Self-custody means holding your own crypto keys instead of trusting an exchange. Here is how private keys, seed phrases and cold wallets work, what can go wrong, and how to move your coins off an exchange without losing them.
A hotter than expected US inflation report sent bitcoin to its lowest level since August, near $73,000, as traders moved to price a December Federal Reserve rate hike and more than $700 million in bets were liquidated.
Buying Bitcoin in Dubai and the UAE is legal for individuals. The catch is using a licensed platform. Here is how to pick one, pass the checks, fund in dirhams and keep your coins safe.
Prices crashed again in 2026, and the obituaries came back with them. But adoption, exchange inflows, and developer numbers tell a different story from the one the price does. A look at what the data says about crypto's survival.
Coinbase, Kalshi, Kraken's parent and three trading firms moved on November 9 to defend the CFTC's approval of single-stock perpetual futures, taking the opposite side from Cboe and Citadel Securities in a New York court fight.
The retail trading platform's third-quarter net income fell to $15 million, down 74 percent from a year earlier, as crypto revenue dropped from $3.97 billion to $1.35 billion. The board approved a $250 million share buyback.
The Framingham City Council voted unanimously to ban cryptocurrency ATMs after residents lost about $397,000 to scams that used the machines. It is the latest of more than 20 Massachusetts communities to shut the kiosks out.
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Some traders framed the drop as a healthy final flush that sets up a long term rebound for bitcoin.
Our read: That reading rests on one analyst's chart pattern, not hard data. The actual driver is a likely December Fed rate hike, a real headwind, plus ETF outflows that have run all month. No reversal is confirmed.
Coinbase, Kalshi and their allies say single-stock perpetual futures are security futures that belong under the CFTC's joint oversight with the SEC, not swaps for the SEC alone.
Our read: The firms point to the 2000 securities futures law and the CFTC's November 2 approval. But the claim is contested and unproven in court: the plaintiffs include Cboe and Citadel, and the judge who heard the first motion said the no-expiry contracts look more like security-based swaps. No ruling on the merits has been issued.
eToro frames the quarter as resilient, pointing to record funded accounts, a steady asset base and a $250 million buyback despite a weaker crypto market.
Our read: Funded accounts did grow 18 percent and the buyback is real. But net income fell 74 percent, adjusted EBITDA fell 56 percent, and crypto revenue dropped by about two thirds. The growth is in accounts, not earnings, and October trading fell further.
Banning crypto ATMs will protect residents, especially seniors, from costly scams.
Our read: The losses are real and documented: about $397,000 in Framingham and more than $110 million nationally in 2023, with people over 60 hit hardest. But the bans are local, not statewide, so a machine can move one town over, and they do nothing about the phone scams that drive the fraud. No published data yet shows a ban cutting a town's total losses.
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The honest answer is not 10 minutes. The network releases a fresh batch of coins about every 10 minutes, but what any miner earns depends on their slice of a vast pool of computing power. For a single home machine, a whole coin can take decades.
Bitcoin's digital signatures could one day be cracked by a powerful quantum computer. None exists yet, and the machines that do are thousands of times too small. Here is what is actually at risk, how far the hardware really is, and the fixes already being written.
These companies exist to own bitcoin. They raise cash from shareholders and lenders, buy coins, and report how many they hold per share. Strategy started the model and holds the most by far. It prints value when the share price runs ahead of the bitcoin, and bleeds when it does not.
The retail trading platform's third-quarter net income fell to $15 million, down 74 percent from a year earlier, as crypto revenue dropped from $3.97 billion to $1.35 billion. The board approved a $250 million share buyback.
The rig maker's quarterly sales fell to $14.5 million, down from $150.5 million a year earlier, as demand for its machines dried up. A reported $8 million net profit rested almost entirely on paper gains from the bitcoin it holds, not on selling anything.
Trump Media reported a $409.7 million profit for the third quarter of 2026, but almost all of it was an unrealized gain on the bitcoin it holds. Revenue was just $3.0 million, and with bitcoin now below its September close, the next quarter could swing back to a loss.
A draft proposal would strip durable nonces out of Solana, a feature that lets a signed transaction sit unspent for weeks. Attackers used it to drain at least $270 million from the Drift trading platform in April. Custodians that sign offline would have to rebuild how they move funds.
A blockchain oracle feeds outside prices to smart contracts, and that number is often the real target. How price feeds work, why attackers manipulate them, and what the Mango Markets, KiloEx and Ostium cases show.
Zcash turned on its NU7 upgrade at block 3,543,405, cutting block times to 25 seconds and starting a fee reserve meant to pay for security after 2031. One old privacy pool holding about 12,224 ZEC is now frozen.
A hotter than expected US inflation report sent bitcoin to its lowest level since August, near $73,000, as traders moved to price a December Federal Reserve rate hike and more than $700 million in bets were liquidated.
Bitcoin dropped to $73,477 late on Sunday, its lowest level since August, before recovering above $74,000. More than $1 billion in leveraged crypto bets were wiped out in a day, most of them longs, as a stock-market scare over Nvidia spread to digital assets.
MSCI will publish on November 11 the companies it is cutting from its global indexes under new rules for non-operating firms. Strategy, the largest corporate bitcoin holder, is among those at risk, and JPMorgan put the possible forced selling near $2.8 billion.