Category: Other Crypto News

Bitcoin Rallies After Iran Strikes but Safe Haven Role Unproven

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Before the Iran war broke out, Bitcoin spent months trading sideways while gold rallied to record levels. At the time, gold was seen as the go-to safe haven; inflation concerns remained persistent and geopolitical tensions continued to build, while Bitcoin (BTC) failed to live up to that role. Nearly a month after the US and Israel launched the first strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, that view is being challenged. Bitcoin initially fell to $63,176 on the news of the attacks but has since risen about 12% to $71,012, as…

Nobody knows if quantum secure cryptography will even work

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Why upgrade if PQ signatures are not yet proven? The dirty secret of efforts to upgrade blockchains to post-quantum cryptography is that no one is sure if any of them work. None of the signatures being considered by major blockchains as quantum-resistant upgrades have been 100% proven to work. Until a quantum computer is invented, we won’t know for certain if they can successfully protect against an attack. Some may fall to an attack even before Q Day using existing computer technology. The National Institute of Standards and Technology tested…

Governments Need CBDCs To Improve Financial Inclusion Among Citizens

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Opinion by: Xin Yan, co-founder and CEO of Sign. Financial exclusion remains one of the most persistent challenges for national governments. World Bank data highlights how more than 1.3 billion adults remain unbanked, without access to a financial account. These people rely on cash, creating a ‘cash-digital divide’, which excludes them from the formal economy. To bridge the divide, governments need to promote CBDCs actively. As a trusted, risk-free alternative to physical cash, CBDCs are ideal instruments for the financially excluded demographic. With a seamless entry point to the financial…

XRP Could Be Building A Major Short Squeeze, Analyst Says

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XRP may be setting up for a large upside liquidation event even as price action remains fragile in the short term, according to Cryptoinsightuk analyst Will Taylor, who argued in a March 24 video that leverage positioning, funding data, and broader market structure still point to a higher move later in the cycle. Taylor’s core claim is not that XRP has bottomed cleanly or that downside risk has disappeared. It is that the balance of leverage, sentiment, and liquidity remains skewed in a way that could eventually force price higher,…

Bhutan Moves 519 Bitcoin as Sovereign Wallet Drawdown Continues

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Bhutan moved more Bitcoin from its state-linked wallet on Wednesday, extending a March drawdown in its sovereign holdings. Arkham data showed a Bhutan government-linked wallet transferred about 519.7 BTC, worth roughly $36.7 million, to two wallets on Wednesday. Onchain Lens said one of the destination wallets was linked to trading firm QCP Capital. The move marked the Bhutan-tagged wallet’s third large Bitcoin transfer in March, following the $72 million moved in six separate transactions in the 24 hours leading up to March 18, and the $11.8 million moved on March…

Bitcoin Mirrors The 30% Crash Setup But Order Flow Is Different

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Bitcoin traders are again staring at a chart structure that resembles the setup that preceded the market’s roughly 30% drop from late January into early February. But several order-flow analysts argue the comparison is incomplete, because the underlying spot-book picture looks materially stronger this time. Will The 30% Bitcoin Crash Repeat? That debate picked up on March 24 after analyst Exitpump (@exitpumpBTC) posted a chart comparing the current range with the earlier breakdown zone. The visual similarity is hard to miss: in both cases, BTC traded inside a defined consolidation…

Indian Court Says ‘No Case’ Against CoinDCX Founders

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A magistrate court in Thane, India, has granted bail to CoinDCX co-founders Sumit Surendra Gupta and Niraj Ashok Khandelwal, ruling that no prima facie case was made out against them in a 71 lakh Indian rupees ($75,000) cheating complaint linked to a fake trading platform posing as the Indian crypto exchange.  The court’s common order on March 23 on their bail applications concluded that they were entitled to bail because no case was made out against them, even on an initial look at the available evidence. The founders were taken…

Bitcoin Claws Back $71,000 As US-Iran Truce Talks Shake Markets

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Iran told the International Maritime Organization this week that non-hostile ships could pass through the Strait of Hormuz. That single statement was enough to send Bitcoin back above $70,000 — a level it had been struggling to hold as tensions between Washington and Tehran kept traders on edge. Related Reading A Volatile 48 Hours For Bitcoin The ride up was not smooth. For roughly two days, Bitcoin whipsawed as headlines shifted by the hour. US President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iranian power plants. Then he didn’t. Reports surfaced of…

Ripple Joins Singapore Sandbox to Test RLUSD in Trade Finance

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Financial technology company Ripple said Wednesday it had joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) BLOOM initiative with supply chain finance technology firm Unloq to test programmable cross-border trade settlement using the XRP Ledger and Ripple USD. The pilot will use Unloq’s SC+ smart-contract-driven trade finance infrastructure, which integrates trade obligations, settlement conditions and financing workflow into a single execution layer. The pilot will also utilize Ripple’s XRP Ledger (XRPL) and its stablecoin designed for enterprise use cases, Ripple USD (RLUSD), the announcement states. MAS launched BLOOM, short for Borderless,…

Bitcoin Is Officially In A Bear Market And Is Headed Below $30,000, Analyst Warns

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One thing that has stood out about Bitcoin is how different the recent bull cycle was from other bull cycles. For example, even after the Bitcoin price surged to new all-time highs, the altcoins never followed, and therefore, there was no explosive altcoin season as many expected. Following this deviation, crypto analyst Swallow Academy has purported that the digital asset is likely to keep deviating, and that would mean that it has now entered another bear market cycle. Why Bitcoin Price Is Headed Below $30,000 The chart shared on the…