A growing dispute within the Bitcoin community has shifted attention away from technical changes and toward broader questions about transparency, governance, and influence within Bitcoin Core development. The latest clash emerged after independent researchers and community members published extensive investigations examining events surrounding the removal of Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN standardness limit. While critics argue the reports
Banxchange is extending the $XRP Ledger beyond its established payments and tokenization use cases by building a decentralized publishing network for journalists and content creators. In a post on X, the platform said its BXE token supports instant payments to contributors worldwide. The project is targeting the global media and entertainment sector, which it values
Bitcoin has climbed more than 2% to $63,770 after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah helped ease market fears and pushed oil prices toward an 8% weekly decline. According to crypto.news data, Bitcoin ($BTC) price climbed 2.4% to an intraday high of $63,770 on June 20 before easing slightly to around $63,600. The move
Bitcoin [$BTC] is below its recent highs now, but it’s far from boring. Market dominance has been rising again and investors are still leaning on Bitcoin during uncertain times. Morgan Stanley’s recent ETF purchase also added to this trend. Bitcoin dominance rises, price takes a hit In mid-2025, Bitcoin was trading close to its highs,
Decentralized finance protocol Venus Protocol has introduced a new lending service on the $BNB Chain that accepts tokenized U.S. stocks as collateral. The service, which went live this week, allows users to deposit on-chain representations of popular equities — including Tesla (TSLAB), Nvidia (NVDAB), and an S&P 500 index-tracking ETF — into the Venus Core
Hyperliquid trader James Wynn has reopened a highly leveraged Bitcoin short position despite cumulative losses exceeding $22 million, according to blockchain analytics firm Onchain Lens. The move signals a continued bearish conviction on the leading cryptocurrency, even after a series of costly reversals. Position Details and Liquidation Risk The newly opened position is sized at
Amazon Web Services on Monday turned on AI traffic monetization inside AWS WAF, letting any site behind Amazon CloudFront charge AI agents per request in stablecoins through Coinbase’s x402 protocol. It is the first time a hyperscale cloud has wired onchain settlement directly into its content-delivery edge. The new capability is a first-party feature of
The depegging of STRC, the software-giant-turned-Bitcoin-hoarder’s much-talked-about funding vehicle, STRC, has become the hottest topic within the cryptocurrency community, and Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg senior ETF analyst, now believes that the funding vehicle has to be abandoned by the company. “I would retire it and move on. Just feels like an ongoing thorn in the side
While Bitcoin miners often trumpet hash rates and expansion plans, Bitmine Immersion Technologies is making a quieter argument for its maturity: a cash dividend on its perpetual preferred stock. The company’s board declared a payout of $0.1056 per share on the 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, as detailed in the original announcement. The dividend,
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) made noteworthy statements regarding how Bitcoin ($BTC) could be protected against quantum computers in the future and how the $BTC believed to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto should be handled. Appearing on the Galaxy Brains podcast hosted by Galaxy Research President Alex Thorn, CZ stated that quantum computing is not an