Category: Bitcoin News

Bitcoin has been called “digital gold,” and some of its key properties may help BTC rally more than the precious metal in percentage terms. Bitcoin (BTC) has vastly underperformed gold (XAU) in the past year, dropping by 13.25% compared with the precious metal’s almost 100% rally. Can BTC catch up to gold’s gains? Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s supply is capped at 21 million, with roughly 1 million left to be mined. Gold miners increase production when prices rise, unlike Bitcoin miners. Bitcoin’s small size versus gold amplifies any potential upside even…

South Korea’s National Assembly has approved an overhaul of the country’s crypto licensing regime, tightening entry requirements for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and expanding scrutiny to include controlling shareholders. On Thursday, lawmakers passed an amendment to the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information, a cornerstone of Korea’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) framework for digital assets. The committee substitute bill was approved at a plenary session and is expected to take effect six months after the law is enacted. The new rules widen background checks for crypto firms…

High Bitcoin options volumes indicate there is still significant interest and capital present in crypto derivatives markets, according to derivatives exchange Deribit, but risk is now being carefully managed, which could explain Bitcoin’s recent price movements. Bitcoin trading near $90,000 right now “looks a lot clearer when you view it through positioning rather than just price,” the Coinbase-owned derivatives exchange said on Wednesday. Bitcoin (BTC) appears to be stuck due to concentrated options open interest (OI) around current strike prices for the large Jan. 30 expiry, it added. This means…

The use of large language models in scams increased fivefold in 2025, according to TRM Labs, as fraudsters leveraged the technology to boost outreach, make scams more convincing, and launch them at scale.  It comes as $35 billion in cryptocurrency was sent to scammer addresses globally last year, a slight decrease from $38 billion in the previous year, TRM Labs said in its 2026 crypto crime report on Wednesday.   “Large language models (LLMs) enable scams to cross language and cultural contexts with less friction, while AI-generated images, voice cloning, and…

The number of XRP wallets holding more than 1 million tokens has been gradually increasing since the start of the year and could bode well for the asset’s long-term prospects, according to crypto analytics platform Santiment. “XRP’s price is down a modest -4% since the start of 2026, but its amount of ‘millionaire’ wallets are rising for the first time since September,” Santiment said in a post on Wednesday. Crypto traders often track large-holder accumulation, using it as a signal for where the asset’s price could head in the future. …

OpenAI-linked token Worldcoin spiked 40% on Wednesday following a report that the artificial intelligence firm is working on a bot-free social media platform that requires “proof of personhood.”   According to a Tuesday Forbes report citing sources familiar with the matter, OpenAI is aiming to develop a “humans-only platform” as a point of difference from other social media services on the market.  Still in its early stages, sources state that a small team of around 10 people is building the platform to compete with X, and that it has reportedly been…