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  • Crypto holders in France are being violently targeted again — and it’s no longer just insiders
    CryptoSlate - 18:05 Mar 13, 2026
    A French couple held at knifepoint in their home near Versailles and forced to transfer roughly €900,000 in Bitcoin would normally read like a rare, tragic story. But in France, it now fits a pattern serious enough to rattle the industry, draw the interior minister into the fray, and push executives toward bodyguards and tighter […] The post Crypto holders in France are being violently targeted again — and it’s no longer just insiders appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Crypto France
  • The Fed is readying to punish banks for holding Bitcoin as US crypto tensions boil over
    CryptoSlate - 16:10 Mar 13, 2026
    The next big Bitcoin policy fight may have nothing to do with ETFs or government legislation, but with a dry Federal Reserve capital proposal that most investors will never read. The landscape is simple: will big banks continue to treat Bitcoin as a balance sheet hazard, or will US capital rules begin to leave room […] The post The Fed is readying to punish banks for holding Bitcoin as US crypto tensions boil over appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • BlackRock’s new product just made Ethereum income impossible to ignore
    CryptoSlate - 14:05 Mar 13, 2026
    BlackRock's new staked Ethereum ETF (ETHB) is easy to misunderstand. This is not the first time ETH staking has finally reached exchange-traded products, as Grayscale has already crossed that bridge. What's interesting about the launch is that BlackRock is now standardizing the way Ethereum is explained to mainstream investors. With ETHB, Ethereum is being repackaged […] The post BlackRock’s new product just made Ethereum income impossible to ignore appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Ethereum BlackRock
  • Bitcoin surges over $72k to outperform gold and stocks since Iran strikes, but one brutal sell wall is looming
    CryptoSlate - 12:05 Mar 13, 2026
    Bitcoin has outperformed gold, silver, and major US equity indexes since the US-Israeli attack on Iran began, recovering to over $72,000 even as oil surged above $100 a barrel and traders cut expectations for near-term Federal Reserve easing. According to CryptoSlate data, Bitcoin is up 7.3% since the conflict began and even rallied to a […] The post Bitcoin surges over $72k to outperform gold and stocks since Iran strikes, but one brutal sell wall is looming appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Iran Bitcoin
  • Mastercard frantically doubles down on crypto to avoid becoming irrelevant and losing control
    CryptoSlate - 10:28 Mar 13, 2026
    Mastercard’s crypto partner push is really a plan to keep stablecoins inside its network Mastercard is trying to make sure the stablecoin era still needs its card services. On Wednesday, the company launched a program with more than 85 crypto-native firms, payments providers, banks, compliance vendors, custody companies, exchanges, and infrastructure groups. On its face, […] The post Mastercard frantically doubles down on crypto to avoid becoming irrelevant and losing control appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin set up for rip to $80,000 even as oil prices surge and Iran threatens $200 a barrel
    CryptoSlate - 22:45 Mar 12, 2026
    Bitcoin held near $70,000 despite oil price briefly trading around $100 a barrel, a move that would once have pushed crypto sharply lower under the usual macro playbook. According to CryptoSlate's data, the flagship digital asset climbed a modest 0.3% over the last 24 hours, reaching as high as $71,337 before retracing to $69,803 as […] The post Bitcoin set up for rip to $80,000 even as oil prices surge and Iran threatens $200 a barrel appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Iran Bitcoin
  • Binance data reveals insiders continue to dump TRUMP memecoins as its price hits a record low
    CryptoSlate - 21:00 Mar 12, 2026
    Wallets linked to the team behind President Donald Trump’s Solana-based TRUMP memecoin sent a large batch of tokens to Binance on March 12, adding a fresh supply overhang to a project that has crashed to an all-time low. On March 12, blockchain data from Arkham Intelligence showed that a BitGo custodial wallet associated with the […] The post Binance data reveals insiders continue to dump TRUMP memecoins as its price hits a record low appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Binance Trump
  • AI is now “stealing” thousands of jobs a month from humans – but is it as bad as we all feared?
    CryptoSlate - 19:00 Mar 12, 2026
    AI pressure points in tech labor are real, and Bitcoin will feel them through macro, not mystique After years of claims that AI will cause chaos in the labor market, sentiment seems to be at an all-time low around AI layoffs, with social media accounts surfacing to track how fast white-collar tech work is already […] The post AI is now “stealing” thousands of jobs a month from humans – but is it as bad as we all feared? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • White House admits Iran war burned equivalent of half the US Bitcoin reserve in 6 Days
    CryptoSlate - 17:00 Mar 12, 2026
    The United States spent in the first six days of its war with Iran an amount equal to nearly half the current market value of the Bitcoin held by the federal government. The administration told lawmakers this week that the war cost at least $11.3 billion through its first six days, Reuters reported on March […] The post White House admits Iran war burned equivalent of half the US Bitcoin reserve in 6 Days appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Iran Bitcoin Days White House
  • The SEC finally admits what caused the mess US crypto was in before Trump took power
    CryptoSlate - 15:05 Mar 12, 2026
    The SEC and CFTC have just signed an agreement that turns months of public harmonization talk into a formal operating framework for crypto, derivatives, and hybrid market products. The agreement covers product definitions, clearing and margin rules, dually registered venues and intermediaries, crypto assets, reporting, examinations, surveillance, and enforcement. SEC Chair Paul Atkins admitted that […] The post The SEC finally admits what caused the mess US crypto was in before Trump took power appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Trump
  • US gets first new oil refinery in 50 years but it will come too late for Bitcoin
    CryptoSlate - 12:49 Mar 12, 2026
    President Donald Trump's announcement of the first major new US oil refinery in nearly 50 years arrives as gasoline prices have become a political problem and energy has turned inflationary again. The Brownsville project is being pitched as an industrial revival and consumer relief. Still, the sharper question is whether a refinery that won't produce […] The post US gets first new oil refinery in 50 years but it will come too late for Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • Why Bitcoin’s kimchi premium is on life support after South Korea targets crypto exchange
    CryptoSlate - 09:55 Mar 12, 2026
    South Korea's move to suspend Bithumb over AML failures turns a local compliance case into a market-structure story. Enforcement against the country's second-largest exchange threatens to reroute retail flows, deepen venue concentration, and degrade one of crypto's most-watched regional pricing signals: the kimchi premium. Compliance case hits market plumbing The Korea Financial Intelligence Unit sent […] The post Why Bitcoin’s kimchi premium is on life support after South Korea targets crypto exchange appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Why Bitcoin South Korea
  • XRP leverage collapses 78%, but $1.4B in ETF money still won’t leave because of Ripple’s expanding footprint
    CryptoSlate - 20:00 Mar 11, 2026
    XRP’s price performance is stripping out fast-money participation while leaving behind a more durable class of holders. According to CryptoSlate's data, XRP is trading at $1.37 as of press time, down 55% within the last six months. This comes as data from CoinGlass shows XRP's open interest has fallen to about $2.40 billion from a […] The post XRP leverage collapses 78%, but $1.4B in ETF money still won’t leave because of Ripple’s expanding footprint appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Ripple
  • DOJ probes Binance again over Iran-linked crypto flows after $4.3B settlement and CZ pardon
    CryptoSlate - 17:30 Mar 11, 2026
    Binance returns to Iran sanctions scrutiny after its $4.3 billion U.S. plea The Justice Department is reportedly probing Iran’s use of Binance to evade sanctions, pulling the world’s largest crypto exchange back into a national security case less than three years after it pleaded guilty in the U.S. and agreed to a resolution worth more […] The post DOJ probes Binance again over Iran-linked crypto flows after $4.3B settlement and CZ pardon appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Binance Iran-linked
  • Why oil panic hitting global markets caused traders to dump Bitcoin instead of hiding in it
    CryptoSlate - 15:15 Mar 11, 2026
    An Oil Scare Near Hormuz Showed How Fast Bitcoin Reverts to a Risk Trade While Bitcoin has rebounded and held above $70,000 over the last 48 hours, the acute phase of the latest oil shock showed the market’s first instinct: sell crypto when inflation fear rises, and the path to easier money gets harder. Still, […] The post Why oil panic hitting global markets caused traders to dump Bitcoin instead of hiding in it appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • Kalshi’s Brazil prediction market launch lands in a country already fighting a betting addiction crisis
    CryptoSlate - 13:10 Mar 11, 2026
    Kalshi's first move outside the United States is not London, not Singapore, not any of the financial centers that have spent years building crypto-friendly regulatory frameworks. It is Brazil, through XP International and its brokerage arm, Clear, offering prediction markets to Brazilian investors as a “new asset class” anchored at launch to economic events such […] The post Kalshi’s Brazil prediction market launch lands in a country already fighting a betting addiction crisis appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Brazil Kalshi
  • Is crypto needed to protect the security of AI agents paying each other online?
    CryptoSlate - 11:35 Mar 11, 2026
    The infrastructure race for agentic commerce is already producing winners. Anthropic's Model Context Protocol now runs on more than 10,000 public servers and pulls 97 million monthly SDK downloads, connecting AI applications to external tools and data. Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol launched in April 2025 with 50 partners and scaled to more than 100 supporting companies […] The post Is crypto needed to protect the security of AI agents paying each other online? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • Prosecutors push to retry Tornado Cash founder even after Washington said crypto mixers have legal uses
    CryptoSlate - 09:49 Mar 11, 2026
    Washington sent two messages about crypto privacy in the same week. Treasury told Congress that lawful users of digital assets may leverage mixers to protect personal wealth, business payments, charitable donations, and consumer spending habits from public view on transparent blockchains. Days later, SDNY prosecutors filed a letter proposing to retry Tornado Cash co-founder Roman […] The post Prosecutors push to retry Tornado Cash founder even after Washington said crypto mixers have legal uses appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Tornado Cash Prosecutors Washington
  • Strategy buys 66,231 BTC using unusually expensive investor money
    CryptoSlate - 19:15 Mar 10, 2026
    Strategy has found a new gear in its Bitcoin accumulation engine, and its STRC preferred stock equity is doing a growing share of the driving. The company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, held 738,731 BTC as of March 8, up from 672,500 at the end of 2025. This represents an addition of 66,231 coins in 68 […] The post Strategy buys 66,231 BTC using unusually expensive investor money appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Strategy
  • Trump says the Iran conflict is “very complete” — oil plunges and Bitcoin snaps back above $70k
    CryptoSlate - 17:15 Mar 10, 2026
    Bitcoin climbed back above $70,000 Tuesday as crude oil staged a sharp reversal, easing near-term fears of accelerating inflation and giving digital asset markets room to recover. According to CryptoSlate's data, the largest digital currency jumped over 5% in the last 24 hours, peaking at around $71,164 after slipping below $68,000 earlier in the session. […] The post Trump says the Iran conflict is “very complete” — oil plunges and Bitcoin snaps back above $70k appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Iran Bitcoin Trump

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