Federal lawsuit argues event contracts are swaps under U.S. law, not state-level gaming law, deepening a split with states that view the products as illegal gambling
Elevated volume and modest institutional buying fail to support price, with sellers continuing to dominate near resistance.
Analysts say a sustained 15%–16% decline in crude could revive Fed rate cut bets, sending BTC higher.
Tehran says three clauses of the ceasefire have been breached, oil is rebounding toward $97, and the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed despite the deal.
Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun demos a prototype that could prevent millions of wallets from being frozen under a future quantum-defense upgrade
Bitcoin, equities, and gold rise while oil and volatility drop amid improving risk sentiment.
Alchemy’s AgentPay addresses the problem that the agentic payment systems currently coming online don’t talk to one another.
A trader named Loracle closed his short position in oil futures early Wednesday, pocketing $2 million in profit.
Morgan Stanley’s bitcoin ETF could start trading on NYSE on Wednesday under the ticker MSBT.
One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star. Another replicates every major “quantum factoring breakthrough” using a 1981 home computer and a dog.
Breakout backed by institutional flows and whale buying, though broader downtrend and weak ETF demand cap conviction.
Short sellers betting on continued war escalation lost $427 million in 24 hours as bitcoin vaulted past $72,000 on the ceasefire announcement.