers tied to Iran and on the treatment of staff who flagged those moves. At stak...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
With the price of Bitcoin stuck below the $70,000 mark, analysts are beginning to flag this current performance as an indication of a bear market. After several weeks of downward pressure, many key metrics are beginning to flash signs of a continued...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Despite its steady bearish performance over the past few months, the sentiment toward XRP in certain areas appears to have turned bullish once again. One of the regions showing renewed interest and attention in the leading altcoin is South Korea, as...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
As crypto prices slide sharply from last year’s highs, a new warning suggests that 2026 could bring additional pressure from an unexpected source: the companies that hold large amounts of digital assets on their balance sheets. Bitcoin (BTC) is curre...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Dogecoin has spent the past few weeks grinding lower, testing the patience of bullish traders. The past 24 hours, for instance, were spent with sell-offs, with the meme coin king now down by 10% in the last trading day. Dogecoin is now perambulating...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Bitcoin (BTC) skeptic and chief economist Peter Schiff has launched a new attack on the world’s largest cryptocurrency. This time, Schiff argues that BTC is not a threat to the global financial system but rather to those who invest in it. His latest...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Ethereum has remained locked in a consolidation phase below the $2,000 level since the sharp market decline seen in early February. Despite occasional rebound attempts, price action continues to reflect caution among traders, with volatility elevated...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Speculation around institutional XRP accumulation intensified after claims surfaced that SBI Holdings had acquired $10 billion worth of the digital asset. The narrative gained traction quickly, feeding bullish sentiment and reinforcing assumptions ab...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary, known as “Mr. Wonderful” from Shark Tank, has won a $2.8 million judgment after a US federal court entered default against popular YouTuber Ben “BitBoy” Armstrong. The ruling come...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Ric Edelman says Bitcoin can reach $500,000 by the end of the decade and, unlike many headline-grabbing forecasts, he’s putting a simple allocation math behind it. In a Feb. 15 interview with Altcoin Daily, the longtime financial adviser and founder...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Russia’s crypto scene is bigger than many realize, and regulators are sounding the alarm. Reports say daily crypto turnover inside the country may be around 50 billion rubles. That adds up fast — more than 10 trillion rubles a year by simple math — a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
SBI Holdings CEO Yoshitaka Kitao pushed back on a viral claim that the Japanese financial group holds $10 billion worth of XRP, arguing instead that SBI’s more consequential exposure sits in its equity position in Ripple Labs, a stake he suggested th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
Figure Technology confirmed that some customer files were stolen after an employee was tricked, according to reports. The company says the intrusion happened when an internal account was used to download a limited batch of records. The breach did not...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
The Bitcoin bear market caught some parts of the crypto crowd by surprise, as several investors expected prices to recover at different stages of the correction. However, some sections of the market saw this corrective phase, using on-chain data as t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
US lawmakers on Friday stepped up pressure over a reported foreign stake in a crypto firm tied to US President Donald Trump, asking the Treasury’s foreign-investment watchdog to explain whether the deal threatens national security or should be review...
