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Cointelegraph.com - 09:18 Jun 23, 2025
Whales are betting hundreds of millions on Ether’s price recovery despite the industry’s most successful traders being net short amid escalating conflict in the Middle East. Ether whales are betting hundreds of millions of dollars on the price recovery of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency despite geopolitical tensions that are sidelining investors and dampening risk appetite. One whale (a large cryptocurrency investor) has opened an Ether (ETH) long position of over $101 million with 25x leverage at the entry price of $2,247, according to blockchain data from Hypurrscan. The investor generated over $900,000 in unrealized profit, but paid over $2.5 million in funding fees. His position stands to be liquidated if Ether’s price falls below $2,196. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 08:54 Jun 23, 2025
Bitcoin is about to juggle a slew of geopolitcal and macroeconomic volatility triggers in a nail-biting end to June as $100,000 support hangs in the balance. Bitcoin (BTC) enters the last week of June with geopolitics at a key crossroads and macro volatility to match. Where will BTC head next? Bitcoin traders are bracing for new lows as exchange order book liquidity shifts toward the $90,000 mark. The latest developments in the Middle East sparked knee-jerk reactions on crypto, oil and stock futures, but analysis notes that no “long-term conflict” is being priced in. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:02 Jun 22, 2025
Bitcoin’s drop below the $100,000 support pulled ETH, XRP, SOL, and HYPE lower, but a relief rally may be around the corner. Key points: Bitcoin fell below the $100,000 support on Sunday, but a rebound could depend on how US stock futures open. Bitcoin’s weakness has pulled ETH, XRP, SOL, and HYPE below their respective support levels. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:03 Jun 22, 2025
Technical patterns point to a potential 25% rebound in Ether’s price, with whales scooping $263.5 million worth of ETH during the price dip. Key takeaways: An Ethereum whale accumulated $39 million in ETH during a sharp market sell-off triggered by US airstrikes on Iran. Ethereum mega-whales added over 116,000 ETH on June 21, signaling strong buy-the-dip sentiment. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:00 Jun 22, 2025
Intents overhaul crypto's clunky user experience by letting people state what they want while the system handles the complexity behind the scenes. This outcome-driven approach opens the door to mainstream adoption and agent-driven financial automation. Opinion by: Alex Shevchenko, co-founder of Aurora Try to make a simple purchase with crypto today. You are forced to wrangle wallet extensions, decipher long hexadecimal addresses, select networks, sign transactions, calculate unpredictable gas fees and repeat all of these because your transactions get stuck or fail. Sometimes, you also need to bridge assets across chains. It's a gauntlet that only a technically savvy user can complete. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:05 Jun 22, 2025
Singapore is tightening its grip on crypto misconduct. Under new rules, unlicensed promotions or shady practices could lead to steep fines or prison time. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has delivered a clear mandate that all Singapore-based entities offering digital token services to overseas clients must obtain a DTSP licence or halt cross-border operations immediately. As of June 30, 2025, any entity incorporated in Singapore — whether a company, partnership, or individual — that provides digital token services to overseas clients must either: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Jun 22, 2025
Senator Lummis’ RISE Act may be a good start, but does it ask too much of doctors, lawyers and engineers — while shielding AI developers? Civil liability law doesn’t often make for great dinner-party conversation, but it can have an immense impact on the way emerging technologies like artificial intelligence evolve. If badly drawn, liability rules can create barriers to future innovation by exposing entrepreneurs — in this case, AI developers — to unnecessary legal risks. Or so argues US Senator Cynthia Lummis, who last week introduced the Responsible Innovation and Safe Expertise (RISE) Act of 2025. This bill seeks to protect AI developers from being sued in a civil court of law so that physicians, attorneys, engineers and other professionals “can understand what the AI can and cannot do before relying on it.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:00 Jun 22, 2025
MiCA’s licensing clarity helped Europe capture crypto flows as US retail activity declined despite a crypto-friendly Trump administration. Europe is pulling ahead in the global crypto race under its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, outpacing even President Donald Trump’s crypto-friendly America. According to Konstantins Vasilenko, co-founder and chief business development officer at Paybis, trading volumes from EU customers jumped 70% quarter-on-quarter in Q1 2025, right after the MiCA regulation took effect. During the same period, Paybis activity in the US started trending in the opposite direction. Vasilenko told Cointelegraph that while US retail activity was declining, European users have been placing larger, more deliberate trades. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:17 Jun 22, 2025
BTC price declines accelerate as the US hits Iran's nuclear facilities, but traders are hopeful that Bitcoin may even gain from geopolitical uncertainty. Key points: Bitcoin sees a snap reaction to news of direct US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict, dipping below $102,000. Traders note that war-based headlines have acted as a BTC price springboard in the past. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:08 Jun 22, 2025
Texas becomes the first US state to commit public funds to a standalone Bitcoin reserve, aiming to treat BTC as a long-term strategic asset. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 21 (SB21), officially authorizing the creation of the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, a state-managed fund that will hold Bitcoin as part of the state’s long-term financial assets. The newly established reserve operates independently of Texas’ general treasury system and aims to strengthen the state’s financial resilience while serving as a potential hedge against inflation, according to the bill text. Furthermore, only assets with a market capitalization exceeding $500 billion are eligible for inclusion, a threshold currently met only by Bitcoin (BTC). Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:05 Jun 22, 2025
A Florida man says a Denver-based crypto trading school and a fake exchange tricked him into handing over $860,000 through phony trade signals. A Florida investor says he was scammed out of $860,000 by a Denver-based trading “school” and a fake crypto exchange that promised him life-changing profits. In a lawsuit filed last week in federal court, Brian Firestone alleges that the Alpha Stock Investment Training Center (ASITC), which operated out of downtown Denver, partnered with a fraudulent exchange called CoinBridge Partners in Cherry Creek to carry out the scheme. Firestone says he was first approached in December by a man named John Smith, who claimed to represent ASITC. Smith offered to teach cryptocurrency trading and gifted him $500 to start. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 05:59 Jun 22, 2025
Adam Back says that since Strategy typically takes 16 to 18 months to double its Bitcoin per share, the premium on its stock is not "unreasonable.” Blockstream CEO Adam Back says Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) stock premium is within reason, considering how quickly the firm doubles its Bitcoin per share, which reduces risk for investors. “It turns out in the case of MicroStrategy it’s been 16 months, 18 months,” he told Bitcoin podcaster Stephan Livera at BTC Prague on Saturday, referring to the typical time it takes for Strategy to double its Bitcoin (BTC) per share, noting that the stock has traded at a 2x multiple “on and off.” “So you can see that that’s not an unreasonable premium,” he said. Back explained that if Strategy’s Bitcoin per share keeps growing at the same rate, after about a year and a half, investors “would be at an equivalent” of the market net asset value (mNAV) — meaning the stock price would align with the value of its underlying Bitcoin holdings. Read more -
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
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