Martin Young

Bitcoin mining is accelerating renewable energy deployment, replacing fossil-fuel heating, expanding energy access and cutting methane emissions at scale.

Employees who left the Electric Coin Company en masse on Wednesday are launching a new Zcash wallet, citing the need to return to cypherpunk principles and to scale faster.

Claude maker Anthropic is aiming to nearly double its valuation to $350 billion, with The Wall Street Journal reporting a planned $10 billion raise.

Bitwise’s Matt Hougan says that post-October liquidation stability, the passage of the CLARITY Act and steady equities must happen before crypto hits new highs.

XRP is having an explosive start to the year, driven by strong ETF inflows, bullish sentiment, and declining exchange reserves.

US spot bitcoin ETFs attracted over $1.2 billion in the first two trading days of 2026, with analysts projecting annual inflows could reach $150 billion.

Whales accumulated over $5.3 billion in Bitcoin since mid-December while retail traders took profits, creating bullish market conditions.

Ethereum’s validator exit queue fell near zero for the first time since July as staking demand increased, led by BitMine’s aggressive accumulation.

ESG researcher Daniel Batten says peer-reviewed studies challenge claims that Bitcoin mining destabilizes power grids or raises electricity costs.

Ethereum processed $8 trillion in stablecoin transfers during Q4, nearly double Q2’s volume, while active addresses and daily transactions peaked.

The Federal Reserve’s December dot plot revealed sharp divisions on 2026 rate cuts, with analysts predicting one to two cuts could shape crypto momentum.

Analysts are split on whether Bitcoin’s typical four-year cycle has ended in 2025, with institutional ETFs and regulatory shifts cited as key factors.

Bitcoin and Ether ETFs have recorded sustained outflows since early November, which Glassnode says signals institutional disengagement.

Galaxy’s Alex Thorn says Bitcoin's $126,000 peak translates to $99,848 after being adjusted for inflation, falling short of its milestone six-figure mark.

CoinEx’s Jeff Ko tells Cointelegraph there likely won’t be an altseason in 2026 as liquidity will flow into the top cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin perpetual open interest climbed to 310,000 BTC while funding rates doubled, signaling bullish positioning for the year-end.

Northern Data, which is majority-owned by Tether, sold its Bitcoin mining arm to businesses owned by Tether executives, the Financial Times reports.

Kaspersky found a new malware, dubbed Stealka, that disguises itself as game mods and pirated software to steal crypto wallets, passwords, and browser data.

The total crypto market cap fell to $2.93 trillion, its lowest since April, erasing yearly gains as analysts anticipated further declines.

Crypto has tracked lower late this year despite pro-regulation shifts, ETF launches, and institutional buying, prompting analysts to question structural issues.

Analysts estimated that crypto treasury firms face up to $11.6 billion in outflows if MSCI excluded them from its indexes.

Bitwise predicted Bitcoin's volatility will stay below Nvidia's in 2026, citing institutional adoption and ETFs as drivers of the asset’s maturation.

Lightning Network’s capacity reached an all-time high as exchanges increased adoption, while a new Taproot Assets update has enabled multi-asset transactions.

Exodus partnered with MoonPay to launch a USD-backed stablecoin for everyday payments, integrating it into Exodus Pay for self-custodial transactions.

Bitcoin fell 26% in three months but outperformed most crypto sectors as Ether dropped 36%, AI tokens fell 48%, and memecoins dipped 56%.

Cloudflare found over 5% of global emails were malicious in 2025, peaking near 10% in November, with more than half of them containing deceptive links.

The Senate Banking Committee delayed crypto market structure hearings until 2026 amid ongoing bipartisan negotiations.

A bug in Ethereum's Prysm client caused network participation to drop to 75% costing validators 382 ETH as nodes experienced resource exhaustion.

Bitcoin fell to $87,600 amid more Sunday selling pressure, while Michael Saylor hinted that Strategy would buy more.

The Blockchain Game Alliance reports industry confidence rose to 66% as developers pivoted from speculation to sustainable models following a funding collapse since 2021.