Bitcoin's price of 77648, reflecting a minimal 24-hour gain of 0.56%, indicates a state of short-term consolidation and market indecision. This minor positive movement suggests that while selling pressure has decreased, buyers are exercising caution, leading to range-bound trading as the market awai
The EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation takes effect, prohibiting crypto-asset service providers from keeping accounts that allow anonymisation or obfuscation of transactions. The rule explicitly covers anonymity-enhancing coins such as Monero and Zcash, so EU venues can no longer service these asse
A single software bug in Blockstream's Elements codebase allowed an attacker to conjure nearly 4,000 unbacked L-BTC out of thin air, peg them out for real Bitcoin, and drain roughly 95% of the Liquid Federation's reserves in a matter of hours. SlowMist published its full analysis of the September 6
Bitcoin (BTC) returned to $79,000 on Friday after key US inflation data broadly conformed to expectations.Key points:US core CPI inflation data gained 0.3% month-on-month, surpassing expectations of 0.2%.Implied probabilities of an interest-rate hike by the Federal Reserve at the Sep. 16 meeting ros
Last week, an attacker drained 4,011 wallets tied to XRP Healthcare’s XRPH Wallet app, stealing an estimated $450,000 to $452,000 in XRP, XRPH, and related tokens in roughly three hours. Last night, XRP Healthcare announced it was shutting down after three years of leading Ripple’s charge into healt
The crypto derivatives market just had a very expensive day. Over $684 million in leveraged positions were wiped out across exchanges in a 24-hour window, with short sellers absorbing the lion's share of the pain at roughly $422 million in liquidations compared to $261 million from longs.Approximate
A recurring criticism of XRP, that it ranks far behind other blockchains on public tokenization league tables, misses what the token is actually built to do, according to commentary from Apex Crypto and a co-host discussing the topic on a recent podcast.Their argument centers on a distinction betwee
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs reportedly shed $282.6 million on September 10, their third straight session of net outflows. Over the same three-day window, XRP ETFs pulled in fresh capital for a third consecutive day, even as XRP itself slipped roughly 2.8% to trade near $1.36.The split is the story here.
Blockstream will not pay the attackers who drained its Liquid sidechain. The refusal breaks with a crypto habit of letting self-declared white hat hackers keep a slice of what they took.Liquid is a Blockstream-built network where users lock Bitcoin and receive a matching token that moves faster. At
Bitcoin (BTC), Solana (SOL), and Ripple’s (XRP) token fell Friday morning, extending a rough week for major cryptocurrencies even as U.S. stock futures pointed to a higher open ahead of the August CPI report. fell 1.5% over the past 24 hours, while Zcash (ZEC) led losses among major tokens, dropping
Major cryptocurrencies are climbing following a firm August CPI. Bitcoin rises 2% to $78,801, after traders rejected the $80k mark, which analysts see as a short-term lid. "After a 24% two-week rally, price stalled as it ran into a cluster of on-chain and technical resistance," say analysts with Cry