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Bad News Is Good News — Week in Review
This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday. Subscribe to the newsletter to get this weekly editorial the second it’s finished. The newsletter also includes the biggest stories…
SEC’s Hester Peirce Wants Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Fix KYC System
Outgoing SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce called for an overhaul of legacy financial-surveillance frameworks, arguing that mandatory, continuous collection of personal data is costly and largely ineffective at detecting criminals. Rethinking…
Riot Repays Coinbase Loan, Ends $200 Million Bitcoin-Backed Facility
Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has repaid its outstanding borrowing from Coinbase Credit and terminated a $200 million credit facility, releasing the lender’s claims on the bitcoin assets pledged to secure the debt. This article first…
Crypto ATM Numbers Fall to 2021 Levels Amid Regulatory Crackdown
According to statistics from the cryptocurrency automated teller machine (ATM) aggregation website, coinatmradar.com, the number of crypto ATMs has dropped considerably over the last 148 days. Current metrics show the number of crypto…
Bitcoin Price Eyes $100K as Fidelity’s Timmer Flips From His ‘Year Off’ Call
Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer says bitcoin is testing the $80,000 ceiling of a double bottom that points to $100,000, nine months after he called 2026 a “year off.” December 2025: ‘A Year Off’ Timmer,…
Bitcoin ETFs Add $134M as 7-Day Inflow Streak Hits $2.98B
U.S. crypto ETFs finished Friday broadly higher, with bitcoin funds attracting $134.47 million and extending their inflow streak to seven sessions. Solana nearly matched ether’s daily haul, while XRP and HYPE funds also closed firmly in…
Jack Dorsey’s Block Brings Lightning Network to x402
For decades, the internet ignored HTTP status code 402, a built-in checkout lane for the web that nobody used. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) agents need to spend money thousands of times a day without humans clicking a button. To solve…
SEC Staff Clarifies How Crypto Promises Affect Securities Treatment
What a crypto issuer promises buyers can affect whether a non-security token is offered as part of an investment contract, SEC staff says. New answers address marketing, network development, buybacks, staking receipts, and trading…
Ethereum, Solana and Zcash Face Wild Year-End Price Predictions
Three cryptocurrencies, three very different bets and millions of dollars riding on what happens before New Year’s Day. Prediction markets on Polymarket and Kalshi are pricing a 69% chance that ethereum touches $3,000, a 60% chance…
Bitcoin Price Still 33% Below Its Peak High as Bulls Plot a Comeback
At 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, bitcoin’s price stood at $84,162 on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, down 0.51% over 24 hours, as the leading crypto asset continued consolidating following its retreat from $87,374. The daily technical picture…