Minnesota crypto ATM ban goes into effect after reported $1M losses
State officials reported that Minnesota residents, and largely senior citizens, had lost about $1 million from scams tied to crypto...
Month: August 2026
Crypto PAC pours another $1M into Michigan House race
Michigan incumbent Shri Thanedar’s re-election bid against other Democratic candidates is getting more about crypto with an infusion of ads...
If the Fed trusts this single 2.2% metric, Bitcoin could break $65.3k and ignite a path to $68k
Bitcoin is trading near $63,000, with rate markets assigning roughly 66% odds to a September Federal Reserve hike, under a...
Tether claims $1.5B profit, but hidden math reveals a $4.2B hit that halved its safety cushion in 90 days
Tether's second-quarter materials report $1.5 billion in net operating profit, earned mainly from Treasuries and repo activity. However, the attached...
Why a guaranteed 4.47% yield on $44 billion of US debt just raised the hurdle for Bitcoin
The US government sold $44 billion of seven-year debt on July 28, and buyers accepted it at a yield of...
If Bitcoin breaks $62k over the weekend, a $1.1B short overhang stands ready to pull price down to $60k
Bitcoin enters the weekend near $62,900, less than 1% above the July 31 intraday low, and Deribit has already settled...
Why CME wants phone traders slinging leveraged Nvidia contracts at 3 AM after earnings drop
At 4:05 pm in New York, a large tech company releases earnings. The main stock session has ended, executives begin...
Bitcoin just slept through Japan’s rate decision, but a swollen yen short is quietly threatening a massive margin call
Bitcoin's leverage gauges barely flinched after Friday's Bank of Japan decision. A yen short that had reached 152,125 contracts by...
Coinbase Exec ‘Relentlessly Optimistic’ on CLARITY Act Odds
Coinbase Head of Institutional Strategy John D’Agostino says he remains “relentlessly optimistic” the CLARITY Act passes, even as Wall Street...
Blackrock, Fidelity Lead $265M Bitcoin ETF Outflows as Ether Gains
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted $265.4 million in net outflows on July 31, led by Blackrock’s IBIT, while spot ether...
SUI Faces Fresh Unlock as Bulls Target a Run to $20
SUI traded near $0.68 on August 1 as roughly 13.72 million tokens, worth about $9.9 million, unlocked on schedule, while...
Coldcard Exploit Fuels Market Fear as 2 Bitcoin Forks Loom Ahead
Bitcoin slipped below $63,000 this week as a major hardware wallet security incident rattled confidence just as traders are preparing...
Was AI Responsible for Finding the Coldcard Security Flaw?
A five-year-old Coldcard software flaw may have allowed an attacker to reconstruct private keys and sweep more than 1,100 bitcoin,...
Trump Weighs Ethics Counteroffer as CLARITY Act Nears August Deadline
President Donald Trump is weighing a bipartisan ethics counteroffer for the CLARITY Act as Senate negotiators race to finalize crypto...
Sygnum Bank’s B2B Model Fuels Switzerland’s Crypto Boom
Zurich-based Sygnum Bank has connected its regulated cryptocurrency services directly to Bancastato’s online banking system, giving clients in Switzerland’s Ticino...
