Marvie Basilan

The Israel-Hamas war has entered its 178th day, and Israel achieved major milestones throughout the day as the Israeli police said it arrested Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh's sister in southern Israel and multiple reports said an Israeli airstrike in Syria killed a top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander.

A Bitcoin holdings tracker shows that Tesla has more Bitcoins than Coinbase, Hut 8 Mining, and a host of other companies that actually offer Bitcoin products or services.

Morgan Creek Capital's Mark Yusko believes Bitcoin can reach $150,000 at the end of the year, as he expects the halving event to drive more interest in the digital currency.

A wallet associated with the exploit of Prisma Finance said over the weekend that the protocol's developers should reveal themselves, be grateful for the supposed whitehat efforts, and make a public apology for making both the hacker and users wait.

CertiK said in its March 2024 report that the confirmed crypto-related exploits during the month resulted in over $52 million in losses, further highlighting the evolving ways through which threat actors leverage vulnerabilities in the cryptocurrency sector.

Roman Storm, the co-founder of embattled Tornado Cash, has filed to dismiss an indictment against him that alleged the open-source crypto tool was used to launder over $1 billion in "criminal proceeds" for North Korean hacking group Lazarus.

Sam Bankman-Fried has been slapped with a 25-year sentence for defrauding numerous individuals who believed in his fake crypto empire, but many are unhappy with the "short" sentence. Others are demanding that all the donations he made to political campaigns be returned.

The U.S. and UK are looking into over $20 billion of USDT that was facilitated through Garantex, a sanctioned Russia-based crypto exchange, a new report revealed.

The shares of MicroStrategy, which has been enjoying the fruits of its Bitcoin strategy, plummeted Thursday after a short seller said the stock's value may be overinflated.

El Salvador's Cubo+ Bitcoin learning program has just bagged a Bitcoin OG in Luke Dashjr: entrepreneur, longtime BTC Core developer, and Bitcoin network decentralization champion.

Prisma Finance has been exploited for $11.6 million, blockchain security firms revealed Thursday. The protocol confirmed the exploit but has yet to provide further details about the smart contract hack.

It's Day 174 of the war in Gaza – a U.S. State Department foreign affairs officer has publicly resigned, saying she made the decision amid rising opposition from within the federal government over the White House's Israel policy.

The SEC's approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs in January was widely welcomed by the crypto community and in Asia, interest by some of the region's rising economies may trigger more openness to an emerging, yet significantly popular financial sector.

AnimeChain is expected to bring Web 3 technology closer to anime fans worldwide and improve their experience through various offerings, including games and NFTs.

Michael Saylor leads the world's largest known corporate holder of Bitcoin, and yet he believes his company won't be around when Bitcoin survives a thousand years.

In the sea of antitrust accusations against Apple, the big tech titan has won one, as a judge dismissed a consumer lawsuit alleging the company was blocking payment apps from facilitating crypto payments.

The war in Gaza has entered Day 173 – eyes are on the greater Middle East amid heated fire exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel, and protests in Jordan have taken a violent turn. In the U.S., views have changed regarding Israel's military campaign in Gaza, a new Gallup poll revealed.

Bitcoin is back on an uptrend after last week's lows of $62,000 – but how will it fare before, during, and after the much-anticipated halving event?

The U.S. DOJ has charged KuCoin and two of its founders of violating anti-money laundering laws, further noting that the leading crypto exchange facilitated billions in "suspicious" flows on the platform.

El Salvador isn't allowing a week-long Bitcoin slump to discourage its Bitcoin treasury goals as it did, as proven by on-chain data, purchase one BTC daily in the past 11 days.

Worldcoin has once again been questioned for its biometric information scanning operations as Portugal ordered the project to stop processing the Portuguese people's data for 90 days.

A Bitcoin whale, which Arkham Intelligence described as the world's fifth-richest holder of the cryptocurrency, recently moved nearly the entire balance of its wallet to three new addresses – during BTC's weekend downtrend.

On Day 172 of the Israel-Hamas war, the Palestinian terror group rejected a ceasefire proposal that Israel said was a "sad testament" to the "damage" brought upon by the UNSC resolution that the U.S. did not veto. In Syria, an IRGC military advisor was allegedly assassinated in a U.S. airstrike in Syria Monday night.

The war in Gaza is now on its 171st day, and tensions between the U.S. and Israel seem to be reaching a fever pitch as Israel's top western ally on Monday abstained from a UNSC resolution vote that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the Muslim month of Ramadan, marking a stark shift from its previous vetoing of earlier texts.

El Salvador has been a crypto-friendly country for years now, but it turns out its Bitcoin holdings remain far from the treasure troves of the U.S. or its rival, China.

Russia's central bank and finance ministry have been at odds over cryptocurrencies for years, but it appears the parties are gradually showing willingness to meet halfway as the crypto industry rises higher.

All four gunmen in the deadly concert hall attack Friday night in Russia's Crocus City have been taken into custody and were remanded into pre-trial detention through May 22.

Iceland, which has attracted Bitcoin miners for years due to its high-energy environment for mining activities, may abandon crypto mining in the future as it looks to depend less on agricultural imports.

Anwar Ibrahim has boldly called for neutrality in the rivalry between Washington and Beijing, but his impartiality call comes at a critical time in Malaysia's economy – will a small country "struggling to survive in a complex world" emerge unscathed as it walks a tightrope between the world's economic and military superpowers?