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The 1776 ~ 2026-W Enhanced Uncirculated American Gold Eagle drew intense demand when it launched May 28, becoming unavailable from the United States Mint in less than two minutes. Two months later, the limited-mintage coin continues to sell above its original $5,370 issue price, although values for examples in their original Mint packaging have declined alongside gold. CoinNews photos show the obverse and reverse of the 1776 ~ 2026 Enhanced Uncirculated American Gold Eagle A CoinNews review of completed eBay listings found that these coins averaged about $6,539 in May, $6,241 in June and $5,875 in July. The July average…
Coldcard’s wallet crisis has shaken Bitcoin sentiment, blurred on-chain signals and exposed a recurring weakness in AI-assisted cyber defenses.On July 30, hardware maker Coinkite warned users that wallets generated with affected Coldcard firmware could be drained because a software error produced seed phrases with far less randomness than intended.This security incident, Galaxy Research said, resulted in three suspected attack waves that targeted 4,585 addresses and drained 1,367.05 BTC, worth about $89 million.Coldcard Bitcoin Wallet Hack (Source: Galaxy Research)The Bitcoin associated with the three identified waves remains in attacker-controlled addresses, according to Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital’s head of firmwide research.However, he…
The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control added two Iranian maritime insurance firms to its Specially Designated Nationals list on July 29, designating HormuzSafe Marine Services Authority and Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Company as blocked counterparties for U.S. persons and for transactions within or transiting the United States.The OFAC notice lists both Iranian maritime insurance firms under Executive Order 13902 for operating in Iran’s financial sector and says each is subject to secondary sanctions. HormuzSafe had previously been described as a Bitcoin-settled insurance proposal. The designation adds two named entities to an existing sanctions-risk framework.The Treasury Department alleged that HormuzSafe…
RippleX expects the next version of the XRP Ledger’s core server software, xrpld 3.3.0, as soon as next week. The release would put rewritten Batch and Permission Delegation amendments back into the validator process after authorization flaws led operators to block their predecessors before mainnet activation.The rollout remains at the prerelease stage. xrpld 3.2.1 was still the latest stable release on Aug. 1, while official beta and release-candidate tags for 3.3.0 were public. A mainnet majority countdown had yet to begin for either replacement amendment.RippleX product head Jazzi Cooper listed five proposed XRP Ledger features for 3.3.0: Confidential MPT, Batch,…
The Supreme Court gave Donald Trump a pretty direct answer in February: the emergency law he had used to tax imports from nearly everywhere didn’t give him the authority to impose tariffs.However, Washington didn’t see that as a locked door and treated it more like a disappointing result from a key-cutting machine. The administration returned to the federal statute book, found several older trade powers that the Court had left untouched, and spent the next five months rebuilding the tariff system on a completely different foundation.By July 24, goods from 60 trading partners were again passing through an American tariff…
New York has asked a Manhattan state court to permanently block prediction-market exchange Kalshi from offering what the state calls unlicensed sports wagering to New Yorkers, escalating a fight over whether federal commodities oversight shields the platform from state gambling laws.A verified petition dated July 31 asks the court to order Kalshi to identify affected customers and itemize their wagers, losses and the company’s gains. The state also seeks customer restitution, damages, disgorgement, prejudgment interest and costs.The most aggressive demands are a penalty equal to three times Kalshi’s alleged gains and $100,000 for each unauthorized offer or attempt to offer…
Ethereum outpaced Bitcoin in July as stronger investment-product demand and corporate accumulation powered its first sustained relative advance in months.Data from CryptoSlate shows that ETH gained 19% during the month, climbing as high as $1,970 before retreating to $1,868 as of press time. Bitcoin rose 8% over the same period but repeatedly failed to break the $65,000 level.The divergence pushed the ETH/BTC ratio above 0.030 for the first time in three months before it eased to 0.02962. The pair has risen more than 10% over the past month, reflecting Ethereum’s widening performance advantage.ETH/BTC Ratio (Source: TradingView)The rebound has strengthened expectations…
A $20 billion AI hedge fund gained 439% through June, lost roughly two-thirds of its value in July, and sold most of a $16 billion public-stock portfolio as leverage turned against it. The collapse offers a warning for Bitcoin: when Wall Street needs cash quickly, the first asset sold may not be the one that caused the loss, but the one still trading.Leopold Aschenbrenner built one of Wall Street’s most persuasive investment pitches. The former OpenAI researcher argued that artificial intelligence was advancing fast enough to reshape energy, national security, computing, and nearly every large industry, then built a hedge…
Leveraged funds’ combined net bearish position across CME’s standard and micro Bitcoin futures narrowed by 5,566.5 BTC-equivalent between July 21 and July 28.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s futures-only report, released at 3:30 p.m. ET on Friday, July 31, captured positions as of Tuesday, July 28. It showed asset managers moving the other way: their combined directional net weakened by 2,204.3 BTC-equivalent over the same week.The split in the numbersThe two groups remained on opposite sides of the market after those changes:Trader groupJuly 21–28 change in directional netJuly 28 directional netLeveraged funds5,566.5 BTC less net bearish33,712.3 BTC net shortAsset managers2,204.3 BTC…
On April 9, 2025, Donald Trump told his Truth Social followers that it was “a great time to buy,” then announced a 90-day pause on many of his new tariffs a few hours later. The S&P 500 finished the day 9.5% higher, Bitcoin gained more than 5%, and crypto traders holding short positions lost $374 million as markets repriced a policy change delivered through the president’s social-media account.The chain of events drew calls for an investigation into whether anyone had traded with advance knowledge, but it also revealed a deceptively simple but potentially very lucrative commercial opportunity. When one account…