Bitcoin News

Bitcoin News

Markets

Bitcoin, XRP Open Interest Nears Record High as Bull Market Pullback Unfolds

BTC is down, but not out as SOL finds new resistance at $168.

XRP prone to profit taking. (shutterstock_248427865)

Markets

Bitcoin Rally Stalls as Long-Term Holders Cash Out

Supply gaps and $3.5 billion in realized profits trigger 5%-6% price pullback.

Bear and bull (Pixabay)

Finance

Standard Chartered Says It’s the First Global Bank to Offer Spot Bitcoin, Ether Trading

The bank’s U.K. branch offers regulated, deliverable spot trading for Bitcoin and Ether to institutional clients.

Standard Chartered Bank Building, Hong Kong

Markets

Strategy Bears Cave In as Anti-MSTR Leveraged ETF Hits Rock Bottom

The Defiance daily target 2x short MSTR ETF fell to a record low for the fourth consecutive day.

A bear cools itself, lying on its back in shallow water. (Unsplash, mana5280)

Markets

Dogecoin Leads Losses Among Majors as Profit-Taking Grips Crypto Market

Long liquidations crossed $450 million in the past 24 hours with one bitcoin-tracked trade losing nearly $100 million.

Profit, Risk and Loss. (Gino Crescoli/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Market Top Is 'Nowhere Near,' Say Analysts as Price Pauses at $120K

XRP, SUI and UNI outperformed as the broader crypto market started to digest the violent move higher over the past few days.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on July 14 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Markets Bifurcate With Institutions Focusing on BTC and ETH While Retail Chases Alts: Wintermute

Even inside altcoins, punters are looking at newer tokens like BONK, POPCAT and WIF instead of old-school speculations like DOGE and SHIB.

(Henrik Sorensen/GettyImages)

Markets

'Regime Change' at Fed? Crypto Rallies as Pressure Mounts on Chairman Jerome Powell

The White House's campaign for new Federal Reserve leadership amped higher over the weekend.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. (Federal Reserve, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Michael Saylor's Strategy Adds 4,225 Bitcoin, Bringing BTC Stack to 601,550

Sequans, K33, Tao Alpha and The Blockchain Group also expand their bitcoin treasuries as corporate crypto buying gathers momentum.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk))

Markets

Bhutan Quietly Sells $59M in Bitcoin as BTC Hits $123K, Still Holds Over $1.4B in Reserves

Much of this strategy is executed via Druk Holding & Investments (DHI), the nation’s sovereign wealth fund, which began mining bitcoin by utilizing the country’s abundant hydropower.

Bhutan (Sittichok Glomvinya/Pixabay)