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Bitcoin Breaks Above $75K, But Bears Refuse To Blink

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Bitcoin has reclaimed and held above the $75,000 region after the latest rebound, but derivatives data shows the recovery lacks broad conviction. Bitcoin In The Middle Of A Credibility Problem Bloomberg claims Bitcoin has a credibility problem right now. Funding rates on perpetual futures have stayed negative for around a month and a half, meaning leveraged traders are still paying to stay short even as spot grinds higher. This divide ranks among the largest this year between spot price action and how derivatives traders are positioned. Bitcoin has climbed about…

Tokenization Doesn’t Fix Illiquid Assets: PBW 2026

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Tokenization does not automatically make hard-to-trade assets liquid, industry executives said at Paris Blockchain Week, pushing back on the idea that putting private credit, real estate or other illiquid products onchain will by itself create active secondary markets. Speaking during a panel moderated by Cointelegraph CEO Yana Prikhodchenko, Oya Celiktemur, Ondo Finance sales director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), said there is still a misconception that tokenizing illiquid assets can make them easier to trade. “I think there’s still this idea that tokenizing something illiquid will somehow…

Sanctioned Exchange Grinex Hit by $13.7M Hack; Blames Foreign Intelligence Services

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Key Takeaways: Grinex halts operations after a state-level hack drains over 1 billion rubles in USDT from user wallets. The 2025 takeover of Garantex solidified Grinex as a primary target for ongoing U.S. sanctions. Law enforcement is reviewing logs from 54 wallets as Grinex seeks to recover 13.74 million USDT in stolen TRX. Allegations of State-Sponsored Interference Grinex, a crypto-ruble exchange serving Russian businesses and individual investors, has suspended operations after a sophisticated cyberattack. The breach resulted in the theft of digital assets valued at approximately $13.74 million (more than…

Bitcoin Derivatives Are The Earliest Signal Of A Quantum Selloff

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Bitcoin’s quantum risk may show up in derivatives markets well before any compromised coins move on-chain, according to FalconX co-head of markets Joshua Lim, who used an X thread on April 16 to map out what he sees as the most tradable signals around a potential “q-day” event. Lim’s core argument is that the market problem is not simply whether Bitcoin can migrate to post-quantum cryptography. It is also whether the network can politically resolve what to do with Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins and other old outputs that may never participate…

Trump says U.S. is “very close to making a deal with Iran”, how will Bitcoin react?

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Bitcoin held steady around $75,000 on Friday as investors digested reports that the U.S.-Iran conflict could end as early as this weekend. Summary Bitcoin price holds near $75K as Trump signals a potential U.S.-Iran deal, easing geopolitical tensions and lifting risk sentiment. Oil prices decline, and fear levels ease, pushing the crypto fear and greed index back to neutral territory. A confirmed deal could trigger a breakout above $76K, opening the path toward $80K and potentially $90K amid short squeeze dynamics. According to reports, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated that…

Public Miners Sell Record Bitcoin as Industry Splits Between Selling and Quality Growth – Mining Bitcoin News

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This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by BlocksBridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute, infrastructure, and data analysis from TheEnergyMag. Subscribe to receive in your inbox once a week. Several major public miners, including MARA, CleanSpark, Riot, Cango, Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ), and Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR), have already sold more than 32,000 BTC in the first quarter of 2026, according to data analyzed by TheEnergyMag. The dataset remains incomplete, as first-quarter earnings reports are still pending. Even so, the figure already exceeds total net…

Your Crypto White Paper Can’t Just Be a Gitbook or PDF – Legal Bitcoin News

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MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by LegalBison’s Co-Founding and Managing Directors: Aaron Glauberman, Viktor Juskin and Sabir Alijev. LegalBison advises crypto and FinTech companies on MiCA licensing, CASP and VASP applications, and regulatory structuring across Europe and beyond. Under MiCA, a white paper is a mandatory legal disclosure instrument. Its closest analogy in traditional finance is a securities prospectus, not a marketing document. The regulation prescribes who must prepare one, in what format, containing what identifiers, subject to what automated validation, and with liability…

Bitcoin Rallies On Fragile Peace Deal Between Israel And Lebanon

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They say journalists never truly clock out. But for Christian, that’s not just a metaphor, it’s a lifestyle. By day, he navigates the ever-shifting tides of the cryptocurrency market, wielding words like a seasoned editor and crafting articles that decipher the jargon for the masses. When the PC goes on hibernate mode, however, his pursuits take a more mechanical (and sometimes philosophical) turn. Christian’s journey with the written word began long before the age of Bitcoin. In the hallowed halls of academia, he honed his craft as a feature writer…

This Indicator Used To Predict Bitcoin Bottoms Is Flashing Below $50,000

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There are many different indicators that analysts have used to predict the Bitcoin bottom in the past, and the Cumulative Value Days Destroyed (CVDD) is one of them. Mostly, these indicators are known for predicting the bottom because when they have appeared in the past, it did not take long until the Bitcoin price reached the lowest level of the cycle. The interesting thing about the CVDD flashing now is how low it is putting the BTC price before it finds a bottom. CVDD Says Bitcoin Price Is Going Lower…

Cryptoquant Data Shows Whale Deposits at Highest Level Since July 2024 Near Bitcoin Key Resistance – Market Updates Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways: Bitcoin is testing Cryptoquant’s Traders’ Realized Price at $76,800, a resistance level that capped the January 2026 rally. Hourly bitcoin exchange inflows hit 11,000 BTC on April 15, 2026, the highest reading since late December 2025. Cryptoquant data shows daily realized profits near $500M, with the $1B threshold signaling a potential local top ahead. Cryptoquant: Bitcoin Exchange Inflows Hit 11K BTC, Highest Since December 2025 The price reached $76,000 earlier this week, approaching what Cryptoquant identifies as the Traders’ Onchain Realized Price at $76,800. That figure represents the…