Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, US, on Saturday, July 27, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cryptocurrency adoption appears to have a political bent — and a significant gender divide. Republicans have adopted crypto with more gusto than Democrats in recent years, data shows, coinciding…
Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Prediction markets giant Kalshi announced Friday it plans to launch perpetual futures contracts, starting with crypto perpetuals. They will give U.S. traders a regulated alternative to offshore platforms that have dominated this market. Perpetual futures, or “perps,” are futures-style contracts with no fixed expiration date. Traders…
Bitcoin surged in April, but its run could be on shaky ground, according to crypto data provider CryptoQuant. The flagship crypto coin gained 12.7% for the month, registering back-to-back monthly gains and its best month since April 2025. It eked out a nearly 2% gain in March, following five consecutive down months. Ether gained 8%…
Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Charles Schwab is rolling out crypto trading, allowing clients to buy bitcoin and ether through a new arm called Schwab Crypto, the company said Thursday. The move places the brokerage in direct competition with companies like Robinhood, which serves a comparatively younger clientele and also blends…
Bitcoin fell more than 5% to below $65,000 on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to raise global tariffs to 15%. The drop came as Asian equities rose in early trade, underscoring crypto’s divergence from regional stock markets amid renewed tariff uncertainty. Bitcoin has seen a sharp sell-off since October last year when…
INDIA – 2025/05/22: In this photo illustration, a Bitcoin logo is seen displayed on a smartphone with the Hong Kong flag in the background. (Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Hong Kong’s central bank is pressing ahead with plans to issue an initial batch of…
Bitcoin tumbled toward $60,000 this week as investors reassessed its utility. And while there isn’t one clear catalyst driving the bloodbath, one thing is clear: the crypto market is in crisis. “There’s nothing going on in the marketplace that should have necessitated this type of a crash,” Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of alternative…
Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images Bitcoin bounced off its recent low on Friday after narrowly avoiding falling below the key $60,000 mark, but some market commentators suggested there’s more selling to come. Late on Thursday, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency fell below $61,000 and hovered just above the $60,000 mark. As of 4:54 a.m….
Bitcoin briefly dropped below $70,000 on Thursday amid a broader sell-off of risk assets. The move, which happened around 6:27 a.m. ET, was the first time bitcoin fell below $70,000 since November 2024. Bitcoin bounced off that low and was trading at around 70,453.68 at 6:40 a.m. ET, according to CoinMetrics data. Some market watchers…
Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images Bitcoin extended losses on Monday as the world’s biggest cryptocurrency fell below $80,000 for the first time since April 2025. Bitcoin was trading at $77,494.65 at 05:43 a.m. ET on Monday, according to CoinMetrics. Bitcoin fell as low as $74,876 but later pared some of the losses. The…
