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Social media chatter turned most bullish on XRP in five weeks even as the token fell, a setup that has historically favored sellers.

A solo Bitcoin miner secured a $200,000 block reward with a budget mining rig, pushing payouts to hobby-level miners to $4.7 million for the past year. A solo Bitcoin miner hit the jackpot and validated a solo block with a single Bitaxe mining rig, marking a rare win that beat massive statistical odds. The retail Bitcoin miner secured a 3.125 Bitcoin (BTC) block reward, currently worth about $200,000, on Friday at block number 957382, according to blockchain data from mempool.space.  The miner was using a single Bitaxe mining rig, according to the BTC mining pool Public Pool. The Bitaxe was a budget, lower-power Bitcoin miner that costs less than $200 and has a hashrate of about 1 terahash per second (TH/s), which is a tiny fraction of the global Bitcoin network. Read more

The White House is increasing pressure on the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act before lawmakers leave Washington for their August recess. On July 13, President Donald Trump urged the US Congress to approve the legislation and cast the measure as part of the United States’ competition with China over cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. He […] The post Trump puts Senate on a 24-day clock to find 60 votes for America’s crypto CLARITY Act rulebook appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin RSI continued to copy previous bear markets as a trader predicted that historical BTC price bottom signals would "happen again" in 2026. Bitcoin (BTC) should repeat history and put in a bear-market bottom when a classic indicator hits zero, a trader says. Key points: In an X post at the weekend, Max Crypto went on record to forecast the end of the 2026 bear market when the stochastic relative strength index (RSI) hits a new swing low. Read more

Grok AI Predicts that XRP is poised for a monumental rally, potentially achieving three-digit prices by the end of 2026. The post Elon Musk Grok AI Predicts 3 Digits XRP Price This 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Iskandar Vanblarcum, Managing Director of Crypto.com Exchange says institutions are moving beyond passive crypto exposure, embracing tokenized collateral, 24/7 settlement, and prediction markets as blockchain infrastructure begins to reshape traditional finance.

DEXE follows PI in terms of daily losses, while HASH has stolen the show with a massive 25%+ surge.

Telegram users woke up to broken t.me links after the platform’s short domain became unreachable, disrupting invites, public channels, and bot links across the web. At the same time, the Bitcoin and Ethereum price remains under pressure as we all wait for cooling signs on tensions between the US and Iran. Together, the outage and […] The post Crypto News, July 14: Telegram Registry Down, Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Eye Iran War Resolution appeared first on Cryptonews.

FLEOA endorsed the Digital Asset CLARITY Act on July 10, demanding tighter DeFi accountability language ahead of the Senate's August 8 recess deadline. The post FLEOA Backs Digital Asset CLARITY Act With Four DeFi Accountability Demands appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin is trading near $62,172, down roughly 3.1% after a day that swung between an intraday high of $64,273 and a low of $61,794. Now, three separate catalysts arrive within the next 24 hours: June CPI at 8:30 a.m. ET Tuesday, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's semiannual testimony before Congress at 10:00 a.m. ET, and the […] The post Bitcoin price has less than 8 hours to outrun $60,000 before Hormuz conflict takes over again appeared first on CryptoSlate.

South Korea will test tokenized government bonds linked to the Bank of Korea’s wholesale CBDC system in 2027 as token securities rules take effect. South Korea plans to conduct a 2027 pilot linking tokenized government bonds to its institutional central bank digital currency (CBDC) infrastructure, moving sovereign debt tokenization from a proposal to an official government timeline.  On Tuesday, the government unveiled its 2026 Economic Growth Strategy for the Second Half, which includes the plan. In addition to assigning a date for the pilot, the strategy said authorities would study how to make the Bank of Korea's (BOK) CBDC infrastructure interoperable with other blockchains, enabling a potential connection between external distributed ledgers and the bank’s permissioned system.  The project would test whether South Korea’s wholesale CBDC, designed for use by financial institutions, can support capital markets infrastructure, rather than serving only as a digital payment instrument. Read more

Once again, PI is the poorest performer from all top 100 alts.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw their largest single-day outflows in July, with $424.66 million leaving the funds, reversing a brief return to positive weekly flows. US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) returned to outflows, reversing the previous week’s short-lived return to positive flows. Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $424.66 million in net outflows on Monday, marking their biggest single-day withdrawal in July so far, according to SoSoValue data. The latest outflow reversed last week’s $197.4 million new inflows, which had briefly ended an eight-week run of weekly withdrawals and raised hopes that institutional demand was recovering. Read more

Bitcoin's more balanced sentiment stands in contrast to the growing enthusiasm surrounding Ethereum and XRP.

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Trump reinstated the Hormuz blockade, sending oil higher and rate-hike bets up, reversing the peace trade that helped bitcoin recover in early July. Today's inflation print is the next test.

Coins from the Farace and BTC-e seizures moved through fresh wallets before landing on the exchange, despite president Donald Trump's previous no-sell reserve order.

The launch of Robinhood Chain on an Ethereum layer-2 network is bullish for long-term value and network effects, argue analysts. 

Solo Bitcoin mining has surged, with 24 blocks found in the past 12 months, a 41% increase year over year.

Witt’s departure comes during a critical moment for the CLARITY Act, with deputy director Harry Jung expected to assume his responsibilities. Patrick Witt, the White House’s pointman on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, is taking a leave of absence at the end of July for several months of military training, Crypto In America reported. Witt, who has served as the executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets since August, is expected to wrap up his work on July 24 before reporting for Judge Advocate General (JAG) training with the Georgia Army National Guard. The training will qualify him to serve as a legal officer in the Guard, the report wrote. “Patrick has always been forthcoming and honest with every stakeholder that he was taking military leave later this month,” said Cody Carbone, CEO of Digital Chamber, on Tuesday.  Read more