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America may reject the name “CBDC” while still building the conditions for CBDC-like control through private dollar infrastructure.
Washington has ruled out a retail Federal Reserve digital dollar in legal form. At the same time, the stablecoin regime now taking shape can normalize freeze, block, reject, and temporary hold functions across private dollar tokens and, increasingly, tokenized...
Bitcoin spent the weekend mostly within a familiar price channel, then slipped lower before recovering as traders reacted to the developing impact of the Iran war.
However, while real-world macro events now dictate Bitcoin's movements more than fundamentals or adoption levels, where on the chart it stops to test the waters has not changed.
Bitcoin has tested both long-term support and resistance...
XRP remains under significant pressure as the latest oil shock and broader market unease push investors toward a more defensive stance.
The Ripple-linked digital asset has fallen 26% this year to about $1.34 and is down 54% over the past six months, according to CryptoSlate data. In the latest 24-hour session, XRP slid from about $1.37 to as low as $1.33 before recovering to nearly $1.35 as of...
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 back below a closely watched price level for spot traders and...
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 back below a closely watched price level for spot traders and...
In the latest SlateCast episode, Fantium CEO and co-founder Jonathan Ludwig joined CryptoSlate Editor-in-Chief Liam “Akiba” Wright and CEO Nate Whitehill to discuss why he returned to building, how Fantium structures athlete financing, and why its broader sports-token vision is focused on utility rather than pure speculation. Across the conversation, Ludwig framed tokenization as a tool for...
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 determine whether a mining fleet supports the broader company,...
When seabed disturbances off Côte d'Ivoire severed seven submarine cables in March 2024, the regional internet impact earned an IODA severity score above 11,000.
For Bitcoin, the global effect was negligible. The affected region hosted roughly five nodes, about 0.03% of the network, and the impact fell within normal fluctuations at -2.5%.
No price movement followed. No consensus disruption...
On Mar. 5, Justin Sun reached a $10 million settlement with the SEC to resolve a civil fraud case that alleged he generated $31 million through wash-trading-style transactions and undisclosed celebrity promotions.
The settlement, which requires court approval and includes no admission of wrongdoing, moves the case toward dismissal.
The same day, US banking regulators announced that banks won't...
161,000 US jobs just disappeared after a revision as Bitcoin navigates increasingly messy macro data
US markets move in seconds when the jobs report hits. February payrolls fell by 92,000 jobs, the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, and prior months were revised down by 69,000.
Together, that's 161,000 fewer jobs than the numbers showed at the start of the year.
But the number traders react to first often isn't the one that lasts, because even bigger revisions can arrive months later.
The Bureau of...