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More than a month after an attacker exploited a flaw in Blockstream's Elements software, Liquid Network's bitcoin peg-outs remain suspended, with roughly 603 BTC still missing from the reserve backing L-BTC.
The United States government's bitcoin holdings have lost more than $15 billion in paper value since October 2025, a direct consequence of a March 2025 executive order that bars Washington from liquidating confiscated coins.
A twelve-month review of Binance and Bybit funding payments on BTCUSDT perpetual contracts shows actual returns closer to 3% than the oft-cited 11% annualised rate, once fees and settlement timing are factored in.
Coldcard's official X account posted and quickly deleted a phishing link in the early hours of October 11. The bitcoin hardware wallet maker says its offline 2FA and credentials show no sign of compromise, but it is investigating possible unauthorised access at the platform level.
Raheim Hamilton, co-founder of the Empire Market darknet marketplace, was sentenced to 40 years in prison and ordered to forfeit 1,230 Bitcoin, reviving questions over whether seized crypto will feed into the US strategic Bitcoin reserve.
CryptoBilis, Ledger's suspended Southeast Asian reseller, secretly changed hands in March, as Mt. Gox's Mark Karpelès finds an LTE spy module hidden inside a Ledger device shipped from Malaysia.
A 20-year power purchase agreement between Google and Constellation Energy, backed by more than $4.3 billion, underscores how tightly AI companies are binding themselves to long-term electricity supply — a model bitcoin miners have yet to replicate at scale.
Germany has adopted the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, obliging crypto service providers to report customer and transaction data for automatic exchange with foreign tax authorities from September 2027.
Bitkom, the Bitcoin Bundesverband and the Blockchain Bundesverband have criticised the finance ministry's draft reform of crypto taxation, citing an overly broad tax deduction and a flawed transition timeline, as a Bundestag petition with over 44,000 signatures heads for debate.
After a 15-month review, Germany's financial watchdog has turned down the MiCA licence application of futurum bank AG, the entity behind Bitcoin.de, leaving one of Germany's oldest crypto marketplaces without a clear path back to trading.
Two reports published by Europol on Wednesday urge Europe to begin migrating wallets and encrypted data away from cryptography that quantum computers could eventually break, citing Bitcoin's cumbersome upgrade path as a case study.
CoinShares' 2026 Affluent Investor Crypto Report finds 70% of wealthy German investors already hold digital assets, with 91% of those planning to add more next year and strong trust in Bitcoin as a store of value.
Data from SUBFROST shows the Alkanes metaprotocol, driven largely by the DIESEL token, generated over 61% of all Bitcoin transactions between late June and September, despite contributing little to network fees or economic value.
Coinbase will bring back its Pro trading platform by the end of 2026, built on the infrastructure of Deribit, the options exchange it bought for roughly $2.9 billion, as part of a new combined venue called Coinbase Global Exchange.
A petition to preserve Germany's one-year tax-free holding period for Bitcoin has reached the Bundestag's petitions committee, with a hearing set for 12 October, just two days before the cabinet reviews a draft reform that would scrap the exemption.
JPMorgan analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou estimate bitcoin's average production cost at roughly $85,000, a level the asset briefly cleared last week before slipping back below it, as hashrate and mining difficulty continue to decline.
Bitcoin.de has been unable to trade for three months as its parent bank awaits a MiCA licence, and the exchange's operator Bitcoin Group has posted a sharp deterioration in first-half results.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT has published evidence pointing to Chinese intermediaries moving funds from the $387.5 million Bitget hack through THORChain on behalf of suspected North Korean attackers, while the protocol has declined Bitget's request to block flagged addresses.
US Bitcoin Spot ETFs took in $2.4 billion last week, their strongest weekly haul since October 2025, pulling 2026 flows back into positive territory after a rough start to the year.
IBM has connected its Digital Asset Haven platform to Swift's new blockchain-based Shared Ledger, letting banks move tokenised deposits around the clock while keeping existing ISO 20022 messaging intact.