Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Crypto pundit Cool Breeze has drawn attention to a Bank of International Settlements (BIS) report that praised XRP holders as being more educated than Bitcoiners. The report also highlighted these XRP holders as being wealthier than the average crypt...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
A recent Vanity Fair piece painted a cartoonish profile of what they called “crypto’s true believers”, framing long‑time participants as cultish die‑hards who won’t admit the dream is over.
Crypto: “The Most Expensive Religion In The World”
Dim lig...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Vitalik Buterin says a new “fast confirmation rule” for Ethereum could give users a hard guarantee that a block will not be reverted after a single slot, or roughly 12 seconds, a change that would sharply reduce one of the network’s biggest practical...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
March 31, 2026, has become a key date for XRP holders, as SBI ARUHI, Japan’s largest mortgage lender under the SBI Group, introduces a new shareholder perk. According to reports, shareholders will be eligible to receive rewards, with XRP as the form...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
UK National Security Panel has deemed donations made with crypto assets as an “unnecessary and unacceptably high risk” and it is asking the government for an immediate ban.
Too High Of A Crypto-Risk
The Joint Committee on the National Se...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Ripple’s chief legal officer Stuart Alderoty says the SEC’s latest crypto guidance does more than clarify policy. In his reading, it effectively cements what Ripple has argued for years: XRP is not a security, but a digital commodity.
The comment cam...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
This week has been quite bullish for the Bitcoin price as it has seen a momentous break above $70,000. Although this is bullish, there are still some reservations as to the performance of the digital asset and what it could mean for its future. To th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
PayPal has expanded access to its stablecoin PayPal USD (PYUSD) to 70 markets, allowing users worldwide to send, hold, and receive the token while enabling faster, lower-cost global transactions.
PayPal Expands PYUSD Across 70 Markets
On Tuesday, pa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Mastercard has announced an acquisition of stablecoins infrastructure firm BVNK, which was previously in talks with Coinbase over a $2 billion deal.
Mastercard Will Be Acquiring BVNK For Up To $1.8 Billion
As announced in a press release, Mastercard...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
On-chain data shows the total number of non-empty XRP addresses has set a new all-time high alongside a 5-week high in network activity.
XRP Total Amount Of Holders Is Sitting At A Fresh Record
As pointed out by on-chain analytics firm Santiment in a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Ripple has announced plans to expand operations in Brazil, South America’s largest economy, aiming to improve its digital asset services in the country and obtain a key license from Brazilian regulatory authorities.
The company revealed that i...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
A crypto analyst has revealed that Bitcoin (BTC) could be entering a cycle that looks very different from the one that led to the sharp 2022 downturn. The analyst’s chart review suggests that the current bull market is developing on a stronger founda...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Bitrefill, a Sweden-based crypto e-commerce platform, revealed on Tuesday that it fell victim to a cyberattack on March 1, 2026, carried out by suspected North Korean hackers linked to the notorious Lazarus group.
The company released a post-mortem...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
While its price action has been trending sideways over the past few weeks, Ethereum has been seeing robust network performance and adoption. Recent updates are showing that the ETH network is now at the forefront of tokenized assets as the sector exp...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
The XRP Ledger has received a quiet but important update, as developers moved quickly to resolve a vulnerability that had the potential to affect server infrastructure on the network. A recent announcement revealed that Ripple released Rippled Versio...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Michael Saylor says Bitcoin could emerge as one of the biggest winners if artificial intelligence compresses corporate “terminal value” and forces markets to stop paying up for long-dated growth. His argument came in response to Chamath Palihapitiya’...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
A sudden rebound has shifted the market into a bullish state once again, and Bitcoin is slowly trending upward. As Bitcoin’s price momentum begins to recover, pushing it back into the $70,000 threshold, derivatives data indicate that the flagship ass...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Bitcoin is trading firmly above the $70,000 level and has recently tested the $76,000 region, signaling renewed momentum as activity across the cryptocurrency market intensifies. The move higher suggests that buyers are gradually regaining control af...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
A former Ripple executive has weighed in on an ongoing debate over XRP token burns, shedding light on their actual impact on an asset’s value. In a heated discussion on X, the executive challenged the XRP community’s long-held belief that burning tok...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Ethereum has reclaimed the $2,300 level as renewed buying activity begins to push the market higher after months of persistent downward pressure. The move marks a notable shift in short-term sentiment, with traders increasingly pointing to growing bu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Polymarket, the largest crypto prediction market in the world, is under fire after bettors allegedly sent death threats to Times of Israel military reporter Emanuel Fabian.
A Bombing Report Turned Into A Bombing Of Threats
A routine war report from...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Charles Hoskinson is again spotlighting privacy-preserving stablecoins as one of Cardano’s most consequential bets, this time tying his praise directly to fresh progress on Midnight.
In a post on X on March 16, the Cardano founder called the effort “...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
A bitter domestic dispute has spilled into the UK High Court after a man claimed a massive Bitcoin holding vanished from his control under unusual circumstances inside his own home.
Ping Fai Yuen has accused his estranged wife Fun Yung Li of secretl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed narrowing Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11 so that it applies only to equity securities, a technical change that could carry outsized significance for crypto market structure. For digital assets, the pr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 months ago
Predictions for when the Dogecoin price will cross $1 continue to flood the crypto community despite the meme coin struggling to hold above $0.1. The poor performance over the last few years has not done much damage to the bullish expectations among...