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Bitcoin miners sold a record 32,000 $BTC in the first quarter of 2026 and signed about $70 billion in contracts to help power AI instead, marking the largest desertion by the group in the network’s history. The exodus triggered Bitcoin’s first hash rate drop in six years, but it absorbed the shock and adjusted its difficulty, with the hash rate even recovering to a new high without missing a single block. Bitcoin Absorbs Record Miner Exit as AI Pulls Capital Away In a post published on X on July 6, analyst Shanaka Anslem Perera argued that Bitcoin has just passed…

Bitcoin price fell below $60,000 on Wednesday, extending a wider crypto market selloff as pressure across risk assets moved into digital markets and triggered another wave of leveraged position liquidations. The largest crypto asset by market value dropped nearly 5% over 24 hours and reached a low near $59,600 before trading around $59,800 at press time. The move pushed Bitcoin below a closely watched long-term technical level and renewed debate over whether the market could test the $50,000 area. Source: X Prediction market odds for Bitcoin falling below $50,000 in 2026 climbed to 64%, while the chance of a move…

Ethereum extended its price recovery and reclaimed $1.7k, a level that had recently acted as resistance. At press time, $ETH traded at $1,756, up 3.02% on the daily chart. The recovery pushed $ETH above the MACD Signal Line Moving Averages (SMAs) at $1,630 and $1,671, signaling stronger momentum. Why did an Ethereum whale take a $9 million loss? As Ethereum reclaimed $1.7k, whales that had previously shorted the market exited to avoid mounting losses and liquidation risk. In fact, short liquidations surged, with $79 million in bearish positions wiped out after $ETH crossed the level. According to Onchain Lens, one…

Latam Institutions Lead in Crypto Adoption Globally While stablecoins are now being adopted widely around the world due to their dollar-proxy traits, their adoption has been larger in some regions following specific needs. The Digital Chamber, an organization established in 2014 to advocate for innovation in digital assets, highlighted that even with the current developing regulatory framework, Latam has become a global stablecoin adoption hub. In this sense, the chamber highlighted that in Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina, regulatory advances have pushed stablecoin adoption to record levels, empowering institutional use. These include Brazil’s Virtual Assets Law, Bolivia’s removal of its long-lasting…

Stellar is a blockchain network designed to move money across borders faster and cheaper than traditional banks. Instead of routing payments through correspondent banks and clearinghouses, Stellar uses a decentralized ledger, a native token called $XLM, and a network of licensed financial intermediaries called anchors to settle cross-border transactions in seconds. What Problem Does Stellar Actually Solve? Sending money internationally through the traditional banking system is slow and expensive. A wire transfer can take three to five business days and cost between $25 and $50 in fees, with additional charges buried in exchange rate markups. For people in developing countries…

A Bitcoin miner-stress signal circulating on X has fallen into a zone analysts associate with severe miner pressure, putting a familiar cycle claim back in view: miner pain can appear near market bottoms. The operating consequence is more immediate. If hashprice remains weak, the next test is which miners can keep machines online, avoid forced $BTC sales, and wait for difficulty relief. The latest signal came from analyst Gaah, who said the Miner Cycle Stress Composite for Bitcoin had fallen to new 2026 lows in undervalued territory. BitcoinNewsCom amplified the insight, describing it as a composite of the Puell Multiple…

New forensic research published yesterday suggests that Hal Finney might not have been the second person to run a $BTC node. For 17 years, the man who tweeted “Running bitcoin” earned an unofficial title. In the eyes of many Bitcoin historians, Finney was the second person after creator Satoshi Nakamo to run a Bitcoin node. Indeed, thousands of articles credit Finney as Bitcoin’s second participant. However, it turns out that he might actually have been the third. Although it is an indisputable, on-chain fact that Finney earned the first coinbase reward after Nakamoto for mining a block, forensic researcher Alex…

Ethereum is holding a major long-term trendline, but the recovery still needs one clear confirmation. If $ETH cannot close above $1,800 on the weekly chart, the risk of a deeper move toward $1,200 stays alive. Ethereum’s Trendline Hold Could Decide the Next Big Move Ethereum is still trying to defend a long-term rising trendline, with the weekly chart showing price squeezed between major support and descending resistance. A strong hold here could keep the recovery case alive, while a breakdown would weaken the broader structure. $ETH/USD weekly chart. Source: The Great Mattsby on X, TradingView The chart shows $ETH trading…

The total asset size of spot ETFs based on $XRP, one of the most closely followed altcoins in the cryptocurrency market, continues to remain above $1 billion. According to $XRP ETF data, the total assets under management in spot $XRP ETFs stand at $1.05 billion, while the amount of $XRP held in ETF vaults has reached 926.58 million. According to the data, this amount corresponds to approximately 0.9266% of $XRP’s total supply of 100 billion units. The price of $XRP has fallen by 5.55% in the last 24 hours to $1.14. The weekly flow data also showed a positive outlook.…

The 2026 Litecoin Summit opened in Amsterdam today (June 22), the sixth edition of the event and its first outside the United States. Over two days, the Litecoin Foundation (@LTCFoundation) is running keynotes, panels, and workshops at the Tobacco Theater, with the institutional adoption story front and center for a network that has spent most of its 14 years known mainly as a payments coin. That shift is the thing to watch. Litecoin arrives in Europe with a Nasdaq-listed treasury company, a spot ETF, and fresh SEC guidance behind it, and the schedule leans hard into what all of that…