A US advisory urging US citizens to “leave Iran now” is circulating online again, adding another layer of headline risk to a crypto market already reeling from high volatility and forced liquidations. 🚨BREAKING: The US governments are telling their citizens to leave IRAN IMMEDIATELY. Could this be why the markets nuked today? Are we going […]
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Bitcoin’s Wall Street-like fear gauge has surged to its highest level since the 2022 FTX exchange collapse, signaling intense market panic as prices fell to nearly $60,000. Volmex’s bitcoin volatility index (BVIV), which represents the annual expected price turbulence over four weeks, jumped to nearly 100% from 56% on Thursday. The index acts as a
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Good morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to the Asia Morning Briefing, a daily overview of top stories in US hours and an overview of market movements and analysis. For a detailed overview of US markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Diary Americas. The market has been asking if bitcoin is losing to
Tether, issuer of the world’s most popular stablecoin USDT$0.9985has acquired a $150 million minority stake in Gold.com (GOLD), ramping up its push into the gold market as the yellow metal gains traction with investors seeking stability in volatile times. The investment, announced Thursday in a blog post, gives Tether a 12% stake in Gold.com, a
A federal jury in Phoenix on Thursday ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million to a passenger who said one of its drivers raped her, setting the stage for thousands of similar cases around the country. The ride-hailing giant has long maintained that it is not responsible for wrongdoing by drivers on its platform, whom it
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Latest developments: ETF investors are proving more resilient than many expected during bitcoin’s recent move. In an interview on CoinDesk’s Markets Outlook, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas highlighted several key data points that demonstrate this stability: Bitcoin is down more than 40% from recent highs, a move that rattles historically retail-heavy crypto markets.
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Strategy (MSTR) reported a net loss of $12.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 as the price of bitcoin BTC$71,091.27 dropped from about $120,000 on Oct. 1 to about $89,000 to end the year. Things have only gotten worse since, with the price of bitcoin falling hard in recent weeks, eventually crashing Thursday to
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Despite its longstanding reputation as “digital gold,” bitcoin has diverged sharply from traditional safe havens like gold and silver, but that may not be a bad thing for the digital asset’s future, according to JPMorgan analysts. Gold is up more than 60% in 2025 on sustained central bank purchases and flight-to-safety demand, while bitcoin has
Bitcoin BTC$63,701.56 fell below $66,000 during the early afternoon hours in the US as this week’s crypto selloff accelerated to a bloodbath on Thursday. The biggest cryptocurrency fell more than 10% over the past 24 hours to a session low of $65,156, according to CoinDesk data, the weakest level since October 2024 and below the
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Bitcoin tumbled to around $65,000 on Thursday amid a wave of liquidations fueled by strong bearish sentiment, but a technical indicator suggests the cryptocurrency could be set for not just a bounce, but a bigger move up. Bitcoin’s daily Relative Strength Index (RSI), which is a popularly used momentum oscillator that assesses whether an asset
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