Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 hours ago
A hacker drained approximately $11.58 million in assets from the Verus-Ethereum Bridge in a single transaction on May 17, 2026 — targeting a cross-chain infrastructure project that had explicitly marketed itself as immune to the kind of smart contrac...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 hours ago
Iran has launched a new maritime insurance platform for cargo moving through the Strait of Hormuz, with payments settled in Bitcoin, according to a report from Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency. The project places Bitcoin inside one of the world’...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 15 hours ago
The CLARITY Act’s landmark committee approval has sent Bitcoin sentiment soaring to its highest point in months. Data from Santiment shows that bullish Bitcoin commentary on social media has climbed to one of its greediest readings of the yea...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 17 hours ago
Recent filings with the SEC suggest the Binance Coin (BNB) may be the next altcoin to get a spot ETF in the US. In particular, asset management firms VanEck and Grayscale have repeatedly amended their S-1 registration forms, reflecting regulatory gui...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 19 hours ago
Crypto may need a major overhaul sooner than most people think. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson pointed to a specific proposal — Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP-361 — as a potential path forward for gradually moving Bitcoin users away from older w...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 21 hours ago
Bitcoin (BTC) is trading around $78,000, as prices continue to fall following another rejection at the $82,000 barrier on Friday. Despite the encouraging rally over the five weeks of Q2 2026, several analysts predict Bitcoin is now in the initial sta...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 23 hours ago
Bipartisan support remains the main obstacle standing between the CLARITY Act and becoming law. That was the assessment from asset management firm Grayscale on Friday, even as the company said it believes the bill has a strong chance of passing. Repu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Based on its performance over the past month, the Bitcoin price seems to be fighting its way out of the bear market. However, the overall market structure has yet to completely shift from a downward to a positive trend. In fact, a recent on-chain ana...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Ripple recently announced it would offer custody services to Intesa Sanpaolo — a deal that raised eyebrows when the Italian bank’s first-quarter filings showed it had quietly bought about $26 million worth of crypto through the Grayscale XRP Tr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
The crypto market had a largely rough spell in the first quarter of the year, with the price of Bitcoin falling to as low as $62,000 by early February. While several institutional investors reduced their exposure as the digital assets underperformed,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Bitcoin’s long-term price structure is once again drawing attention, as the asset continues to follow a powerful historical pattern on the monthly timeframe. Despite short-term volatility and shifting market sentiment, the broader trend suggests BTC...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
The price of Bitcoin spiked by over 3.5% in the early days of Thursday, May 14th, following the advancement of the CLARITY Act by the US Senate Banking Committee. However, the flagship cryptocurrency soon reversed towards the downside, thereby raisin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
The CLARITY Act could become one of the most important factors that influences XRP’s price action in 2026. A new outlook shared by an XRP community member on X argues that the bill’s passage may do more than trigger a short-term bounce. The cal...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Blockchain tracking firm Arkham Intelligence has labeled a set of suspicious wallets as “THORChain Exploiter” addresses, with one Bitcoin-linked wallet holding close to 36.85 BTC — worth roughly $3 million — and a separate Ethereum wallet...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Following Bitcoin’s (BTC) price bounce above $82,000 and a subsequent rejection, the cryptocurrency has been in a major decline, with a market analyst now calling for a fresh bottom. He described the latest rebound as another bull trap in BTC’s broad...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has disclosed its intention to repurchase $1.5 billion of its 2029 convertible debt notes. This move comes amid commentary on the shift in the Michael Saylor-led firm’s “Never Sel...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
The $292 million KelpDAO exploit is among the biggest crypto losses of 2026. The impact of this attack on users’ confidence was broad, triggering a $13.5 billion drop in DeFi total value locked (TVL). However, recent developments suggest a retu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Most traders who hold Bitcoin or Ethereum are sitting on capital they cannot easily deploy. To trade global markets with it, the traditional route goes like this: convert to fiat, pay a conversion spread, wait for the transfer, fund a separate broker...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Crypto pundit CharuSan has explained why Ripple’s XRP is a better choice for cross-border transactions than SWIFT. He also predicted that SWIFT is likely to integrate XRP at some point to avoid becoming redundant. Why Ripple’s XRP Has A Competitive...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
A Jerusalem family that lost relatives in a 1997 Hamas suicide bombing is among the plaintiffs pushing a US federal court to order Tether to hand over hundreds of millions in frozen digital currency. The case, filed in Manhattan, could set a signific...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
Bitcoin Depot had roughly 220 machines running in Canada when the Canadian government released its Spring Economic Update in April, proposing a nationwide ban on crypto ATMs to combat scammers and money launderers. The timing could not have been wors...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
The XRP market has seen a notable shift in large holders’ activity. Analyst Amr Taha, in a recent CryptoQuant post, highlights the implications of this changing dynamic and how it might affect the altcoin’s price. Large Holders Withdraw...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
Americans lost more than $11 billion to crypto-related fraud last year, according to an FBI report released in April — and the pressure on governments across Southeast Asia to crack down has only grown since then. A Deadly Business Myanmar’s mi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
On-chain data shows the Bitcoin exchange reserves have been at 8-year lows for the past month despite the recovery that the asset has witnessed. Bitcoin Supply On Exchanges Has Been Flat Recently As highlighted by on-chain analytics firm Santiment in...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 days ago
South Korean authorities are set to release detailed rules for the issuance, infrastructure, and distribution of tokenized securities, as the country advances its efforts to implement crypto market regulations in 2027. FSC Eyes July Tokenized Securi...
