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Bitcoin up, software stocks down since the war began

Since the outbreak of the war with Iran on Feb. 28, bitcoin BTC$69,132.12 has started to diverge from software equities, with the iShares Expanded...

Bitcoin Price Pumps Above $72,000 On Trump, Iran Ceasefire

Bitcoin price surged late Tuesday, climbing roughly 5% from a day-long range near $67,000–$68,000 to an intraday high of $72,753, as geopolitical...

Caroline Ellison made a ‘fatal mistake’ that triggered the total collapse of FTX, Zhao says

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) says Sam Bankman-Fried asked him for "a couple of billion dollars nonchalantly, as if he were asking for a...

American Crypto Fraud Topped $11 Billion In 2025, Shattering Records: FBI

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center released its 2025 annual report earlier today, revealing that cryptocurrency-related fraud drained more than $11.3 billion...

FDIC Advances Stablecoin Oversight Framework Under GENIUS Act With New Prudential Rule Proposal

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has advanced a new regulatory framework that begins to define how U.S. banks and their subsidiaries...

Bitcoin’s quantum risks are a governance, not engineering, problem

Digital asset manager Grayscale backed accelerated efforts to make public blockchains quantum-resistant in a new research note arguing the technical solutions already exist but...

Stablecoin issuers get closer to U.S. federal rules with FDIC’s new proposal

The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. formally proposed its approach to stablecoin issuers as one of the federal financial regulators required to write and...

The era of easy money in crypto is over as DeFi yields are failing to compete with a simple savings account

Crypto investors who once turned to decentralized finance for easy passive income through juicy yields are running into a new reality: the numbers no...

Your crypto strategy should be about how much pain you can handle, not how much money you’ll make, Schwab finds

Charles Schwab’s latest research on digital assets argues that cryptocurrencies’ place in a portfolio hinges less on return forecasts and more on how much...

index drops 2.4% as all constituents trade lower

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading...

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Bitcoin, Altcoins Soar After Iran Opens Strait of Hormuz

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