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Brian Armstrong Reaffirms Bullish Bitcoin Outlook and Long-Term Position Coinbase Global Inc. (Nasdaq: COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong reaffirmed his bitcoin stance in an X post, writing that he remains long the crypto asset and continues to hold a bullish view. His comments accompanied a video he shared discussing bitcoin’s role, market cycles, and his expectation of much higher prices over the long term. The remarks placed Armstrong’s BTC outlook within a broader view of crypto adoption. He described bitcoin as “the new digital gold” and tied his position to long-term economic use, rather than short-term market moves or near-term trading…

Bitcoin Treasury Capital (BTCB), a Sweden-listed company, has introduced Europe’s first Bitcoin-backed preferred stock, trading under the ticker symbol PREF on the Spotlight Stock Market. The security offers a 10% annual dividend, with monthly payouts, marking a significant step in the integration of digital assets with traditional equity markets. What Is a $BTC-Backed Preferred Stock? Preferred stocks are hybrid securities that combine features of both stocks and bonds. They typically pay fixed dividends and have priority over common stock in the event of liquidation. In this case, PREF is backed by Bitcoin held by the company, linking the security’s value…

Bitcoin’s brief slide under $66,000 dragged the broader market into one of its sharpest selloffs in months, with more than $1.8 billion in positions liquidated. Yet on-chain data shows large wallets or crypto whales are not fleeing in unison. BeInCrypto tracked four tokens where whale positioning split during the crash, with accumulation in two corners and a clear exit in others. Maple Finance ($SYRUP) As leverage flushed out of the market, some whales used the drop to add a token tied to real yield rather than speculation. Crypto whales holding Maple Finance ($SYRUP) lifted their balance by about 220% in…

Europe’s authorized crypto sector could face 1,569 to 5,409 governance and counterparty reviews as the EU introduces Russia- and Belarus-related sanctions controls in August, according to an FM Intelligence projection. The base scenario produces 2,849 review actions across the EU27. The full FM Intelligence analysis identified 289 authorized crypto-asset service providers in the EU27. Of those, 256 have at least one permission related to trading, exchange, execution, or order transmission. That puts 88.6% of the authorized population inside the primary group for counterparty and governance screening. The count covers legal entities rather than brands or corporate groups. FinanceMagnates.com reported last…

South Korean crypto exchange Upbit announced on July 31 that it would list Conflux’s $CFX token against the Korean won, Bitcoin and Tether. Trading is scheduled to begin at 16:00 Korea Standard Time. The official Upbit notice was published at 14:00 KST. Deposits and withdrawals were expected to open within 90 minutes through Conflux eSpace. However, Upbit said the trading launch “may be delayed” if the exchange cannot secure enough liquidity. 신규 디지털 자산 콘플럭스($CFX) 거래지원 안내✅ 지원 마켓: KRW, $BTC, $USDT 마켓📅 거래지원 개시 시점 : 2026-07-31 16:00 KST 예정🔗공지 바로가기:https://t.co/X3WgW8Vfbw#Upbit #$CFX@Conflux_Network pic.twitter.com/gMerm10THN — Upbit Korea (@Official_Upbit) July 31,…

Bitcoin’s Rebound Leaves Recent Buyers Under Pressure Bitcoin has stabilized after a sharp selloff that coincided with rising geopolitical tensions and a broad retreat in risk assets. The recovery has eased some of the market stress seen earlier this month, yet blockchain data suggests investors are still navigating conditions historically associated with bear markets. On-chain data analytics firm Glassnode’s June 17 market report showed bitcoin rebounding after a sharp June decline that pushed prices to their lowest levels in months. Despite the recovery, the asset remains significantly below the True Market Mean, a key on-chain benchmark used to distinguish bull…

Numerai, a decentralized hedge fund using crowdsourced machine learning, has completed its third strategic purchase of Numeraire ($NMR), buying $1.2 million worth of the token on the open market. The latest transaction brings the company’s total $NMR buybacks to $3.2 million over the past year. The buybacks support Numerai’s staking system, which brings together thousands of independent data scientists. Contributors stake $NMR on their machine learning models and receive rewards when their predictions perform well. The resulting Stake-Weighted Meta Model is used by Numerai’s hedge fund. Since the first buyback in July 2025, the network has grown significantly. The number…

Reports that the Zcash network stopped producing blocks for more than four hours appear to have been overstated, with developers and ecosystem participants pushing back against claims of a full network outage. The initial concern emerged after Zcash block explorer data appeared to show the latest block at height 3,364,601, with a timestamp of 05:27:48 on June 3, 2026. At the time the page was viewed, that block appeared to be roughly four hours old, while several preceding blocks were also listed as having been produced around five hours earlier. This led to claims that Zcash had halted block production.…

If you are required to file a German income tax return for 2025 and you are doing it yourself, the clock runs out tonight. Not tomorrow morning, not the first working day of August. The statutory deadline is 31 July 2026 at 24:00, and for crypto investors this particular return carries a few things the previous ones did not. Here is what still needs to happen in the next few hours. Why is 31 July the hard deadline this year? The COVID-era extensions are gone. For the 2025 tax year, the normal rule under § 149 Abs. 2 AO applies…

“This is by far the biggest Iranian illegal gambling network ever discovered and one of the biggest in the world,” said John Wojcik, a former researcher at Infoblox and now senior analyst at TRM Labs, who spent seven years investigating illegal gambling for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. It is also one of the largest Iranian sanctions-evasion networks discovered since 2016, when the U.S. broke up a roughly $20 billion IRGC gold-for-oil operation based in Turkey. Separately, the U.S. seized $1 billion in crypto from Iran in May. “It’s an IRGC operation, and that’s plain as day,”…