🔍Coldcard Security Crisis and Institutional Selling Test Bitcoin's Resilience at $64,248

Bitcoin's price of $64,248, representing a minor 24-hour increase of 0.69%, points to a temporary phase of consolidation and short-term market stabilization. This marginal positive movement suggests that despite significant headwinds, buyers are attempting to establish a local floor, absorbing selli

Anthony Scaramucci Slams 'Banking Lobby' for 'Last Minute Effort to Stall Things' as Crypto Act Comes Under Fire: 'Expose the Ciphers'

Anthony Scaramucci Slams 'Banking Lobby' for 'Last Minute Effort to Stall Things' as Crypto Act Comes Under Fire: 'Expose the Ciphers'

SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci criticized the “banking lobby” on Tuesday for employing tactics aimed at delaying the CLARITY Act.‘Expose the Ciphers’Scaramucci responded to a Wall Street Journal editorial titled, “Clarity for Crypto, Sort Of,” which deemed the legislation a policy land

Shang Juncheng Odds Swing Sharply on Polymarket Ahead of National Bank Open Match

Shang Juncheng Odds Swing Sharply on Polymarket Ahead of National Bank Open Match

Catcher Predict monitoring showed a sharp shift in the Polymarket submarket for the National Bank Open match between Shang Juncheng and Andrey Rublev, with the probability for the Shang Juncheng option falling to 34.05% from 85.5% one hour earlier. According to ChainCatcher, the move reflected a 51.

Pax Machina – A Vision for AI Governance

Pax Machina – A Vision for AI Governance

The complaint that animates Pax Machina fits in a sentence: almost all the attention on powerful AI goes to aligning or regulating the models, while the institutions around them get treated as fixed furniture. The founding editorial is dated April 23, though its editors only pushed it public this we

BIP-110 Soft Fork Nears Key Activation Phase

BIP-110 Soft Fork Nears Key Activation Phase

BIP-110 is set to enter a mandatory signaling phase around August 9 at block height 961,632, with lock-in expected at block 963,648 in late August and activation of new transaction rules at block 965,664 in early September. According to Odaily, the proposal uses a 55% signaling threshold and its res

Ethereum researchers want to rein in staking, critics say it could backfire

Ethereum researchers want to rein in staking, critics say it could backfire

A group of six Ethereum researchers and developers, including Ethereum Foundation’s Justin Drake, has proposed changing the network’s issuance policy to cut validator rewards more sharply as the proportion of staked ETH rises.The draft, called the Tapered Issuance Burn and currently being assigned t

Three Missouri men charged over alleged plot to steal bitcoin through home invasion

Three Missouri men charged over alleged plot to steal bitcoin through home invasion

Three Missouri men have been charged in connection with an alleged scheme to rob bitcoin (BTC) through a planned home invasion in Connecticut, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan for the District of Connecticut said the three individuals — Sedric Louis, John Davis,

Sam Bankman-Fried Appeal Rejected: What Are His Next Legal Options

Sam Bankman-Fried Appeal Rejected: What Are His Next Legal Options

On Tuesday, August 4, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit turned down Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) appeal to overturn his conviction and 25-year prison sentence.The former FTX founder and CEO was convicted of several counts of fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering in March 2024. He was sen

Jim Cramer To Sell Bitcoin After IBM Quantum Warning: Will Traders Fade Him?

Jim Cramer To Sell Bitcoin After IBM Quantum Warning: Will Traders Fade Him?

CNBC host Jim Cramer says he intends to sell his Bitcoin after IBM’s chief executive warned that quantum computers could eventually break the cryptography protecting it.He has not confirmed a completed sale, disclosed a position size, or published a wallet address. Traders responded by treating the

Hut 8’s Stock Falls On Poor Financial Results

Hut 8’s Stock Falls On Poor Financial Results

Hut 8’s stock is down 5% on Aug.4 after the Bitcoin miner and artificial intelligence (A.I.) data centre operator reported disappointing financial results.Hut 8 announced a second-quarter net loss of -$1.78 U.S. per share, which was worse than analyst’s consensus expectation for a loss of -$0.52 U

XRP ETFs See 4-Day Inflow Streak: So Why Is XRP Stuck At $1.08?

XRP ETFs See 4-Day Inflow Streak: So Why Is XRP Stuck At $1.08?

XRP ETFs have posted four straight days of inflows totaling roughly $15.4 million, yet the chart points toward $1 if the $1.05 floor breaks.The Number Bigger Than ETF Inflows That Nobody Is Talking AboutCrypto commentator Evernorth flagged on X that tokenized real-world assets on the XRP Ledger hav

Ethereum researchers propose burning validator rewards to cap staking at 50%

Ethereum researchers propose burning validator rewards to cap staking at 50%

A group of Ethereum researchers, including Justin Drake, published a draft Ethereum Improvement Proposal that would introduce a "tapered issuance burn," deducting and permanently destroying a portion of validators’ "idealized" rewards that scales with the network’s overall staking ratio.The proposal