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Bitcoin Shows Signs of Recovery as Iran Fears Ease The post Bitcoin Price Shows ‘Signs of Improvement’ as Iran Conflict Fears Ease appeared first on Cryptonews.

How BIP-360 reshapes Bitcoin’s quantum defense strategy, what it improves and why it stops short of full post-quantum security. BIP-360 formally puts quantum resistance on Bitcoin’s road map for the first time. It represents a measured, incremental step rather than a dramatic cryptographic overhaul. Quantum risk primarily targets exposed public keys, not Bitcoin’s SHA-256 hashing, making public key exposure the central vulnerability developers aim to reduce. BIP-360 introduces Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR), which removes Taproot’s key path spending option and forces all spends through script paths to minimize elliptic curve exposure. Read more

Michael Saylor’s Strategy just bought $1.28 billion worth of Bitcoin, while Nasdaq is teaming up with Kraken for tokenized stock trading.

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...

The bank said the bitcoin treasury sector’s slump reset valuations, but opened the door for new digital credit financing models that could revive growth.

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

DeFi lacks its final primitive. Insurance turns hidden risks into priced, programmable coverage. Programmable insurance with uncorrelated capital creates TVC safety nets. Opinion by: Jesus Rodriguez, co-founder of Sentora If you look at decentralized finance (DeFi) as a stack of computational primitives, it’s remarkably complete — yet fundamentally broken. We have automated market makers for liquidity, like Uniswap. We have lending markets for capital efficiency, and bridges for cross-chain “packet switching.” Step back and look at the architecture from a systems engineering perspective. 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

Roman Storm, a Tornado Cash co-founder and developer, has criticized proceedings against him as an attempt “to make writing code a crime.”

Arkham's data shows that their PnL on bitcoin has risen to $1.8 billion.

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis argued that crypto’s transparency creates a “powerful flywheel” of fraud disruption.

Dominari Securities, tied to Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., is among the brokerages named in the congressional probe. US lawmakers have launched an investigation into several Wall Street underwriters, including Dominari Securities, whose parent company is linked to the Trump family, over their role in bringing Chinese companies to US stock markets that were later tied to stock manipulation schemes. On Monday, the House of Representatives Select Committee on China, chaired by Representative John Moolenaar with Rep. Ro Khanna as ranking member, sent letters to three US companies — D. Boral Capital, Dominari Securities and Revere Securities — seeking information about Chinese initial public offerings (IPOs) they helped underwrite. “These scam centers defraud American households through coordinated “ramp-and-dump” stock manipulation schemes involving Chinese shell companies listed on American exchanges, which your firm appears to facilitate,” the lawmakers wrote. Read more

Whales on Hyperliquid are piling into leveraged bitcoin and ether longs as BTC rallies to $71K, fueling bets the cryptocurrency will break above $75,000.

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Glassnode data shows strong demand during bitcoin’s recent correction, with 200,00 BTC purchased over the past two weeks.

The Nvidia CEO laid out a five-layer framework for AI infrastructure in his first standalone blog post in months, pushing back against the narrative that AI will destroy jobs.

Ethereum has failed to remain deflationary since the switch to Proof-of-Stake, as ETH's price has disappointed Ether investors, particularly against Bitcoin. Ether (ETH) has dropped roughly 65% against Bitcoin (BTC) since Ethereum’s 2022 shift to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), casting doubt on the network’s “ultrasound money” thesis. Key takeaways: Lower fees and L2 growth have weakened Ethereum’s deflationary “ultrasound money” pitch. Read more

Markets shifted as soon as oil suddenly spiked.As U.S. futures opened, crude jumped from around $95 to nearly $113 per barrel. The surge came after rising geopolitical tensions and fresh warnings about possible supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical energy routes.Price slipped from about $66,960 to roughly $65,725 […] The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Oil Just Exploded 20% — Is BTC About to Crash? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Arkham claimed that the transfers were intended “presumably to sell,” though neither Cameron nor Tyler Winklevoss has commented on the move.