Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 hours ago
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Brazil adds audit requirements for VASPs, Mexico and the EU explore opportunities to target crypto money laundering at a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 13 hours ago
British Olympic sprinter CJ Ujah and nine other individuals appeared before U.K. on May 28 on charges related to an organized cryptocurrency fraud scheme. Crypto Fraud Allegations British sprinter and Olympian CJ Ujah appeared in a U.K. court recentl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 14 hours ago
Storm, who might still face a retrial on the Tornado Cash case, rebuked statements from Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses, who referred to debanking as a “crock of shit.” He affirmed that the phenomenon was real and that he had experienced it multiple times...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 15 hours ago
Openzeppelin co-founder Manuel Aráoz sparked widespread industry debate by calling decentralized finance ( DeFi) unsafe. Industry leaders counter that Aráoz’s framing overstates the risk, pointing out that DeFi lending security has improved by roughl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 16 hours ago
Americanfortress has launched the beta version of its compliant privacy infrastructure on the Arbitrum network, aiming to support institutional decentralized finance ( DeFi) activity. Solving the Privacy Challenge for Institutional DeFi Americanfortr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 17 hours ago
The greatest quantum danger to crypto is not a future computer cracking wallet keys but the encrypted transaction data that adversaries are quietly harvesting today, Zerotier CEO Andrew Gault warned. The Risk Is in the Data Already Moving The crypto...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 18 hours ago
A Google engineer is facing federal charges after prosecutors said he used confidential search data to make more than $1.2 million on Polymarket. The case puts new scrutiny on prediction-market rules and insider trading tied to private company inform...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 19 hours ago
Standard Chartered is maintaining its $40,000 Ethereum price target even after ETH fell 57% from its August 2025 high. The bank believes growth in stablecoins and tokenized assets could eventually help close the gap between Ethereum’s fundamentals an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 20 hours ago
Robert Kiyosaki warned that bitcoin buyers can lose money when hype drives investment decisions. He urged investors to track cash flows, weigh risk, and avoid treating BTC, gold, or silver as automatic protection. Robert Kiyosaki Says Bitcoin Buyers...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 21 hours ago
CME Group now offers nonstop trading for cryptocurrency futures and options, expanding regulated access for bitcoin and other digital asset derivatives. The change gives traders a way to respond to weekend, overnight, and holiday market moves through...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 22 hours ago
Bitcoin slid to multi-week lows this week, dragged lower by record exchange-traded fund (ETF) redemptions and a broad pullback from risk assets. The price settled near $73,500 on Friday, down roughly 4% from where it opened the week above $77,000. To...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 23 hours ago
According to Normative Instruction No. 739, issued on Friday, VASPs will now need to undergo an audit by an approved third-party entity to obtain authorization to operate in Brazil. The requirement adds to an already stringent regulation, making the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Prediction market platform Kalshi has filed a federal lawsuit to block a first-in-the-nation Minnesota law that would make operating or advertising prediction markets a felony, escalating a nationwide fight over who regulates the fast-growing sector....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
The Bitcoin network received a fresh difficulty bump this week at block height 951552, with the protocol dialing things up by 1.72%. Meanwhile, the network’s hashrate kept flexing its muscles, climbing past the 1,000 exahash per second (EH/s), or 1 z...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
An early Ethereum investor has sold roughly $136 million worth of ether and staked-ether tokens over the past week, adding to the selling pressure already weighing on ETH near the $2,000 mark. A Week of Steady Selling The wallet, an early participant...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Three investigations. Four suspects. Zero proof. Between October 2024 and April 2026, an HBO documentary, a New York Times investigation, and a feature-length film each named a different person as Satoshi Nakamoto and all three came up short. The Hun...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
A wallet reportedly tied to venture giant Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) has accumulated 3.9 million HYPE worth about $192.6 million, even as one of Hyperliquid’s earliest backers sold a 1.5 million-token stake to lock in a roughly $95 million profit. Sm...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows remained under pressure on Friday, May 29, as bitcoin funds posted a tenth straight day of outflows and ether funds extended their outflow streak to 14 sessions. Still, the tone was less one-sided than earlier...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Circle blacklisted a publicly labeled Ethereum smart contract tied to Zama’s privacy protocol on Saturday, freezing approximately $12.6 million in USDC following a U.S. federal court order connected to a civil lawsuit against Overnight Finance founde...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
The U.S. Treasury has seized approximately $1 billion in Iranian-linked cryptocurrency assets, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced May 29, 2026, at the Reagan National Economic Forum in Simi Valley, California. Operation Economic Fury: Scott B...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Cross-chain protocol Gravity Bridge was drained of roughly $5.4 million on May 30, with the attacker reportedly funneling part of the haul through Binance and Changenow, blockchain security firm Peckshield reported. Funds Routed Through Binance and C...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
The standard blockchain ethos of “Don’t trust, verify” has created a chaotic environment as anonymous token launches have bypassed traditional consumer protection frameworks. Instead of a centralized review platform, David Track advocates for a decen...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
HYPE climbed to a fresh all-time high near $67 on May 29, capping a week in which U.S. regulators cleared the first domestic perpetual futures contract and Grayscale branded Hyperliquid a breakout success. A Record Built on Regulatory Relief HYPE, th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
Reddit user All-Seeing_Hands bought a supposedly new 1TB SSD that arrived preloaded with 800GB of music-production tools, including Kontakt ($299) and Reaktor ($199). The find has reignited concerns over online sellers, from unchecked returns and pir...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 day ago
It’s hard to imagine that, with its reputation of strictness, the MiCA regulation would allow for offshore structures. Evidence shows that it’s actually common practice. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by...
