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A French couple was forced to transfer about $1 million in Bitcoin during a fake police home invasion as wrench attacks keep rising, local media reported. A French couple in their late 50s was forced to transfer over 900,000 euros ($1 million) in Bitcoin during a fake police raid at their home west of Paris in the latest violent attack targeting cryptocurrency holders in France, according to TF1 Info and Agence France-Presse (AFP). Three suspects posing as police officers entered the couple’s home Monday morning in Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, in the Yvelines department, and forced the husband to transfer the Bitcoin (BTC) while threatening the pair with a knife, according to TF1 Info and AFP. The attackers then tied up the man, injured both victims and fled in a white van, the reports said. The woman later freed her husband and alerted neighbors at about 9:00 am local time, according to the reports. The Versailles prosecutor’s office said the case is being investigated by the Brigade for the Repression of Bandit...

Bitcoin price taps $71,000, with liquidity thin above the spot price and heavy clusters below, setting up a potential sweep of the highs before another dip. Bitcoin (BTC) price action liquidated shorts on Tuesday as market participants reacted to US President Donald Trump's comments on the Iran war. Key takeaways: Bitcoin order book liquidity is increasing as BTC price rebounds to $71,000. Read more

Authorities sold the recovered Bitcoin in small batches over 11 days to avoid disrupting the market, according to local media reports. South Korean prosecutors have sold 320.8 Bitcoin recovered after a phishing incident temporarily removed the crypto from government custody. The Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office said it sold 320.8 Bitcoin (BTC) at market prices and transferred 31.59 billion Korean won (about $21.5 million) to the national treasury, The Chosun Ilbo reported Tuesday. Authorities reportedly sold the Bitcoin in small batches over 11 days between Feb. 24 and March 6 to avoid disrupting the market. Read more

Bitcoin's circulating supply surpassed 20 million coins on March 9, a milestone that places 95% of all BTC that will ever exist into the hands of holders and leaves fewer than 1 million coins still to be mined before the network reaches its hard cap of 21 million. The milestone was reached at block height […] The post 95% of all Bitcoin is now mined — and it’s raising a new question about security appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin ETF inflows have turned positive as gold ETFs see record outflows after a historic rally. Is capital beginning to rotate from gold to Bitcoin? Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows have turned net positive over the past 30 days, while gold ETF demand has started to slow down after nine straight months of inflows. The shift comes even as gold prices remain elevated and sentiment around Bitcoin continues to cool. With these contrasting trends in ETF flows and the historical pattern of Bitcoin-to-gold performance cycles, analysts are now examining data that may signal a gradual shift in investor demand between the two assets.  According to the Kobeissi Letter, the largest US gold-backed ETF, GLD, recorded a $3 billion outflow on Wednesday, the largest daily withdrawal in more than two years. The move followed a 4.4% decline in gold prices, the sharpest drop since the Jan. 30 sell-off. Read more

When you feed Elon Musk’s Grok AI a carefully engineered prompt, it reveals explosive price predictions for XRP, Bitcoin, and Ethereum.A surge in oil prices is adding fresh macro pressure to crypto markets, but Grok predicts the mid-to-long-term outlook for the three largest cryptocurrencies remains strong.A mix of chart signals, regulatory developments, and ongoing industry […] The post Elon’s Grok AI Predicts the Price of XRP, Bitcoin and Ethereum by The End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

China’s new chip boosts blockchain speed 50x. An autonomous agent linked to Alibaba tries to mine Bitcoin. Asia Express

Mining Bitcoin on a desktop in 2026 may sound simple, but is it profitable? Do rising network difficulty and energy costs mean the end of PCs as Bitcoin mining equipment? Bitcoin mining began in 2009 as a hobby-friendly activity where users could earn BTC using CPUs and later GPUs. By 2026, the landscape has shifted entirely to industrial-scale operations dominated by specialized ASIC hardware. Modern Bitcoin mining runs at roughly 1 zettahash per second, with network difficulty reaching a record 144.4 trillion in February 2026. This makes it virtually impossible for standard PCs to compete meaningfully. Even when joining mining pools, a home PC’s contribution is so small that payouts amount to negligible fractions of a cent per day, while electricity costs, hardware wear, cooling and fees continue to accumulate. Read more

Bitcoin managed to avoid losses suffered by global stock markets over oil supply uncertainty, with a 5% relief bounce from its weekly open level. Bitcoin (BTC) returned to $69,000 at Monday’s Wall Street open with markets in limbo over the Middle East oil crisis. Key points: Bitcoin sees a rebound after dropping below $68,000 for the weekly close. Read more

Michael Saylor declared the start of a “second century,” following the firm’s 100th Bitcoin purchase last month.

The purchase brings Strategy’s total Bitcoin reserves to nearly 739,000 BTC despite the asset trading below the company’s average acquisition price. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public holder of Bitcoin, added another large tranche of BTC to its holdings last week, pushing total reserves above 738,000 BTC. Saylor’s Strategy acquired 17,994 Bitcoin (BTC) for $1.28 billion last week, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The purchase marks the largest BTC acquisition made by Strategy since January, when it acquired 22,305 BTC for $2.13 billion at an average price of $95,284 per BTC. Read more

Nigel Farage has acquired a 6.31% stake in the London-listed Bitcoin treasury company Stack BTC amid broader scrutiny over crypto donations in UK politics. Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage has invested 215,000 pounds (around $286,000) in Stack BTC, a London-listed Bitcoin treasury company chaired by former UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, as the Reform UK leader deepens his ties to the crypto sector.  The investment gives Farage a 6.31% stake in the company through his media vehicle Thorn In The Side, according to a Monday release. Stack said it raised $346,000 by issuing 5.2 million new shares at $0.065 each in a strategic funding round that included Farage and Blockchain.com. The company said Blockchain.com also entered a partnership to help deliver institutional-grade services for Stack’s planned Bitcoin (BTC) treasury. Read more

Bitcoin has outperformed precious metals and U.S. equities since the war in Iran first began, softening sentiment after a rough start to the year.

Bitcoin held strong above $67,000 amid oil surge to $119 per barrel on Middle East conflict and inflation fears, with analysts seeing signs of a potential BTC price reversal. Bitcoin (BTC) traded above $67,000 on Monday after posting its first bullish weekly close in seven weeks. Meanwhile, oil prices surged as the Middle East conflict prompted fears of a major supply shortage. Key takeaways: Bitcoin holds firm above $67,000 as oil prices surge to the highest level since 2022. Read more

Bitcoin slid below $70,000 this weekend after a weak US jobs report, and another jump in oil prices revived stagflation concerns and pushed investors out of risk assets. The largest cryptocurrency fell as low as $65,660, according to CryptoSlate’s data, less than a week after reaching a monthly high near $74,000. The move put Bitcoin […] The post Bitcoin traders focus on $61k as oil surges past $115 and weak jobs data rattle markets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin climbed during European trading hours even as U.S. equity futures, gold and silver fell, highlighting its relative resilience to oil shocks and war risks.

Bitcoin faced two death crosses and the total failure of the $74,000 BTC price breakout headed into the second week of March as the US and Israel-Iran war raged on. Bitcoin (BTC) starts the second week of March on the edge, with markets focused on the Middle East. Bitcoin erased its latest breakout attempt and closed the weekly candle below key resistance. Oil volatility and associated inflation pressures are the week’s main focus for traders. Read more

Bitcoin’s price has now fallen over four consecutive days to $66,272 after initially climbing on the US-Israel strikes on Iran. Bitcoin fell nearly 2% in just 15 minutes on Sunday while oil prices rose almost 20% as the escalating Middle East conflict prompted fears of a major supply shortage in the global energy market. Data from decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid shows oil prices rose from $95 to $113.7 per barrel shortly after US futures markets opened, as Iraq warned that roughly 3 million barrels per day of production could be disrupted due to Iranian threats against tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. It’s the highest price oil has reached since April 2022, a few weeks after Russia commenced its invasion of Ukraine, TradingView data shows.  Read more

Strategy's Bitcoin treasury is valued at over $48.4 billion at the time of this writing, but with a net asset value of less than 1, it's trading at a discount. Michael Saylor, the co-founder of Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company Strategy, indicated on Sunday that the firm is buying more BTC, as the price hovers near the $66,000 level.  “The Second Century Begins,” Saylor said on X, as he shared the Strategy BTC accumulation chart that has become synonymous with impending BTC purchases. Strategy’s most recent BTC purchase occurred during the last week of February, when the company bought 3,015 BTC for more than $204 million, bringing its total holdings to 720,737 BTC, valued at about $48.1 billion using market prices at the time of publication. Read more

Riot case study shows US Bitcoin miners can clear power costs long before they clear full profit Bitcoin mining costs are often reduced to a single number: the “cost to mine one BTC.” In reality, that figure depends on what layer of the business you measure. Electricity determines whether machines should run today, operating expenses […] The post New model proves miners need Bitcoin above $74k to break even on power – but other costs push it over 6 figures appeared first on CryptoSlate.