Bitcoin is safe today, but signatures, software, custodians and users would need years to coordinate a defense.
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On July 22, US Senate Republicans released an updated version of the CLARITY Act, moving one of Washington’s most consequential cryptocurrency bills back toward a potential floor vote. The updated text follows weeks of negotiations and seeks to establish a broad federal market-structure framework for digital assets in the United States. The proposal addresses several […]
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MVMT Labs is the sole named debtor, while Move Industries says it is uninvolved and key asset boundaries remain unresolved.
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The filings show an asset-first strategy, but restraint, forfeiture and victim repayment remain separate stages.
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Together, the court-entered orders restrict marketing across deposit, exchange, investment, withdrawal and trading products, including assisted activity.
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A real model-driven compromise is being squeezed between singularity rhetoric and claims of marketing hype, making it harder to recognize what the incident actually proves.
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Bitcoin surged past $66,000 for the first time since early June, extending a recovery that is beginning to repair some of the losses left by the market’s recent downturn. The rebound comes from a much weaker starting point than the price alone suggests. VanEck data showed that investors who sold Bitcoin over the past month […]
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OKX added Andrew Cuomo to its board of directors this month, framing it as a natural progression from two years of him advising the company. Cuomo also co-chairs a joint venture between OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, the operator of the New York Stock Exchange. That venture is building infrastructure for tokenized assets, institutional derivatives and […]
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On July 28 and 29, the Federal Reserve meets to set its next rate decision, and traders will try to price the outcome through bonds, currencies, crypto and contracts that settle directly on what the central bank announces. Reuters polled 104 economists on July 21 and found every one of them expected the Fed to […]
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A major exploit involving a bridge connected to the Cardano ecosystem sent Midnight’s NIGHT token to an all-time low on July 20 after an attacker drained roughly 515 million tokens from infrastructure operated by Wanchain. The tokens were removed from a Cardano-side lock address backing NIGHT bridged to BNB Chain, leaving only a fraction of […]
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Bitcoin has climbed back from its June 30 low near $58,500, trading at near $66,000 as of press time. Options traders are still paying steep premiums for protection against another leg down, and traders on perpetual futures markets have resumed paying to hold leveraged long positions. Both readings sit in a middle zone, well short […]
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Section 701 would place qualifying assets held for customers in Chapter 7 customer-property rules, while classification and title-transfer clauses still matter.
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Ethereum Tower can keep its 2% interest and may elect continuing fees or a formula-based payment after a covered termination.
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Matching FEC rows name Gemini because it liquidated the same bitcoin, not because the exchange donated another $10 million.
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More than 380 investors supplied the funds, while court approval, penalties and any recovery remain unresolved.
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President Donald Trump has reportedly agreed to proposed ethics restrictions tied to sweeping US cryptocurrency legislation, addressing one of the biggest obstacles in months of negotiations and shifting the next decision to Senate Democrats who have demanded limits on how public officials can profit from digital assets. The agreement came after Trump met last week […]
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For most of the month, traders had a pretty good explanation for Bitcoin's refusal to budge. A dense cluster of options contracts, they argued, was holding the price in a cage between $60,000 and $65,000, with dealers buying dips and selling rallies to stay hedged. Friday's expiry cleared roughly $1.2 billion of that exposure, and […]
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Raphael Zagury inherits a large Bitcoin balance sheet and a mandate to prove it can support a durable business.
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BitMine would now need to spend just $482 million more to complete its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum's total supply, though management is signaling that the final purchases will come more slowly. On July 20, the company revealed that it held 5,777,468 ETH after adding 7,430 tokens during the previous week. The latest purchase […]
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Spain’s second World Cup title settled the largest sports-related winner markets yet on Polymarket and Kalshi, closing a tournament that brought prediction trading closer to the center of the global sports-betting business. Available data from the two leading platforms show that they recorded about $5.57 billion in cumulative volume on contracts tied to the tournament […]
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Bitcoin climbed above $66,000, extending its advance as exchange-traded fund inflows and a sharp drop in balances on major crypto exchanges eased some of the selling pressure that has weighed on the market since May. Data from CryptoSlate shows that the largest cryptocurrency traded as high as $66,277 and was changing hands near $66,181 as […]
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Michael Saylor-led Strategy sold another $263.5 million of common stock last week, but the company used the fundraising to expand its cash reserve rather than add to its Bitcoin holdings. According to a July 20 SEC filing, the Tysons Corner, Virginia-based company issued 2.73 million Class A shares between July 13 and July 19, while […]
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XRP open interest is above $2.4 billion, about $125 million up over the last week, as traders rebuilt derivatives exposure beneath the token’s next price barrier. XRP trades near $1.13, up 1.5% over 48 hours, with CoinGlass recording $1.98 billion in futures volume, $274 million in spot volume, and $2.53 million in liquidations. CoinGecko measured […]
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Brent crude futures reached $91.42 on July 20, their highest level since June 11, then eased to $88.28 as mediators floated a 10-day US-Iran ceasefire proposal. Bitcoin traded above $65,000 earlier in the session, registering an intraday high at $65,666 and a low at $63,100. As of press time, Bitcoin has now reached $66,313, while […]
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US gross federal debt reached $39.489 trillion on July 15, leaving roughly $511 billion before the $40 trillion threshold, and this debt total strengthens Bitcoin's fixed-supply argument. Treasury currently expects to borrow $671 billion in privately held net marketable debt during the July-to-September quarter, with the estimate built on a $950 billion end-of-September cash balance. […]
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Only creditors who cleared the June 16 requirements and can onboard with BitGo, Kraken or Payoneer are on the July 31 clock.
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The first five repurchases generated 24% more gross Bitcoin-per-share accretion per pound than a matched BTC purchase.
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Prosecutors say eight entities were used as investor funds moved through financial institutions and crypto exchanges, with new money repaying earlier investors.
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The headline figure is gross notional for one capped spread, while $72,500 touch odds stood at just 4.1%.
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ANJ cited Similarweb estimates after operator-level controls were circumvented in practice while the platform's live odds remained visible.
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