Claude AI has helped Bitcoin holder recover 5 BTC from an 11-year locked wallet by finding an old encrypted backup file and guiding decryption.
BTC's slide toward $76,000 pushed bitcoin sentiment into bearish territory, according to Santiment. The firm said retail pessimism hit its weakest level in nearly four weeks, a setup it views as supportive for a potential rebound. Bitcoin Sentiment Ratio Turns Bearish After BTC Slide Bitcoin traded near $77,000 around 5:36 p.m.
Governance, not code, is why Bitcoin faces a tougher quantum computing challenge than Ethereum.
After approaching $40 per petahash per second (PH/s) in hashprice terms, bitcoin's latest price decline triggered a pullback in hashprice, reducing mining profitability since May 14. Conditions tightened further the next day when the difficulty adjustment arrived, pushing mining difficulty 3.12% higher than the previous epoch.
SpaceX Bitcoin holdings stand at $637m, on-chain data shows, making it the fourth largest known corporate holder.
Citi warned Monday that Bitcoin faces an outsized quantum computing threat, with up to 6.9 million BTC already vulnerable.
Both Bitcoin and Ethereum face a quantum computing threat, but Citi says the gap between them comes down to governance, not just technology.
Bitcoin price breaking below $78,000 turned one of crypto's strongest regulatory weeks into a severe test of market structure, exposing how quickly macroeconomic pressure and crowded positioning can overpower a favorable policy catalyst.
U.S. officials signal an imminent Strategic Bitcoin Reserve update as agencies finalize legal and security infrastructure.
There are few economic bottlenecks more consequential than the Strait of Hormuz. Roughly a fifth of global oil consumption passes through the narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, making it less a regional shipping lane than a structural pillar of the global economy.
The lawsuit alleges that the Bitcoin-centric financial services firm took advantage of insider information to escape major losses.
The litigation arm of the Prime Trust bankruptcy estate filed a 94-page adversary complaint against Swan Bitcoin on May 15, 2026, seeking to recover approximately $970 million in assets the company allegedly withdrew before Prime's collapse.