Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin rally delivers $4.1 billion tax windfall for Strategy

Strategy estimated a $4.1 billion income-tax benefit after Bitcoin's fair value rose above cost as of Sept. 30, according to its Oct. 5 filing. The benefit comes from a lower estimated tax expense through an accounting adjustment. The filing shows...

Crypto Card Payments Hit Record $12.5 Billion as Stablecoin Adoption Surges

Bitcoin Magazine Crypto Card Payments Hit Record $12.5 Billion as Stablecoin Adoption Surges Payment volume processed on crypto cards has climbed to a record $12.5 billion, up 140% year-to-date, according to data from paymentscan.xyz, first shared by The Kobeissi Letter. The figure...

Microsoft Copilot AI Predicts Chainlink (LINK) Could Hit $100 in 2026

Microsoft Copilot AI predicts that in a world where Chainlink becomes the backbone of a major global settlement system, such as SWIFT, LINK could surge to $100 by January 1, 2027, a roughly 7x move from the current ~$14.20....

Strive CEO Says ASST Can Outrun Strategy in the Next Bitcoin Bull Market

Strive CEO Matt Cole is pitching his company as the likeliest “fastest horse” among Bitcoin treasury firms in the next bull market, and he backed it with seven principles on competition posted on X. His broader argument, however, is that...

CFTC makes its biggest move yet to bring offshore crypto trading back to the US

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is offering US crypto exchanges a federal route to retail leverage as Congress remains stalled on market-structure legislation. On Oct. 5, the financial regulatory agency opened rulemaking for Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions (CTX) and...

Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts Double-Digit XRP Price by 2026

Currently priced at approximately $1.50, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI predicts that XRP could surge above $10 this year, a gain of around 8x, in the event of a massive crypto bull market, institutional fear of missing out (FOMO), and...

Coinbase’s Ryan VanGrack: CFTC Approval “Opens Many Doors” for Bitcoin

Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase’s Ryan VanGrack: CFTC Approval “Opens Many Doors” for Bitcoin The SEC’s proposed custody rules could make it easier for investment advisors to help clients own Bitcoin directly. Coinbase’s Ryan VanGrack explains why institutional capital tends to flow where...

El Salvador’s $666 million Bitcoin reserve survives IMF review

El Salvador secured access to $138 million from the IMF while recommitting to limits on further state Bitcoin accumulation. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the second and third reviews of the country’s $1.4 billion loan program on Oct. 1,...

Galaxy Finds 7 in 10 Polymarket Retail Traders Lost Money

Most retail traders on Polymarket lose money. A Galaxy Research study of 2.9 million human-paced accounts found that more than 69% finished below break-even. The group recorded aggregate losses of $338.9 million. The research used Polymarket’s full on-chain history, covering...

Ethereum’s past outflow charts can change when more exchange wallets are identified

Coin Metrics has rebuilt Ethereum's historical Standard Flow Metrics, raising a timing problem for tests that treat exchange outflows as a trading signal. The crypto data provider's Oct. 1 notice says it recomputed Ethereum Standard Flow Metrics from the network's...

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Solana sets October 21 for massive Alpenglow upgrade that could make transactions 99% faster to finalize

The mainnet plan calls for a live consensus replacement, with roughly 150ms finality dependent on network conditions and a...