The countdown for the Osaka/Mendel hard fork has begun. In this light, $BNB Chain developers’ X account issues a notice to node operators on a mandatory update to perform before April 28. The Osaka/Mendel hard fork will launch on the BSC mainnet 16 days from now, on April 28 at 2:30 a.m. UTC. Before the
Bitcoin is trading at $71,587 on Sunday morning with a market cap of $1.43 trillion and a 24-hour trading volume of $28.39 billion, moving within an intraday range of $71,484 to $73,720. The price drop followed comments from U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who disclosed that the United States failed to reach an agreement with
Bitcoin dropped to $71,067 on Sunday after U.S.-Iran peace talks in Islamabad collapsed and the U.S. Navy moved two destroyers into the Strait of Hormuz to begin clearing Iranian mines. Key Takeaways: Bitcoin fell to $71,067 on April 12, 2026, after U.S.-Iran peace talks in Islamabad collapsed without a deal. The U.S. Navy deployed USS
The commodity that once powered global inflation fears is retreating fast. Following a fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire announced in early April 2026, Brent crude and WTI futures plunged more than 13-16%, dropping below the psychologically important $100 per barrel mark. Brent settled around $94.75, while WTI fell to approximately $94.41 in the immediate aftermath, sparking a
Normally, mixed signals tend to create a volatility loop as momentum builds on speculation. Looking at Bitcoin [$BTC], it seems to be playing out the same way. According to CoinGlass, Open Interest (OI) has jumped back to early February levels, crossing $55 billion, the biggest spike since the war started. But back in February, $BTC
Anthony Scaramucci urged Bitcoin investors to stay focused after the asset dropped into the $72,000 range. He said the recent sell-off changed market sentiment, but not Bitcoin itself. SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci told the crypto community not to panic as Bitcoin faced fresh pressure. In a post on X, he said investors should not
In brief A new proposal outlines a way to create quantum-resistant Bitcoin transactions without changing the network protocol. The design replaces elliptic-curve assumptions with hash-based puzzles and Lamport signatures. The approach shifts computational work to transaction creators and is presented as a temporary workaround rather than a permanent fix. Bitcoin transactions could be made resistant
Gold bug and notorious cryptocurrency skeptic Peter Schiff is once again taking aim at Bitcoin on X (formerly Twitter), gloating over the cryptocurrency’s sudden price drop. “Is there any news, or is Bitcoin tanking just because it’s so overpriced?” Schiff posted to his hundreds of thousands of followers on April 12. Schiff broadly described the
NeoLine has shipped v5.8.1 of its Chrome extension wallet with full support for NEP-21, the unified dAPI standard that Neo co-founder Erik Zhang finalized last week. The update makes NeoLine the first wallet in the Neo ecosystem to implement the standard’s IDapiProvider interface, a common set of methods that allows decentralized applications to communicate with