Bitcoin’s mining difficulty fell 5% on July 11, dropping to 127.17 trillion in the network’s 14th adjustment of 2026 and pulling the metric closer to its low for the year. The adjustment landed at block height 957600. Difficulty moved from 133.87 trillion to 127.17 trillion, a decline of roughly 6.70 trillion. The change took effect

Bitcoin traded a hair above $64,000 on July 12 at 11:30 a.m. EDT, as President Donald Trump declared a fragile ceasefire with Iran finished, adding a new layer of uncertainty to a market still climbing out of one of its worst months on record. Trump Says the Ceasefire Is Over Trump posted on Truth Social

Patrick Shyu, the former Meta and Google engineer known online as Techlead, warns that quantum computing and decaying miner incentives are two undefused threats hanging over Bitcoin. A Warning Worth Heeding Shyu, who served as a tech lead at Google and later as a staff software engineer at Meta before building a YouTube audience of

Crypto ETF flows weakened on Thursday, July 9, as bitcoin ETFs posted a $95.30 million outflow and ether ETFs snapped a five-day inflow streak with a $52.08 million exit. Solana saw a small redemption, while HYPE and XRP ETFs recorded no trading activity. Japan Weighs Crypto ETFs as Bitcoin and Ether Funds Return to Outflows

Economist and longtime bitcoin critic Peter Schiff argued this week that BTC’s supposed correlation with gold “was never real,” while its historically tight relationship with the Nasdaq has now broken down. Schiff Continues With His Anti-Bitcoin Narrative The latest salvo was highlighted on X by numerous analysts, summarizing Schiff’s argument that bitcoin cannot claim to

San Francisco, California, July 9, 2026 — Eco, a leading provider of programmable cross-chain stablecoin liquidity, today integrates the TRON network. Through this integration, TRON becomes part of Eco’s unified stablecoin network, allowing users to deposit stablecoins directly into TRON applications in seconds. As one of the world’s leading blockchains for stablecoin payments, TRON processed

Combined trading volume across the two largest prediction-market platforms surged 75% in June to $44.8 billion, a record for the sector, as the FIFA World Cup pulled a wave of event-contract activity onto Kalshi and Polymarket. The month tested whether prediction-market infrastructure could sustain trading around a single global event – and, by the volume

Blockchain infrastructure company AEREDIUM has joined the Lava Tokenization Sandbox, which aims to bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets by testing payment-agnostic settlement infrastructure. Overcoming Settlement Barriers Blockchain infrastructure company AEREDIUM has joined the Lava Tokenization Sandbox, a collaborative initiative led by the Lava Foundation and Bretagne Holding Limited, to test how

Kucoin announced Tuesday it has become the official cryptocurrency exchange partner of UAE Team Emirates – XRG, with the deal making its public debut at the 2026 Tour de France. According to the announcement shared with Bitcoin.com News, the crypto exchange’s branding now appears across the team’s buses, support vehicles, and fleet cars for the

Bitcoin nearly reached $64,000 over the weekend before a sharp Monday morning drop dragged it to an intraday low of $61,246. It quickly rebounded back above $63,500, maintaining a nearly 7% gain for early July. Strategy Sparks Debate With $216 Million BTC Sale Bitcoin continued building on its weekend gains after breaching the $63,000 mark

On Monday, July 6, the DeFi protocol Summer Finance was hit by a sophisticated flash loan and price manipulation attack, resulting in an estimated loss of $6 million. Security Firms Flag Breach Blockchain security firms reported Monday, July 6, a major security breach targeting Summer Finance, a decentralized finance ( DeFi) yield optimization protocol. According

Institutional crypto investors received two sharply different capital allocation signals Monday as Bitmine Immersion Technologies expanded its ethereum treasury while Strategy disclosed a rare bitcoin sale to fund preferred stock dividend payments. Strategy Breaks With Its Bitcoin Accumulation Playbook Earlier in the day, Strategy announced it sold 3,588 BTC for approximately $216 million, marking its

Michael Saylor argues bitcoin’s four-year cycle is losing dominance as the crypto asset becomes embedded in global finance. He says halving-driven narratives are giving way to institutional capital flows that now shape demand and price direction. Why Is Saylor Moving Beyond the Four-Year Bitcoin Cycle? On July 5, Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael

Gold and silver posted their strongest weekly performance in more than a month after a disappointing U.S. jobs report forced traders to rethink Federal Reserve policy. Gold prices climbed from lows near $4,012 per ounce on June 30 to close around $4,175 by July 3, a gain of roughly 2.1%. It marked the metal’s first

Zcash developers are closing in on a July 21 mainnet launch for Ironwood, a network upgrade built to let any node operator verify the coin’s circulating supply on day one. The upgrade traces back to a discovery on May 29. Security researcher Taylor Hornby, working under contract for Shielded Labs, found a soundness flaw inside

Satoshi Nakamoto remains Bitcoin’s most coveted mystery, with the creator’s true identity continuing to captivate researchers, journalists, cryptographers, and enthusiasts more than 17 years after the network’s launch. To explore whether that mystery will ever be solved, several of today’s top artificial intelligence (AI) models used Bayesian scenario trees to estimate the odds that Nakamoto’s

Bitcoin rebounded to a daily high of $62,137, marking a 3% 24-hour gain and establishing a bright start to July after bouncing off a recent low of $57,735. Liquidations Flip the Script on Derivatives On Thursday, bitcoin logged further marginal gains, briefly breaching the $62,000 threshold and widening the gap from a year-to-date low of

Spanish regulator National Securities Market Commission have authorized cryptocurrency platform Venga to operate under the European Union’s new Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. Industry Consolidation Under Tight Standards Spanish regulators have authorized cryptocurrency platform Venga to operate under the European Union’s landmark Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), making it one of fewer than 15 entities in