CoinGecko says prediction markets hit an all-time quarterly high in Q2 even as spot trading, derivatives activity and stablecoin growth weakened across the wider crypto market.
Bitcoin rose above $65,500 after U.S. producer price data came in weaker than expected, reinforcing hopes that the Federal Reserve could eventually ease policy.
Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi says AI has not produced the expected DeFi “hackpocalypse,” as median exploit sizes and monthly stolen value have fallen even as incident counts hit records.
Michael Saylor and Adam Back have criticized BIP-110, arguing that a temporary fork to restrict non-monetary Bitcoin transactions could create more risk than the Ordinals activity it seeks to address.
Bitcoin advocates Michael Saylor and Adam Back opposed a proposal to restrict non-monetary Bitcoin transactions, Bonzo Lend lost about $9 million in an oracle-related exploit, and the DOJ is reportedly seeking to drop fraud charges against BitClub founder Matthew Goettsche.
A Cambridge review found Ethereum’s annual electricity use is modest among proof-of-stake networks and its market-value-adjusted energy intensity is second-lowest in the group studied.
Bitcoin, the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency, saw a sharp decline in price on Wednesday. It was down 6%, hitting the lowest mark since February.
After hovering around $60K on Tuesday, Bitcoin’s price slipped to $57,129.30 on Wednesday morning. This has been a result of a major sell-off by crypto investors,...
Software firm MicroStrategy doesn’t plan to back down from its strategy of hoarding Bitcoin anytime soon. In a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said it plans to sell $750 million in stock and use the money to buy more Bitcoin.
MicroStrategy will issue and...
Michael Saylor made the headlines in the past two years as one of the biggest Bitcoin bulls out there. He was once again the talk of the financial world on Tuesday, but this time for a completely different reason. MicroStrategy, the company he founded in 1989, announced that Saylor...
Tech giant Meta is scaling down its involvement in the cryptocurrency world; at least for now. The parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram is pulling the plug on the crypto-focused digital wallet Novi.
According to the statement on Novi's official website, the service will stop taking payments on July...