CRYPTO ASSETS

El Salvador has been a crypto-friendly country for years now, but it turns out its Bitcoin holdings remain far from the treasure troves of the U.S. or its rival, China.

Iceland, which has attracted Bitcoin miners for years due to its high-energy environment for mining activities, may abandon crypto mining in the future as it looks to depend less on agricultural imports.

The cryptocurrency kingdom has lost some $239 million worth of digital assets in just four months in 2024 to private key compromises, indicating that threat actors will continue to use this specific attack vector to steal funds from even the biggest crypto figures and entities this year.

Funds traced back to the September 2023 phishing of a crypto whale's account moved Thursday, Certik revealed, once again urging cryptocurrency users to be vigilant amid the evolution of crypto scam methods.

Amid anticipation for Bitcoin's upcoming halving event, Bernstein analysts said they believe it won't have a significant effect on miners.

MicroStrategy now holds over 1% of the world's total Bitcoin supply as it obtained over 9,000 more Bitcoin.

Standard Chartered Bank believes Bitcoin can reach $150,000 at the end of 2024, given its recent bull run that allowed the cryptocurrency to hit its all-time high of $73,000 earlier this month.

Bitcoin Foundation's chairman welcomed ex-president Trump's apparent change of heart in the latter's recent remarks about Bitcoin as the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency nears its halving event.

Bukele once again made a bold statement regarding El Salvador's Bitcoin strategy, even as the country's Bitcoin City has not started construction work two years after the plan was announced.

Craig Wright, who has been claiming for years that he created Bitcoin, isn't the person he says he is, according to a British judge Thursday – the ruling became a sensational topic on X (formerly Twitter) throughout the day.

MicroStrategy continues to pursue its Bitcoin buy strategy as the company announced another plan to purchase more of the cryptocurrency by offering $500 million in convertible senior notes.

Tether has demonstrated its commitment to combating financial fraud by collaborating with U.S. law enforcement agencies to recover more than a million USDT from a customer support scam network.

Core Scientific has bounced back from its bankruptcy in late 2022 due to the slump in Bitcoin prices to mine Bitcoin worth around $1.4 billion in 2023.

President Nayib Bukele has been a Bitcoin bull for years and continued believing in the cryptocurrency's potential even when prices were in the lows late in 2022.

The FDIC's vice chair had very sharp words for a staff accounting bulletin of the SEC that has raised concerns about the bulletin's implications on custodial service providers.

MicroStrategy didn't even allow BlackRock's IBIT to enjoy at least two days of glory at the top among companies known to have the largest Bitcoin holdings as it announced that it now has 205,000 Bitcoin holdings.

The former president expressed a more positive view toward Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, saying he has had "fun" with the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency.

Bill Ackman signaled that he may consider purchasing Bitcoin – his interest has since drawn comments from Bitcoin bulls such as Michael Saylor and Stacks co-creator Muneeb Ali.

BlackRock's IBIT now has some 4,000 more Bitcoin than MicroStrategy's holdings of the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency.

Arkham Intelligence on Thursday claimed to have identified the digital wallets of Tesla and SpaceX, supposedly revealing the tech behemoths' collective billion-dollar Bitcoin holdings.

Bitcoin bridge OrdiZK, which was painted by its developers as a Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana bridge, has reportedly vanished, taking with over a million worth of Ether into the unknown.

Tether has once again blacklisted USDT wallet addresses, following the blocking of 28 wallets in December that could be the largest single-day blacklisting ever implemented by the blockchain platform.

Bitcoin has come a striking distance away from its November 2021 all-time high, and there is much anticipation as the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency is due for a halving event next month.

The SEC has once again pushed back a decision on BlackRock's application for a spot ETH ETF, also delaying a decision on Fidelity's application – both companies filed an application in November.

Taiwan will introduce a new digital assets draft law later this year as the self-governing island looks to regulate what the territory's finance regulator chief said is a "quite risky and speculative" sector.

A "famous" South Korean broadcast jockey was swindled for funds equivalent to almost his entire assets – not getting back even half of his money back from a fake Bitcoin expert.

Michael Saylor sees the "resistance" of banks dropping during Bitcoin's 10-decade "gold rush era" as the banking industry's largest clients begin demanding BTC custodial services.

Morgan Stanley, which became the first major U.S. bank to offer clients access to Bitcoin funds, is now reportedly considering spot Bitcoin ETFs to be added to its brokerage platform.

The U.S. government, on the day Bitcoin hit $60,000 for the first time in over two years, transferred more than $900 million worth of Bitcoin it seized from the Bitfinex exploit in 2016, blockchain intelligence data revealed.