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Bitwise claims that crypto is nearing the end of a brutal winter

Crypto has been in a complete winter since January 2025, although much of the market has been reluctant to say it out loud, asset manager Bitwise said in a Monday blog post. Having lived through several crypto winters, the investment manager said the current mood of despair looks familiar and has historically marked the later […]

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Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz does not see quantum as a major threat to bitcoin

DIRECTION (February 3 at 20:15 UTC): Corrects previous story that said Galaxy CEO attributed $9 billion in bitcoin sales to a quantum computing threat and updates story throughout.) Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz does not see quantum computing as a major risk to Bitcoin, although some are selling their holdings using the threat as an excuse.

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BTC bounces from multi-year low after House passage of funding bill

The House of Representatives narrowly passed a funding package Tuesday by a vote of 217-214, meaning the government will reopen from its partial shutdown as soon as President Donald Trump signs the bills into law. Lawmakers will negotiate additional funding for the Department of Homeland Security over the next week and a half, but other

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From a 14-month low to a sharp rally triggers $740 million in liquidations

Bitcoin BTC$76,129.67 whipped on Tuesday, falling to a 14-month low before rebounding above $76,000 as turmoil in the tech sector sent markets tumbling. The biggest cryptocurrency fell to $72,900 during the early US session – its weakest level since November 2024, when Donald Trump was elected. Then, BTC has since bounced back 5% from the

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WisdomTree CEO says crypto is now a core business approaching profitability

New York — WisdomTree’s crypto business is no longer an experiment, but core to the firm’s strategy and on the verge of becoming profitable, CEO Jonathan Steinberg said in a fireside chat at the Ondo Summit in New York on Tuesday. “We want to continue to scale,” Steinberg said. “Last year we went from about

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‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Warns Bitcoin Plunge Could Trigger $1B Gold, Silver Selloff

Michael Burry, the investor known for predicting the financial crisis in 2008, warned that bitcoins BTC$75,743.43 the recent decline could have ripple effects across markets, particularly in gold and silver. In a Substack post on Monday, Burry said the crypto’s decline may have forced institutional investors and corporate treasurers to offload positions in other assets

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DOJ emails show Coinbase founder tried to meet with Epstein to finalize investment promise

The US Treasury Department is investigating whether cryptocurrency platforms have enabled Iranian officials to evade Western sanctions, Ari Redbord, global policy director at blockchain research firm TRM Labs, told CoinDesk. Redbord said investigators are moving enforcement away from individual digital wallets and toward crypto infrastructure, “The concern is not simply that sanctioned actors used crypto,

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Franklin Templeton CEO says digital wallets will hold ‘totality’ of people’s assets

New York — The next evolution of asset management will be “wallet-native,” not just digital, according to Franklin Templeton’s chief innovation officer, Sandy Kaul. Speaking at the Ondo Summit in New York on Tuesday, Kaul said she envisions a future where all financial assets — stocks, bonds, funds and more — are held and managed

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Trump’s White House will not tolerate attacks on president on crypto bill, adviser says

President Donald Trump’s negotiators on the US Senate’s Crypto Market Structure Act are refusing to sign legislation that would go after the president for his digital asset business dealings – one of the key points Democrats have demanded in negotiations over how to govern the US industry. Some of the earlier proposals for the ethics

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