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While price action has always been volatile and, arguably, exciting, the Bitcoin network itself is built to feel boring. Ten minutes per block, tick tock, rinse and repeat, a metronome you can set your watch to.
Then every so often, it gets very human again.
Early this morning, block production slowed enough that the average block time briefly spiked to 19.33 minutes. On the surface, it appears...
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded $561.8 million in net inflows on Feb. 2, ending a four-day streak of nearly $1.5 billion in outflows.
Investors could interpret the number as a return of conviction after punishing outflows, but Jamie Coutts, chief crypto analyst at Real Vision, offered a different read.
According to him:
“Aggregate ETF flows are not buying the dip. Net institutional...
Bitcoin is a $1.5 trillion prize pool secured by nothing more than numbers, private keys, generated by math, that unlock wallets holding real money.
That’s the seductive idea behind Keys.lol: a site that spits out batches of Bitcoin private keys and their corresponding addresses, like an infinite roll of digital lottery tickets.
Refresh the page, and you get another set. Refresh again, and you...
Bitcoin fell around 8% on Feb. 3, briefly losing the $73,000 level.
A quick rebound took prices to $74,500 as of press time, dampening the intraday correction to 5.8%. The decline marks the lowest price point in the President Donald Trump administration and the weakest level since the November 2024 Presidential Election.
The selloff pushed Bitcoin as low as its March 2024 all-time high of $73,500...
The euphoria of October’s record highs has evaporated, leaving the industrial backbone of the Bitcoin network facing a brutal reality check.
According to CryptoSlate's data, Bitcoin is currently trading near $78,000, a level that represents a punishing decline of more than 38% from its all-time high of over $126,000 just four months ago.
While casual observers might see a standard market...
Bitcoin supply guide: cost-basis bands, miner stress, and ETF flow signals
Bitcoin is currently trading outside a $93,000–$110,000 cost-basis band that Glassnode frames as an “overhead supply” zone.
BTC long term holder cost basis distribution heatmap (Source: Glassnode)
That setup puts the next quarter’s supply story on miner cash flow and holder behavior rather than the issuance schedule....
The United States factory engine just delivered its loudest “risk on” signal in years, and it is landing at a brutally awkward time for Bitcoin.
On Feb. 2, Howard Lutnick, the United States Secretary of Commerce, announced that:
“The United States has delivered manufacturing expansion, all thanks to President Trump's trade policies.”
This announcement followed the Institute for Supply Management'...
The scorecard for an XRP investment thesis that separates Ripple licensing from XRPL utility signals
Ripple enters 2026 with new permissions in the UK and the EU.
In January, Ripple said it received UK Financial Conduct Authority permissions covering an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license and cryptoasset registration.
On Feb. 2, it said it received full EMI approval in Luxembourg.
But what does that really mean for XRP investors?
Ripple’s own standardized XRPL “snapshot” tables...
Germany's ING Deutschland just made crypto exposure feel like buying an index fund, indicating the path Europe is taking in crypto adoption.
Starting Feb. 2, the bank's 3.2 million brokerage customers can purchase crypto exchange-traded notes with zero order fees above €1,000 and set up automatic savings plans.
According to the announcement, there are no exchange signups or wallet management...
China seeks to make the renminbi a true reserve currency, but the numbers reveal a story in which Beijing's capital controls create conditions for Bitcoin and dollar stablecoins to thrive as workarounds rather than competitors.
The International Monetary Fund's latest reserve data shows the renminbi holding just 1.93% of global foreign exchange reserves in the third quarter of 2025, down from a 2...