Bitcoin’s mining difficulty edged lower in the network’s first difficulty adjustment of 2026, offering a brief reprieve for miners after a year marked by intense competition and shrinking margins.
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Vitalik: Crypto Needs Financial Tools That Grow Wealth, Not Reckless Leverage Bets
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin distinguished between “the open web” and “the sovereign web” in Farcaster post, urging developers to build privacy-preserving applications and wealth-building tools without dangerous leverage while criticizing “corposlop” corporate platforms optimizing for engagement and data extraction at users’ expense through walled gardens and dopamine-maximizing algorithms.
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Solana Price Prediction: SOL’s Critical v3.0.14 Upgrade Drops as $76.8B Network Eyes $144 Rebound
Solana issues urgent v3.0.14 validator update as SOL holds $136 support. Technical compression signals a potential breakout toward $144–$146.
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XRP Price Prediction: Three Straight Red Days – Is This Just a Pullback or the Start of a Panic Selloff?
XRP has dropped for three days in a row, and it might extend that streak to four today, as the token hit a major sell wall at $2.35. But this might just be a minor setback for bullish XRP price predictions.In the past 7 days, this altcoin has booked a 10.5% gain, being the top-performing […]
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Bitcoin Price Prediction: The Physics Behind BTC Price Shows Miner Floor at $93K – Is a $100K Breakout Imminent?
Bitcoin Price Prediction has framed BTC as trapped between a $93K miner energy floor and $96K break-even, with hedging keeping volatility lower. If hashrate growth slows, a breakout over $100K could reset the range higher. Daily charts have shown a base above mid-$80K as RSI has recovered.
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Bitcoin Price Prediction: Wall Street Giant Says BTC Could Hit $2.9 Million – Here’s What Needs to Happen First
Bitcoin trades near $90K as a Wall Street model suggests a long-term path toward $2.9M per coin. Here’s what drives the forecast and what BTC needs to break out next.
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Truebit Token Plunges After Protocol Confirms $26M Ethereum Exploit
Truebit’s TRU token collapsed after the protocol confirmed a smart contract exploit that drained about 8,535 ETH, roughly $26M.
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Optimism Proposes Using Half Its Revenue to Buy Back OP Tokens
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Optimism Foundation has outlined a shift in OP tokenomics: 50% of Superchain sequencer revenue would fund monthly OP buybacks from Feb 2026 via OTC ETH-to-OP swaps. Using last year’s inflows, it could deploy ~2.7k ETH (~$8m).
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Why Is Crypto Down Today? – January 8, 2026
The crypto market is down today. BTC fell 2.7% to $90,235, and ETH dropped 4.1% to $3,120. “BTC is trading in a choppy range, reflecting a fragile balance between monetary policy expectations, liquidity conditions, and global risk appetite.”
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Asia Market Open: Bitcoin Softens As Asian Stocks Extend Pullback From Records
Bitcoin slid toward $90,000 as Asia’s stock rally cooled and oil sank after Trump said Venezuela would supply up to 50M barrels, refocusing markets on data and geopolitics.
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