Category: Bitcoin News

Bitcoin ATM scams steal $333m from Americans in 2025, FBI says

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Summary FBI data show Bitcoin ATM scams in the U.S. jumped to more than $333m in losses between January and November 2025, up from roughly $250m in 2024.​ Scammers impersonate officials or banks, pressure victims into feeding cash into Bitcoin ATMs, then route funds to crypto wallets that are extremely hard to recover from.​ With over 45,000 Bitcoin ATMs now operating in the U.S., regulators and law enforcement warn that expanding access is creating more openings for fraud and money laundering. Scammers defrauded Americans of more than $333 million through…

Bitcoin Derivatives Market Leans Bullish, but Max Pain Looms Below Spot

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Bitcoin’s spot value hovered at $91,219 on Jan. 4, 2025, and the derivatives market appears anything but relaxed. Futures and options positioning across major venues shows traders leaning in, not backing away, with open interest holding near cycle highs and options contracts stacking up around key strike levels. Bitcoin Derivatives Positioning Tightens Ahead of Major […] Original

Some of Bitcoin’s Oldest Wallets Drove Dormant Spending Patterns in 2025

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Dormant bitcoin addresses collectively moved 123,852.58 BTC in 2025—now worth more than $11 billion—while over 1,000 long-idle wallets stirred back to life during the year. Figures from Btcparser indicate that this activity clustered heavily around wallets created more than ten years ago, with a clear tilt toward bitcoin’s earliest adoption era. ‘Sleeping Bitcoin’ Addresses Moved […] Original

Blackrock Ends 2025 With 771K Bitcoin as CEO Larry Fink Eyes $700K BTC

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Blackrock is cementing bitcoin’s institutional ascent as its spot ETF amasses roughly 771K BTC, while CEO Larry Fink outlines a path where global adoption could drive bitcoin toward $700,000. Blackrock’s 771K Bitcoin Position Grows: Larry Fink Maps $700K Scenario Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, closed the year with a dominant institutional bitcoin position. Holdings […] Original

The governance problem Bitcoin has never solved

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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. When Bitcoin (BTC) first entered the world, it did so with an air of finality, as if a long-standing intellectual riddle had been resolved. Here, at last, was a monetary system that appeared capable of functioning without appeals to trust or authority. The ledger could be verified by anyone. The rules were fixed. The machinery of issuance and settlement operated without regard for borders, institutions, or human…

Bitcoin at 17: The Network That Refused to Go Offline — or Go Away

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Seventeen years after Satoshi Nakamoto mined Bitcoin’s genesis block, the once-obscure experiment has grown into a global financial force that has reshaped markets, challenged policymakers, and captured the world’s attention in ways few could have imagined on Jan. 3, 2009. Bitcoin’s 17th Anniversary: A Timeline of Price, Power, and Persistence Bitcoin was born quietly on […] Original

NFT sales jump 37% as Bitcoin BRC-20 takes the lead

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According to CryptoSlam data, NFT sales volume has skyrocketed by 37.41% to $88.29 million, up from last week’s $65.58 million. Summary NFT sales jumped 37% to $88.3M with buyers and sellers rising sharply. $X@AI BRC-20 NFTs led the market with a $17.1M record-breaking sale. Bitcoin overtook Ethereum as the top NFT chain by weekly sales volume. Market participation has continued its strong expansion, with NFT buyers climbing by 22.90% to 342,044 and sellers rising by 24.17% to 242,004. NFT transactions jumped by 10.54% to 937,495. $X@AI BRC-20 NFTs jump with…