Day: May 7, 2026

Extreme Shock panning at the New Gold Mine!

▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io Extreme Shock panning at the New Gold Mine! You won’t believe how much gold is in this place… Jason has a brand new gold mine, and it is absolutely LOADED. From the moment we started looking, it was obvious this wasn’t just another prospect. With almost no effort at all, we were pulling gold straight from the vein and even out of the surrounding rock. This isn’t just good ground… this is the kind of spot every prospector dreams about. In this…

BTCC Exchange and AFA Launch a Trading Championship with a Million-USDT Prize Pool and a Messi-Signed Jersey

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May 7th, 2026 – Lodz, Poland BTCC, the world’s longest-running cryptocurrency exchange, today announced the launch of the BTCC x AFA Trading Championship, a futures trading competition running from May 6 to May 26, 2026. The campaign features a prize pool of over one million USDT, with the ultimate reward reserved for the No. 1-ranked trader: a jersey signed by Lionel Messi, captain of the Argentine National Football Team. The competition is open to all registered users. Traders compete on two separate leaderboards: a Futures Trading Volume Leaderboard, where the…

ETH Stalls at $2,400 as Altcoin Correlation Hits

ETH USD has been unable to clear $2,400 for three consecutive months, logging a year-to-date loss of -21% against an -11% decline in total crypto market cap, underperformance that places Ethereum news squarely in focus for institutional holders reassessing the asset’s trajectory. The stall has coincided with ETH’s 90-day price correlation with top-cap altcoins reaching 0.85 in early May 2025, per data tracked by CryptoRank, the highest reading since November 2024’s bear-market lows. The ETH price analysis here is structurally more complex than a simple resistance failure. When ETH’s correlation…

US Banks Push Back in Latest Developments

In CLARITY Act news today, the American Bankers Association and the Bank Policy Institute issued a joint statement on Monday, May 4, 2026, formally opposing the stablecoin yield provisions embedded in the latest draft of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, commonly known as the CLARITY Act. It warns Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) that the current legislative language falls materially short of protecting bank deposits from yield-bearing stablecoin instruments, while separately signaling that the banking lobby intends to submit detailed amendment recommendations to lawmakers within days.…

XRP History Is About To Repeat Itself And Price Could Rally 1,008% To Cross $10

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Crypto analyst Dark Defender has alluded to history to predict a 1,008% rally for XRP, which could send its price above $10. This comes as the altcoin looks to build a base at $1.4 amid the recent recovery in the crypto market.  XRP Eyes Rally Above $10 As Price Looks To Mirror Past Gains In an X post, Dark Defender predicted that XRP could record a 1,008% gain, rallying to as high as $18. This is expected to be similar to the gains that XRP recorded in the 2021 bull…

🚨 ALERTE BITCOIN ! IRAN – USA : REPRISE DU CONFLIT ?

▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io Les rumeurs de reprise du conflit Iran – États-Unis s’intensifient, dollar et pétrole remontent — mais les indices américains et Bitcoin absorbent le stress sans céder. Un marché qui tient face à un risque géopolitique majeur, c’est souvent le signe d’une direction haussière sous-jacente solide. Les 80 000 $ sur Bitcoin et les 2 500 $ sur Ethereum restent l’objectif de ce deuxième trimestre. On analyse ce que la résistance des marchés face aux rumeurs de conflit révèle sur la structure actuelle,…

Core Scientific Buys Polaris Bitcoin Mine for $421M Oklahoma AI Power Expansion

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This article first appeared in The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. The Energy Mag (formerly The Miner Mag) provides news, data, and insights on the energy–compute–markets nexus. The company said Tuesday it plans to scale its Muskogee, Oklahoma campus to roughly 1.5 gigawatts of gross power, or about 1 gigawatt of leasable capacity, by combining acquisitions, grid expansion and behind-the-meter generation strategies. At the center of the expansion is Core Scientific’s agreement to acquire Polaris DS LLC, a bitcoin mining operator that controls 440 megawatts of…

Crypto Burglar Who Broke into Homes to Steal Hardware Wallets Gets 78 Months

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A 20-year-old California man has been sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison for his role in a crypto theft ring that defrauded victims of more than $250 million. Marlon Ferro, of Santa Ana, known online as “GothFerrari,” was sentenced to 78 months in prison alongside three years of supervised release and $2.5 million in restitution, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said Wednesday. Ferro pleaded guilty in October 2025 to participating in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy. “Marlon Ferro served…

Bollinger Bands Creator Diverges With Traders as Bitcoin Breakout Begins

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Bitcoin (BTC) is attempting its first Bollinger Bands breakout in months, while creator John Bollinger is more bullish than some traders. Key points: Bitcoin faces stiff resistance as it attempts daily candle closes above the upper Bollinger Band. Volatility comes on cue after the Bands’ tightest-ever conditions last month. Creator John Bollinger takes advantage of positive trading signals as part of his investment program. Responses mixed as Bitcoin tests Bollinger Bands ceiling Data from TradingView confirms that on Wednesday, BTC/USD saw its second daily close above the upper Bollinger Band…

Crypto News From Consensus Miami: Arthur Hayes Latest Take on Bitcoin and Crypto Market

Arthur Hayes arrived at Consensus Miami 2026 with another crypto news headline: $125,000. The BitMEX co-founder and Maelstrom CIO used his keynote slot at CoinDesk’s flagship crypto news conference, running May 5–7 in Miami, to lay out a liquidity-driven bull thesis for Bitcoin that cut against the cautious tone dominating broader markets this year. Bitcoin has been trading in a consolidation range around the $70,000–$80,000 band, with analysts watching those levels as the immediate battleground between bulls and bears. Hayes argued that Q1 2026 amounted to what he called a…