Key takeaways: Bitcoin price consolidates around $105,000 as liquidity builds up on either side of the spot price. After failing to flip $106,000, BTC/USD is retracing to establish support, but $100,000 is a key level of interest for Bitcoin traders. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price trades 6% below its all-time highs of $111,900, and traders warn the…
Multimillionaire cryptocurrency trader James Wynn has opened a second leveraged Bitcoin position for nearly $100 million, just days after being liquidated from a similar trade. According to blockchain data aggregator Hypurrscan, the position is set to be liquidated if Bitcoin (BTC) falls below $103,630 and is currently showing an unrealized profit of over $592,000. The…
Malikie Innovations, a firm that acquired tens of thousands of patents from BlackBerry in 2023, has sued major Bitcoin mining firms Marathon Digital and Core Scientific for using the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) employed by the Bitcoin blockchain, which it claims to own. The cases against Marathon Digital Holdings and Core Scientific follow Malikie Innovations’ acquisition of 32,000 “non-core” patents from…
Paris-based cryptocurrency firm Blockchain Group has acquired $68 million of Bitcoin, joining a growing wave of European institutions adding BTC to their balance sheets. The Blockchain Group, which claims to be Europe’s first Bitcoin treasury firm, has acquired 624 Bitcoin (BTC) for 60.2 million euros ($68.7 million). The latest acquisition brings the firm’s total holdings…
Texas Republican Representative Brandon Gill is facing scrutiny after filing late disclosures for up to $500,000 in Bitcoin purchases, potentially violating federal law. Gill, a first-term House member known for his bill proposing President Donald Trump’s face on the $100 bill, has reported two Bitcoin (BTC) purchases, each valued between $100,001 and $250,000, made on…
Fintech giant Revolut appears to be gearing up for a move into the crypto derivatives market as a new job posting hints at plans to build the business from scratch. A recent listing for a “General Manager (Crypto Derivatives)” role shows that Revolut is actively recruiting in London, Barcelona and Dubai. The position would oversee…
The Norway-based crypto exchange Norwegian Block Exchange has seen its stock price jump over 138% in a single day after it said it was starting to buy and hold Bitcoin. The company said on June 2 it purchased 6 Bitcoin (BTC), worth $633,700 at current prices, with plans to expand its holdings to 10 BTC…
Russia’s largest commercial bank, Sber has launched a Bitcoin-linked bond product that tracks the cryptocurrency’s change in price and the dollar-to-ruble exchange rate. The product is already available to qualified investors in the over-the-counter market, and Sber plans to list the product on the Moscow Stock Exchange in the future, the company formerly known as…
Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, plans to raise $250 million through an initial public offering of a new class of perpetual preferred stock so it can fund more Bitcoin purchases. Strategy intends to issue 2.5 million shares of its 10% Series A Perpetual Stride Preferred Stock, with the ticker STRD, at $100 a share, the Bitcoin-stacking firm…
The ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) will undergo a 3-for-1 share split later this month as the fund’s issuer, 21Shares, says it is looking to boost its appeal to retail investors. The stock split is slated for June 16 and is designed to “make shares more accessible to a broader base of investors and enhance…