Bitcoin

Fiat Currency Lifespans and Bitcoin: A Warning for Risk Assets A chart from River puts the average lifespan of a fiat currency at 27 years. Many currencies in its dataset disappeared after hyperinflation or were replaced. That raises an awkward question: how dependable is the unit used ...

Bitcoin ETF Gold ETF Comparison: A Familiar Cycle Emerges Bitcoin ETFs have hit a rough patch. IBIT briefly crossed $100 billion in assets under management, then slipped when the market turned. Bloomberg Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas sees an echo of what gold ETFs went through more t ...

macOS Malware Targets Crypto Wallets, Puts Digital Assets at Risk A new strain of macOS malware is going after cryptocurrency holders. It hunts for several popular wallets and may hijack active Telegram Desktop sessions as well. Why does that matter? Because investors who store most of ...

Newhedge Turns Bitcoin Trading Into a Live Battlefield Newhedge has released "Bitcoin Battlefield," an interactive tool that turns BTC price action into a warzone. It looks like a game. It isn't one. The display runs on real market data, with whale trades and liquidations appearing as o ...

Bitcoin Short-Term Holders Face Heavy Losses as Bear Market Grinds On "Only 13.5% of Bitcoin (BTC) held by short-term holders (STH) is currently profitable." Put bluntly, about 86.5% is underwater. That hurts. Those recent buyers are waiting for Bitcoin to revisit their ...

Trump's Crypto Play and Visa's Stablecoin Push Lead the Daily Crypto News Digest Thursday, July 16th, was hectic even for crypto. Donald Trump reportedly found a way to make money from his social media posts; Visa launched a stablecoin platform. One story mixes politics with personal pr ...

Ostium exchange hack on Arbitrum: $18 million loss puts DeFi security back under pressure Ostium, a decentralized exchange on Arbitrum, was hit by a security breach that drained $18,000,000, according to Blockaid. That is not pocket change. My take: this is exactly the kind of headline ...

Summer.fi Closes After $6M Hack: Another DeFi Casualty Summer.fi is shutting down after a $6 million hack. Another DeFi project gone. Not the biggest wreck in DeFi history, no. Wormhole and Ronin were much larger. But $6 million is still real money, and if your funds were exposed, that ...

Twitter optimists see Bitcoin reaching $1.2M by 2028 Some Bitcoin bulls on Twitter (X) are throwing around a huge target: $1,200,000 by 2028 or 2029. The pitch leans on Jesse Livermore's "Speculative Chart," an old market framework traders still drag back into the room whenever prices st ...

US Sanctions, Tokenization, and Memecoin Mania: Your Daily Crypto and Finance News Digest Wednesday, July 15th, was busy. Crypto markets had to digest US Treasury action against Iranian crypto wallets, DTCC's new asset tokenization effort, fresh regulation talk from Washington, and the u ...