Category: Other Crypto News

Brazil Passes Law Allowing Seized Crypto to be Used for Public Security

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Brazil’s public security agencies have a new weapon for fighting organized crime after national legislators approved a measure allowing them to use confiscated cryptocurrency in their efforts. On Wednesday, Brazil’s legislative branch published Law No. 15.358, establishing a legal framework for combating organized crime. The law allows authorities to prohibit transactions on crypto exchanges by treating digital assets as instruments in a crime, and confiscate crypto to be used to fund public security. “For the purposes of forfeiture of assets, any asset that has been used to commit a crime…

MARA Holdings’ Bitcoin Sell-Off: 15,000 BTC Liquidated As Prices Crash Below $69,000

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Bitcoin (BTC) slipped below $69,000 on Thursday, erasing gains seen earlier in the week as MARA Holdings (MARA), the largest crypto mining company in the United States, disclosed a substantial liquidation of its BTC holdings to fund an expansion into artificial intelligence (AI) computing. MARA Shares Climb On Debt-Repurchase Plan In its disclosure covering March 4–25, MARA said it sold 15,133 BTC for roughly $1.1 billion. The sale reduced Marathon’s holdings by roughly 28% from the 53,822 BTC it held at the start of March, according to BitcoinTreasuries.net data. The…

XAUT Futures Volume Rewrites Records On Binance

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A gold-backed crypto token jumped from 453rd place to fifth among the most actively traded perpetual pairs on Binance — all within a matter of weeks. Related Reading XAUT: From Obscurity To The Top 5 Tether’s tokenized gold token, XAUT, recorded a daily perpetual futures trading volume of $6.40 billion on March 23, according to data highlighted by CryptoQuant analyst JA Maartunn. That figure dwarfs where it stood in December 2025, when daily volume barely crossed $1.50 million. The climb was fast and unrelenting. By January 2026, daily volume had moved…

Coinbase Launches Crypto Mortgage Product Tied to Fannie Mae

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Crypto exchange Coinbase Global has launched a mortgage structure with Better Home & Finance that lets qualified borrowers pledge digital assets held in Coinbase accounts to fund down payments on standard conforming mortgages designed in accordance with Fannie Mae guidelines. According to Coinbase, the structure enables borrowers to pledge digital assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) or USDC (USDC) as collateral for a separate loan used to fund the down payment, while the primary mortgage remains a standard, Fannie Mae–backed loan. Better will originate and service the mortgages. When rolled out,…

The Bitcoin Price Bottom Is Close, But There Is Still A Crash Below $60,000 Left

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Bitcoin may be moving closer to the kind of long-term support zone that has characterized major bottoms in past cycles, but one technical analyst believes the market has not reached that moment just yet.  An interesting technical analysis points to Bitcoin’s weekly moving averages as the clearest guide for where this decline could finally exhaust itself. That setup shows that the current price action may be narrowing to form a bottom, even though one more leg lower below $60,000 could still come first. Bitcoin Has Already Entered A Late-Stage Correction…

Bitcoin Shows No ‘Outright Stress’ at $70,000, Analysis Says

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Bitcoin lost its grip on $70,000 amid inflation and recession talk as analysis suggested that BTC price action lacked “outright stress.” Bitcoin (BTC) daily losses approached 3% at Thursday’s Wall Street open as markets stayed on edge over fresh Iran tensions. Key points: Bitcoin slips from $70,000 as markets continue to observe Iran developments. Inflation and recession worries grow louder with no clear end to the conflict in sight. Bitcoin analysis avoids an outright bearish appraisal of BTC price action. Bitcoin wobbles as US inflation fears increase Data from TradingView…

MARA Sells $1.1B in Bitcoin to Cut Debt by 30%

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MARA Holdings sold more than $1 billion of Bitcoin in March to repurchase convertible debt at a discount, using its BTC holdings to reduce leverage, the company said Thursday. In a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the largest listed US Bitcoin miner said it would buy back about $1 billion of zero-coupon convertible notes due 2030 and 2031 for roughly $913 million in cash, capturing about $88 million in savings, or close to a 9% discount to par.  The company said it sold 15,133 Bitcoin (BTC) for around $1.1…

Dogecoin Could Offer Best Risk-Reward Since October 2023

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A move into the $0.078 area could present Dogecoin’s most attractive risk-reward setup in more than two years. Will Taylor, who posts on X as @Cryptoinsightuk, said on March 25 that he is watching for exactly that kind of dip. “If DOGE heads to $0.078 I am buying a decent size. Best R/R we’ve seen since October 2023 imo,” he wrote alongside charts showing Dogecoin pressing into the lower end of a multiyear structure. Dogecoin At $0.078 Would Be A Major Opportunity The setup Taylor is describing is conditional rather…

Agent wastes 14 hours of scammers’ time, LLMs ‘poisoned’ by Iran: AI Eye

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A Redditor claims he prompted his AI agent to become a “world class time waster,” and managed to tie up a scammer for 14 hours who was trying to extract a $500 gift card. The Redditor claims the agent spent four hours stringing the scammer along, pretending to drive to Target, providing dumb status updates like “I’m at the red light now” and “I forgot my purse, going back home. Wait, this isn’t my house.” It even convinced the man to perform a CAPTCHA test for it, claiming its “eyes…

How a Seed Phrase Leak Led to a $176M Bitcoin Theft Case

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Code is not the weakest point in crypto thefts In crypto, security is usually regarded as a technical issue. You are asked to safeguard your private keys, rely on a hardware wallet and steer clear of phishing links. Yet a prominent case in the UK reveals that the real vulnerability in this case might have had nothing to do with code. The UK High Court is currently reviewing a case involving the alleged theft of 2,323 Bitcoin (BTC), worth about $176 million. The theft did not stem from hacking or…