$200M+ Bet on Conflict Outcomes in 2026 – Bitcoin News
Key Takeaways: Polymarket traders have placed $115M on U.S. forces entering Iran by Dec. 31, giving it an 90% probability. Kalshi’s Strait of Hormuz closure market holds $7.3M in volume, reflecting deep concern over a 7-day blockade. Mojtaba Khamenei holds…
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Warns Against AI Agent Security Risks, Shares His Private LLM Stack – Bitcoin News
Key Takeaways: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin abandoned cloud AI in April 2026, running Qwen3.5:35B locally on an Nvidia 5090 laptop at 90 tokens per second. Buterin found that roughly 15% of AI agent skills contain malicious instructions, citing data from…
Hormuz Blockade Sends Japan’s 10-Year Bond Yield to 25-Year High – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Key Takeaways: Japan’s 10-year bond yield hit 2.39% by early April 2026, its highest level since 1999, as Iran’s Hormuz blockade fueled inflation fears. The Bank of Japan faces a rate hike decision at its April 27-28 meeting, with markets…
President Trump’s ‘Stone Age’ Statement, Dormant Bitcoin Whales Waking up, and More – Week in Review – The Weekly Bitcoin News
Key Takeaways: Trump’s Iran remarks helped spark a $440M wipeout as Bitcoin fell below $66,000. Coinbase’s OCC charter nod and BlackRock’s BITA filing deepen 2026 institutional crypto rails. Metaplanet reached 40,177 BTC in Q1 2026 as 500 BTC moved from…
Bitcoin Consolidates Under Pressure at $67K With Bearish Undertone Intact – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News
Key Takeaways: Bitcoin held steady around $67K on April 4, 2026; range-bound trade signals weak momentum ahead. Market data shows RSI 42, MACD −894; pressure limits upside near $69,000. The day’s session logged $45.2B volume; focus shifts to $65,900 support…
July 1 Is Not the Deadline. For Most Service Providers, It Already Passed – Legal Bitcoin News
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…
Why Post-Quantum Upgrades Can’t Save Your Past Privacy – Featured Bitcoin News
Reframing the 10-Year Migration Window The recently released Google whitepaper on the quantum threat has ignited intense debate over the technical justifications that led authors to aggressively pull forward the migration deadline to 2029. While a few critics have dismissed…
What Is Hermes Agent? Nous Research’s Self-Improving AI Explained – Featured Bitcoin News
Nous Research Hermes Agent: Open-Source AI With Built-In Self-Improvement Loop The MIT-licensed framework launched in February 2026 and collected 22,000 GitHub stars and 242 contributors within weeks. That pace reflects a specific appetite in the open-source AI community. People want…
SEC Warns Fake Officials Exploit Trust With Fraud Tactics Targeting Investors – Featured Bitcoin News
SEC Warns Investors About Impersonation Scams, Fraud Tactics The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shared on social media platform X on April 2 an investor alert warning about impersonation scams. The agency cautioned that fraudsters are posing as SEC…
Coinbase Clarifies ‘We Are Not Becoming a Bank’ After Receiving Conditional OCC Nod That Hints at Bigger Moves – Exchanges Bitcoin News
Coinbase OCC Trust Charter Signals Federal Crypto Oversight Shift Crypto exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) said it is not becoming a bank after announcing on April 2 that it received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency…
