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Uphold will hand over more than $5 million to customers it helped deceive — a payout that amounts to over five times what the company actually earned from the deal.
A Settlement With Real Teeth
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
The CLARITY Act has cleared one of its biggest political bottlenecks after the final rewards language in the bill was made public, giving the crypto industry a compromise it can live with and lawmakers a clearer path to move the broader market struct...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Following its April rally, Bitcoin has settled into a tight range between $75,000 and $78,000. According to crypto analyst Kabuki, this movement may represent a familiar phase seen in previous market cycles that have preceded explosive gains.
Base...
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Ripple placed its treasury business at the center of a new XRP price prediction after promoting Ripple Treasury as a platform with full cash visibility with notable numbers. An analyst on X has since noted that those numbers, when run through a valua...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
The crypto industry is seriously under attack following a recent surge in exploit incidents. According to market analyst Ali Martinez, data from DeFiLlama shows that April was particularly bad for digital asset firms and protocols, with 29 attacks re...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Bitcoin mining firm Riot Platforms has published its financial performance for the first quarter of 2026, reporting revenue of over $167 million. The financial report highlights a shift in the company’s business model and a growing trend in its...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
After a dismal start to the year, the Bitcoin price has somewhat steadied the ship over the past two months. According to price action data, the flagship cryptocurrency closed in the green in both March and April, with a double-digit performance comi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Fear still hangs over the crypto market even as Bitcoin closed April with its strongest monthly gain in 12 months. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index registered a reading of 39 on Friday — firmly in “Fear” territory — a sign that many inve...
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Bitcoin entered May trading above $78,000, a price level that, while modest compared to last year’s peak, carries a weight relative to its price action in the previous two months.
Not only is Bitcoin entering May with some sort of bullish mome...
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The SBI Holdings is making a decisive move that could reshape the crypto landscape in Asia. With a letter of intent submitted to acquire Bitbank, the firm is signaling a deeper push into digital asset infrastructure. This development represents a str...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
The Bitcoin market has had a rollercoaster performance in 2026, after a bloodbath in the first quarter and what has seemed like a fairly quiet start to the second quarter. Over the past two weeks, BTC has made multiple attempts to break back above th...
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The US CLARITY Act, a legislative proposal that seeks to establish a regulatory framework for the crypto industry in the United States, has taken a major step toward becoming law. This comes after the surprise finalization of the new stablecoin yield...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
The Ethereum Foundation has completed another over-the-counter sale of its ETH holdings, this time offloading 10,000 ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies as the counterparty. The transaction follows a continuing pattern of structured selling that ha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Taiwan’s central bank is being given one month to produce a report on stablecoins and digital asset reserves — a deadline set not by its own leadership, but by a lawmaker in the country’s legislature.
A Formal Push From The Legislature
T...
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The U.S. SEC recently highlighted an NYSE proposal that places XRP alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum as eligible assets under the generic listing standards. This is a positive for the altcoin, which was once considered a security by the SEC under Gary G...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Japan has recently executed an exchange intervention on the 30th of April with compelling implications for the Bitcoin market. This event follows Bitcoin’s bullish performance in the opening Q2, during which prices surged by 14%, providing much...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Crypto analyst Iso Ledger has warned XRP investors and holders to take a closer look before depositing funds into earnXRP, a new yield product tied to Upshift and the Flare Network. While others discuss the possibility of earning steady passive incom...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
About 90% of crypto flows in Brazil are tied to stablecoins — and that figure appears to have been the breaking point for regulators.
A Rule With A Narrow But Significant Reach
Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) issued Resolution BCB No. 561 on Thursday,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
A new Reuters investigation has raised serious questions about Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex, describing it as a major channel in a parallel financial system that helps money move around US sanctions—using both the country’s securit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s main crypto venture, is facing renewed scrutiny after a recent report revealed that the project quietly sold billions of WLFI tokens to private investors.
World Liberty Back In The Spotlight
On Friday, a B...
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Tether has released its first-quarter (Q1) 2026 attestation report, audited by BDO, a “top-five” global independent accounting firm. The report highlights what the company describes as continued momentum for the stablecoin issuer, including major fin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
On-chain data shows the Bitcoin mining Difficulty is headed for another 3% drop this weekend. Here’s what this could mean for the network.
Bitcoin Block Time Has Been Slower Than Expected Recently
According to data from CoinWarz, the Bitcoin Di...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Bitcoin is holding above $75,000 as the market enters what is shaping up to be a decisive moment — a price level that has resisted multiple attempts at breakout and is now being tested again with a cleaner technical structure than any previous approa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
“If you’re trying to own someone, you’ll trigger their defenses and accomplish nothing.” That line sits at the heart of a new tool built by a Nordic Bitcoin education group — one that aims to change how Bitcoin supporters resp...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
XRP has been struggling to hold above $1.35 as the market absorbs a wave of post-Fed deleveraging that has compressed derivatives activity to levels not seen since the beginning of the year. The price is at a critical juncture — and a CryptoQuant rep...