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A new Labor Department rule would open 401(k) plans to Bitcoin and other alternative investments
The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule on March 30, 2026, that would give 401(k) plan fiduciaries explicit authority to offer Bitcoin and other...
Regulators have classified Bitcoin and 15 other crypto assets as commodities
Crypto exchanges, asset managers, and individual traders now operate under a clearer federal framework after the SEC and CFTC jointly declared in March 2026 that...
Georgia’s new law adds safeguards at crypto kiosks, a favorite tool of elder scammers, on July 1
Older adults who fall for phone scams and are told to deposit cash into a cryptocurrency kiosk will soon encounter new barriers in Georgia. Starting...
Bitcoin’s slide below $64,000 erased $1.1 billion in leveraged bets in one day
Traders holding high-leverage crypto positions lost more than a billion dollars in forced liquidations after Bitcoin dropped below $64,000 in a single session. The selloff...
Federal agents arrested 276 people in a global “pig butchering” crypto crackdown
At least 276 people were arrested across multiple countries in a coordinated strike against Southeast Asian scam compounds that ran “pig butchering” cryptocurrency fraud schemes...
Bitcoin ETFs are now buying ten times more coins each day than miners can produce — a supply squeeze building since April’s halving cut new supply in half
During the first full week of May 2026, U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds pulled in a net 31,500 BTC, according to daily creation and redemption...
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled out $1 billion last week — the worst exit since early February, as BTC slid under $77,000 over the weekend
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed roughly $1 billion in net outflows during the trading week ending Friday, June 6, 2025, their steepest weekly drawdown since...
Bitcoin dropped below $79,000 over the weekend — institutional ETFs pulled out $635 million in a single day, the biggest crypto exit since January
Bitcoin dropped below $79,000 over the weekend – institutional ETFs pulled out $635 million in a single day, the biggest crypto exit since January Investors...
Gold dropped 1.4%, silver fell 2%, and Bitcoin slid below $81,000 — investors fled inflation hedges the same day Treasury yields hit 18-year highs
At 1:03 p.m. Eastern on May 15, 2026, the U.S. Treasury closed the books on a new 30-year bond auction. The clearing yield came in...
Bitcoin held above $81,000 — spot ETFs pulled in $1.63 billion since May 1, and Tom Lee says the crypto winter is over if BTC closes May above $76,000
Bitcoin was trading above $81,000 in mid-May 2026, holding a level it had not touched in more than three months. The rally did not hinge...
Coinbase cut 700 employees, replaced managers with “player-coaches,” and just posted a $394 million loss — its CEO says mass AI layoffs are coming to “every company”
On May 5, 2026, Coinbase Global told the Securities and Exchange Commission it was eliminating roughly 700 jobs, about 14% of its worldwide workforce. The...
Bitcoin crossed $81,000 for the first time since January — up 17% in a month — as Iran de-escalation hopes pull money out of gold and into risk assets
Bitcoin punched through $81,000 during early Asian trading on May 4, 2026, a level it had not touched since late January, capping a rally of...
Bitcoin briefly crossed $80,000 — up 17% in one month — while Ethereum ETFs lost $82 million as investors rotated into BTC
Bitcoin punched through $80,000 on May 4, 2026, touching an intraday high of $80,594 and marking its strongest level in three months. The breakout capped...
Bitcoin is at $78,174 with 58.5% market dominance — but the entire April rally was driven by futures, not actual buying
Bitcoin is at $78,174 with 58.5% market dominance – but the entire April rally was driven by futures, not actual buying Bitcoin sits at $78,174...
Canada is banning every crypto ATM in the country after scammers used them to steal $704 million from Canadians
Walk into almost any Canadian convenience store, gas station, or shopping mall and you will likely spot a crypto ATM tucked near the entrance. There...
Crypto downturn is forcing some traders to cut grocery and daily spend
By the time Bitcoin crested above $100,000 in late 2024, a 23-year-old warehouse worker posting on Reddit’s r/CryptoCurrency forum said he was routing half of...
Kalshi, Polymarket target insider trading as Robin Hanson pushes back
On April 23, 2026, federal prosecutors and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed parallel cases against a single trader in Manhattan, marking the first time...
Crypto PACs have more money to spend on the midterms than some of the biggest Republican super PACs — $180 million and counting
Sometime in the first quarter of 2026, the crypto industry’s political war chest crossed a threshold that should make every midterm candidate pay attention. Fairshake,...
April 2026 is the worst month for crypto hacks on record — $606 million stolen in just 18 days
Twelve attacks in 18 days. Over $606 million drained from crypto protocols. And April 2026 is not over yet. Between April 1 and April 18,...
A hacker drained $293 million from a DeFi protocol in 46 minutes — then used the stolen crypto as collateral to borrow even more
The first suspicious transaction hit the blockchain on Saturday, April 18, 2026. Forty-six minutes later, roughly $293 million in rsETH tokens had been drained from...