Bitcoin drops to $82,000 on US data, and inflation fear is blamed
US job openings cooled modestly in August, but September households grew more worried about inflation and interest rates. That split left Bitcoin investors with only part of the case for…
El Salvador targets $9 billion in transfers, but chooses stablecoins
El Salvador is turning to stablecoins for remittances, further separating everyday payments from the country’s pioneering Bitcoin experiment. Sivar, a new national community and payments app developed by Modveon, will…
XRP News: Price Ceiling Versus ZEC and QNT Playbook
In XRP news, Ripple has now spent nearly nine years below its January 2018 all-time high of $3.84, yet the token still managed an almost eightfold run from roughly $0.49…
Tether claims $550 million in Iran freezes, but $35 million slipped past Senate
Tether says it helped freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT during 2026, while Democratic investigators on a Senate subcommittee allege that delays in blacklisting some identified wallets let tens…
A $7 billion crypto ETF plumbing boom just ran into the IRS
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is scrutinizing a crypto-linked ETF tax strategy as Washington intensifies its campaign against structures designed to avoid taxable gains. The Treasury Department and IRS identified…
Bitcoin’s $84,000 wall gets harder to break as ETF inflows sink to $31 million
US Bitcoin exchange-traded funds drew just $31 million in inflows on Sept. 28 as institutional demand weakened while BTC stalled below a major supply barrier. According to SoSoValue data, BlackRock’s…
BitMine nears 5% Ethereum threshold, yet stock valuation rules dictate its next move
Ethereum treasury company BitMine Immersion Technologies said on Sept. 28 that it held 6,001,302 ETH, leaving it 103,698 tokens short of its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s supply, based…
XRP Price in Danger: Positive Funding Masks a Fragile Setup
XRP price hovers under $1.49 after three consecutive daily declines left the token losing the $1.50 support, even as a modest bounce pulled it off session lows. CoinGlass data showed…
Who Is Eric Saavedra? Crypto Mafia Boss Adam Iza’s Corrupt Police Crook
Eric Chase Saavedra, 42, a former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy, was sentenced Monday to 21 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy against rights and making…
Bitcoin’s $85,000 test comes as Wall Street gets two different inflation stories
Bitcoin hit an intraday low of $82,563 on Sept. 28, just below a concentration of long-term holders’ purchase prices that Glassnode identified last week. Three US data releases now threaten…