Sep 9, 2026
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Sep 8, 2026
Malone Lam pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $245 million crypto theft conspiracy involving social engineering and home invasions. This case proves the courts can handle large-scale digital crime, but it also exposes a brutal reality about physical security that the crypto industry still refuses to confront.
Claire Fujimoto · 7 minutes ago
cryptoabout 6 hours ago
New York Fed researchers broke down why the dollar's reserve share slid from 64% to 56%. Turns out it's mostly reserve growth mechanics, not a sovereign stampede into Bitcoin. The trenches keep misreading this data. Here's what's actually happening.
cryptoabout 7 hours ago
Strategy sold out its $250 Bitcoin-themed Air Jordans by Sept. 8, four days after launch. The catch? The store still takes Visa and Mastercard. Here's what Saylor's merch pivot really signals.
cryptoabout 7 hours ago
Senator Lummis says next week's Clarity Act vote is the last realistic shot this decade. But the fight isn't about crypto policy anymore. It's about whether Washington can pass anything at all.
cryptoabout 8 hours ago
Bitcoin's options market has swung bullish with call prices rising, and ETF inflows nearly tripled to $681.2 million. Yet spot traders are still selling. This divergence between derivatives confidence and actual buying could define the next move above $80,000.
cryptoabout 8 hours ago
CoinCorner launched a Lloyd's-insured multisig vault with AnchorWatch after single-sig hardware failures drained $115 million in the Coldcard hack. The service costs 1.5% a year and aims to make multisig simple enough for non-technical bitcoiners.
cryptoabout 9 hours ago
Bybit just listed USDT-settled perpetuals on EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/JPY with 24/7 trading and up to 100x gearing. That's fiat getting the crypto treatment, and traditional FX dealers should be nervous.
cryptoabout 10 hours ago
An AI payment hub on XRP Ledger recorded 4.49 million transactions but settled just 5,836.71 XRP. That's the difference between usage and demand, and XRP holders need to pay attention.
cryptoabout 10 hours ago
Capital B just made its largest bitcoin purchase of 2026, snapping up 376 BTC for €25.3 million. With Adam Back now invested and a stated goal of acquiring 1% of all bitcoin by 2033, Europe's first BTC treasury company is playing a different game than its American counterparts.
cryptoabout 11 hours ago
Bitcoin is hovering below $80,000 as Saudi energy disruptions push Brent crude toward $100 a barrel. Friday's CPI report measures August prices, not the attack that happened this week. That timing gap could trap the Fed, and Bitcoin, in a policy no-win.
cryptoabout 14 hours ago
Bitmine is 97% of the way toward owning 5% of all Ether, while Tom Lee's team sits on a $5.1 billion unrealized loss. That's not conviction, that's a market tree falling with no one left to catch it. Here's why the biggest accumulation trade in crypto history might end badly.
cryptoabout 15 hours ago
Bitcoin's brutal drawdowns make it a scary retirement asset. But parking everything in cash or bonds isn't safe either. Here's the actual allocation range that makes sense.
cryptoabout 15 hours ago
Four people are dead in Mexico over a crypto wallet that may hold millions in Bitcoin. This case exposes the uncomfortable truth about blockchain's pseudo-anonymity and the physical violence that digital wealth can inspire.
cryptoabout 15 hours ago
Strategy paused its Bitcoin buying spree this week and repurchased $176M of its own preferred shares instead. The company also doubled its buyback program to $2 billion. Here's what that shift really means for Bitcoin holders and STRC investors.
cryptoabout 16 hours ago
EF Protocol just punted EIP-8363, the validator reward cut proposal, out of the Hegotá upgrade. But declining to choose is itself a choice, and it's one that keeps diluting unstaked ETH holders while the governance question drags on.
cryptoabout 16 hours ago
Cardano's Leios testnet hit six times the throughput of the current chain. But those transactions were fake. The real problem is whether ADA staking economics survive when real users are the only ones paying the bills.
