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Bitcoin Data Shows Why 3-Year Holders Avoid Losses

Bitcoin’s short-term performance looks volatile, but extending the holding period changes the picture. Investors who bought near the 2017 peak saw a 48.6% loss after two years that turned into a 108.7% gain by year three. A similar pattern occurred for the 2021 high, with a 43.

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Ex-CFO Sentenced to Two Years for Diverting $35M to Crypto Venture

A Seattle judge has sentenced Nevin Shetty, the former chief financial officer of a local startup, to two years in prison after he secretly moved approximately $35 million of company funds to a cryptocurrency platform he ran. Shetty directed the transfers to the HighTower Treasury platform in 2022 and invested

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Kazakhstan’s Central Bank quietly joins the Crypto reserve club

Kazakhstan’s central bank will reallocate up to $350 million from its gold and foreign‑exchange reserves into crypto‑linked assets, beginning around April–May. Rather than buying Bitcoin directly, the National Bank plans to invest through funds, index products and equities tied to digital‑asset infrastructure, gaining indirect exposure

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Aave Rift, Bitcoin Rebound and ETF Inflows Dominate Crypto Week

Bitcoin and the leading cryptocurrencies staged a recovery this week after initial shockwaves from the US–Israel conflict with Iran. Bitcoin fell to $63,245 on Sunday before briefly recovering to $73,000 on Thursday, aided by renewed demand from US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which logged $1.1 billion

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Private credit cracks at BlackRock and Blue Owl could hit crypto, DeFi

Cracks in the global private credit market are rattling investors and raising concerns that the strain could spill into crypto markets. BlackRock’s $26 billion private credit fund has begun limiting withdrawals amid rising redemption requests, following similar stress at Blue Owl, which sold $1.4 billion in loans last

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Curve Finance claims PancakeSwap copied its StableSwap code

Curve Finance has accused PancakeSwap of copying parts of its StableSwap code without permission, calling the use a violation of the software license. The allegation was posted on X on March 6 and included a screenshot that Curve said highlighted the code in question, with file attribution listing PancakeSwap as

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Kraken Gains Fed Access; MARA, Fold and NYSE Tokenization Push

Kraken’s banking arm secured a limited-purpose master account with the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, giving the crypto-native firm direct access to the Fed’s Fedwire real-time gross settlement system. The account lets Kraken process US dollar payments directly with the central bank instead of through intermediary banks, and

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Fed's crypto shift: Kraken gets master account, pro-crypto chair possible

Recent moves at the Federal Reserve mark a shift toward mainstreaming digital assets. Kraken announced that its Wyoming-chartered bank, Kraken Financial, received a Federal Reserve master account, making it the first digital asset bank in US history to gain direct access to the Fed’s payment infrastructure. Kraken co-CEO Arjun

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Strike Receives BitLicense, Money Transmitter Approval in New York

Payments firm Strike received a virtual currency license and a money transmitter license from the New York State Department of Financial Services, authorizing it to offer Bitcoin services to New York residents and businesses. The approvals, granted in February, authorize Zap Solutions, Inc., which does business as Strike, to operate

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$74K Bitcoin Local Peak? Traders Divided on Next Move

Bitcoin traded about 4.5% below the $74,000 high reached on Thursday, leaving traders divided over whether that level marked a local peak. Charts still show similarities to the 2022 bear cycle, suggesting another leg down below $60,000 is possible, while others say the bottom is in and

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Bitcoin and Solana ETFs See Outflows Amid Market Dip

A streak of inflows into US spot Bitcoin ETFs ended Thursday when BTC slipped below $71,000, producing $228 million in net outflows and halting a three-day gain of about $1.1 billion. Weekly inflows remained around $917.3 million heading into Friday, while year-to-date net flows showed roughly $900

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Bitfinex Leads Major Bitcoin Outflows as Weekly Total Hits 47,000 BTC

Bitcoin exchange withdrawals surged to more than $2 billion on Wednesday, as roughly 31,900 BTC left Bitfinex in a single day. Axel Adler Jr., a contributor to onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant, said the week’s total outflows reached approximately 47,700 BTC, one of the highest weekly figures over

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Vancouver staff say Bitcoin cannot be held in city reserves

City staff in Vancouver concluded that Bitcoin cannot be held in municipal reserves and recommended dropping a proposal to create a Bitcoin reserve. The finding, led by Colin Knight, general manager of the Finance and Supply Chain Management Department, said Bitcoin is not an "allowable investment" under the

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Altcoin season 'game is over', says Matt Hougan

Bitwise investment chief Matt Hougan says the euphoric altcoin seasons — when almost every cryptocurrency rises across the market — are probably not coming back. "I think that game is over. I think we'll see a non-traditional altcoin season," he said in an interview on Wednesday. Hougan expects

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Hacker Steals $2.7M From Solv’s Bitcoin Yield Platform

Solv Protocol said one of its Bitcoin vaults was exploited for $2.7 million and has offered the hacker a 10% bounty to return the funds. It added that fewer than 10 users were affected and that it will cover the loss of 38.05 Solv Protocol BTC (SolvBTC). The

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Bitcoin miners unwind treasuries as margins tighten

Publicly listed Bitcoin miners have sold more than 15,000 BTC since October, marking a shift away from the self-treasury strategy that prevailed during the 2024–2025 upcycle. October had been the market peak before a historic flash crash that triggered widespread deleveraging. Large disposals included Cango’s February sale

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IRS Proposes Mandatory Electronic Delivery of Crypto Tax Forms

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed requiring cryptocurrency exchanges to deliver tax documents electronically. Under current rules, exchanges must provide paper copies of Form 1099-DA if users request them; the new proposal would remove that obligation and let brokers terminate relationships with clients who refuse electronic delivery. It would also

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Monero flips daily structure bullish, $473 target

Monero has confirmed a bullish shift on the daily chart after reclaiming the $357 area. Buyers appear to have regained control, and the next major upside target sits near $473. The daily price action shows a higher low followed by a new higher high, a common signal of trend continuation.

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ETH Rally Toward $2.5K Held Back by Macro, War and DApp Use

Ether fell about 6% after a brief rally to $2,200, tracking a downturn in US equities as the war in Iran entered its sixth day. Disruptions to global oil production and Middle East natural gas shipping pushed WTI crude to levels not seen since July 2024, and investors moved

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Culper Research shorts ether and BitMine, warns of 'death spiral' risk

Culper Research is betting against ether (ETH) and ETH-linked stocks such as BitMine (BMNR), arguing the network’s economics worsened after Ethereum’s December 2025 Fusaka upgrade. The firm said the upgrade flooded the network with excess blockspace, sharply lowering transaction fees and weakening staking yields. Culper warned that lower

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OpenAI’s new Wall Street AI stack is coming for crypto next

OpenAI has wired ChatGPT into FactSet, Third Bridge, Excel and Google Sheets, letting finance professionals pull data, run models and draft investment memos directly in the chatbot. These Summary Tools allow users to build financial models, run analysis and produce written output without moving between separate systems. The architecture is

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Kraken xStocks launches xChange for on-chain stock trading

Kraken-backed xStocks has launched xChange, an on-chain trading engine designed to connect traditional equity liquidity with decentralized finance. The platform enables trading of more than 70 tokenized equities directly on Ethereum and Solana, with prices kept aligned to real-world public market data. Each tokenized stock on xChange is fully collateralized

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38% of altcoins hovering near all-time lows, analyst says

An estimated 38% of altcoins are hovering near their all-time lows, a level CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost says is worse than the post-FTX crash. He describes the market as “unfavorable” for risk-on assets and notes investors remain cautious and continue to lose interest in altcoins. For comparison, the metric reached 35%

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Bitcoin rally stalls near $70K as altcoins face resistance

Bitcoin continues to meet selling pressure on minor rallies and has formed a symmetrical triangle that could act as a continuation pattern. Bears have tried to push the price below $66,000, but some analysts believe the downside may be limited; Willy Woo said selling may have exhausted and expects

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How US Investigators Traced $61M in Crypto Linked to Romance Scams

Federal authorities in North Carolina seized more than $61 million in USDT in February 2026 after tracing funds tied to a romance-driven pig-butchering crypto scam. Investigators followed the blockchain’s permanent transaction records to reconstruct deposits and transfers across many wallets and froze the assets before they could disappear. The