Bitcoin News
Green beret arrested for Polymarket insider trading allegations
The DOJ arrested an Army Special Forces soldier for using classified information about a planned Venezuela raid to place $33,000 in bets on Polymarket, winning $400,000. The CFTC is also pursuing parallel insider trading charges. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
Michael Saylor says the bitcoin winter is over. Some experts agree, with caveats.
Market analyst Mati Greenspan said bitcoin has not gone through a “winter,” rather a pullback within a broader bull market, adding the next leg up for bitcoin will be driven by nation-state adoption.
Bitcoin-holder Metaplanet raises $50 million to buy more BTC
Metaplanet has issued 8 billion yen, or about $50 million, in zero-interest bonds to fund additional bitcoin purchases.
Bitcoin ETFs just pulled in $2 billion in 8 days while short-term holders quietly started selling
Spot bitcoin ETFs logged their first 8-day inflow streak since October, but on-chain profit-taking is already running at 3x the rate that has marked every local top this year.
Bitcoin rally is stalling as Japanese inflation adds to Iran war–driven market jitters
Crypto markets weaken amid rising Japan inflation, Iran war oil disruptions, and expectations of a hawkish Bank of Japan.
U.S. military confirms it's running a live bitcoin node
Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, told Congress the military is running a live node on the Bitcoin network for monitoring and security tests. It's the first public confirmation from a sitting combatant commander, and signals that Washington is treating Bitcoin as a national security asset. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
The $145 billion math: Why bitcoin’s quantum threat is manageable, not existential
Quantum fears focus on vulnerable early wallets, but market data suggests even a worst case sell-off would be large, not catastrophic.
The DAT collapse: Pantera wants Satsuma to dump its bitcoin as shares crash 99%
Pantera Capital is urging London-listed Satsuma Technology to liquidate its remaining bitcoin holdings and return cash to shareholders.
Bitcoin's bull score index just left bear territory. There's a warning attached.
The index has returned to neutral territory, a rare milestone that has historically marked market turning points, but not always correctly.
Elon Musk's Tesla reports unchanged bitcoin holdings, books $173 million digital asset loss
The company's bitcoin stash remained at 11,509 BTC, worth about $880 million at bitcoin's current price of around $78,000.
