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Cointelegraph.com - 03:22 Jun 22, 2025
French lawmaker Sarah Knafo has invited Samson Mow to visit France, and Mow says he is keen to kick off a wave of nation-state Bitcoin adoption across Europe. Jan3 founder Samson Mow is setting his sights on ramping up Bitcoin nation-state adoption in Europe following a positive meeting with pro-Bitcoin French lawmaker Sarah Knafo. “Looking forward to starting a nation-state Bitcoin adoption wave in France and perhaps all of Europe,” Mow said in an X post on Saturday, following his meeting with Sarah Knafo, a French member of the European Parliament, at BTC Prague this week. They discussed plans to develop a Strategic Bitcoin (BTC) Reserve for France and promote “friendly regulations” for the asset. Mow said Knafo has invited his team to France. On the same day, Knafo addressed the meeting with Mow on her X account, stating, “France must take hold of these issues.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:42 Jun 21, 2025
A Bitcoin technical analyst says the historical Bitcoin trend signals $330K BTC price, US crypto ETF predictions: Hodler’s Digest The likelihood of US regulators approving a wave of crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is now a near certainty, signaling a continued pro-crypto shift at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to Bloomberg analysts Erich Balchunas and James Seyffart. In a social media post on Friday, Seffart said he and Balchunas have raised their odds for the vast majority of crypto ETF approvals to 90% or higher, citing very positive engagement from the SEC. The analysts also suggested that the SEC likely views cryptocurrencies such as Litecoin, Solana, XRP and Dogecoin as commodities a designation that would place them outside of its immediate jurisdiction. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:03 Jun 21, 2025
Despite the massive sale, ARK remains the eighth largest Circle holder. Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has increased its Circle selling spree as CRCL stock surged nearly 250% since its public debut. ARK dumped another 609,175 Circle shares from its three funds for $146.2 million on Friday, according to a trade notification seen by Cointelegraph. The sale came amid a 20.4% jump in the company’s shares on Friday, closing at $240.3, or 248% above the opening price of $69 on the New York Stock Exchange on June 5. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:52 Jun 21, 2025
Michael Saylor has doubled down on his Bitcoin price prediction, citing massive geopolitical and regulatory changes. Bitcoin bull and Strategy founder Michael Saylor has doubled down on the long-term value of BTC amid fast-changing geopolitical and cryptocurrency adoption trends. Saylor took the stage with a keynote speech at the BTC Prague 2025 event on Saturday, predicting that the price of Bitcoin (BTC) would hit $21 million in 21 years. “I think we’re going to be $21 million in 21 years. It's a very special time in the network. Maybe the one time in the history of the network where you look out 21 years and you see $21 million,” Saylor stated. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:00 Jun 21, 2025
Bitcoin’s AVIV ratio and power law model point to a $330,000 cycle top for BTC price. Key takeaways: Bitcoin AVIV Ratio remains below historical peak levels, indicating a potential climb above $330,000 before a cycle top is confirmed. Over-the-counter Bitcoin holdings are down significantly in 2025, pointing to strategic accumulation by Strategy, Metaplanet, BlackRock and others. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:30 Jun 21, 2025
A head-and-shoulders pattern sets a $120 target for SOL, but bullish onchain data points to resilient longer-term fundamentals. Key takeaway: SOL’s daily chart forecasts a drop to $120, but data shows the level as a strong source of buyer demand. SOL (SOL) projects a bearish outlook on the daily chart after forming a bearish engulfing, and if the trend holds, SOL price could fall to $120. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Jun 21, 2025
A massive surge in Bitcoin Knots nodes hints at a brewing civil war in Bitcoin. If tensions escalate, the price could be the first casualty. Bitcoin Knots, first released by developer Luke Dashjr in the early 2010s, has long offered a more configurable and policy-agnostic alternative to Core. Currently, most nodes use the Bitcoin Core client to support the Bitcoin network. However, Bitcoin Knots has grown an impressive 638% since the start of the year, jumping from only 394 nodes to 2,909 nodes as of June 19. This massive growth rate started to see significant upticks in May and now makes up 13.24% of all the nodes supporting the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin Knots’ recent popularity spike suggests that a non-trivial share of Bitcoin’s infrastructure operators no longer trust Core to define Bitcoin’s limits unilaterally. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:21 Jun 21, 2025
A new OMFIF blog warns the UK is losing its early advantage in digital asset regulation, as the EU enforces MiCA and the US advances with the Genius Act. The UK’s unclear regulatory stance on digital assets is drawing sharp criticism from market participants, with some citing “policy procrastination” as a key reason the country is falling behind both the European Union and the US in the race to define digital finance. In a Friday blog post, John Orchard, chairman, and Lewis McLellan, editor of the Digital Monetary Institute at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), an independent think tank, argued that the UK has wasted its early-mover advantage in distributed ledger finance. The post, titled “The UK keeps missing the boat on DLT finance,” said that the UK, once expected to set a post-Brexit gold standard for crypto regulation, continues to “talk un-specifically about regulation in the future.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:40 Jun 21, 2025
XRP could drop 35%, potentially revisiting the $1.35–$1.60 range, on-chain and technical metrics suggest. Key takeaways: XRP’s most-profitable investors are realizing over $68M in profits daily, mirroring the run-up to the 2017 market top. Over 70% of XRP’s realized cap has formed since late 2024, making the market top-heavy and vulnerable to sharp sell-offs. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:49 Jun 21, 2025
ZachXBT claims over 80% of Garden Finance’s fees are tied to crypto laundering, challenging the project’s decentralization narrative. Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT has accused Garden Finance, which brands itself as “the fastest Bitcoin bridge,” of facilitating the laundering of funds linked to major crypto thefts, including the Bybit hack. In a June 21 post on X, ZachXBT claimed that over 80% of Garden’s recent fee revenue stemmed from illicit transactions allegedly tied to the North Korean Lazarus Group. The allegation came in response to an earlier post by Jaz Gulati, a co-founder of Garden Finance, who had recently touted the platform’s success, citing 38.86 Bitcoin (BTC) in collected fees — $300,000 of which was earned over the 12 days ending June 2. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:16 Jun 21, 2025
Nakamoto Holdings, led by Trump’s crypto adviser David Bailey, raises $51.5M in fresh capital to accelerate its Bitcoin acquisition strategy. Bitcoin holding company Nakamoto Holdings, founded by US President Donald Trump’s crypto adviser, David Bailey, has secured $51.5 million in fresh capital through a private placement in public equity (PIPE) deal, according to a statement from merger partner KindlyMD. Bailey said that the new funds were raised in less than 72 hours, reflecting growing investor appetite for Nakamoto’s Bitcoin (BTC) accumulation strategy. “Investor demand for Nakamoto is incredibly strong,” Bailey said. “We continue to execute our strategy to raise as much capital as possible to acquire as much Bitcoin as possible.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:16 Jun 21, 2025
Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal says macroeconomic data suggests the current crypto cycle could extend into Q2 2026. The current crypto market is mirroring the pattern seen in 2017 when Bitcoin posted a steady uptrend throughout the year before skyrocketing in December, says crypto research platform Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal. “It’s spookily similar to 2017,” Pal said in a video on Thursday. Pal said he is starting to forecast a longer crypto cycle this time around given that the business cycle score — a macroeconomic model he uses to track where the global economy is in the broader cycle — is “still below 50” and it generally “takes a while to climb up.” Bitcoin (BTC) started 2017 trading around $1,044 before reaching $2,187 by May 31 and closing the year at $14,156, an approximate 1,255% increase from its price at the beginning of the year, according to CoinMarketCap data. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 02:58 Jun 21, 2025
According to a post on CoinMarketCap's X account, the malicious code has been removed, though the team insists the investigation into the incident is still ongoing. CoinMarketCap, a price-tracking website for cryptocurrencies, has reportedly removed a malicious popup notification on its website prompting users to verify their cryptocurrency wallets, according to a post on its official X account. “We’ve identified and removed the malicious code from our site,” CoinMarketCap said in a post on Friday. “Our team is continuing to investigate and taking steps to strengthen our security,” it added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:36 Jun 21, 2025
Eric Semler says he enjoys being the “lone voice crying in the wilderness” with Bitcoin as most hedge fund executives think Bitcoin is a “fly-by-night concept.” Eric Semler, chairman of healthcare tech firm Semler Scientific Inc., says many of his hedge fund peers are skeptical about Bitcoin’s future once US President Donald Trump leaves office. “I think that they think it is a fly-by-night concept and that it is probably going to, after the Trump administration, go back down a lot,” Semler told Coin Stories host Natalie Brunell on Thursday. Semler, who also founded hedge fund TCS Capital Management in 2001, made his comments amid skepticism within the crypto industry about how long political support for crypto will last after US President Donald Trump’s administration ends. While Trump recently signed off on a Bitcoin (BTC) Strategic Reserve, some, like JAN3 founder Samson Mow, are concerned that support may potentially unravel under a future president. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:22 Jun 21, 2025
Bitcoin derivatives traders turned cautious, despite steady inflows to the spot BTC ETFs. Key takeaways: The Bitcoin futures premium dropped to a 3-month low, even with prices just 8% below their all-time high. BTC options metrics turned bearish, despite stock market resilience amid macroeconomic pressure. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:14 Jun 20, 2025
Many users said they would delete accounts or consider moving to another platform if Reddit were to adopt World’s verification system. Social media platform Reddit is reportedly considering using the iris-scanning orbs developed by World — a project by Tools for Humanity, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — for its user verification system. According to a Friday Semafor report citing two people familiar with the matter, the platform is weighing the World ID system as a way for Redditors to verify that they are unique individuals. The report suggested that the verification system could still allow users to remain anonymous if they chose to do so. In response to the report, many users said they would delete their accounts or consider moving to another platform if Reddit were to adopt the verification system, citing concerns with privacy and anonymity. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:00 Jun 20, 2025
The consultation period comes as Thailand seeks to clarify regulations for the crypto industry. Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened a period of consultation for feedback on rules that would allow exchanges or individuals connected to an exchange to issue utility tokens, according to a Friday statement. Under the proposed rules, exchanges would have to disclose the names of anyone associated with the token issuers, which would assist the SEC in monitoring for signs of insider trading. The plan is part of Thailand’s efforts to establish a regulatory framework for the crypto industry. The country announced in May plans to allow tourists to spend crypto via credit cards, just a few days before blocking crypto exchanges OKX and Bybit in the country over concerns about unlicensed operations and money laundering. A month later, it announced a waiver on capital gains tax on crypto sales made through licensed crypto service providers. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:52 Jun 20, 2025
Bitcoin’s $96 billion in derivatives open interest fuels BTC price momentum near all-time highs, but rising leverage use raises the risk of liquidations and market volatility. Key takeaways: Open interest in Bitcoin futures and options has ballooned to $96 billion, up sharply from 2022 levels. Elevated speculative leverage fuels BTC’s bullish breakouts, but it also raises the risk of cascading liquidations, reminiscent of 2021 volatility. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:44 Jun 20, 2025
A temporary ban could be imposed as early as autumn based on an investigation into crypto miners’ energy consumption. The government of Norway is considering a temporary ban on crypto mining in the country in an effort to “free up power, network capacity and area for other purposes.” In a Friday notice, the Norwegian government said it would be conducting an investigation in autumn that could result in a temporary ban on crypto mining data centers. Officials said they had the authority to enforce such a ban under Norway’s Planning and Building Act, which includes provisions on allocating energy. “It is uncertain how big a problem crypto mining will become in Norway in the future,” the notice reads. “The registration requirement in the new data center regulations will provide increased knowledge about the scope of data centers that mine cryptocurrency.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:00 Jun 20, 2025
Cointelegraph moderated an AI funding panel at the Web Summit conference in Vancouver, Canada. The convergence between blockchain technology and artificial intelligence is intensifying, with key industry figures like Ben Goertzel convinced that AI should be decentralized. This convergence was even highlighted by the World Economic Forum, which argued in 2024 that “Synergies between spatial computing, blockchain and AI will augment our experiences and increasingly guide our interactions with the digital world.” Prominent crypto venture capitalist Marc Andreessen believes control over AI is a top strategic priority for China and the United States, as the two nations enter a “Cold War-style” race for technological dominance. Read more
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