Ray Dalio Warns of Looming US Debt Crisis and Urges Gold and Bitcoin Allocations
A prominent investor is urging people to shift away from bonds and toward gold and Bitcoin (BTC) to shield against...
Month: August 2026
Coldcard now requires 65 key presses after seed exploit, while exposed funds still must move
Coinkite, the maker of the Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallet, released new standard firmware on Aug. 20 that forces users to...
Grayscale’s Zcash ETF filing proposes a 2.5% fee and a potential 34% DCG stake
Grayscale’s proposed Zcash ETF would carry a 2.5% annual fee. Under one dated ownership calculation, a DCG affiliate could receive...
Everyday crypto users face monthly tax bills on total asset value if covered brokers fail to collect under new Illinois rules
Illinois’s 0.2% digital asset tax, scheduled to start Jan. 1, 2027, now faces another industry complaint as brokers prepare for...
Reaching instant 27ms validation on Bitcoin will take 17 GPU years of compute power
Hazync's developer reports that a 1.7 MB standalone verifier checked a 226,434-byte cryptographic receipt covering the first 1,789 blocks of...
A $1 billion meme coin purchase puts a huge 167% share dilution down to a single vote for ZeroStack
ZeroStack’s Aug. 21 resale registration puts a shareholder vote between the company and 36.2 million new shares tied to its...
Inside transfer wipes out $1M executive debt as crypto firm offloads payments business without independent valuation
RocketFuel Blockchain transferred substantially all assets used in its payments business to RPay, whose sole director and CEO, Peter M....
CLARITY gets a September Senate floor date as CFTC signals a limited regulatory fallback
The U.S. Senate has put the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on course for a 60-vote procedural test on Sept....
Big Banks Demand Identity Checks for Secondary Stablecoin Markets
The Bank Policy Institute, representing the massive U.S. banking lobby, filed a comment letter asking FinCEN to apply customer identification...
Bitcoin’s ECX Fork Is Coming: When It Hits and Who Gets Free Coins
Bitcoin holders are lined up to receive a matching balance of a new asset called ecash (ECX) when the project...
Bitcoin May Hit Turning Point This Week as Durable Bottom Takes Shape
Grayscale says bitcoin’s sharp weekly rally could mark a turning point after a relatively shallow bear market. Historical cycle comparisons...
Robert Kiyosaki Calls Expanded Treasury Buybacks QE, Backs Bitcoin
Robert Kiyosaki says expanded U.S. Treasury debt buybacks amount to quantitative easing and renewed his preference for bitcoin, gold, silver,...
Bitcoin’s $100K Forecast May Be Too Low After Record Short Squeeze
Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick says record bitcoin short liquidations and renewed ETF demand have increased the market’s upside risk. He...
Ethereum Taps $2,546 as ETF Cash and Shorts Fuel the Fire
Ethereum (ETH) surged 29.8% higher over the past seven days, smoking bitcoin’s 22.9% gain as returning exchange-traded fund (ETF) buyers,...
Grayscale Sees 3 Reasons Bitcoin May Be Worth Buying Right Now
Grayscale sees three conditions aligning for people asking whether now is a good time to buy bitcoin. The crypto asset...
