Bitcoin News Reader - Coinhills

This week’s stories centered on liquidity, regulation, and signs of a possible market turn. Scott Bessent moved to expand Treasury buybacks as long-term yields came under pressure, while bitcoin surged toward $70,000 in a $1.3 billion short squeeze. Trump’s Hyperliquid comments sent HYPE higher, the CFTC gave prediction-market leaders seats on its advisory panel, and […]

Following a U.S. Treasury bond buyback announcement and supportive White House discussions under the Trump administration, the global crypto market cap surged by $500 billion to peak near $2.74 trillion, its highest level since May. Bitcoin Trims Year-to-Date Drawdown After a sluggish start to August, the cryptocurrency market surged during the third week of the […]

While no code has been removed and no final decision has been made, the low adoption metrics have forced contributors to re-examine the practical security and engineering trade-offs of maintaining legacy overlay networks inside the main Bitcoin client. Key Takeaways A recent seeder database check found only seven “good” CJDNS nodes, highlighting minimal active adoption on the net

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says U.S. crypto regulation is approaching a decisive point after White House and CFTC meetings. His assessment connects current momentum with a seven-year campaign for clear federal market rules. Garlinghouse Sees White House Shift on Crypto Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse described a significant change in Washington’s treatment of cryptocurrency after jo

American economist Peter Schiff is warning that artificial intelligence (AI) could become a threat to the leading crypto asset bitcoin. Schiff further argued that the two technologies compete for money, electricity and infrastructure, while increasingly powerful AI could potentially uncover weaknesses in Bitcoin’s software. The gold advocate and longtime BTC critic made the argumen

The SEC published its Reg Crypto proposal last week, giving the public 60 days to comment.

Yesterday, at block height 963648, Bitcoin logged its 17th difficulty adjustment of 2026, and the numbers tell a brutal story. This has not been a year of steady hashrate expansion. It has been a grind of miner capitulation, sharp rebounds and repeated failures to make those recoveries stick. The latest 1.31% drop only drives that […]

Key Takeaways: For the first time in Solana’s history, the real-world asset ecosystem has surpassed $4 billion in total value. The RWA value was scaled up from approximately $1 billion in late 2025 to more than $4 billion in August 2026. The growth has left a mark on the accelerating adoption of tokenized assets on Solana in the institutions. User Score8.7 Follow us on

Michael Saylor says bitcoin’s defining advance is converting economic energy into digitally controlled value for people, companies, machines, and nations. His own company, Strategy Inc., sits on 840,447 BTC bought for $63.36 billion, and has been selling over the past few months. Saylor Defines Bitcoin’s Core Breakthrough Bitcoin can place economic value under digital control […]

XRP’s price has surged by 50% this week, the best performance since November 2024. Here's what's driving the rally.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is demanding an enforceable ban on presidential crypto profits in market structure legislation. Her renewed push follows a new poll finding 63% of Americans consider Trump and his family’s crypto profits inappropriate. Gillibrand Makes Crypto Ethics a Condition for Her Vote Congress should bar presidents, their spouses, and senior officials from […]

Key Takeaways Disclosures show two IBIT positions acquired in 2025 alongside a Grayscale Ethereum ETF. All three holdings sit in standard Schwab tax-deferred accounts alongside traditional index funds. Broad congressional reporting brackets hide the exact dollar total and portfolio percentage. Holding regulated ETFs does not contradict votes against crypto market-structure reform

A Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland study finds crypto investors hold sharply different views on returns and risk, while information about Bitcoin’s past gains can increase both desired allocations and actual crypto purchases.

Michael Saylor calls Bitcoin digital energy as Strategy’s 840,447 BTC position moves about $1.5 billion above its acquisition cost.