Author: NBTC

Attorney Ian R. Cohen has filed a new court rebuttal opposing efforts to revive a lawsuit that seeks control of roughly 3.8 million Bitcoin worth an estimated $238 billion, including wallets linked to Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. According to a June 20 X thread posted by Galaxy Digital research head Alex Thorn, Cohen’s June 19 filing pushes back against attempts by plaintiffs’ attorney David Lin to overturn a court-ordered stay in a New York case involving 39,069 Bitcoin wallet addresses. UPDATE IN CASE TO CLAIM LEGAL TITLE OVER SATOSHI’S BITCOIN on may 29, @btclawyerguy filed an amicus arguing that the…

Upbit and Bithumb, two of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, have recorded remarkable trading volumes in some altcoins over the past 24 hours. A comparison of the volume data from both exchanges reveals particularly high trading activity in RE, Worldcoin, Axie Infinity, Biconomy, and $XRP. According to the data, RE topped the list by a wide margin on Upbit with a volume exceeding $117 million, while Biconomy took the top spot on Bithumb with a trading volume of approximately $49 million. When the total volumes of the two exchanges are considered together, RE became one of the most traded altcoins…

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said that the sharp decline in the cryptocurrency market in the first half of 2026 cannot be attributed to a single cause. According to CZ, geopolitical tensions, investors shifting towards the artificial intelligence sector, and the typical four-year cycle of the crypto market all contributed to the decline in Bitcoin and other crypto assets. Bitcoin reached an all-time high last October, surpassing $126,000. However, since then, it has lost approximately 50% of its value, trading around $89,000 at the beginning of the year. After briefly rising above $96,000, BTC subsequently fell back to around $60,000. CZ…

Altcoin ETFs Gain Momentum as Bitcoin Funds Post Sixth Weekly Outflow The market had one less trading day for the week due to the U.S. Juneteenth holiday, but the message was not hard to read. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) remained under pressure, extending their weekly outflow streak to six consecutive weeks. Ether funds were nearly flat, but still negative. At the same time, investors continued to add capital to newer and more targeted crypto ETF products, with $HYPE leading the way. Bitcoin and Ether Remain Under Pressure Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $226.8 million in net outflows for the week. The…

AllUnity and Zebec have started paying European workers in a regulated euro stablecoin. On June 25, 2026, the two firms launched a pilot that streams employee benefits and payroll in $EURAU, AllUnity’s euro-backed token, across the Stellar network. Staff in the program are paid directly into a digital wallet. The pitch is simple. Most stablecoin activity still revolves around trading. This is one of the clearer attempts to use a compliant euro token for something ordinary: getting people paid. What the pilot does The core feature is streaming payroll. Instead of waiting for a monthly run to clear, employees and…

Police in Osaka, Japan, have arrested three men on suspicion of laundering proceeds from an investment fraud ring by converting stolen funds into stablecoins and other virtual assets, according to Kyodo News. The arrests mark a significant escalation in Japan’s efforts to police cryptocurrency-related financial crime, particularly involving over-the-counter (OTC) trading channels that operate outside regulated exchanges. Details of the Alleged Scheme The three suspects are accused of converting approximately 14 million yen (roughly $93,000) stolen from 10 victims across six prefectures into stablecoins and other digital assets to obscure the origin of the funds. Investigators identified the men as…

Europe’s MiCA deadline is turning access and infrastructure into the same question: which crypto apps remain available, and who controls the rails underneath them? BitGo Europe GmbH announced a partnership with Bielik.io, a Warsaw-based crypto trading platform, to support regulated trading access across the EEA by integrating BitGo Europe’s Crypto-as-a-Service infrastructure. Through that integration, eligible Bielik.io users are expected to access deposits, supported digital asset trading, and custody via Bielik’s mobile app, while BitGo Europe provides the regulated infrastructure beneath. The deal is small enough to look like a normal platform partnership. It is also specific enough to show one…

Grayscale Research Head Zach Pandl said that Strategy’s 50 basis point increase in the STRC dividend next week may not be enough to restore market confidence. According to Pandl, such an increase would raise the company’s dividend obligations by approximately $100 million over the next two years. However, this step is not expected to significantly improve investor confidence. Related News Binance Founder CZ Explained the Reason Behind the Drop in Bitcoin and Altcoins Pandl stated that a more effective step to restore market confidence might be for Strategy to sell over $3 billion worth of Bitcoin. He noted that this…

Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) is falling today because Wall Street is suddenly staring at three ugly things at once: Google is losing major AI people, rivals are getting louder in the AI race, and the company is spending eye-watering money to keep up. The stock fell by approximately 7 percent by the closing bell on Monday, making it its biggest one-day decline in about a year. On Tuesday, investors will be looking to see if Google can retain its top talent, defend its Gemini strategy, and generate value from large-scale investments in artificial intelligence before its margins look sloppy. Google loses…

On-Demand Liquidity is Ripple’s flagship use of $XRP, a way to settle cross-border payments in seconds without banks pre-funding accounts around the world. This guide explains how it works, the trapped capital it frees, and why its own stablecoin now competes for the job. Table of Contents The problem ODL was built to solve What On-Demand Liquidity actually is A worked example: a payment through ODL Why $XRP is used as the bridge What ODL unlocks: freeing trapped capital ODL, RippleNet, and Ripple Payments The stablecoin question Risks and limits to understand Frequently Asked Questions On-Demand Liquidity, usually shortened to…