15 | Latest Cryptocurrency News, Bitcoin & Crypto Updates 2026

Bitcoin Hover Near $26,000 Ahead of Key Fed Policy Announcement – Here’s How the BTC Price Might React

The Bitcoin (BTC) price is hovering close to $26,000, well within its recent intra-day ranges in the lead-up to Wednesday’s key US Federal Reserve interest rate announcement.The US central bank is expected to pause its cycle of aggressive interest rate hikes that began last March, which has...

, by Michael Davis

Bitcoin Now Undervalued vs S&P 500, According to This Metric

Bitcoin (BTC) is now undervalued versus the S&P 500.That’s according to a metric that runs an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression of the relationship between bitcoin and S&P 500 over the last 200 days to estimate of fair value for the Bitcoin price based on the current S&P 500...

, by Michael Davis

Bitcoin Reverses Post-US Jobs Data Upside as SEC Chair Gensler Lambasts Crypto Indsutry – Where Next for BTC Price?

Bitcoin saw a small pop this morning on weaker-than-expected weekly initial jobless claims, rising from under $26,500 to at one point above $26,800.Claims jumped to 261,000 last week, up from 233,000 a week earlier, marking the second-highest reading of the year.While 261,000 initial claims in one...

, by Michael Davis

Crypto Prices crashing after SEC Sues Binance, These Presales Still Pumping – Here’s Why

Cryptocurrency markets just experienced a big intraday drop in response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealing that it has sued Binance, its US subsidiary Binance.US and the exchange’s founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ).Bitcoin (BTC) was last trading close to 5% lower on the...

, by Michael Davis

How Will Bitcoin Perform in June? Here Is What History Tells Us

Bitcoin is on course to close May down a little over 7%, marking the first negative month for the world’s largest cryptocurrency since last December.The drop would also mark BTC’s worst month since the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX triggered a 16% price drop last November.But...

, by Michael Davis

Bitcoin Mining Set to Hit New Record High – What’s Driving the Surge?

The Bitcoin mining difficulty is about to be adjusted to a fresh record high, reflecting a continued rise in the number of mining machines competing to secure the network.According to data presented by CoinWarz.com, the BTC mining difficulty will be lifted from its current level of 49.55 trillion...

, by Michael Davis

This Metric of Bitcoin (BTC) Price Momentum Just Fell to its Lowest Since March – Is Now a Good Time to Buy?

A key metric that measures momentum in the Bitcoin price just fell to its weakest level since March.Last week, Bitcoin’s Z-score to its 200-Day Moving Average fell under 1.0, where it has remained more or less ever since.That means that the current Bitcoin price is only just under one...

, by Michael Davis

This Key On-chain Indicator Will Soon Join the List of Those Signalling a Bitcoin (BTC) Bull Market is Here

An indicator that has reliably triggered ahead of the last three major Bitcoin bulls markets looks like it is about to turn green.Bitcoin’s Realized Price – the average price at the time at which each coin last moved – looks like it will soon cross above the Realized Price of...

, by Michael Davis

Number of Bitcoin Wallets With At Least 1 BTC Hits 1 Million – Smart Money Still Moving In?

Last Friday was a historic day for the Bitcoin network.For the first time in Bitcoin’s history, the number of wallet addresses holding at least 1 BTC entire token surpassed one million.The consistent rise in the number of so-called “wholecoiner” Bitcoin wallets, which resumed in...

, by Michael Davis

Bitcoin Will Probably Retest $25K But Bears Beware, On-chain Indicators Suggest BTC Price in Early-Stage Bull Market

Bitcoin (BTC)’s short-term technical outlook is not looking good.The world’s first and largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has now pulled more than 13% lower versus the yearly highs it printed back in April to the north of the $31,000 level.In doing so, it has fallen...

, by Michael Davis

Smart Contracts Have Arrived on the Bitcoin Blockchain – Will BTC Become a DeFi Powerhouse?

A new era has begun for the Bitcoin blockchain.Last week, a group of developers deployed a suite of Uniswap smart contracts directly onto the Bitcoin blockchain.Uniswap is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) that operates on multiple smart contract-enabled blockchains like Ethereum and...

, by Michael Davis

Grayscale Seeks ETF Expansion Amid Ongoing Legal Battle over Spot Bitcoin Fund

In a sign of dedication to its efforts to launch a spot Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in the US, Grayscale Investments is trying a new approach.The digital asset manager, currently the world’s largest, announced on Wednesday the formation of a new trust, Grayscale Funds Trust.The new...

, by Michael Davis

What the Latest US Inflation Numbers Mean for the Bitcoin (BTC) Price

The latest US Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation numbers were just released and Bitcoin (BTC), which rallied at the time to hit session highs in the $28,300s, seemed to like it.According to the latest CPI report, headline inflation fell to 4.9% YoY in April, its first sub-5.0% reading in over two...

, by Michael Davis

Bitcoin Network in Flux as BRC-20 Craze Sends Transaction Fees Towards Multi-Year Highs – What Next for BTC Price?

The Bitcoin network is in flux amid a surge in the popularity of BRC-20 tokens, a new Bitcoin blockchain-based fungible token standard inspired by the Ethereum blockchain’s ecosystem of ERC-20 tokens.The BRC-20 standard, which was developed and deployed by a pseudonymous Twitter user by the...

, by Michael Davis

While Crypto Prices Crash, AiDoge Meme Coin Pumps Up $1 Million in 24 Hours – Are Whales Buying?

Cryptocurrency markets have been suffering from broad selling pressure since Saturday.Bitcoin (BTC), which reached nearly as high as $30,000 on Saturday, has since reversed more than 6.5% lower and was last trading to the south of the $28,000 level.Bitcoin is the world’s first and largest...

, by Michael Davis

Bitcoin Transaction Fees Surge to 2-year Highs – Where Next for the BTC Price?

The mean fee to conduct a transaction on the Bitcoin network just shot to its highest level in nearly two years, as per data presented by crypto on-chain analytics firm Glassnode.On Friday, the average transaction fee clocked in at 0.00032814 BTC, up more than ten-fold from a dip to 0.00003161 on...

, by Michael Davis

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