Author: 行政
Bitcoin’s first difficulty adjustment of 2026 was anything but dramatic. The network nudged the dial down to about 146.4 trillion, a pretty small retreat after the late-2025 grind higher.Graph showing Bitcoin’s mining difficulty from Oct. 14, 2025, to Jan. 14, 2026 (Source: CoinWarz)But small isn’t the same as meaningless in mining, a business where margins are measured in fractions of a fraction and the main input (electricity) can turn from bargain to backbreaker in a week. Difficulty is Bitcoin’s built-in metronome: every two weeks or so, the protocol recalibrates how hard it is to find a block so that blocks…
XRP has become the default trading chip of South Korea, bypassing Bitcoin and Ethereum to dominate the country’s high-velocity retail market.While institutional capital worldwide typically gravitates toward Bitcoin as a store of value, South Korean trading patterns tell a different story.Data from the country’s largest exchanges reveals that when the market heats up, domestic traders consistently prioritize XRP for its liquidity and speed. This preference is a structural anomaly that has defined the local retail playbook for 2025.Dunamu, the operator of the dominant Upbit exchange, listed XRP as the platform’s most-traded asset for the year, ranking it ahead of the…
On Jan. 9, Tennessee’s sports betting regulator sent a set of letters that, at first glance, looked like the kind of paperwork most crypto natives scroll past.The message was blunt: stop offering sports-related event contracts to Tennessee residents, void unsettled positions, and refund customers by Jan. 31.The recipients, Kalshi, Polymarket, and Crypto.com, sit on the border between finance and gambling.A “yes/no” trade on a game outcome can be framed either as a federally regulated derivative or as an unlicensed sportsbook.Within days, the fight moved to federal court.A US district judge in Nashville, Aleta Trauger, issued a temporary restraining order blocking…
Bitcoin miners entered early 2026 in a familiar but increasingly unforgiving setup: network hashrate is slipping from late-2025 highs, difficulty is adjusting on a delay, and power costs remain the hard constraint that decides which fleets stay online and which go dark.The result is a market that can look resilient on the surface, especially when Bitcoin bounces, but remains fragile at the margin, where a single difficulty uptick or a regional power spike can turn “operating” into “curtailing” quickly.Hashrate is cooling after a late-2025 highBitcoin’s network hashrate has cooled from its late-2025 peak pace and has not consistently returned to…
The United States Mint announced this week that it began shipping its first wave of 1776 ~ 2026 semiquincentennial coins to Federal Reserve Banks on Jan. 5, sending multiple one-year-only designs into the circulation pipeline as the nation heads into its 250th anniversary year. 1776 ~ 2026 Semiquincentennial Emerging Liberty Dime CoinNews recently reported on the 1776 ~ 2026 Mayflower Compact quarter entering circulation, marking the public’s first opportunity to find one of the new semiquincentennial designs in everyday change. The Mint’s announcement this week places that quarter release in context, confirming it was part of the same initial distribution…
The era of the crypto industry being seen as a two-asset town is officially over at the world’s largest derivatives marketplace.On Jan. 15, CME Group announced plans to launch futures contracts for Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), and Stellar (XLM) on Feb. 9, pending regulatory review.This move represents a calculated signal from the Chicago-based exchange giant that the digital asset market has matured beyond the gravitational pull of Bitcoin and Ethereum into a diversified, risk-managed asset class.The expansion introduces a deliberate two-tier structure designed to capture both institutional heavyweights and active retail traders.The contracts will feature standard and micro sizes: 100,000…
Cardano price dropped to $0.37 after another rejection around $0.40. The technical picture points to a potential downside continuation to $0.32. The ADA price was down 4% in the past 24 hours. Cardano’s ADA token is down and faces a brutal supply wall near $0.40, where relentless selling pressure threatens to derail bulls’ hopes of an extended upside. The token changed hands nearly 4% in the red on Friday, hovering around $0.38 as short-term downside risks persist for top coins. As the chart below shows, ADA traded to a daily low of $0.379. Cardano price hits supply wall near $0.40…
Vaulta, formerly EOS, plunged to a lows of $0.14 to mark its drop to a new all-time low. The token was down 20% in the past 24 hours and saw trading volume spike by more than 400%. Selling pressure might see A extend losses to a new level. Vaulta’s price has crashed 20% in the past 24 hours, with bears smashing through support to hit a new all-time low under $0.14. This brutal drop, which occurred amid a spike in daily spot volume, deepens the pain for the token formerly known as EOS, which had traded as high as $0.77…
The US crypto industry believed it stood on the precipice of securing the regulatory legitimacy it has pursued for a decade, but the political ground has suddenly shifted beneath it.On Jan. 14, Sen. Tim Scott, the chair of the Senate Banking Committee, postponed a vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.This delay effectively halted Washington’s most advanced attempt yet to establish comprehensive “rules of the road” for the $3 trillion digital asset market.While Chair Scott characterized the postponement as a tactical pause to keep stakeholders “at the table working in good faith,” the sudden brake-pumping reveals a fractured coalition…
The consensus that Bitcoin has matured into “digital gold” faces a new fracture line on Wall Street, one that has little to do with daily price volatility and everything to do with the distant future of computing.Two prominent strategists named Wood are currently offering diametrically opposed roadmaps to global allocators for the world’s largest crypto asset.On Jan. 16, Christopher Wood of Jefferies eliminated his firm’s long-standing Bitcoin exposure, citing the existential threat posed by quantum computing.On the other hand, Cathie Wood of ARK Invest is urging investors to look past technical anxieties and focus on the asset’s distinct lack of…