Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Several blockchain investigators say North Korea’s Tradertraitor (a sub-unit of the larger Lazarus/DPRK ecosystem) likely carried out the roughly $6.3 billion Binance hack, the largest crypto theft on record to date. Investigators Point to Pyon...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Matthew McConaughey, whom Fortune estimates is worth about $200 million, said he once took a “thick book” of 20 years of negative acting reviews into the West Texas desert and spent two days reading them. Speaking on the October 13, 2026 episode of D...
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The tokenization-focused company published a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal highlighting the benefits of this process for public companies. The ad counters a previous full-page anti-tokenization ad that called on CEOs to reject the digitizat...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
According to reports, the institution’s tokenization push involves putting its off-the-books metal reserves, held in warehouses, to work by using them as digital assets to finance its business. The move could position Hong Kong as a next-genera...
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Binance’s initial investigation points to a possible employee laptop compromise behind a security incident with an estimated $6.3 billion impact. The crypto exchange reported no evidence of a wallet private key leak and pledged to cover all los...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Bitwise raised its long-term bitcoin price forecast to $1.6 million by 2036, increasing its projected annual return despite a volatile year. The outlook rests on institutional adoption, limited supply, and growing demand for protection against curren...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Tim Draper warned that businesses could eventually reject dollars in favor of bitcoin, triggering bank runs as demand for fiat currencies erodes. His comments echoed the adoption argument behind his longstanding $250,000 bitcoin forecast. Draper Pred...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
U.S. authorities have restrained more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency as overseas scam networks expand beyond Southeast Asia. New charges describe an alleged Madagascar dating scam that lured Americans into connecting crypto wallets to fraudulent i...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
A suspected security breach at Binance has grown into a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency emergency, with analysts tracking as much as $5.8 billion in potentially compromised assets across several blockchains. The exchange has suspended withdrawals...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
According to a report by 1kx, onchain lending markets contracted significantly in 2026, with user-paid fees dropping approximately 50% year over year. New Market Trading CEO Frank Hepworth cautions against locking up bitcoin for low fixed yields, cit...
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Strategy reported record operating profit as bitcoin gains lifted quarterly results, while Michael Saylor said a new bull market was beginning. Daily preferred dividends and a CFO transition accompanied the earnings announcement. Bitcoin Gains Lift O...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley said he had to give up his equity stake in Polymarket because NFL rules bar players from investing in prediction markets. The admission comes days after the NBA named the platform alongside Kalshi as pr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Billions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency was pulled from the wallets of leading exchange Binance on Thursday, according to onchain data and industry analysts, fueling speculation that it may have been the target of a massive hack. Binance a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Coinbase reported a $719 million net profit for the third quarter of 2026, reversing two consecutive quarterly losses as the cryptocurrency exchange expanded its trading market share and increased revenue from services beyond traditional crypto tradi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Prediction market giant Polymarket said Thursday that it had paused trading after discovering a third-party exploit that led to some users losing funds. Trading has resumed, with analysts estimating $2.7 million worth of crypto stolen from users. Pol...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Bitcoin continues to circle the $80,000 threshold, repeatedly crossing above and below the price level that has become familiar territory for the cryptocurrency, at least for now. With its next decisive move still an open question, we’re turning to a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Two major cryptocurrency exchanges announced withdrawals from international markets Thursday, adding to a growing wave of departures driven by regulatory enforcement and sanctions compliance. Cryptocurrency exchanges HTX and KuCoin are withdrawing fr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Prominent crypto exchange Binance and Brazil’s top bank Itaú have formalized their requests to become virtual asset service providers. The request comes as service providers have until October 30 to submit these documents and keep operating whi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Bitcoin surged past $81,800 following stronger-than-expected third-quarter U.S. GDP data, briefly reversing losses triggered by the Federal Reserve’s decision to hold interest rates steady ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. Strong GDP Growth Drives...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Utah prosecutors have charged Kalshi and its co-founders, CEO Tarek Mansour and COO Luana Lopes Lara, with 13 felonies and a misdemeanor after an undercover state investigator placed a dozen sports bets on the platform. An Undercover Agent’s 12 Sport...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 days ago
Bitcoin’s derivatives market is carrying $54.78 billion in futures open interest, while options traders are stacking bullish bets around $90,000, $95,000, and $100,000 with bitcoin trading between $79,262 to $81,939 this week. On Thursday, the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
New research from quantum computing company Alice & Bob suggests that breaking the cryptography protecting the Bitcoin network could require far fewer quantum computing resources than previously believed, adding urgency to efforts to prepare the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
Prediction-market operator Kalshi has secured another $1 billion in funding, lifting its valuation to $40 billion, nearly 82% above its $22 billion valuation in May. The Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management-led investment marks the company’...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
Walmart and pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly are among five additional companies opposing the tokenization of their shares on OKXICE, pushing the number of corporate objectors to 38 as resistance to the blockchain-based stock trading initiative continu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 days ago
The company behind the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is taking a piece of Hyperliquid’s $650 billion trading phenomenon into America’s regulated markets. ICE’s new partnership with Trade[XYZ] aims to bring around-the-clock perpetua...
