11+ hour, 47+ min ago   (400+ words) According to a myriad of reports, a drone strike reportedly launched from Iraq paralyzed Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, also known as Petroline. Between the pipeline and the Strait of Hormuz disruption, Brent crude oil prices jumped 3% to $109 a barrel. Earlier…...

11+ hour, 42+ min ago   (295+ words) Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, stressed that high stock prices and upcoming interest rate hikes suggest bitcoin’s price may retrace meaningfully to $10,000, serving as a leading indicator of a risk-asset drawdown. While the cryptocurrency market enjoyed one…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (482+ words) A Virginia man convicted of stealing more than $2.5 million from investors concealed millions in cryptocurrency before declaring just 34 cents in financial assets. Federal prosecutors said he also denied owning any crypto during bankruptcy. A federal jury in Alexandria convicted Jihoon…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (689+ words) A new report from Cornell Brooks School Tech Policy Institute might give G20 governments and others some clues about how a counterintuitive move could help their economies and boost tax revenue, while also potentially helping bitcoin’s price and increasing government revenue…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (328+ words) The project Bitcoin Blake2b, which forked away from Bitcoin on Aug. 8, 2026, at block height 961632, is causing arguments once again in the crypto space. After the split, on Aug. 30, the project’s developers switched its proof-of-work (PoW) to BLAKE2b and reduced the block size....

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (515+ words) Chris, the pseudonym the British man gave to the media, managed to reclaim his bitcoin stash after a legal fight with Intersango, formerly known as Britcoin, an exchange that shut down operations in 2014. While it was under Intersango’s custody, his…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (194+ words) While bitcoin’s price has fueled mining revenue, miners experienced a moderate difficulty rise of 1.31% at block height 965664. The latest change marks the eighth difficulty increase in 2026. At present, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty is 1.31% harder than it was before block 965664 and the…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (679+ words) Stocks are up, oil is up, gold is up, and Bitcoin is up, currently at $80,000, up 30% in the last month. Whether or not it’s logical, the debasement/store-of-value trade appears strong, according to Bloomberg’s ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. The crypto…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (720+ words) This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocksbridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute, infrastructure, and data analysis from The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. Public miners analyzed by TheEnergyMag…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (311+ words) President Nayib Bukele denied claims that El Salvador was ceding control of its strategic bitcoin reserve to a private operator, calling these allegations “totally false.” Bukele stressed that only Chivo Wallet shares were transferred to a private operator, not the…...