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MSTR stock price of Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) extends its crash beyond 17% on Thursday following the release of its Q4 2025 earnings results. The company reported a massive $12.4 billion net loss driven primarily by sharp declines in Bitcoin price. MSTR Stock Price Plunges 17% Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) stock began falling by more 10% before the Q4 2025 earnings release. MSTR stock price extended the crash by another 17% to close at $106.99 on February 5 as Bitcoin tumbled more than 14% to below $65,000. This marks one of its deepest single-day drops in years, pushing it…

While directly holding cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum is a popular option, investors looking for alternatives are clamoring for financial products such as crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs).Canada first launched Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in 2021. These Canadian Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs allow investors to place returns in tax-sheltered accounts like tax-free savings accounts or registered retirement savings plans.“There is a high demand for a Bitcoin product that has all the features that people love about ETFs — that they trade on an exchange, that they’re liquid,” Ross Mayfield of Robert W. Baird & Co. told Bloomberg in mid-2021.Interest has only…

A decade-old email is reviving questions about whether projects like Ripple posed a threat to Bitcoin’s development or merely served as competitors that some BTC backers sought to exclude.The email, dated July 31, 2014, appears to show Austin Hill, then described as Blockstream’s chief executive, telling the late Jeffrey Epstein and other recipients that “Ripple, and Jed McCaleb’s new Stellar [were] bad for the ecosystem.” Blockstream is a Bitcoin-focused blockchain technology firm.The correspondence resurfaced after the US Department of Justice published millions of pages of records under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a disclosure that includes emails, files, images, and…

HYPE gained double digits on Monday after the team behind HyperCore, the core infrastructure powering Hyperliquid’s layer-1 network, said it will support the HIP-4 proposal to expand into prediction markets.The integration would allow fully collateralized contracts on Hyperliquid, the largest decentralized perpetual futures crypto platform, enabling traders to wager on political elections, sports and other markets.In an X post on Monday, Hyperliquid said the support was driven by “extensive user demand” for prediction markets and bounded options-like instruments, while adding that HIP-4 could allow other novel applications to be built on Hyperliquid. Source: HyperliquidHIP-4 outcomes would function like a betting…

Key Takeaways The top savings rate is still 5.00% even after three Fed cuts, but most other high-yield savings rates have slipped.Of the two accounts that pay 5.00%, both cap that rate at $5,000 while requiring conditions that limit who can benefit.No-strings savings accounts pay as much as 4.60%, while CDs will let you lock in a rate of up to 4.50% for months or years into the future. While Many Savings Rates Have Slipped, the Top APY Is Hanging On at 5% Even after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates three times last fall, the very top savings account…

Looks like even “The Most Magical Place on Earth” isn’t enough to entice foreign travelers who are skipping the US.Disney is facing some “international visitation headwinds” at its parks in the US, which include Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California, the Walt Disney Company said in its first-quarter earnings report on Monday.Despite the slowdown in international visitors, the company reported growth in its experiences segment, with visitation at its domestic parks up 1% in the most recent quarter.Hugh Johnston, Disney CFO, told analysts on a call that the company has less visibility into international visitor trends than domestic…

Kuvi.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI-driven) Agentic Finance OS that simplifies blockchain transactions across multiple chains using simple text or voice commands, has announced its strategic partnership with HyperGPT, a Web3-based AI marketplace for buying, selling, and managing AI applications. The core purpose behind this partnership is to build advanced AI agents for autonomous execution and evolution on-chain. Agentic frameworks meet Web3-scale AIKuvi is teaming up with @HyperGPT to accelerate autonomous, outcome-driven systems across Web3 & finance.HyperGPT brings powerful AI and blockchain infrastructure.Kuvi brings decision-making, intent-driven agents that adapt in real time.… pic.twitter.com/0z1JnozfqH— Kuvi.ai | Agentic Leverage on Financial Intent (@kuvilabs)…

Last Updated: January 22, 2026 Reading Time: 12 minutesTL;DRBitcoin blockchain is a decentralized, distributed digital ledger technology that records all Bitcoin transactions across thousands of computers worldwide. Each “block” contains a batch of transactions, and these blocks are cryptographically “chained” together in chronological order, creating an immutable and transparent record that no single entity controls.Quick Facts:Launch Date: January 3, 2009 (Genesis Block)Creator: Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonymous)Block Time: ~10 minutes per block [Source]Block Size: 1-4 MB (depending on transaction type)Total Blocks: Over 825,000 as of January 2026 [Source]Security Method: Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensusKey Innovation: Solves the “double-spending problem” without a central authorityCanadian Accessibility: Yes…

On January 30, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two UK-registered companies operating as unauthorized crypto exchanges, Zedcex and Zedxion, for their involvement in facilitating financial activity that allowed Iran to evade sanctions.

Sanctions evaders are drawn to cryptoassets because they assume blockchain complexity will slow investigators down. UK agencies are proving them wrong: Elliptic recently joined a cross-government operational sprint led by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) to identify and disrupt crypto-enabled sanctions evasion and money laundering.