The Federal Aviation Administration briefly halted flights to several Florida airports on Thursday night after a SpaceX Starship testing failure. The incident marks the second time this year that SpaceX experienced a mishap during a flight test of Starship resulting in debris raining down and commercial flights disrupted. Affected airports included Miami International Airport, which … Read more
Bitcoin is not a company, nor is it a brand. It has no official spokesperson. Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator, remains an enigma, and while prominent figures like Michael Saylor and Jack Dorsey champion the cause, Bitcoin is, at its core, a decentralized movement. But more well-known faces backing Bitcoin may help bring it into … Read more
Update, March 8, 10:30 am UTC: This article has been updated to include new information confirming that the 1inch hacker returned most of the stolen funds after negotiations. Decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch successfully recovered most of the $5 million stolen in a recent exploit after negotiating a bug bounty agreement with the attacker, the platform … Read more
Update (March 7, 10:00 am UTC): This article has been updated to reflect up-to-date information on the confirmed attendees of the first White House Crypto Summit and recent related events. As US President Donald Trump prepares to host the first White House Crypto Summit on March 7, more than 20 key industry leaders have been … Read more
President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile, marking the first major step toward integrating Bitcoin into the US financial system. Trump’s executive order outlined a plan to initially use cryptocurrency forfeited in government criminal cases, Cointelegraph reported on March 7. As one of the crypto … Read more
Enthusiasm for memecoins appears to have cooled after a series of bad launches and rug pulls killing off investor interest, according to CoinGecko founder Bobby Ong. Metrics for token launchpad Pump.fun immediately plummeted following the Libra (LIBRA) rug, Ong said in a March 6 report, with newly created tokens and daily graduated tokens on the … Read more
Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi speaks during the 2023 Munich Security Conference in Germany on February 18, 2023. Johannes Simon | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi struck a more conciliatory tone on U.S. relations during a high-profile press conference on Friday, in contrast … Read more
Social sentiment over Ether has hit a new low for the year as the price underperforms that of other cryptocurrencies; however, this could signal that it’s ready to bounce back, according to Santiment. Santiment’s social sentiment tracker found that traders’ discussions about Ether on various social media channels like X, Reddit and Telegram are more … Read more
Social sentiment over Ether has hit a new low for the year as the price underperforms that of other cryptocurrencies; however, this could signal that it’s ready to bounce back, according to Santiment. Santiment’s social sentiment tracker found that traders’ discussions about Ether on various social media channels like X, Reddit and Telegram are more … Read more
Bitcoin plunged approximately 6% after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Market participants had hoped the government would announce a plan to buy more Bitcoin (BTC), but Trump’s crypto tsar David Sacks said on X it would only use the Bitcoin it already holds from criminal cases … Read more