El Salvador has not used public funds to accumulate bitcoin since the International Monetary Fund’s last review of its loan program, the fund said Thursday.  In a report Thursday, the body said that the Central American country had instead received bitcoin from private donations, citing documentation from the government. It added that “no further Bitcoin

Poland’s Sejm fell 25 votes short of overriding Nawrocki’s third veto. The deadlock leaves domestic crypto firms without a clear MiCA licensing route. The Zondacrypto investigation has added political pressure to the dispute. Poland’s crypto regulation remains stalled after lawmakers failed to overturn President Karol Nawrocki’s third veto of the legislation. The Sejm voted Friday

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is likely chairing his final Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on 29 April. Fed Funds futures pricing suggests the federal funds rate will be held at 3.5-3.75 percent, the third consecutive pause of the year. The decision has been fully priced in for some weeks, since inflationary concerns drifted higher

CrowdStrike and the U.S. Department of Justice disrupted the Sality botnet, isolating more than 15,000 infected machines that had been used to distribute malicious payloads. Active since 2003, Sality spent the past eight years primarily delivering EggJagger, a tool that monitored copied cryptocurrency wallet addresses and replaced them with addresses controlled by its operator. The

A historical analysis of bitcoin price performance from 2010 through 2026 demonstrates that the vast majority of the asset’s annual returns occur during a tiny fraction of the calendar year. Source link

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor has said that a data breach first announced last month is worse than originally reported.  The Prague, Czech Republic-based company said Friday that an additional 67,000 U.S. customers had their names, emails, phone numbers, shipping addresses and order numbers leaked. The leaked data came from orders made between November 2019 and

Nobody bought a payments rail in Gainesville. Ripple’s Florida Athletics XRP sponsorship is a Power-conference media buy, dressed in campus language. Schools need cash after revenue-share pressure while crypto brands need Saturday minutes that no exchange banner can buy. Call it what it is: strong inventory, thin product. Florida Athletics announced a multi-year Ripple partnership

Friday 1 May, ISM Manufacturing PMI (April) An early read on US industrial activity and pricing pressures. Given recent weakness in manufacturing and elevated input costs (energy), this print will help determine whether growth is stabilising or rolling over further. Why it matters: A weak print reinforces the slowdown narrative (bullish for risk via lower

Bitcoin price analysis notes that BTC surged to $81,330 on August 28 after holding above the prior $64,402 level. In a September 2 analysis, FX Empire’s Dr. Arnout Ter Schure characterized the subsequent pullback as corrective rather than the start of a trend reversal, which traders will be hoping proves right if a move toward

Daily order-book traders fell about 40% from a year ago while volume rose 79%, as the value held on XRPL climbed above $4 billion. Source link