BitMine snared another 32,938 ETH on Tuesday as end-of-year tax-loss sellers and bots kept prices down, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee said.
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Brayden Lindrea is a journalist on Cointelegraph’s APAC news team, having joined the team in 2022. He covers everything from crypto market trends and regulatory shifts to cybercrime and innovation. He is particularly interested in covering Bitcoin adoption — from the community level right through to institutions and nation-states. He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Sydney. Brayden has no crypto holdings above Cointelegraph’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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Bitcoin helps USD’s reserve status ‘in a strange way’: Coinbase CEO Bitcoin is helping reinforce the US dollar’s reserve currency status by acting as a market check on excessive inflation and deficit spending, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said.
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Flow validators urged to halt work after blockchain rollback proposal The Flow Foundation has been slammed for planning to roll back the layer 1 Flow chain to patch up a $3.9 million exploit, with one partner advising validators to stop processing transactions until further notice.
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Tips for crypto newbies, vets and skeptics from a Bitcoiner who buried $700M James Howells, who accidentally had his hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin thrown away, offered his advice to industry newcomers, veterans and skeptics in 2026.
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Crypto sentiment holds ‘extreme fear’ for 14th straight day The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is hovering at levels lower than during the shock FTX collapse in late 2022, despite Bitcoin trading at roughly five times the price.
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Vitalik says Grok arguably a 'net improvement' to X despite flaws Grok makes X more truth-friendly as it often challenges users’ assumptions instead of confirming them, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
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Crypto mergers and acquisitions hit record $8.6B in 2025: FT The number of crypto deals reportedly skyrocketed this year and hit a record total value of $8.6 billion, led by Coinbase’s record-breaking acquisition of Deribit.
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Tokenization has moved past money only meaning fiat: Kraken exec Blockchain tokenization is radically expanding the definition of money, enabling anyone to trade, save and spend in virtually any asset they like, says Kraken’s Mark Greenberg.
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Solana treasury Upexi slides 7.5% on $1B shelf registration filing Shares in Upexi fell 7.5% on Tuesday after it filed a $1 billion shelf registration, suggesting its Solana holdings may increase after over five months of no purchases.
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Bitcoin treasury Matador’s $58M share-sale approved to expand holdings The Ontario Securities Commission has cleared Matador to raise $58 million, which it intends to use to expand its Bitcoin treasury.
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BlackRock pins Bitcoin ETF as major theme alongside T-bills, tech stocks BlackRock’s IBIT Bitcoin ETF has featured on the $13.5 trillion asset manager's homepage, representing one of three major investment themes as the market heads into 2026.
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Recent Bitcoin miner capitulation may signal bottom is near: VanEck Bitcoin has often surged after sustained hashrate drops, a trend that would provide much-needed relief to many struggling Bitcoin miners at current prices.
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Fed seeks input on account type attractive to crypto firms The Federal Reserve is seeking public feedback on a new “payment account” that could give fintechs and crypto companies easier access to the central bank’s systems.
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Uniswap fee switch to go live as community vote set to pass Uniswap’s fee switch proposal, designed to boost its token’s supply-demand dynamics via token burns, has passed a community vote threshold and is set to take effect this week.
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SEC flags Bitcoin miner hosting services as subject to securities laws In a lawsuit, the SEC says some hosted Bitcoin mining services could trigger US securities laws, but an industry executive says most providers have nothing to worry about.
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Crypto CLARITY Act set for Senate markup in January, Sacks says White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks said the CLARITY Act will reach the Senate next month for debate and amendment before a full vote.
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Crypto ETPs could see a flood of liquidations by 2027: Analyst Many of the crypto ETP applications awaiting SEC approval will launch in 2026, but a lot of those won’t survive beyond 2027, says Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart.
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Ethereum could get faster in January with gas limit rise to 80M Ethereum could see another rise in transaction speed in January, with developers considering raising the gas limit to 80 million after the next blob parameter-only hard fork.
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Crypto lawyer says SAFE Crypto Act could deter scammers Newly proposed legislation could see the US Treasury, FinCEN, the Secret Service, and law enforcement coordinate to catch crypto scammers and fraudsters.
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Tether leads $8M funding for Lightning startup focused on stablecoins Speed, which leverages the Bitcoin Lightning Network to facilitate USDT transfers, has secured $8 million from Tether and Ego Death Capital.
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Bank of Canada lays out criteria for ‘good money’ stablecoins Canada’s central bank will approve only fiat-backed, high-quality stablecoins to ensure they are “good money” as part of the country’s plan to modernize its financial system.
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Grok fan-girling Elon Musk shows why AI must be decentralized Grok couldn’t stop singing Elon Musk’s praises, arguing he could beat Mike Tyson in a fight and was fitter than NBA superstar LeBron James.
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Kalshi’s valuation marked up to $11B after $1B funding round: TechCrunch Kalshi has joined predictions market rival Polymarket in the $10 billion-plus valuation club after reportedly raising another $1 billion from Sequoia Capital and CapitalG.
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Cloudflare outage shows why crypto needs end-to-end decentralization Many blockchains are decentralized, but their frontends and storage still rely on Web2 — a weakness exposed when the Cloudflare outage knocked several platforms offline, EthStorage said.
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BlackRock signals it is working on a new staked Ethereum trust ETF BlackRock is now pursuing a new staked Ethereum ETF, offering more lucrative returns, approximately 15 months after launching its flagship ETH fund, ETHA.
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Coinbase to roll out its new ‘DeFi Mullet’ offering in Brazil Coinbase is rolling out its DEX trading platform to Brazil about six weeks after it launched in the US, offering Brazilians over 10,000 tokens to trade without leaving Coinbase’s app.
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Cloudflare blames database error for outage that took down 20% of the internet Cloudflare says a bug in its Bot Management System crashed 20% of webpages on Tuesday, including some of the crypto industry’s biggest websites.