Crypto

Source: Coin Tegraph 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…

Source: Coin Tegraph US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) authorities may have mistakenly seized thousands of Bitcoin miners under the impression that they were illegally imported radio frequency devices. Thousands of Chinese-made Bitcoin (BTC) miners had reportedly been seized at US ports of entry since around September and only began being released again as of…

Source: Bitcoinist An X account impersonating Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, John Lee Ka-chiu, launched a fake national cryptocurrency on Solana’s token launchpad Pump.fun. The account promoted the token to its thousands of followers, seemingly aiming to capitalize on the recent Political memecoin frenzy. Hong Kong Gov’t Denies National Cryptocurrency On Thursday, an X account under…

Source: Coin Tegraph Bitcoin has 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…

Source: Coin Tegraph US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve and a digital asset stockpile, says the White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks. “Just a few minutes ago, President Trump signed an Executive Order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve,” Sacks said in a March…

Source: Bitcoinist A meme coin launchpad has suffered a major security breach, with an insider allegedly siphoning off thousands of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. Pond.fun, a platform built on Linea, lost 64.8 Ether in what appears to be an attack from within. The stolen funds, worth around $230,000 at current prices, were funneled through a…

Source: Coin Tegraph Former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, sentenced to 25 years in 2024 for his role in misusing customer funds, gave another interview from prison before his 33rd birthday. Speaking to right-wing political commentator Tucker Carlson on March 5, Bankman-Fried talked about prison life since his sentencing and his thoughts on crypto regulation…

Source: Coin Tegraph Creating a strategic cryptocurrency reserve in the United States could boost Bitcoin’s (BTC) market capitalization by roughly 25%, or approximately $460 billion, according to an analysis by Sygnum Bank shared with Cointelegraph.  US President Donald Trump’s plans for a national crypto stockpile, along with similar proposals across dozens of US states, could…

Source: Coin Tegraph US President Donald Trump could reportedly sign an executive order to create a Bitcoin reserve during the White House Crypto Summit on March 7. Such a reserve would be expected to buy more Bitcoin (BTC), in comparison to the US hanging on to the BTC it already owns through criminal seizures, Bloomberg…

Source: Bitcoinist On-chain data shows the Bitcoin network is continuing to see adoption amid the volatility, except for one investor group that’s seeing a decline. Bitcoin Addresses With 100+ BTC Are Shrinking In Number In a new post on X, the on-chain analytics firm Santiment has talked about how the adoption of Bitcoin has recently…