ARK Invest sold $17.4 million worth of Coinbase (COIN) shares and bought a similar amount in Bullish (BLSH) shares on Thursday as crypto stocks rallied. Cathie Wood’s investment management firm sold 119,236 shares of COIN stock, worth $17.4 million by Thursday’s close. COIN lost 13.3% on the day to close at $146.12 amid the ongoing […]
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The US job market is cooling rapidly, a timely blow that could force the Federal Reserve to loosen its purse strings and potentially put a floor under the price of bitcoin BTC$65,751.64. Planned layoffs, the job cuts that companies have announced but not yet carried out, rose 205% to 108,435 in January, according to data
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Quantum computing is moving from theory to long-term strategic considerations, and Strategy ( MSTR ) made it clear that it intends to be proactive rather than reactive during the company’s Q4 earnings call Thursday. Strategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, plans to initiate a bitcoin security program to coordinate with the global cyber, crypto
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Blockchains should focus on their original purpose: finance, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu wrote on X-Thursday, rejecting years of narratives that tried to frame the technology as a generalized replacement for the modern Internet. “Blockchains have always been and will always be technology for finance,” Liu wrote, describing financialization and open capital markets as the
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Sovcombank, the ninth-largest Russian bank by assets, said it became the first financial institution in the country to offer bitcoin-backed loans to individuals and companies that legally own digital assets. The move follows a pilot program by state-owned Sberbank, which in late December deployed the first such product to mining company Intelion Data. While crypto-secured
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Bybit and Block Scholes report finds derivatives markets signaling cautious stability despite Bitcoin at 15-month low
Bitcoin bounced back strongly in Asia on Friday after a new wave of selling briefly pushed the token towards $60,000, extending a brutal slide that has now sent the world’s biggest cryptocurrency more than 50% below its October peak. BTC fell as much as 4.8% to around $60,033 during the late US hours before falling
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Jefferies says the recent crypto selloff shows little sign of an imminent bottom, even as bitcoin and ether hover near levels that have historically drawn dive buyers. In a research note this week, the bank described the downturn as a liquidity-driven correction rather than a collapse in blockchain activity, pointing instead to continued network usage
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Bitcoin’s plunge to nearly $60,000 on Thursday, down nearly 30% over 7 days, has led traders on X to begin floating theories that the sell-off was not purely macro or risk-off, but various reasons contributed to the asset’s worst one-day performance since the 2022 FTX crash. Flood, a prominent crypto trader, called it in an
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Sentiment in the crypto market sank to its gloomiest level since the FTX collapse after bitcoin’s sharp decline this week dragged prices across the board and forced a wave of deleveraging. The widely followed Crypto Fear and Greed Index fell to 9 on Friday, a reading categorized as “extreme fear” and one that has historically
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