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Bitcoin (BTC) narrowly missed a major breakout. History says be careful.

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This is an excerpt from CoinDesk’s ‘Diary’ newsletter. Sign up here if you haven’t already. Bitcoin BTC$80,953.28 has pulled back below $81,000 after narrowly missing a test of the closely watched 200-day simple moving average (SMA), currently near $83,300, on Wednesday. The broader crypto market is also trading in the red, with the CoinDesk Smart […]

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Bitcoin stalls below $83K as altcoins flash bullish rotation: Crypto Markets Today

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The crypto market fell on Thursday with bitcoin BTC$80,840.60 lost about 0.7% since midnight UTC after Wednesday’s rally to a three-month high of $82,800. Ether lost about 1% during Asian and European hours, and is now trading at $2,325 after briefly topping $2,420 on Wednesday. The broader market is showing early signs of a bullish

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Why Adam Back Says Bitcoin Is Winning the ‘DeFi Security War’

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Blockstream CEO Adam Back said the recent exploits of decentralized finance (DeFi) strengthen Bitcoin’s appeal among institutions seeking secure, politically neutral financial infrastructure, while opening the door to more conservative forms of tokenization and decentralized finance built on Bitcoin rails. Speaking at Consensus Miami 2026, the longtime cryptographer and early Bitcoin contributor argued that the

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After stumbles, technology intended for self-driving cars finds a second act

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For autonomous vehicles and car companies, 2016 was a heady year. Multimillion-dollar investments in self-driving technologies were heralded on a weekly basis, and then Ford made a bold prediction: It would mass-produce self-driving cars for consumers by 2021. That era “was crazy with announcements,” said Alan Hall, a Ford communications manager at the time, “and

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Why Animoca’s Yat Siu says the future is 100 billion AI agents

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The crypto industry may have fundamentally misunderstood the metaverse, according to Animoca Brands chairman Yat Siu, who argues that the next phase of virtual economies would come not through VR headsets or immersive digital worlds, but through fleets of AI agents acting across blockchain networks behind the scenes. Siu said the metaverse might come to

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Ripple, JPMorgan Settle First Cross-Border Tokenized Treasury Redemption on XRP Ledger

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A key piece of financial infrastructure that stitches tokenized assets into traditional banking got a real cross-border test this week. Ondo Finance said on Wednesday it had completed the first near-real-time cross-border redemption of a tokenized U.S. treasury fund alongside JPMorgan blockchain platform Kinexys, payments giant Mastercard and Ripple. The transaction was settled in under

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Wall Street’s BNY expands crypto depository in Abu Dhabi, starting with bitcoin, ether

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BNY, the world’s largest custodian bank overseeing $59 trillion in assets, is expanding its digital asset custody business to the United Arab Emirates through local partners. According to a press release on Thursday, the global financial giant is working with Finstreet and the ADI Foundation to build regulated digital asset infrastructure anchored in the Abu

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Trump Family Backed US Bitcoin Cost Drops 23% in Q1 as Mining Industry Shifts to AI

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The Trump brothers’ bitcoin mining venture reduced the cost per coin by nearly a quarter in three months, bucking industry trends. American Bitcoin (ABTC) said in a Wednesday filing that the cost of mining a bitcoin fell to about $36,200 in the first quarter, down 23% from $46,900 in Q4 2025. That puts it significantly

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