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Strategy chairman Michael Saylor denies reports of Bitcoin sell-offs, Canary Capital’s XRP ETF had a strong debut: Hodler’s Digest Michael Saylor, executive chair of Strategy, denied reports that the company was offloading some of its Bitcoin amid a flash crash in the cryptocurrencys price. In a Friday X post, Saylor said that there was no truth to a report claiming that Strategy reduced its overall Bitcoin holdings by about 47,000 BTC, or $4.6 billion at the time of publication. Saylor said the company was continuing to buy Bitcoin as the price dropped by more than 4% in less than 24 hours, from more than $100,000 to less than $95,000. I think the volatility comes with the territory, said Saylor in a Friday CNBC interview. If youre going to be a Bitcoin investor, you need a four-year time horizon and you need to be prepared to handle the volatility in this market. Read more

Steak 'n Shake, an American fast food restaurant company, first began accepting BTC in May and is now expanding its stores to El Salvador. Steak ‘n Shake, a fast food restaurant company in the United States that accepts Bitcoin (BTC), announced on Saturday that it is expanding into El Salvador. “We were honored to be in Bitcoin Country,” the company said in an X post following Steak ‘n Shake's participation in the country’s Bitcoin Histórico event on Wednesday and Thursday. Steak ‘n Shake started accepting BTC for payment at its stores in May, and the company’s chief operations officer, Dan Edwards, told Cointelegraph that the goal is to have BTC accepted at all of the company’s locations worldwide. Read more

The manifesto warns that convenience-driven centralization threatens Ethereum’s core trustless principles.

One camp frames 2025 as routine post-2022 consolidation, while another says attention has shifted to AI and clear crypto catalysts have thinned.

Prediction markets dominated politics last year, but now they’re making a notable splash in the big leagues, NBA star Tristan Thompson said.

The investment, which accounts for 20% of Harvard's reported U.S.-listed public equity holdings, is notable.

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley took a contrarian view to the prevailing crypto investor sentiment, which dropped to a six-month low on Saturday. The crypto market’s long-term fundamentals look promising, despite the shakeup in October and November that has left asset prices down and investor sentiment to crater, according to Hunter Horsley, CEO of investment firm Bitwise. Horsley said the four-year market cycle is dead, replaced by a more mature market structure and changed dynamics due to the pro-crypto regulatory pivot in the US. He said in a Friday X post: I think there's a pretty good chance that we've been in a bear market for almost 6 months now and are almost through it. The setup for crypto right now has never been stronger,” Horsely added. Read more

The technology aims to expedite transactions and eliminate intermediaries, enabling the direct transfer of digital currencies over a blockchain-based system.

Four days after Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation proposed merging their operations and activating the long-awaited fee switch, a X spat between the protocol’s founder and Gary Gensler’s former chief of staff reopened wounds that the crypto industry thought had healed. The exchange wasn’t just about a governance vote, it was a proxy war […] The post Former SEC aide and Uniswap founder clash over decentralization’s true role appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Ethereum holders move and sell their coins far more than Bitcoin holders, according to a new report from Glassnode.

The Senate Agriculture Committee released a draft text for its version of market structure legislation.

Crypto treasury companies and blockchain technology are creating alternative pathways to fund early-stage scientific and medical research. Biomedical and scientific companies are turning to blockchain technology and crypto treasury strategies to fund research, overhauling traditional capital formation and research funding structures that can delay life-saving cures by decades. Portage Biotech, a biomedical technology company, pivoted to become a Toncoin (TON) treasury company in September, earning operating revenues from staking to secure the network and investing in Telegram ecosystem projects, including games and mini-apps. The company will funnel some of the revenue generated from the operating business and the capital appreciation of TON to fund cancer research, AlphaTON CEO Brittany Kaiser told Cointelegraph.  Read more

On November 13, the state of Nebraska announced that it had officially granted the “first-in-nation” state charter for a digital asset bank in the U.S. Governor Jim Pillen signed the charter, enabling Telcoin Digital Asset Bank to operate out of Nebraska and issue stablecoins, to attract fintech businesses and put itself on the map as […] The post Nebraska joins the digital asset race (but Wyoming laid the tracks) appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The sell-off is attributed to a combination of factors, including profit-taking, institutional outflows, macro uncertainty, and low liquidity.

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If it seems like bitcoin prices react particularly negatively to falling stocks, but don't do a whole lot when stocks fly higher, you're not imagining it.

The metric is down to its lowest levels since February.

Neura aims to produce 5 million robots by 2030 and has already booked €1 billion in orders.

Bitcoin has extended its decline into the $94K–$96K macro demand region after a failed retest of the broken trendline. The market now sits at an important decision point, and the next reaction from this zone will determine whether the current move develops into a larger accumulation phase or unfolds into a further correction. Technical Analysis […]