Bitcoin’s price is on the move today, prompted by the latest developments on the US-Iran war front, but this time in the opposite direction. After it slipped to another multi-week low yesterday evening, the cryptocurrency has rebounded by approximately $1,500 and now sits at around $63,500. The reason for this is the major de-escalation announced
Astarter, a prominent Web3 infrastructure entity, has partnered with BitBall, an AI-led Sports Intelligence ecosystem. The partnership is poised to merge AI and blockchain innovation to advance user experiences and data intelligence in the world of sports. As Astarter mentioned in its official announcement, with this development, both platforms attempt to broaden the capabilities concerning
Friday, July 31, was the final trading day for six Bitwise option-income ETFs. Shareholders still holding shares as of Aug. 3 face automatic cash redemption rather than an exchange sale. The Bitwise Funds Trust board voted June 30 to liquidate ICOI, IMRA, IMST, IGME, ICRC, and IETH, according to an SEC prospectus supplement. The products
An investor who owns Bitcoin through a brokerage account can finish work on Friday, check the closing price of a spot ETF, and assume the position is done moving for the week. Bitcoin, however, has other plans. Between Friday’s close and Monday’s opening bell, Donald Trump can announce a tariff, a war can escalate, oil
The cold wallet that many crypto holders treated as the ultimate vault has just cracked open a debate the market wasn’t ready for. A Coldcard firmware exploit—targeting a device explicitly marketed as air-gapped and self-custodial—has sent Bitcoin’s social commentary into a historic tailspin. According to the Santiment update, Bitcoin’s positive-to-negative commentary ratio across X, Reddit,
Saylor Pushes Back on Viral Bitcoin Sale Claim Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor pushed back Aug. 1 on reports that Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) had newly authorized up to $5 billion in bitcoin sales. His response followed a widely circulated social media post that presented the company’s existing capital-management framework as a fresh decision, prompting
Digital Asset Acquisition Corp., the SPAC seeking to combine with the parent of regulated bank Old Glory Bank, postponed the shareholder vote on the deal to 10 a.m. Eastern Time on Aug. 14 from July 31. The original meeting date fell two days after the stated July 29 redemption deadline. DAAQ said in a July
Bitcoin ($BTC) is going through one of the key turbulent sentiment periods. In this respect, Bitcoin ($BTC)’s positive-to-negative commentary ratio has slumped to the lowest levels across Telegram, Reddit, X, and other such social media platforms. As per the data from Santiment, the Coldcard firmware exploit is the leading incident that has shocked traders. Particularly,
Holders of Strategy’s (MSTR) high-yielding preferred stock STRC will not see a dividend increase in August. Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, Strategy is maintaining the current 12% dividend on the shares. STRC investors may have been expecting as much as a 50-basis-point hike in the dividend as Strategy has customarily raised the payout anytime
A Third Wave Expands the Damage Galaxy Research disclosed on X that the three suspected waves drained about 4,585 addresses and captured bitcoin worth approximately $88.6 million at the time of its analysis. The research group cautioned that its findings are preliminary and based entirely on publicly available Bitcoin blockchain data. Another dashboard called Coldcard