Foundry Digital, the world’s leading Bitcoin mining pool operator, has said it will allow mining clients how the pool should signal on the BIP-110. The Rochester, New York-based firm said Friday in an email to miners that they will be able to vote by using their hashrate — literally computing power — to vote either
The GENIUS Act marks one year as Selig, Anchorage and Lummis call for CLARITY Act rules on crypto markets and customer protection. The GENIUS Act has reached its one-year anniversary as U.S. crypto policy returns to the Senate agenda. Officials and industry firms are now pointing to stablecoin rules as a model for wider market
Bitfinex has eliminated the need for a separate Securities sub-account — customers can now view their securities in their master account. Existing Securities sub-accounts will be converted into regular trading sub-accounts, preserving all current balances, credentials, 2FA settings, and withdrawal permissions. Master account holders can now view their full portfolio — from crypto to tokenised
In the latest Bitcoin news, Strategy (MSTR) is trading roughly 43% below what a discounted cash flow (DCF) model says it is worth, and it just sold $216 million in Bitcoin to pay preferred dividends. Those two facts sit in direct tension, and resolving that tension is what determines whether MSTR is a bargain or
Supporters of BIP-110 view Bitcoin as a public utility whose scarce block space should be reserved primarily for monetary settlement. Inscriptions and other data-heavy applications represent consumption of a limited resource that should be protected for financial transactions, even if doing so requires introducing new consensus rules. DOG Mode starts from the opposite premise. Leonidas
SBI Holdings has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Coinhako, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency platform, after securing approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The Japanese financial group made the purchase through its subsidiary SBI Ventures Asset Pte. Ltd., which injected capital into Coinhako parent Holdbuild Pte. Ltd. and bought shares from existing
ETH holds $1,780 support as traders watch $2,200-$2,400 targets, whale Binance deposits, and USDT-USDC reserves. Ethereum is holding a key support level as traders watch for another move higher. The latest market view places $1,780 at the center of ETH’s short-term trend. Michaël van de Poppe said ETH is running a new upward trend. He
New Issuance Builds on Three-Year Track Record of Successful Tokenised Bond Cycles Executed Through Bitfinex Securities for ALTERNATIVE Bitfinex Securities is to recommence facilitation of regular tokenised bond issuances from ALTERNATIVE, building on an initial issuance programme, first established in 2023. The bonds will be denominated in USDt and settled on the Liquid Network Bitcoin
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
“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
