Circle Leads Extension as Tazapay Series B Reaches $36M

Cross-border payment infrastructure provider Tazapay said it closed an extension to its Series B funding round led by Circle Ventures, bringing the total raised to $36 million. The round included participation from Coinbase Ventures, CMT Digital, Peak XV Partners and Ripple.  Tazapay said on Thursday that the funding will be used to • expand its

Bitcoin Levels to Watch as BTC Slides Under $70K

Bitcoin (BTC) sellers resumed their activity on Thursday as the BTC price slipped below the $70,000 mark. Analysts said that Bitcoin showed signs of a bear market in its last stages, due to extreme fear and elevated realized and unrealized losses.  Key takeaways: Bitcoin enters the last stages of the bear market, characterized by extreme

Investors Certified in Suit Over Nvidia Crypto Disclosures

A California federal judge has certified an investor class in a securities lawsuit accusing Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang of misleading shareholders about how much of the company’s gaming revenue during the 2017-2018 crypto mining boom came from GPU sales to cryptocurrency miners. US District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. ruled in a March 25

Bitcoin Faces Recession Risk Amid Rising Oil Warnings

Bitcoin (BTC) faces a new macro test as markets increasingly bet on the US entering recession in 2026. Key points: Bitcoin could face a new challenge in the form of its first recession after the COVID-19 crash. US recession odds surge as BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns over oil prices. Bitcoin’s high correlation with “extremely

Bitcoin Mining Profitability Narrows to Efficient Operators

Bitcoin mining economics are tightening to levels that are pushing a portion of the global fleet below profitability, according to a report from asset manager CoinShares.  In its Bitcoin (BTC) mining report for Q1 2026, CoinShares said hashprice, a key measure of miner revenue, fell to around $28 per petahash per second per day (PH/s/day)

Fenbushi Partner Offers Reward to Recover $42M Stolen Crypto

Investigators have frozen about $1.2 million as efforts continue to trace funds lost in a wallet breach linked to a seed phrase compromise. Bo Shen, the co-founder of venture capital firm Fenbushi Capital, offered a bounty to recover about $42 million in digital assets stolen from his personal wallet in a 2022 hack.  Shen said

UK Moves to Temporarily Ban Crypto Political Donations

The UK government is advancing plans for a moratorium on political donations made through cryptocurrencies, following an independent review and pressure from multiple high-ranking politicians. Cointelegraph reported on Wednesday that the Rycroft Review, an independent inquiry into foreign financial interference in the UK’s political and electoral systems, recommended a moratorium on crypto donations to political

Coinbase Rejects Senate Stablecoin Yield Compromise

Crypto exchange Coinbase is reportedly against the latest compromise over stablecoin yields that the Senate is looking to include in its crypto market structure bill. Coinbase representatives told Senate lawmakers in a meeting on Monday that they had concerns over the language around stablecoin yields in the new compromise version of the bill, Punchbowl News

Bill Would Bar Officials From Betting on Political Prediction Markets

US lawmakers have introduced a bill aiming to ban members of the US Congress, the president and other high-ranking government officials from wagering on prediction markets. The proposed bill, a bipartisan effort from US Representative Adrian Smith and Representative Nikki Budzinski, was introduced on Tuesday and is called the Preventing Real-time Exploitation and Deceptive Insider

Nic Carter: Bitcoin Must Prepare for Quantum Threat

Crypto entrepreneur Nic Carter has urged Bitcoin developers to catch up on quantum resistance or risk losing out to Ethereum, which already has a post-quantum roadmap.  Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is the math that keeps Bitcoin (BTC) secure. Users pick a secret number (private key) and, using a special curved line and simple multiplication rules
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