August 6, 2026
Bitcoin

BTC USD Under Fire Following Iran Strike and Trump’s China Comment

Bitcoin is taking hits from two directions at once. BTC USD price is around $62,832, that headline number represent a brutal 48 hours that pushed the price below $63,000, a level traders treat as the structural floor for any credible bull case. Whether that floor holds depends heavily on events unfolding far outside the crypto

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Crypto

TrustedVolumes attacker returns $2M, keeps another $2M as bounty

A TrustedVolumes attacker has returned 1,122 ETH worth about $2 million while keeping another $2 million as a self-declared bounty. Summary The TrustedVolumes attacker returned 1,122 ETH worth about $2 million. The exploiter retained another $2 million as a self-declared bounty. Blockaid traced the May attack to TrustedVolumes’ custom RFQ swap proxy. According to Com

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Ethereum

eth2 quick update no. 6

Welcome to this week’s eth2 quick update! A handful of new eth2 testnets have come online and last week I had them all running on my laptop. There is still plenty of work to be done, but this is getting real :). tldr; Comprehensive Phase 0 audit to be conducted by Least Authority We are

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Bitcoin

The payment war shifts to distribution as stablecoins reach mainstream status

“Both Stripe and PayPal do approximately the same amount of payment volume, but Stripe has about one-fifth the net revenue,” Hadick said. “From a financial perspective, this is obviously accretive, and it helps them connect their merchant processing business, which is at risk of being commoditized, with a broad subset of PayPal’s more than 400

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Crypto

OKX Europe opens USDT escape route as MiCA restrictions tighten

OKX Europe has opened a one-way conversion route across 30 EU and EEA countries, allowing customers to deposit USDT and exchange it for MiCA-compliant USDC. Summary OKX Europe now lets users deposit USDT and convert it into MiCA-compliant USDC. Tether continues to reject MiCA approval over concerns about the framework’s reserve requirements. Binance’s European retreat

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Crypto

Trump fails to break CLARITY Act deadlock as new text slips again

President Donald Trump has failed to unlock the stalled CLARITY Act after meeting Senate Republicans, with no revised text released and Polymarket traders cutting its 2026 passage odds to 32%. Summary Trump’s meeting with Senate Republicans produced no revised CLARITY Act text. Polymarket traders cut the bill’s 2026 passage odds to 32%. Democratic opposition remains

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Ethereum

Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade Announcement

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 9,200,000, which is predicted to occur on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones. Please upgrade your node before Wednesday, December 30, 2019 to account for the variable block times Ethernodes.org has

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Bitcoin

BIP-110 On Track To Fail As Miner Signaling Stays Below 1%

This is a guest post by Jason Hughes, VP of Development and Engineering at Ocean Mining. Opinions expressed are entirely his own and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc. or Bitcoin Magazine. The article originally appeared on X.com and has been published with the permission of the author.  Let me start off by

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Crypto

Anthropic turns to Meta for $10B in computing power before IPO

Anthropic has proposed leasing up to $10 billion of computing power from Meta Platforms over two years as the AI developer prepares for a possible October IPO. Summary Anthropic has proposed leasing up to $10 billion of computing power from Meta over two years. Meta is reviewing the deal, which could create a new revenue

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