Bitcoin (BTC) developers have announced the release of v31.0rc4 for testing. As highlighted by Bitcoin Core Project on X, this major release follows v30.2 and comes with binaries and draft notes available for review by developers, node operators and testers. New privacy enhancements through Tor and I2P networks The announcement targets Bitcoin researchers, miners and
Bitcoin just had its best week in a while. The ceasefire rally, the CPI relief, $73,000 briefly touched. After weeks of grinding losses, it finally feels like something has changed. But one analyst who publicly called the top six months ago is not buying the narrative shift. According to Benjamin Cowen, founder of Into The
The Federal Reserve is asking major US banks how exposed they are to the private credit market. The Treasury is asking insurance companies the same question. Neither has announced a formal investigation. They are doing it through routine examination channels, which is what regulators often do when they are worried but do not yet know
Bitcoin might trade around the clock, but its liquidity doesn’t anymore. The asset that was supposed to become more resilient after absorbing billions in institutional capital through ETFs has instead developed a split personality, one that looks deep and orderly during New York trading hours and considerably more fragile once Wall Street’s desks go dark.
An extremely consequential diplomatic meeting is hours away. Iran’s 71-person team, led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, arrived in Pakistan’s capital this morning for direct negotiations with US Vice President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. It is the first face-to-face meeting between the two nations
Shipping firms that turn to cryptocurrency to pay potential transit fees to Iran could face significant sanctions exposure, according to Kaitlin Martin, senior intelligence analyst at Chainalysis. Martin told Cointelegraph that under the current sanctions framework, any payments made to the Iranian regime, including those tied to passage through key waterways, could be interpreted as
In brief A new game based on the arcade classic Space Invaders will let one person earn a real Bitcoin reward. To claim the reward ,they must destroy 10,000 $BTC worth of transactions that mirror actual activity on the blockchain. The winner will earn a 10,000 sats bounty, valued around $7.30 at the time of
A new brief from the Bitcoin Policy Institute argues that recent breakthroughs in quantum computing are accelerating the timeline for when Bitcoin’s cryptography could face credible threats, while stressing that developers are already preparing solutions. In its report, State of Play: Quantum Computing and Bitcoin’s Path Forward, the Bitcoin Policy Institute points to two research
Bhutan, the small Himalayan kingdom in Asia, has recently made a remarkable shift in its Bitcoin ($BTC) strategy. According to data suggesting the end of the country’s dominant mining enterprise, Bhutan has divested approximately 70% of its Bitcoin reserves in the past 18 months. Bhutan’s sovereign wealth fund, Druk Holding and Investments, held approximately 13,000
Pieverse, an agent-native, compliant Web3 payment infrastructure for bridging blockchain transactions with real-world auditing needs, is excited to announce its strategic partnership with RootData, a leading Web3 asset data platform that provides comprehensive, structured data on crypto projects. The primary purpose of this partnership is to simplify and enhance crypto research to enable faster, smarter