BTC has been climbing and now sits near $65k. The weekend’s market was calm. But this weekend in the Bitcoin community was destined to be anything but peaceful. ...

A recently unsealed criminal complaint from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has once again ripped the fig leaf off American law enforcement. Patrick Steven Yaroch, a former FBI supervisory special agent, is accused of using his position to siphon nearly $1 million in crypto from cryptocurrency accounts linked to a “hostile nation” (reportedly Russia) that the FBI was monitoring — moving the funds into his own wallet, and even parking part of it in DeFi protocols to earn yield[1]. ...

Overnight, the apps of 29 overseas crypto exchanges vanished from Google Play in South Korea. This was no technical glitch — it was a surgical strike by Korean regulators. On July 24, 2026, South Korea’s crypto community erupted. Search Google Play for OKX, Bybit, MEXC, KuCoin, Gemini, or BitMEX — all gone. The trigger was a long-gestating action by the Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU): every overseas exchange app that has not completed Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) registration with the KoFIU is to be removed from Google Play[1]. ...

Today is January 3, 2024, the 15th birthday of Bitcoin. Let’s first wish Bitcoin a happy 15th birthday! The conventional narrative in the media goes like this: 15 years ago, on January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin on a server in Helsinki, Finland. However, according to NickYam’s investigation, the actual truth is more likely that Satoshi Nakamoto received The Times newspaper from January 3 to 9 of that year, conducted a trial run for a few days, and officially launched Bitcoin on the 9th. ...

Introduction Whenever the topic of the value of BTC (Bitcoin) is discussed, people often find themselves in endless debates. Even with the use of the three treasures - left-hand Austrian, right-hand Marxian - and reciting Keynes, it seems that the problem remains unresolved. Some say BTC is worthless garbage. Some say BTC has no intrinsic value but has a price. Some say BTC has value because it is scarce. ...

The stock guru Warren Buffett has always been known for his staunch anti-cryptocurrency stance. In 2019, the Oracle of Omaha said on a television interview, “All cryptocurrencies will eventually come to a bad ending.” In 2021, Warren Buffett’s partner, Charlie Munger, publicly criticized Bitcoin during a shareholders’ meeting, calling it “disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization.” Warren Buffett himself has also publicly referred to Bitcoin as “rat poison” in the past. ...

Yesterday, Blockstream’s founder and renowned cryptographer Adam Back, in an interview with Bloomberg, mentioned that Bitcoin could potentially surpass $100,000 before the halving event in the first half of 2024.1 Surpassing the previous high before the halving event is an unprecedented occurrence in the Bitcoin’s development history of the past decade. ...

Friends familiar with the underlying mechanisms of Bitcoin are aware that on the Bitcoin blockchain ledger, it’s not individual bitcoins that are tracked, but rather individual Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXOs). This technical term is referred to as “Unspent Transaction Output.” Some refer to these as “Bitcoin coins” or BTC coins. Currently, there are approximately 130 million BTC coins recorded on the Bitcoin ledger. An intriguing question is: How is the purchase price of these coins distributed? A research study from Glassnode provides some insights. ...

Overnight, Bitcoin continues to fluctuate above $29,000. The volatility index (30-day implied volatility of option prices) has further decreased, indicating exhaustion from both the bullish and bearish sides. According to reports, Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturers are shifting their focus from the saturated U.S. market to the mining market in Russia. Luxor Technologies, a mining infrastructure service provider, stated that more machines are flowing into Russia than any other place in the world. ...

Overnight, the Federal Reserve’s July interest rate meeting released its outcome. Bitcoin remained unfazed and continued its path of recovery since July 25, experiencing a slight rebound to the $29.5k level. ...