Over the last 24 hours, there have been three distinct developments involving Bitcoin [$BTC]. First, Glassnode data showed that active Bitcoin addresses rose to 0.98 million daily. The spike may reflect security concerns rather than renewed investor demand. Many Coldcard users may have moved funds into newly created wallets after the firmware exploit became public.
Author’s note: In my view BIP110 is both useless and harmful, and I do expect it to fail (see scenario 1). Despite this I tried to write this article as factually as I could, entertaining different possible scenarios, as I do hope it may provide some clarity on this soft fork attempt. The OP_RETURN debate
Bitcoin miners have run into a paradoxical crisis – the coin itself is expensive, but making money from mining it has become harder than ever. While $BTC holds in the $60,000–$65,000 range, companies’ revenues from processing transactions have unexpectedly collapsed to 2019 levels. This financial dead end has triggered a massive tectonic shift, and miners
$BNB Chain, the blockchain ecosystem developed by cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has announced that it has obtained ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications. The certifications, awarded following an assessment by the British Standards Institution (BSI), underscore the network’s commitment to robust information security and privacy management practices. What the Certifications Mean ISO 27001 is an internationally
E-commerce sellers often wait weeks to see cash from sales they have already made. Dow Protocol wants to close that gap with blockchain financing for e-commerce, and it just raised fresh capital to do it. The startup has completed a $10.5 million seed funding round to expand a financing model that advances working capital to
Circle says $USDC is the only one of the world’s ten largest stablecoins that currently complies with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. If accurate, the claim means the EU’s roughly 450 million residents no longer have regulated access to most major dollar-backed stablecoins, including Tether’s $USDT. The declaration comes as Europe fully
Venus, the leading lending protocol on the $BNB Chain, is pleased to announce the expansion of decentralized lending by bringing higher-quality tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) as collateral on $BNB Chain. The core purpose of this strategic initiative is to expand on-chain lending on $BNB Chain. The future of lending isn’t more assets.It’s better collateral. Venus
Bitcoin is testing a months-long descending resistance line near $64,000-$65,000 after two earlier rejections, putting the next daily close in focus. At the same time, a separate weekly chart outlines a deeper downside scenario toward roughly $52,000-$55,000 before any larger recovery, making support and breakout confirmation the key signals to watch. Bitcoin Tests Descending Trendline
Alex Scoresby, founder and CEO of Kapcrew Gaming, the studio behind the multi-chain board game Pixudi, recently participated in NeoPod’s fifth community AMA. During the wide-ranging conversation, Scoresby revealed that Neo N3 and SKALE are now the only two blockchain integrations still active for Pixudi, down from roughly ten. The AMA, hosted on NeoPod’s Discord