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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Turkmenistan has officially legalized crypto exchanges and mining, although digital assets are still not recognized as a means of payment. Turkmenistan’s Crypto Legislation Now In Effect As reported by Associated Press, the Asian nation of Turkmenistan officially recognized mining and exchanging cryptocurrency as legal on Thursday. The move comes after President Serdar Berdymukhamedov signed a law back in November, which allowed crypto companies to obtain registration starting January 1st. Located in Central Asia, Turkmenistan was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union before gaining independence following the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Peter Schiff is starting 2026 with a blunt message for Bitcoin holders: in his view, the trade is crowded, the “good news” is exhausted, and the unwind is already visible in the vehicles built to maximize BTC exposure. Schiff’s Bitcoin Prediction For 2026 In a Jan. 1 “Year-End Special” episode outlining his 2026 market forecasts, the renowned Bitcoin-critic argued that the cryptocurrency spent 2025 doing the one thing it wasn’t supposed to do in a year packed with pro-crypto narratives: fall. He framed that underperformance as the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure According to PeckShield, losses from crypto hacks dropped by about 60% in December, slipping to roughly $76 million from about $194 million in November. That sharp month-to-month decline was driven by fewer large-scale heists, but the damage that did occur was still significant. Reports have disclosed a mix of scams and technical failures that together made December anything but risk-free. December Losses Fall 60% PeckShield tracked roughly 26 major exploits during the month. The largest single hit was an address poisoning scam that took about $50 million.…

Bitcoin traded in the $80,000s on Dec. 31 just as U.S. inflation cooled and investors priced Federal Reserve rate cuts.The lack of follow-through has left traders leaning less on macro headlines and more on a mix of real yields, money-market plumbing, and spot ETF flows. That shift is keeping price action pinned to defined levels even when “cuts are coming” dominates the narrative.Macro without the Boom: Why “Good News” isn’t moving BitcoinThe latest inflation data reinforced that narrative on paper.Headline CPI rose 2.7% from a year earlier in November, and core CPI rose 2.6%.But the print also arrived with a…

Fedi will release its full software stack as open source on Jan. 3, completing a pledge made at launch in 2024. The company said all Fedi software has now transitioned to the Affero General Public License (AGPL), following an interim period under a business source license.  The change makes Fedi’s codebase publicly available under a copyleft license that requires derivative works to remain open, according to a spokesperson from Fedi.  The date carries weight in Bitcoin history. Jan. 3 marks the anniversary of the Bitcoin genesis block, mined in 2009. Fedi said the timing reflects its focus on community ownership…

Tether bought 8,888 Bitcoin in Q4 2025, lifting its holdings above 96,000 BTC, according to a post by CEO Paolo Ardoino.The purchase extends a strategy Tether has tied to operating results: allocating 15% of quarterly profits to Bitcoin.If USDT liabilities keep expanding and short-term rates remain high enough to keep interest income elevated, that policy can translate stablecoin earnings into recurring spot demand for BTC.The same choice also expands mark-to-market exposure inside a reserve stack built to meet redemptions.That issue has become more central to ratings and regulatory scrutiny.How Tether’s reserve strategy turns stablecoin growth into systemic exposureThe most recent…

The story of cryptocurrency’s rise to mainstream popularity is one of the most bizarre in history. Created by an anonymous, shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto—who’s now among the richest people in the world—the technology is now a darling of finance bros, altruistic lefties, white supremacists, Balkan political dissidents, West African entrepreneurs, and Redditors convinced that Satoshi was in fact an alien.So it’s hardly surprising that 2025 began with U.S. President Donald Trump launching a meme coin just days before his inauguration. And it only got weirder from there, from college kids betting on whose sperm was the fastest to betting…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure With Bitcoin‘s waning price action extending and its value still below the $90,000 mark, many key metrics and indicators are starting to enter into negative territory in this new year. One of the major metrics that has turned negative as the year begins is the BTC Sharpe Ratio, which measures the risk level of the flagship cryptocurrency asset.  A Rare Bitcoin Risk-Low Opportunity Has Emerged Ongoing volatility has hampered Bitcoin’s price action despite several attempts at an upward move, keeping the asset stuck below the $100,000 mark.…

On the last day of 2025, while most traders were half watching fireworks and half pretending they were not checking charts, the quietest corner of the financial system started making a lot of noise.Banks pulled a record amount of cash from the Federal Reserve’s SRF, about $74.6 billion, on December 31. That number matters because the Standing Repo Facility is the Fed’s pressure valve, banks swap high-quality collateral for overnight cash, and they usually tap it hardest when private funding markets get tight. Related ReadingA $74B emergency overnight bank loan on NYE just revived a dark 2019 secret bailout theoryWall…

In brief Ethereum insiders say 2026 could finally spark major ETH value growth as institutions pile in. Tokenization is expected to shift toward yield-bearing, DeFi-integrated assets, bringing substantial new capital on-chain. ETH may begin its path toward store-of-value status, though the token would still be well behind Bitcoin’s trajectory. It’s never easy being an Ethereum maxi. True, ETH did hit a new all-time high this year; but relative to the Ethereum network’s numerous recent technical and economic triumphs, such price action still seems rather insufficient to many.Ethereum has always been an anomaly, sitting somewhere between Bitcoin’s golden store-of-value legitimacy and…

In brief Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has said that the exchange is aiming to scale up its offerings in stablecoins and payments in 2026. Armstrong also declared that Coinbase is aiming to become the biggest financial app in the world, and that it wants to expand blockchain adoption globally. Industry commentators suggest that such aims may be unrealistic within a single year, but that Coinbase has a key role to play in onboarding newcomers to crypto. Crypto exchange Coinbase is aiming to scale up its stablecoin offerings and increase onchain adoption worldwide in 2026, according to CEO and founder Brian…