In Bitcoin news today, Satsuma Technology raised £163.6M in August 2025 to build a Bitcoin treasury on the London Stock Exchange, and is now expected to return between £26.8M and £30M to shareholders after wind-down costs. That is roughly 18p on the pound at the low end, and the gap between those two numbers is
Bitcoin price has fallen more than 1% below $66,000 as renewed U.S.-Iran threats have lifted oil prices and increased expectations for another Federal Reserve rate hike this year. Summary Bitcoin price slipped below $66,000 as Trump’s latest Iran threat pressured risk assets. Rising oil prices pushed traders to increase bets on another Fed rate hike.
Ethereum has grown very rapidly in the last few months. Transaction volume on the blockchain has more than doubled, surpassing 10 transactions per second for days at a time. The number of new accounts created per day passed 100,000, and the number of nodes has increased despite rising system requirements. As attention and interest in
Republican senators met with Trump about it last week. By Monday, the Republicans had fixed on an accord. A White House official told CoinDesk on Monday that Trump had “agreed to the most comprehensive and wide-ranging ethics provision in history.” The legislation would give regulators a year to implement the new ethics constraints. It’s not
Coinbase has opened SUI staking with a one-token minimum and estimated annual rewards of 1.4% to 3.3% as Sui tests resistance near $0.78. Summary Coinbase has introduced SUI staking with estimated annual rewards of 1.4% to 3.3%. SUI is testing $0.78 resistance, with a confirmed breakout targeting roughly $0.91. Sui’s Hashi testnet lets over 25
The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for blockchain applications to reach mass adoption. Blockchain scalability is difficult primarily because a typical blockchain design requires every node in the network to process every
Bitcoin spent the past month in a holding pattern around $63,700, and VanEck’s latest Bitcoin ChainCheck reads the setup as a cautious pause rather than a bottom, with derivatives flashing fear, miner economics near multi-year lows, and long-term holders tightening their grip. The mid-July report frames the moment as consolidation, not recovery. Bitcoin closed July
Two developers went to prison-facing trials over four words in a 1970s-era framework: what counts as transmitting money. The answer decides whether writing DeFi code is a regulated financial business or protected publishing, and Section 604 of the CLARITY Act is Congress’s attempt to settle it. Summary A money transmitter is a business that accepts
Dear Ethereum community (and wonderful Etherheads!), Today, January 31, 2018, is my last day as Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation. I’m pleased to have been able to guide the Foundation as ED with my fellow directors, team leads, and outstanding group of team members, each of whom has contributed to our current position of
Bitcoin is often the first cryptocurrency people hear about, making it the starting point for many entering the world of digital assets. Since its launch in 2009, it has grown into the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value and is now used by millions of people worldwide. Some acquire it as an investment, while others
