Author: NBTC

Bitcoin trades at $79,749 on May 14, pulling back after tagging the 200-day MA at $81,964, as Glassnode and Wintermute flag the same problem: the chart break is real but the spot demand needed to confirm it has not shown up yet. $BTC Daily Chart: 200-Day MA Cleared, Now Comes the Hard Part Bitcoin Daily Price Action (Source: TradingView) The daily chart posted the most significant technical development since October. $BTC broke above the 200 EMA at $81,964 and the 0.705 Fib at $81,958 in the same session, levels that capped every recovery for seven months. Price tagged $79,962 intraday…

EMBARGO: APRIL 21, 2026 @ 9:00 AM BST (UK) Cryptocurrency custody firm Fireblocks is handling the issuance and distribution of a euro-denominated stablecoin, backed by a group of twelve European banks, known as the Qivalis consortium. The euro-backed token, scheduled for release in the second half of 2026, is regulated by the Dutch Central Bank through Amsterdam-based Qivalis and is compliant with the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). The Qivalis consortium is made up of: Banca Sella, BBVA, BNP Paribas, CaixaBank, Danske Bank, DekaBank, DZ BANK, ING, KBC, Raiffeisen Bank International, SEB, and UniCredit. Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies with values…

For two years, Litecoin’s social media managers laughed at Solana’s blockchain outages. This weekend, they had to eat their own words as Litecoin’s blockchain suffered its own denial-of-service and double-spending attack. Repeated Solana outages drew smug chuckles from Litecoin. Unlike Solana, according to its sustained declarations, Litecoin doesn’t have outages. On Saturday, that talking point died. Litecoin definitely had an outage, as well as a double-spending problem. A consensus bug in Litecoin’s privacy upgrade let an attacker mint invalid coins. Looking to double-spend as quickly as possible, the attacker rapidly traded $LTC for other digital assets at crypto exchanges before…

Binance Wallet, a prominent self-custody cryptocurrency wallet, is excited to introduce a Prediction Markets API that enables developers to build applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents, and trading bots. The basic purpose of this launch is to automate access, analysis, and trade applications on prediction markets via a single API. The Prediction Markets API name itself indicates that this will provide a proposed sketch for users’ compliance. 🚀 Binance Wallet launches Prediction Markets API.From AI agents to trading bots, developers can now build and automate on top of Prediction Markets through a unified API.Access market data, execute trades, and integrate prediction…

Scaramucci Says Bitcoin Can’t Be ‘Devalued’ During an interview with RiskReversal Media, Scaramucci said that traditional fiat money is essentially “worthless,” but it gains value because people trust it. Bitcoin, he added, is an improved version, which happens to be “an open, transparent, fully decentralized and fully secured” by a network of computers. “This is a computer program that cannot be devalued,” Scaramucci said. The natural next question is — why does Bitcoin’s value fall then? The S-Curve Of Adoption Scaramucci admitted that the majority of people, himself included, were dismissive of Bitcoin initially when it was championed by “libertarians”…

More than $500 billion has been wiped from the crypto market over the past two months, pushing investor sentiment toward Extreme Fear. As investor sentiment weakens, major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and $XRP have dropped 50% and 70% from their recent peaks. Now, popular crypto analyst Ali Martinez believes key on-chain and technical indicators are now revealing where the next major market bottoms could form. Bitcoin’s Key Bottom Zone Emerges Near $43,130 For Bitcoin, Martinez is watching the historical accumulation area identified by the MVRV Pricing Bands, a metric widely used to identify long-term market bottoms. According to his analysis,…

Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song used his first address in office to prioritize central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and bank-issued deposit tokens, while leaving out any mention of stablecoins as South Korea weighs new crypto rules. Shin, who began his four-year term Tuesday, pointed to the bank’s ongoing retail CBDC and deposit-token pilot, Project Hangang, and its role in Project Agorá, a cross-border tokenization effort led by the Bank for International Settlements, according to news outlet Chosun. He framed digital currency as part of a broader shift in central banking during a period of economic strain and slower domestic…

Bithumb and Upbit, two of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, have announced they will list CTR, the native token of the Bitcoin-based Layer-2 project Citrea. According to the announcements, CTR will be accessible to investors on June 9, 2026, with trading pairs including Korean won (KRW) and $BTC and $USDT. According to Bithumb, CTR will be launched on the KRW market, and deposit and withdrawal operations will begin within three hours of the announcement. Trading is scheduled to start on June 9th at 3 PM. The reference price is set at 21.61 won, and 200 network confirmations will be required…

Bitcoin’s onchain metrics are flashing their most constructive signals since early February, but underlying seller behavior and derivatives positioning suggest the road to new highs will not be easy, Bitfinex shared in an analyst note to CoinDesk on Thursday. Long-term holders, whose bitcoin holdings have increased by 300% since the end of 2025 to nearly 4 million tokens, have started taking $180 million in profits per day since $BTC rallied to the over the $82,000 level on May 11 before dropping from $81,000 to the lower $79,000s on Thursday. “That is a moderate amount compared with past cycles and suggests…

KOSDAQ-listed technology firm Parataxis Ethereum has expanded its cryptocurrency portfolio, purchasing an additional 398 $ETH, according to a report by Hans Kyungjae. The acquisition brings the company’s total Ethereum holdings to 9,399 $ETH, underscoring a continued institutional accumulation trend among publicly traded firms in South Korea. Details of the Acquisition The latest purchase adds to Parataxis Ethereum’s already substantial position in the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. At current market prices, 398 $ETH is valued at approximately $1.3 million, though the exact purchase price and timing of the transaction were not disclosed in the initial report. The company’s total holdings…