Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 hours ago
Four Bitcoin mining pools, Foundry Digital, AntPool, ViaBTC, and F2Pool, controlled more than 70% of the network’s hashrate as of a June 23, 2026 snapshot from miningpoolstats.stream. The concentration is increasingly described as a two-tier market f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 hours ago
The Brazilian securities watchdog (CVM) is preparing to establish an experimental regime for securities in the next 60 days. To this end, it has established a working group to propose the rules and regulations that will become the foundation of the c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 hours ago
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing President Donald Trump for updated cryptocurrency earnings disclosures as senators consider the CLARITY Act, legislation she says could increase the value of his family’s extensive digital asset holdings and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 7 hours ago
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis highlighted three key benefits of the CLARITY Act, arguing that the legislation would form part of a broader digital asset framework while strengthening consumer protections and clarifying federal oversight. Can the CLARIT...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 8 hours ago
Bitcoin has flashed an “end of bear market” signal after its short-term holder cost basis fell below the adjusted long-term holder level. The crossover mirrors previous bitcoin cycles, suggesting the market may be entering the final stage of its bear...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 9 hours ago
Ripple returned its CLARITY truck to Washington, D.C., as several Senate Democrats challenged the CLARITY Act’s current version, putting needed crossover support at risk over concerns about presidential financial conflicts of interest, anti-fraud sta...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 10 hours ago
Michael Saylor says bitcoin cannot achieve global monetary status without corporate adoption. Public companies now hold more than 1.26 million BTC, while Strategy’s financing model shows how bitcoin is being used as both a reserve asset and a source...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 hours ago
One year after bipartisan House passage, a Federal Hall hearing renewed the push for the CLARITY Act, underscoring Washington’s failure to turn support for digital asset innovation into a functioning regulatory framework as Senate action remains unce...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 hours ago
France’s national gaming regulator has ordered internet service providers to completely block access to the crypto-based prediction site Polymarket. Polymarket Traffic from French IP Addresses Surges France’s national gaming regulator ann...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 13 hours ago
FTX Trading Ltd. and the FTX Recovery Trust will send roughly $900 million to creditors starting July 31, 2026, marking the estate’s fifth major distribution since the exchange’s 2022 collapse. The payout covers eligible holders of allowe...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 14 hours ago
Coinbase CEO Brian Armmsgtong stressed that self-custody wallets were essential for reaching cryptocurrency adoption in the billions, praising the simplicity of entering markets that lack clear regulations. Agentic adoption, a future growth avenue, a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 15 hours ago
Strategy founder Michael Saylor published a lengthy essay Saturday rejecting BIP 110, a proposed Bitcoin softfork that would temporarily restrict several types of transactions carrying non-payment data. Saylor’s essay lists 100 numbered argumen...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 16 hours ago
Over the past two months, the stablecoin economy has been tightening its belt, trimming $12.413 billion since mid-May. In just the last week, the sector said goodbye to another $1.555 billion. Stablecoin Market Sheds More Than $12 Billion Since Mid-M...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 17 hours ago
Sixteen years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto answered a doubter on a forum in 2010, and the reply still guides how the network defends its money today. A Forum Post That Set the Rules On July 16, 2010, a user named bdonlan questioned Bitcoin’s double SH...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 18 hours ago
Rap superstar Drake has placed a $1.5 million bet in USDT on Argentina to beat Spain in Sunday’s FIFA World Cup final, a wager that could pay out roughly $5.175 million if Lionel Messi’s team wins in regulation or extra time. The rapper p...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 19 hours ago
This week’s crypto storylines mixed balance-sheet stress, regulation, venture hindsight, geopolitics, and macro sentiment. Michael Saylor built a $3 billion cash buffer around Strategy’s bitcoin stack, the CFTC backed Kalshi in its Michigan fight, an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 20 hours ago
Two prediction market platforms are pricing the same outcome for Sunday’s World Cup final, with Polymarket and Kalshi bettors both putting Spain ahead of Argentina as the teams prepare to meet at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey. Kickoff is set fo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 21 hours ago
Bitcoin trades near $64,000 on July 18, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. EDT, holding inside a tight range after bouncing off a 24-hour low of $62,516. The largest cryptocurrency by market cap has consolidated between $63,900 and $64,000 for several hours as trade...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 23 hours ago
Traditional wealth management is constrained by slow, expensive, siloed legacy settlement layers that rely on redundant manual compliance checks. Abdul Rafay Gadit discusses how purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain architecture resolves these systemic in...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Self-custodial trading platform Sedona has partnered with Fhenix to integrate confidential fully homomorphic encryption infrastructure into its system. Cryptographic Security Upgrade Sedona, a self-custodial trading platform and neo-bank, announced a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
SBI Holdings has acquired a majority stake in Singapore-based crypto exchange Coinhako after securing regulatory approval. The deal strengthens the Japanese financial group’s push into digital assets, stablecoins and tokenized markets across Asia. SB...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Dmitry Dubynin, CEO of the National Payment Card System (NSPK), stressed that cards issued by Visa and Mastercard “don’t provide any value,” as their operations are currently supported by the national system. Visa and Mastercard exi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Ripple has committed $250,000 in RLUSD-funded grants to 25 veteran- and military spouse-owned businesses through a collaboration with Hire Heroes USA. Ripple Backs Veteran Entrepreneurs With $250,000 in RLUSD Grants A quarter-million dollars is now m...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
T. Rowe Price, which manages $1.89 trillion in client assets, has launched TKNZ, an actively managed multi-token spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) offering exposure to bitcoin, ether, XRP, and other leading cryptocurrencies. Active Management and Multi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Underdog has filed the first seven sports event-contract templates for UDX, the federally regulated exchange it acquired in March. The filings target an initial listing no later than July 17, moving Underdog closer to controlling its own contracts ra...
