Isaiah McCall

Isaiah McCall is a New York and UK Correspondent for IBT and BizClik Magazine. He started at USAToday in 2019 and now has a Medium blog following of 40k+ and millions of views. He also runs ultramarathons and does bachata. Follow him at @AfroReporter

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"Bitcoin Will Be Higher": The Editor Who Broke FTX Says We're Still in the First Inning

Ben Schiller has been in journalism since 1997 and in crypto for a decade, which makes him one of the few people who watched the dot-com bubble inflate and pop before he ever heard the word blockchain.

Jul 14, 2026

Brazil Crypto Crackdown: Police Raid 87 Shell Companies in Operation Veil of Maya

They called it Operation Veil of Maya, after the philosophical idea of an illusion that hides reality. The cops were not being subtle.

Jul 11, 2026

Coinbase's Top Lawyer Is Leaving Right Before the Biggest Vote in Crypto History

Paul Grewal spent six years as Coinbase's chief legal officer, took the company public, and beat the SEC in a case that could have gutted the entire US crypto industry.

Jul 11, 2026

Cardano Whales Are Buying: Is This ADA's Bottom or a Trap?

ADA price added 14,783 new non-empty wallets in the days after its June 23 bottom, per on-chain firm Santiment, then ripped roughly 24% in a week, touching $0.199 on July 5 before settling near $0.181.

Jul 09, 2026

XRP Detonated BTC and ETH on Korea's Biggest Exchange

XRP Just Crushed Bitcoin and Ethereum in Korea, Here's Why

XRP just reclaimed the throne on Upbit, South Korea's largest crypto exchange, posting $52.33 million in 24-hour trading volume and blowing past Bitcoin at $42.14 million and Ethereum at $24.30 million on the same venue.

Jul 08, 2026

Solana Just Gave 1.2 Million Stakers the Power to Overrule

Solana Price Breaks $80, Gives 1.2 Million Stakers the Power to Overrule Their Validators

For its entire history, Solana's biggest decisions were made the way a startup makes them: by the founders, the core devs, and the Foundation. That changed on July 1.

Jul 03, 2026

Melania Trump, Barron Trump and Donald Trump

Trump's Family Made $2.3 Billion in Crypto and Investors Lost Almost Exactly That

A Reuters investigation found that President Trump's family made roughly $2.3 billion from four crypto ventures while putting up little to no capital.

Jul 03, 2026

Golden Ripple XRP coins on laptop, symbolizing cryptocurrency trends and

XRP at $1.08: Ripple Keeps Winning, So Why Won't the Price Move?

XRP limped out of June down roughly 20%, starting the month near $1.30 and closing around $1.04, its weakest level since late 2024.

Jul 02, 2026

Ripple Moves $16 Trillion a Year. Is XRP Price Really Going 100x?

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse dropped a figure on CNBC that XRP holders have been screenshotting all week

Jun 30, 2026

Michael Saylor Signals Another Bitcoin Buy. The Same Week Strategy Filed to Sell $1.25 Billion

On Sunday, June 29, Michael Saylor posted Strategy's Bitcoin acquisition tracker to X with the caption "We're gonna need more charts,"

Jun 30, 2026

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Just Had Its Worst Month Ever. Here's What's Next

BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust, the product that turned "institutional demand" into a tidy bull-market slogan, just ran the slogan in reverse.

Jun 29, 2026

Trump Media's YALL ETF Relaunches: Inside the America First Investing

Trump Media's YALL ETF Launches: Inside the America First Investing Push

Steve Neamtz wants you to buy America, literally. As CEO of Yorkville America Equities, he's assembling a lineup of "America First" ETFs

Jun 25, 2026

Elon Musk's Grok AI Says Ethereum Hits $6,000 This Year. The Chart Says Prove It.

Elon Musk's Grok AI ran the numbers on Ethereum and came back with a target that treats years of brutal underperformance as the setup, not the warning.

Jun 24, 2026

Ripple Beat Europe's Crypto Deadline by 8 Days. Most Firms Won't Make It.

On June 23, Ripple, the parent company of XRP, announced a preliminary CASP "Green Light Letter" from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSSF, under MiCA.

Jun 23, 2026

Algorand Wants to Be Quantum-Proof by 2027, Three Years Before the NSA

Somewhere before 2030, a quantum computer powerful enough to crack the cryptography behind every major blockchain may switch on.

Jun 19, 2026

BlackRock Just Dumped 1,000 Bitcoin Into the Worst Possible Weekend

BlackRock, the single largest holder of Bitcoin on the planet through its IBIT ETF, offloaded more than 1,000 BTC in one Thursday session.

Jun 19, 2026

Ethereum Price Prediction: ETH is Frozen at $1,770 Waiting on Fed Chair Kevin Warsh

Ethereum is trading near $1,770, down about 1% on the day, and it's going almost nowhere on purpose. The whole market is holding its breath for June 17, the first FOMC decision led by new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh.

Jun 17, 2026

Cardano Named Its Biggest Upgrade After a Man Who Died

Cardano's Van Rossem Hard Fork Hits Decision Day. Here's What's at Stake

On June 15, Cardano reached the most consequential single day of its Voltaire governance era, with the Van Rossem hard fork hitting its mainnet go/no-go decision point.

Jun 17, 2026

An AI Screenshot Almost Convinced Crypto the White House UFC Card Was Rigged

Hours before UFC 250 fighters walked onto the White House South Lawn, the internet had already decided the whole thing was fixed.

Jun 15, 2026

Psilocybin Therapy and the Mental Health Revolution

Psychedelics for Mental Health: Inside the 2026 Boom

Nushama, a riff on the Hebrew word for soul, treats mostly treatment-resistant patients, many of them heavily medicated and numbed out, using IV ketamine and Spravato.

Jun 15, 2026

BlackRock Built a Bitcoin ETF That Cuts You a Monthly Check

The structure is a covered call wrapped around BTC. BITA holds spot Bitcoin, shares of BlackRock's $47 billion IBIT, and cash, and each month it sells call options against those IBIT shares to collect premiums.

Jun 11, 2026

ADA just hit a 5-year low, down 90% from its

Is Cardano Dying? ADA Price Crashes to New Low and Founder Abandons Project

Cardano crashed to $0.16, its lowest since 2020, down 42% in a month. A partition bug, collapsing TVL, and whales quietly buying the blood. Is ADA done?

Jun 11, 2026

Crypto Feels Dead. This Bank Just Spent Millions Betting It Isn't.

Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer on the Standard Chartered deal, why stablecoins are just "tokenized money," and how crypto disappears into everyday banking.

Jun 10, 2026

XRP Price Update: Ripple Reveals New Update and Validators Have Until June 15 to Keep Up

The XRP Ledger is about to retire a name it has carried since 2013. Version 3.2.0, targeted for June 15, renames the core server software from rippled to xrpld

Jun 09, 2026

The Next Crypto Hack Will Break Six Chains at Once

If You Want to Secure Your Crypto in 2026, Do This

Security does not improve because attacks stop. Attacks never stop. It improves when they get harder to repeat.

Jun 08, 2026

Michael Saylor Triggered the Crash, Then Bought $101M BTC

Bitcoin News Today: Michael Saylor Triggered the Crash, Then Bought $101 Million BTC

On June 5, Bitcoin printed $59,100, its lowest level of 2026, and in a single 24-hour window 351,233 traders were liquidated.

Jun 08, 2026

Ketamine, Peptides, and the Truth About Mental Health

Mental Health And Resilience, The New Secrets in Medicine

In a conversation with International Business Times' Visionary Voices series, Nikita Tsimmer, co-founder of Fountain Health, and Dr. Doreen Zarfati, the company's chief medical officer.

Jun 05, 2026

Arthur Hayes Dumped HYPE and NEAR Four Days After Shilling a $150 Target

On June 4, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes announced he had sold his entire HYPE and NEAR positions. The size of the trade isn't the story. The timing is.

Jun 04, 2026

Bitcoin News Today: BTC Price Implodes From Iran War, Gives Back Every Penny off Rally

Bitcoin dropped 5.5% to $61,322 in early Singapore trading on June 4, its weakest level since February 6, before clawing back to around $64,200 by the afternoon.