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Live updates: Bitcoin bounces after first fall below $80,000 in one month
Stocks have also turned positive after big early losses, helped by sharply lower bond yields.
Nearly $1 billion in crypto bets liquidated as bitcoin, ether and XRP slide
Ether accounted for nearly 60% of the forced closures across the two largest cryptocurrencies, falling roughly twice as much as bitcoin.
Bitcoin mining pool once handling 2.3% of network shuts after hashrate falls 65%
Computing power directed at Binance Pool has fallen from 26 EH/s in December to about 9 EH/s. Its remaining miners must choose another provider before a Nov. 10 cutoff.
Live updates: Bitcoin falls back to $82,000 after inflation rises more than forecast
An historic turnaround lower in interest rates suggests the possibility that the bond bear market may have run its course.
Coinbase, which holds 5% of all bitcoin, wants the quantum fix started now
Coinbase says bitcoin should start preparing for quantum computers now, with flexible addresses, a backup quantum-proof key and a separate debate over lost coins.
Ripple adds Stripe-owned wallets to XRP Ledger as AI payments pass 14 million
The integration will let software pay for online services using XRP and RLUSD, while questions remain about how much real economic activity the transactions represent.
Solana sets Oct. 21 for Alpenglow upgrade targeting 150-millisecond finality
The switch will replace Solana’s existing validator voting system, remove vote transactions from blocks and could sharply change headline transaction counts even if user activity stays flat.
Bitcoin climbs toward $84,000 after Fed’s Williams sees no rate hikes in 2027
ZEC led a broad bounce among major tokens, and Korean chipmakers snapped a five-day losing streak ahead of Thursday’s U.S. inflation data.
Live updates: Bitcoin trading in tight range near $83,000 ahead of key U.S. inflation data
The September CPI report comes out on Wednesday, with economists expecting a sizable increase in the headline number but a softening in the core rate.
Tokenized SanDisk bets saw more liquidations than XRP as Asia’s chip rout wipes out $800 million
About $800 million in leveraged positions were wiped out over 24 hours, 86% of them bullish. Chip-stock contracts on crypto exchanges took a chunk of the damage.
