Latest News

LNbits released version 1.7.0 after reports of attacks on older installations. Operators are urged to patch and rotate potentially exposed credentials.

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and other banks have committed about $270 million to fund five years of operations for Project Faro, a joint dollar stablecoin venture aiming to launch in 2027.

Bitcoin fell to about $73,600 after U.S. consumer prices rose 0.4% in October, beating forecasts and leaving traders pricing a near-certain Fed rate hike on December 9.

Two draft proposals offer competing ways to address smart-contract compatibility concerns raised by Ethereum’s planned Glamsterdam gas changes.

MARA sold 13,597 BTC for about $1.1 billion after September, repaid $750 million of bitcoin-backed loans and says more sales will fund AI infrastructure.

A practical guide to Bitcoin Taproot: Schnorr signatures, key and script paths, privacy limits, transaction fees, and how P2TR compares with SegWit.

The OCC gave final approval to Coinbase National Trust Company on November 6, upgrading April's conditional nod and moving the largest US exchange's institutional custody business under a federal banking regulator.

Solana proposal SIMD-0723 would retire durable nonces, with no mainnet activation before May 2027. The draft remains unapproved and could affect offline-signing custodians.

A flaw at Consensys-owned Web3Auth exposed private keys of some Keplr wallets created with Google or Apple login. Web3Auth says it swept about $5.6 million to recovery wallets, but the attacker's take is still unknown.

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost $1.28 billion last week, their worst week since late June, flipping 2026 flows to a $914.1 million net outflow as bitcoin stalled below $76,000 on Sunday.

Binance is telling users in France, Spain, Italy and Poland to withdraw before monthly fees of 0.025% or 10 USDC start on November 29, with affected accounts closing on December 31 as the exchange still lacks a MiCA licence.

Mining pools combine Bitcoin miners’ hash power and split rewards. Learn how shares, PPS, FPPS and PPLNS payouts work, what fees to compare and the risks to weigh.

DOL's final fiduciary rule for alternative assets, including Bitcoin in 401(k)s, reached White House OIRA on Nov. 5 for economically significant review.

World Liberty Financial says it plans WLFI buybacks that may draw on USD1 reserve fees. The allocation, timing and token treatment remain undisclosed.

FinCEN ordered U.S. banks to stop processing transfers involving MEXC Global, alleging the exchange facilitated at least $16 billion in illicit crypto linked to Iran, North Korea, and Russia under Operation Economic Outcast.

Samsung and the Solana Foundation say Stablecoin Account went live Nov. 2 for eligible U.S. Galaxy users, putting USDC on Solana in Samsung Wallet across about 82 million devices; Decrypt, The Block, and Stripe covered the rollout on Nov. 5.

Nigeria’s Central Bank has introduced a licensing framework for non-security virtual assets, including stablecoins, with new capital, reserve and payment rules.

Bitcoin erased its post-election rebound and fell to about $75,700 as a Wall Street AI-stock rout spilled into crypto, wiping out roughly $1.1 billion in leveraged bets and hitting more than 200,000 traders.

Bitcoin fees buy scarce block space, not a percentage of the amount sent. Learn how sat/vB works, how to choose a fee, and what to check when a payment is delayed.

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa says attackers breached a supplier and used the bank's own account; ZachXBT traced more than $133 million out through Kraken, Crypto.com and OKX, with part converted to ETH and Monero.

Hong Kong passed its CARF crypto reporting bill: providers collect customer and transaction data from 2027, with international exchanges planned from 2028.

Zcash's NU7 upgrade, expected late Thursday or early Friday, will make about 12,226 ZEC (roughly $16 million) in the old Sprout pool unspendable. ZEC led the market, rising 11.7% to about $1,318.

Democrats swept both chambers of Congress, and Sherrod Brown beat a $63 million crypto PAC campaign in Ohio. Bitcoin fell below $76,000 overnight, then staged a V-shaped rebound toward $80,000.

Binance's incident report says attackers used a poisoned installer, a fake job interview and an internal AI tool to reach its wallet-signing service in the $6.34 billion theft.

Bitcoin Ordinals number and track individual satoshis, while inscriptions put content on-chain. Learn how they work, how BRC-20 differs, and what risks to know.

Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin says it will absorb losses from a breach that drained roughly $38 million from hot wallets across multiple blockchains, while about $11 million has been frozen.

NEAR’s House of Stake approved a plan to lower its annual issuance ceiling from 2.5% to 1.6%, but review and validator adoption still stand between the vote and any change.

SegWit changed how Bitcoin transactions carry signatures, how blocks are measured and how wallets encode addresses. Here is what the 2017 upgrade actually did.

Binance reopened withdrawals in phases after the $6.3 billion theft. The exchange reported $3.64 billion in net outflows during the first nine and a half hours.

Crypto-tied groups have put more than $200 million into the 2026 US midterms. Tuesday's Ohio Senate race, where crypto critic Sherrod Brown is narrowly ahead, is the clearest test of whether that money still works.

Kalshi raised $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation as it expands from prediction markets into crypto, perpetual futures and other exchange products.

The Bank of England is consulting on how UK clearing houses could accept tokenised versions of eligible collateral while maintaining existing risk standards.

The FBI has formally blamed North Korea's TraderTraitor unit for the record $6.3 billion Binance hack, as the exchange reopens withdrawals in phases and says it has covered 95% of the stolen tokens.

Binance says it has replaced 90% of the $6.3 billion stolen in its record hack and aims to reopen withdrawals on 1 November, as the FBI and Secret Service join the investigation.

Polymarket says an outside provider compromise affected its international platform, prompting a trading pause and a reported $3.9 million return plan.

Coinbase earned $718.7 million in Q3, almost all from crypto investment gains, while revenue fell 35%. Prediction markets passed $200 million a year, but shares hit a two-year low.

Learn how Bitcoin Lightning payment channels settle transactions off-chain, route payments, use liquidity and handle fees, custody and recovery risks.

ICE will run Trade[XYZ]'s Hyperliquid-based perpetual futures in a new US-regulated market, pending CFTC approval. HYPE jumped 15% and Stanley Druckenmiller made his first X post to back it.

Binance lost an estimated $6.3 billion on 29 October in the biggest crypto theft yet. About $3 billion is frozen, withdrawals are paused, and investigators blame North Korea's TraderTraitor.

Bitcoin Taproot combines Schnorr signatures, key-path spending and hidden script options. Here is what the upgrade changes—and what it does not.

How Norway treats crypto for tax: when a sale or swap creates a gain, how to work out the cost, how mining is taxed, what to report, and what the new CARF rules change.