Sellers are dominating over buyers at the end of the week, according to CoinStats. BTC/USD The rate of Bitcoin (BTC) has increased by 0.29% since yesterday. On the hourly chart, the price of BTC has made a false breakout of the local support at $88,548. However, if a bounce back does not happen by the
The Lightning Network started as a simple way to reduce the cost and time of small, day-to-day bitcoin (BTC) payments. However, as new research shows, joining and exiting the network with a single peer has created an intractable problem with channel depletion that developers have not been able to resolve for years. Historically, Lightning users
Reece Merrick, Ripple Senior Executive Officer/Managing Director of Middle East and Africa, was a key speaker at a recent event by the Gulf Capital Market Association (formerly The Gulf Bond and Sukuk Association), which represents the bond and equity markets of the Arabian Gulf region. In a tweet, Merrick shared a recap of insights he
The US dollar is heading for its steepest weekly decline in seven months as volatile US-Europe relations and rising policy uncertainty pressure the currency. The dollar index, which tracks the US currency against a basket of six peers, slipped to 97.8. The gauge is heading for a weekly loss exceeding 1%, the largest since June.
Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao told CNBC on Friday he believes bitcoin will break its four year cycle this year because the U.S. and other countries have become crypto-friendly. “If you are looking at today, tomorrow, on a daily basis, there’s no way I can predict” which way the price of bitcoin is going to go,
Bitcoin traded near $89,133 on the four-hour chart as it steadied after a steep drop from the recent $97,971 peak. The sell-off broke the earlier run of higher highs and forced price into a tighter, more defensive structure. Traders now watch this consolidation range for signs of either renewed demand or another wave of selling.
The following is a guest post by Nischal Shetty, co-founder and President at Shardeum. On 2nd January 2026, an anonymous trader on crypto prediction platform Polymarket put down roughly $30,000 on a contract that Nicolás Maduro would be out of power by 31 January 2026. Within hours of a U.S. special forces raid that resulted