Zohran Mamdani’s win has put New York’s crypto sector on edge, elevating questions on how a mayor vital of each Wall Street and digital-asset wealth will steer town. On Nov. 4, the 34-year-old Democrat defeated former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in a race that had gripped prediction markets for months. Mamdani’s ascent is historic…
Bitcoin’s sustained value above $100,000 was speculated to sign its arrival as a mature institutional asset. Instead, its sudden reversal beneath that threshold has unsettled merchants and revived fears of one other crypto winter. On Nov. 4, Bitcoin briefly dipped to its lowest level since May at $99,075, earlier than recovering to roughly $102,437 as…
After years of relentless buying, Strategy Inc., the digital-asset treasury agency led by Michael Saylor, has quietly eased its tempo of Bitcoin accumulation. In latest weeks, firm filings have proven that its BTC purchases have fallen to only a few hundred coins, representing a pointy slowdown for the biggest company holder of the flagship cryptocurrency….
For years, Ripple was greatest recognized for its authorized battles and its token, XRP, which was an emblem of crypto’s friction with the conventional monetary world. Now, after years of courtroom and regulatory turbulence, Ripple has quietly constructed one thing much more bold: a full-stack institutional monetary platform that resembles a Twenty first-century funding financial…
October closed roughly 4% down for Bitcoin, but enterprise funding hit $5.1 billion in the identical month, the second-strongest month since 2022. According to CryptoRank information, three mega-deals account for many of it, as October defied its personal seasonal mythology. Bitcoin fell 3.7% throughout a month merchants have nicknamed “Uptober” for its historic successful streak,…
Spot Bitcoin ETFs opened the week with -$186.5 million in internet redemptions on Monday, Nov. 3, stretching a four-session drain to roughly -$1.34 billion since Oct. 29. This run exhibits how shortly flows can swing when a single mega-issuer turns right into a vendor. Data from Farside exhibits Monday’s outflows had been successfully concentrated at…
For practically a decade, the rivalry between Zcash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR) outlined the crypto privacy motion. The two digital belongings promised what Bitcoin couldn’t, true transactional anonymity, however they took very completely different paths to attain it. Monero made privacy obligatory, encrypting each transaction by default. Zcash made it non-compulsory, permitting customers to decide…
President Donald Trump informed 60 Minutes on November 2 that China poses a aggressive risk in crypto, warning that “China is getting into it very big proper now.” The declare surfaces a paradox. Beijing banned crypto buying and selling and mining in 2021, but Trump frames the nation as America’s principal rival in digital property….
In the span of 1 frenetic week, France unveiled seemingly opposing coverage tracks. On Oct. 31, the French National Assembly adopted a first-reading modification rebranding the nation’s actual estate-only wealth tax right into a broader “tax on unproductive wealth” that now explicitly covers digital belongings. At the identical time, the right-wing Union des droites pour…
Quantum computing is not simply science fiction or the stuff of cypherpunk paranoia; it’s formally a front-page threat for the world’s first stateless cash. If you ever thought Satoshi’s creation was proof against existential threat, suppose once more. The newest spherical of Bitcoiners and cryptographers within the Human Rights Foundation (HRF)’s newest report would love…