Crypto markets weathered several macro jolts; the community blamed Jane Street for bitcoin’s slide; the Ethereum team sketched seven upgrades through 2029; and other events of the week. A skittish market Bitcoin began Monday with a sharp overnight drop, plunging from $67,500 to $64,000. The slump was linked to a run of macroeconomic shocks. Among […]
Prediction platform Kalshi canceled a market related to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. CEO Tarek Mansour pledged to reimburse users, but many complained of losses. Notice of a trading halt on a Kalshi market. Source: Kalshi. The market concerned the “removal” of politicians, but trading was frozen after reports of Khamenei’s death appeared. According to […]
In an experimental move, Slovak programmer Martin Habovštiak embedded a 66 KB image into the Bitcoin blockchain, challenging the proposed anti-spam rules of BIP-110. Oooops, my contiguous image file got misinterpreted as a transaction WITHOUT OP_RETURN by the Bitcoin network and now it’s forever contiguously stored in the chain!https://t.co/R2QOUqxABo (BTW, I only logged in to […]
Tether, the issuer of USDT, has collaborated with law enforcement agencies to freeze assets linked to illegal activities, amounting to approximately $4.2 billion. The firm announced this following recognition from the U.S. Department of Justice for its assistance in dismantling a “pig butchering” scam. During an operation in North Carolina, authorities seized nearly $61 million […]
President Donald Trump instructed all federal agencies to completely discontinue the use of AI startup Anthropic’s technologies within six months. “We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and we won’t do business with them anymore!” declared the head of state. In July 2025, the US Department of Defense signed contracts worth up to $200 […]
Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of Mt.Gox, has proposed a hard fork to unlock approximately 79,956 BTC stolen from the exchange in 2011. Can we get some bitcoins back to MtGox creditors?https://t.co/Z7rymy1vuS — Mark Karpelès (@MagicalTux) February 27, 2026 The coins, currently valued at around $5 billion, have remained at the hacker’s address for 15 […]
On the last day of February, ForkLog magazine has compiled its traditional calendar of important events for the coming month. March 2 — Completion of OM token migration to the Mantra mainnet; March 11 — Release of the US Consumer Price Index and inflation data; March 16 — Anniversary of the Solana mainnet launch; March […]
South Korea’s National Tax Service inadvertently published the seed phrases of three cryptocurrency wallets, resulting in the theft of 4 million PRTG tokens valued at approximately $4.8 million, according to local media reports. The agency released an official press statement featuring images of confiscated Ledger hardware devices used for storing digital assets, along with their […]
The end of Bitcoin’s bearish trend is most likely in the fourth quarter of 2026, with a bullish momentum returning in the first half of 2027, according to analyst Willy Woo. This bearish sell down by investors seems to have exhausted, which gives price a repreive to consolidate sideways for maybe a month, even a […]
Payment company PayPal, infrastructure provider MoonPay, and fintech platform M0 have announced the PYUSDx product. This will enable developers to issue their own stablecoins based on PayPal USD (PYUSD) for specific ecosystems and applications. The platform’s release is scheduled for next month. PYUSDx is a tokenization framework that operates independently from the original PYUSD. Tokens […]