‘Opportunists’ pushing protocol changes are BTC’s biggest threat: Saylor
Major changes to the Bitcoin protocol should be well-thought-out and rare, Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor previously said.
Bitcoin sells off into weekly close as bulls face $86K BTC price reckoning
Bitcoin began losing gains as US futures prepared to open as markets geared up to deal with a host of potential downside volatility catalysts.
Tezos Tallinn upgrade now live, slashes block times to 6 seconds
The Tallinn protocol upgrade marks Tezos’ 20th major update since launching in 2018, and was implemented without a network fork.
Colombia’s second-largest pension fund to offer Bitcoin exposure
AFP Protección says access to the Bitcoin-linked fund will be limited to qualified investors and will not alter the core allocation of Colombian pension savings.
Once-prominent NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway to wind down operations
The Gemini-owned NFT platform will close on Feb. 23, 2026, entering withdrawal-only mode as another major casualty of the sector’s prolonged downturn.
Polymarket sees January US gov’t shutdown odds surge to 77%
The spike in Polymarket odds comes just days after United States President Donald Trump said “we’re probably going to end up in another Democrat shutdown.”
US Bitcoin ETFs bleed $1.72B in five-day outflow streak
The extended outflow streak comes as a widely used crypto sentiment indicator has stayed within the “Extreme Fear” range since Wednesday.
PENGUIN memecoin surges 564% following White House social media post
The Nietzschean Penguin (PENGUIN) memecoin had a market capitalization of about $387,000 before the US White House published its post.
Bitcoin nodes running BIP-110 crosses 2% as spam wars heat up
The Bitcoin proposal caps arbitrary data in an attempt to combat spam from non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network.
Could Europe sell US debt if a Greenland deal doesn’t come through?
Some European policymakers have floated the idea of selling off US debt as a way of combating US belligerence, but it may be much more difficult in practice.