Bitcoin falls below $63,000 as rate shakes, Iran tensions weigh
Bitcoin falls below $63,000 as rate shakes, Iran tensions weigh
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Bitcoin’s anti-spam fight gets a ‘DOG Mode’ response
While BIP 110 wants to limit data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no voting at all.
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Bitcoin below $64,000 after new US attack on Iran and Trump’s China claim
Bitcoin BTC$63,436.27 and Asian stocks fell on Friday after new US airstrikes on Iran raised geopolitical uncertainty. In addition, President Donald Trump’s claims that China had tampered with the 2020 election hurt risk sentiment and sent the Australian dollar lower. BTC, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, fell to $63,600, extending Thursday’s nearly 1.4% slide
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Truth Social Parent to sell faster access to Trump’s posts
President Trump’s social media company has a new business venture: selling faster access to the president’s posts. Trump Media & Technology Group said Thursday it planned to sell a real-time feed of its influential Truth Social posts starting next month, replacing the need for users to manually monitor the platform. The product, Truth API, is
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US OFAC Adds Four Iranian Central Bank Crypto Wallets to Sanctions, Tether Freezes $131 Million USDT
The US added four crypto wallets linked to Iran’s central bank to its sanctions list after a ceasefire deal between the two countries collapsed and air and drone strikes resumed. The four Tron blockchain wallets had received more than $165 million in stablecoins, according to Chainalysis. Tether blocked $131 million in USDT held by the
$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF
T. Rowe Price has brought what it said is the industry’s first actively managed multi-token spot crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) to market. The T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF (TKNZ) began trading Thursday, giving investors exposure to a portfolio of crypto assets instead of a single token. The launch marks a milestone for the Baltimore-based
Crypto.com lands a $400 million investment from Citadel Securities at a $20 billion valuation
Crypto.com secured a $400 million strategic investment from market maker Citadel Securities in a deal that values the crypto exchange at $20 billion, marking the firm’s first institutional funding round since it was founded a decade ago, the company said in a press release Thursday. The funding comes as digital assets draw greater participation from
The Clarity Act is the most important consumer protection effort in years
As a former financial regulator, I understand that no law can prevent every market failure or stop every bad actor. Fraud exists in all markets, at all scales, but strong regulations can mitigate the worst outcomes. They give regulators visibility, set obligations for companies before consumers engage with their products, and require companies to operate
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Why Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes gamble to own the future of digital payments
If Stripe owns PayPal, Bridge becomes the shared infrastructure layer under PYUSD, OpenUSD and Tempo. It’s infrastructure consolidation, not token competition, and it’s a much bigger deal than the acquisition headline suggests.” That kind of infrastructure scale could allow Stripe to introduce lower settlement fees and payment incentives for PYUSD, while Tempo could gradually steer
Visa backs Open USD with new stablecoin platform as Circle (CRCL) faces fresh competition
Visa introduced a new platform aimed at making it easier for banks, fintech companies and crypto firms to build products using stablecoins, expanding its efforts into blockchain-based payments as competition in the sector heats up. The company announced Thursday that it launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP), an enterprise service that allows institutions to issue,