Bitcoin

Open interest in altcoin perpetual futures moved above bitcoin’s this weekend for the first time since December 2024, a shift that preceded sharp mid-cap corrections the last time it happened. What Metric Flipped Actually? Aggregate…

As the major Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network has been paused due to a $320 million hack, the absolute majority of the key players in the network haven’t issued any statements, while L-BTC is now backed by only 4.7% of the required…

Eight days before the Senate’s Sept. 15 cloture vote, former federal prosecutor Mariotti says the message from lawmakers and staff in Washington is that the CLARITY Act is dead. What Mariotti Heard Mariotti, a former federal…

ZEC has pushed past $1,200, and its largest short seller on Hyperliquid, Garrett Jin, is sitting on a $25.7 million paper loss on a position opened at $444. The Position, Line by Line Onchain analyst EmberCN posted the tally as ZEC printed…

Zcash surged past $1,200 to an intraday peak of $1,249, its highest level since Q4 2016, marking a weekly gain of over 45%. Market Cap Reaches $20B as Derivatives Liquidations Spike Zcash (ZEC) breached $1,200 Sunday, outperforming the rest…

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said a BIS research team’s decision to test the XRP Ledger was unsurprising, citing its fees, speed, and record. The experiment used XRPL to help authenticate official statistical datasets. Garlinghouse…

Jonathan Meléndez, part of the Mexican rock band Camilo Séptimo, his pregnant wife, their three-year-old daughter, and their housemaid were killed by an associate who knew of Meléndez’s bitcoin holdings in one of the worst wrench…

At 9:30 a.m., bitcoin’s price was clocking roughly $79,750 to $80,100 per unit on Sept. 6, stuck in a tight weekend range after its early-September run above $82,000 lost steam. There’s a great deal happening under the surface,…

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Bitcoin’s second-quarter unplug looked like capitulation. It wasn’t. This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocksbridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute, infrastructure, and data analysis…