X says its Terms of Service will change Jan. 15, 2026, expanding how the platform defines user “Content” and adding contract language tied to the operation and protection of its AI systems. The current terms, dated Nov. 15, 2024, remain in effect until the 2026 version takes over. A core revision is that X now […]
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K33 predicts early holder selling will ease in 2026, with two-year bitcoin supply recovering as net buy-side demand emerges.
Repeated distribution waves from long-term holders highlight how this bitcoin cycle is breaking from historical norms.
Bitcoin’s “death cross” is back in the group chat. And yes, the emails too. Matthew Sigel, head of digital assets research at VanEck, said he’s been “getting questions from clients” about the latest death cross print — the 50-day moving average slipping under the 200-day — and answered with the kind of data dump that tends to calm people down. “Lagging indicator,” Sigel wrote on X, alongside a table of every Bitcoin death cross going back to 2011. The summary stats are clean: the 6-month median return after a death cross is +30%, the 12-month median is +89%, and the “positive hit rate” is 64%. Another Bitcoin Death Cross, Another Missed Bottom? But the interesting bit isn’t just the returns. It’s Sigel’s market regime column — basically a hint that the same technical signal can mean wildly different things depending on where you are in the cycle. Take the ones tagged as some version of “bottom.” In 2011 (“post-bubble bottom”), the death cross showed up around the wreckage of an early-cycle blow-off, and the next 12 months were +357%. In 2015 (“cycle bottom”), it was +82% at six months and +159% at 12 months — classic post-capitulation behavior where trend indicators catch up late, after price has already stabilized and started to turn. Related Reading: US Bitcoin Session Leads December Returns After Weak November 2020 (“Covid bottom”) is the extreme example: forced liquidation, policy response, then a monster rebound (+812% over 12 months). And 2023 is also tagged “cycle bottom,” with +173% at six months and +121% at 12 months — the kind of “this is awful until it isn’t” regime crypto does better than any asset class. Now look at “structural bear.” That label shows up in 2014 (twice), 2018, and 2022 — and the forward returns are mostly ugly: 2014 prints -48% and -56% over 12 months, 2018 is -35%, and 2022 is -52%. Different environment. Less “washout and bounce,” more “trend is down because the system is deleveraging,” whether that’s miners, credit, exchanges, or macro liquidity tightening. In those regimes, a death cross isn’t a late alarm — it’s the moving averages confirming that the downtrend is real and persistent. Related Reading: Bitcoin Under Pressure As Yen Carry Trade Unwind Hits Global Markets The in-between tags matter too. 2019 is marked “late bear,” with +9% at six months and +89% at 12 — choppy, uneven, but improving as the cycle turns. 2021 is “late cycle”: +30% at six months, then -43% at 12, which fits a regime where trend signals can whipsaw while distribution and macro tightening creep in. And then there’s 2024: “post-ETF regime,” with +58% at six months and +94% at 12. That tag is doing a lot of work. It suggests the backdrop isn’t just “price vs. moving averages,” but structural demand (ETFs), different liquidity plumbing, and a market that may behave less like pure reflexive leverage and more like a hybrid of trad-fi flows plus crypto-native positioning. So the takeaway isn’t “death crosses are bullish.” That’s not true. It’s that the signal is mostly a trailing mirror — and the regime you’re actually in (bottoming, late bear, structural deleveraging, late cycle, post-ETF flow market) is what decides whether it’s a fake-out, a confirmation, or just noise with a scary name. At press time, Bitcoin traded at $86,631. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
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Binance has threatened legal action against alleged fake “listing agents” and is offering up to $5 million for proof of fraudulent activity.
Crypto scams are getting faster, smarter and harder to track. Lawmakers are now treating them as a growing national problem, and they want a coordinated federal response. This week, U.S. Senators Elissa Slotkin and Jerry Moran introduced a bipartisan bill aimed squarely at crypto-related fraud. The proposal, called the Strengthening Agency Frameworks for Enforcement of …
The race to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is heating up, with President Donald Trump expanding his shortlist to include current Fed Governor Christopher Waller. The move highlights Trump’s main objective: appointing a Fed Chair who supports deep interest rate cuts to boost economic growth. With Powell’s term ending in May next year, the …
The Himalayan kingdom plans to deploy part of its sovereign bitcoin holdings to fund long-term development through Gelephu Mindfulness City.
Bitcoin buying power from institutions flipped the daily mined BTC supply for the first time since the start of November, new data showed.
For years, US banks treated Bitcoin as something best observed from a distance. The asset lived on specialist exchanges and trading apps, walled off from core banking systems by capital rules, custody worries, and reputational risk. However, that posture is finally giving way. According to data from River, nearly 60% of the country’s 25 largest […]
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KuCoin is using a freshly minted MiCA license to wire crypto payments and perks into Tomorrowland’s flagship festivals.
Struggling under the weight of notable selling pressure, the Bitcoin price has since lost its hold on the $90,000 support, leading to a sustained downtrend through the middle of December. Despite calls for a bottom, the cryptocurrency does not seem to be heading in that direction, and some analysts have shared reasons as to why this is the case. Crypt analyst Lingrid maps out the trajectory of the Bitcoin price, showing a bullish short-term, but ultimately ending with more declines. Why The Bitcoin Price Could Crash Further Lingrid’s analysis focuses on Bitcoin’s recent price performance, having hit resistance multiple times above the $92,000 level. This comes as the digital asset is “capped below channel border,” something that is inherently bearish for the price, given the recent price action. Related Reading: Crypto Analyst Predicts How Low The XRP Price Will Go Before Bouncing The rejections between $92,500 and $93,500, according to the analyst, show that the Bitcoin price is likely to place in lower highs. Thus, even in the event of a recovery trend, this level still remains a significant roadblock to any rally. Furthermore, the crypto analyst adds that the recent slowdown in the Bitcoin price action has pushed it into a tight compression. With the price still sitting above the rising support line while this happens, Lingrid believes that this shows Bitcoin is entering into a state of equilibrium, and not strength. Usually, this means that the Bitcoin price could be headed for “directional expansion.” Presently, all eyes are on the bears and sellers as the Bitcoin price struggles to hold support. There is still the possibility that the price will rise to $92,500 before facing a rejection. In this scenario, it would trigger further decline toward $82,000 to put in lower lows. Related Reading: Can Bitcoin Price Still Hit $140,000? What The Global M2 Money Supply Says There is also the possibility that the digital asset does escape this bearish scenario, but the buyers would have to step back in the ring. Mainly, the Bitcoin price must break out and then hold above the channel, sustaining a move above $92,500. If this plays out, then Lingrid believes that the bearish thesis could be invalidated. Such a case would mean that the Bitcoin focus shifts back toward $100,000. However, with the price currently trending below $90,000 and sentiment being mostly negative, the chances of an invalidation remain slim. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com
The proposal seeks a binding social consensus that the funds will never be accessed through future protocol upgrades.
As Bitcoin coils near a critical turning point, capital is beginning to rotate toward altcoins with the cleanest continuation structures. Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche are all trading near key technical zones in the short term, but beneath the surface, their setups diverge meaningfully. When volatility compresses at the market level, relative structure matters. This comparison …
HashKey debuted on Hong Kong’s HKEX following a $206 million oversubscribed IPO, with the stock seeing notable volatility on its first day of trading.
AI is quickly shifting from buzzword to real engine of returns in digital asset markets. To discuss this matter, we sat down with Bryan Benson — a Web3 and fintech veteran with more than 27 years of experience building and scaling businesses across Latin America, the U.S., Europe, and MENA. He served as Managing Director …
Daily memecoin volume slumped to just under $5 billion this month after surging more than 760% to near $87 billion in 2024 as interest in the pop-culture crypto tokens evaporated.
Screenshots of an email shared online purportedly show founder Yida Gao stepping down as managing director of Shima Capital and outlining plans for an orderly wind-down of the fund.
The crypto market is once again under pressure, with total market capitalization falling below the $3 trillion mark for the third time this month. The repeated failure to reclaim and hold this level is heightening concerns that the current pullback could deepen rather than turn into a brief relief rally. Large-cap assets, including Bitcoin, Ether, …
After the latest drop, Bitcoin price consolidates around $87,000, within a narrow range that is now pressing against multi-week resistance. The star token usually accumulates before undergoing the next price action, and hence, the ongoing price compression is believed to transform into a gigantic breakout. While the macro narrative has soured and unemployment is rising, …
Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research and ex-girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, was transferred on October 16 from the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, to community confinement. This could include home confinement or a halfway house, though she remains under federal custody. Ellison has served roughly 11 months of her sentence. According to prison records, …
Crypto investors have been growing impatient as altcoins continue to lag behind Bitcoin. For months, crypto traders have been asking the same question: Is altcoin season dead, or just delayed? According to several well-known market experts, the Altcoin season may not be gone at all, it simply hasn’t started yet.Here’s when the altcoin season is …
In a quiet but monumental shift, chip design is starting to look like a less expensive, transparent, and worldwide tournament. Instead of closed laboratories on the outskirts of some country funded by large corporations with huge finances, engineers can now openly compete against each other in an environment where performance determines who wins. This is …
On-chain data shows the top 100 whales on the Chainlink network have again started accumulating the asset recently, retracing their earlier distribution. Top Chainlink Addresses Have Been Adding Since The Start Of November In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm Santiment has discussed about the latest trend in the holdings of the top Chainlink addresses. Santiment defines “top addresses” as the 100 largest wallets on the network. Related Reading: Bitcoin, Ethereum Plunge Triggers Near-$600 Million Crypto Long Flush This category would naturally include the largest of whales on the blockchain, who carry some degree of influence due to the sheer size of their holdings. As such, the behavior of these investors may be worth monitoring. Now, here is the chart shared by Santiment that shows how the Chainlink supply held by the top addresses has changed over the last few months: The value of the metric appears to have gone up in recent weeks | Source: Santiment on X As displayed in the above graph, the combined supply of the 100 largest Chainlink wallets witnessed a decline in October, implying that these massive entities were participating in distribution. The selling from the top addresses first began as LINK’s price went through a sharp crash. The selloff continued until the start of November, when the indicator finally arrived at a bottom. Shortly after, the supply of the 100 largest LINK investors saw a reversal, signaling the return of accumulation. According to Santiment, these whales have collectively added 20.46 million tokens (about $263 million) to their holdings. This has not only retraced the October drawdown in their supply, but also in fact taken it to an even higher level. While the top Chainlink addresses have shown net accumulation since the start of November, the pace of buying hasn’t been constant. From the chart, it’s apparent that most of the accumulation occurred in November, with not much coming in December so far. It now remains to be seen what trend the 100 largest LINK investors will show next, and whether it will have any influence on where the cryptocurrency heads next. In some other news, Chainlink recently lost a multi-year technical support line, as analyst Ali Martinez has highlighted in an X post. As is visible in the above chart, Chainlink made two retests of this line during the first half of 2025 and each time, it found support. The retest that occurred after the latest price downtrend, however, ended up in failure, with the asset dropping below this line for the first time since 2023. Related Reading: US Bitcoin Session Leads December Returns After Weak November After the breakdown, LINK attempted to retrace it, but the retest from below also ended in rejection, a potential sign that the support may have flipped into resistance. LINK Price Following its most recent drop, Chainlink is trading around $12.96. Featured image from Dall-E, Santiment.net, charts from TradingView.com
Binance has announced the delisting of several spot trading pairs due to low liquidity and trading volume. Effective December 19, 2025, at 03:00 UTC, the affected pairs include AI/FDUSD, BICO/BTC, DOLO/BNB, MITO/BNB, MITO/FDUSD, MOVE/BTC, NEWT/BNB, and OM/BTC. Spot Trading Bots for these pairs will also be terminated, and users are advised to update or cancel …
US Senators Elissa Slotkin and Jerry Moran introduced a bipartisan bill to strengthen federal coordination against crypto-related scams.
The safety net is the 100-week average, which has stalled the downtrend.
Bitcoin price today is trading in the $85,000–$86,000 range at press time, pulling back sharply from recent highs. The price currently sits near $85,654, down around 4%–7% in the past 24 hours. Earlier in the session, Bitcoin briefly climbed close to $89,948 before reversing, underlining the increase in short-term volatility. As prices cool, long-time Bitcoin …