Adam Back has dismissed claims that he is Satoshi Nakamoto after a New York Times story claimed the British cryptographer is the strongest contender for Bitcoins yet. BTC$71,689.42 pseudonym creator. In a post on X after the article was published, Back said his long record in cryptography, privacy tools and electronic cash research explains why […]
BlackRock’s most successful exchange-traded fund (ETF) faces its clearest challenge yet as Morgan Stanley rolls out a cheaper rival with direct access to trillions in client capital. Morgan Stanley’s ETF, which trades under MSBT and tracks the CoinDesk Bitcoin Benchmark 4 PM NY Settlement Rate, began trading Tuesday with an expense ratio of 0.14%, below
BlackRock’s most successful exchange-traded fund (ETF) faces its clearest challenge yet as Morgan Stanley rolls out a cheaper rival with direct access to trillions in client capital. Morgan Stanley’s ETF, which trades under MSBT, began trading Tuesday with an expense ratio of 0.14%, below iShares Bitcoin Trust’s (IBIT) 0.25%. The spread is narrow, but lands
The crypto market is back on top after a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran removed some of the geopolitical uncertainty and sent oil prices tumbling. Still, the dynamics of the energy market are such that it may be premature to assume that animal spirits will return to risk assets. Bitcoin BTC$71,839.65 has risen
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Bitcoin BTC$71,632.09 may have recently seen a dip below $70,000, but a ton of BTC was traded then, in a sign of a strong dip in demand. That’s according to blockchain data, which shows that the total amount of BTC that last moved on-chain in the $60,000-$70,000 range now stands at 1,845,766 BTC, up from
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South Korea’s financial regulators have ordered all domestic crypto exchanges to adopt a single, strict system for delaying withdrawals, aiming to block a rise in speed-dependent voice phishing scams. The Financial Services Commission and the Financial Supervisory Service announced the new rules, removing the discretionary exchanges that were once supposed to let users bypass holding
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Vugar Usi, the newly appointed CEO of MEXC, has a provocative explanation for the collapse in trading of memecoin: tokens did not lose their appeal, the rest of the financial system caught up with them. Gold moves on a Trump tweet. Oil spikes on a geopolitical rumor. Stocks swing on a single Fed headline. “Everything
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Bitcoin BTC$71,698.32 rose to as high as $72,750 on news of a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran, before falling back to just below $72,000. The move came alongside a broader rally risk in premarket trading in stocks, with the Invesco QQQ up more than 3.3% and the iShares Expanded Tech Software ETF (
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Alchemy, a cryptocurrency infrastructure provider used by many blockchains and companies in the space, has released a new tool, AgentPay, that lets different AI payment systems, from companies like Coinbase, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard and Circle, work together. The new tool solves the problem that agent payment systems currently coming online are not “interoperable”, or in
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Bitcoin rises to nearly $72,000 as US-Iran ceasefire raises risk
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