Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has joined calls to free early crypto investor and entrepreneur Roger Ver, who is locked in a legal battle with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) over alleged tax evasion and faces extradition to the US. Buterin reposted Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s message calling for the prosecution against Ver…
Bitcoin may see a brief correction to the $72,000 support as an imminent market recovery remains limited by a lack of crypto investor sentiment, which has dropped to lows not seen since 2022. Bitcoin (BTC) price hit an over three-month low of $78,197 on Feb. 28, falling over 28% from its record high of over…
Memecoins, once seen as community-driven digital assets, are increasingly being used to exploit retail investors, with a growing number of scams and failed celebrity-backed tokens raising regulatory concerns. The $4 billion collapse of the Libra (LIBRA) token, which was endorsed by Argentine President Javier Milei, is the latest blow to the sector after eight insider…
States are likely to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) reserves before the US federal government does, Senator Cynthia Lummis reportedly said on Feb. 28 during the Bitcoin Investor Week conference in New York. “My bets are that you’ll see a state have a Bitcoin strategic reserve before the federal government,” Lummis said, according to a Bloomberg report. …
The speculative nature of cryptocurrencies personifies the idea that “anything is fair game” when it comes to valuation. These analyses can thread a thin line between being respectable or ridiculed. In 2018-2019, tossing the idea of a $100,000 Bitcoin price was considered so absurd that renowned economists took offense and condemned the mere thoughts of…
A district court judge has dismissed the US securities regulator’s lawsuit accusing Hex founder Richard Heart of raising over $1 billion through unregistered crypto offerings and defrauding investors of $12.1 million. Heart, whose real name is Richard Schueler, was also accused of spending those allegedly stolen funds on luxury items — including the world’s largest…
The Bitcoin bounce to $85,000 on Feb. 28 had traders hopeful that a bottom was in could be in peril after BTC (BTC) struggled to secure a higher high candlestick for the daily close. Data from TRDR.io shows Bitcoin received a strong spot bid at Coinbase as the price fell to a 2025 low at…
A crypto trader and marketing executive who correctly predicted FTX’s collapse said FTX creditor repayments coming a little over two years after the incident is a “win” — all things considered. “I thought it would take longer, just because there’s so many jurisdictional issues, you’re working with so many different governments, different levels of enforcement,…
Miner Extractable Value. That phrase is essentially one of the biggest fundamental risk spaces that exist for blockchain based systems. The original conception of a blockchain included incentives for miners (or other consensus participants deciding transaction ordering) to earn revenue based on whatever initial block subsidy is entered into circulation each block in addition to…
The Bitcoin sell-off, which dominated a majority of the weak, appears to be easing off, with BTC price making a recovery back in the $80,000 range to reach an intra-day high at $85,120. Some traders believe that Bitcoin (BTC) was overdue for a bounce, given how deeply oversold some of its technical indicators had become….
