Bitcoins

The US Treasury has formally brought digital assets into the financial sector’s preparations for quantum computing threats. On Aug. 24, the US Treasury launched its Quantum-Readiness Task Force, with one of three workstreams dedicated …

In brief Bitcoin jumped as much as 8.7% Wednesday to an intraday high of $69,749, its steepest one-day move since March 4 and its highest price since June 1. On Myriad, prediction odds flipped …

Bitcoin miner MARA swung to a net loss of $611.3 million from a year-earlier profit in the second quarter of 2026, driven primarily by a change in the value of its Bitcoin holdings, despite …

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, a founding scientist of the privacy coin Zcash, challenged Bitcoin’s 21 million cap this week. He argued that lost private keys will steadily shrink the usable supply and proposed a …

Fidelity Digital Assets has pushed back against concerns that Bitcoin’s long-term security will deteriorate as mining rewards decline, arguing in a new research report that the network’s economic incentives remain sufficient to secure the …

A widely watched indicator has flipped to “altcoin season,” for the opposite reason the label suggests. Glassnode’s Altcoin Cycle Signal, which reads above 50 when alternative coins, or alts, outperform bitcoin, has climbed to …