Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 05:30

While the EUs Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union opened a consultation to decide whether to review MiCAs provisions on stablecoins, several EU diplomats have declare...
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 03:30

Michael Saylor said Bitcoin can advance without the CLARITY Act while urging the United States to establish clearer digital asset rules. The comments came as lawmakers pushed a potential Senate vote on the crypto market ...
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 12:50

Bitcoin logged 2.27 million new wallets and 751,000 active wallets this week, its strongest onchain activity in months, as holders raced to move funds off Coldcard hardware wallets following a firmware exploit that has d...
Coin Desk - 8 Aug 2026 02:30

If a minority chain appears this weekend, buyers could replay signed fork-coin sales on bitcoin itself, making doing nothing the safest move until the chains can be separated.
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 23:50

Michael Saylor has identified what he believes could become the next billion-dollar opportunity in finance. The Strategy executive chairman advised entrepreneurs and investors to examine an emerging market that could res...
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 23:05

The U.S. Senate is positioning the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act for a potential Sept. 15 procedural vote, moving the major crypto market structure bill closer to floor consideration. CLARITY Act Faces Sept. 15 Senate...
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 22:29

An ethereum whale who bought in during 2022 and 2023 capitulated on August 8, selling at a loss now exceeding $19 million, the same day a separate fresh wallet received $87.28 million in bitcoin from Galaxy Digital. Thre...
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 21:46

The aggregate crypto market cap rose from under $2.2 trillion to $2.9 trillion during the first week of August 2026. Bitcoin gained over 3% to peak above $65,300, pushing its market cap past $1.3 trillion while Cardano l...
Coin Telegraph - 8 Aug 2026 21:17

The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback.
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 20:58

Onchain data confirms the BIP-110 activation period is live, and Bitcoins blockchain has fractured into two versions. Stats show Bitcoin block 961632 was mined by mining heavyweight Antpool, while BIP-110 supporter Rough...
Coin Desk - 8 Aug 2026 20:06

The proposal has scant support from bitcoin miners and influential commentators have also voiced their opposition.
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 19:52

A new bill, presented by Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, would expand the exchange of cryptocurrency activity data with 48 nations to curb tax evasion. The bill would allow the automatic excha...
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 18:25

Senator Bernie Moreno clarified that CLARITY Act negotiations between Senate Democrats and Republicans had ended and that the upcoming vote, scheduled for September 15, will decide whether the industry will be delivered ...
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 18:20

The new controls include a precautionary 24-hour retention of funds exceeding $10,000 for an individual or aggregate transactions per day, to allow VASPs to conduct a risk analysis of these movements. The bank stressed t...
Coin Desk - 8 Aug 2026 17:48

Wildberries average price for hardware wallets fell 13% to 7,900 rubles, and M.Video broadened its range of products, though neither retailer identified the driving force behind the renewed demand.
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 17:24

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Bybit has sued North Korea in a U.S. federal court over last years record-breaking $1.5 billion hack. The company filed the civil lawsuit under seal on June 18, 2026, in the U.S. Dist...
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 16:30

U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) added $98.85 million on August 7, stretching their inflow streak to five straight trading days, while spot ether ETFs pulled in $49.60 million the same day for a fourth cons...
Coin Telegraph - 8 Aug 2026 16:20

The spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds registered their third-strongest showing since October as institutional demand showed signs of renewed momentum.
Coin Telegraph - 8 Aug 2026 16:20

The spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds registered their third-strongest showing since October as institutional demand showed signs of renewed momentum.
Bitcoin.com - 8 Aug 2026 15:33

The upcoming Bitcoin hard fork known as ECX will not launch all at once on Aug. 23. Instead, its creator says the rollout will happen in three separate stages stretched across more than two months. Paul Sztorc, the devel...
Coin Desk - 8 Aug 2026 15:25

The rule applies to transfers above $10,000 and smaller transactions flagged as risky by exchanges.
Coin Telegraph - 8 Aug 2026 15:08

The procedural move puts crypto market structure legislation back on track as lawmakers continue negotiations over ethics and stablecoin provisions.