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Analyst Willy Woo believes gold will likely continue to outperform Bitcoin (BTC) for years to come. Woo tells his 1.2 million followers on X that BTC’s 12-year uptrend against the precious metal has been broken. He believes it’s due to concerns that quantum computers could eventually break BTC’s cryptographic security. “12-year trend broken. BTC should be valued a lot higher relative to gold....
The number of crypto payments for human trafficking transactions surged in 2025, according to new report by the blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The report shows that crypto flows to suspected human trafficking groups reached hundreds of millions of dollars over a period of one year, marking an increase of 85%. “The dollar amounts significantly understate the human toll of these crimes,...
February 18th, 2026 – Panama City, Republic of Panama Sai today launched Sai Perps, a perpetuals trading platform built to be as fast and intuitive as a centralized exchange with the transparency and self-custody of onchain settlement. The platform features gasless transactions, removing friction for traders while maintaining full onchain security. Sai also unveiled Let’s Go Saicho, a one...
Institutional investors just sold $173 million in Bitcoin and crypto investment products in one week, according to a new update from CoinShares. The digital asset firm says outflows have now totaled a whopping $3.74 billion in the last month, as the price of BTC dropped from around $95,400 to a low of $62,800. Last week, Bitcoin witnessed $133 million in outflows. Ethereum followed with $85.1...
A Bank of America customer in Massachusetts just lost tens of thousands of dollars to an elaborate bank scam. Police say the victim was contacted by someone posing as a Bank of America fraud investigator, reports the ABC-affiliated news station WCVB. The scammer had legitimate personal and account details, and convinced the victim to join a so-called “sting operation” to uncover criminal insider...
February 18th, 2026 – Denver, Colorado Ymax today opened early access to its yield orchestration platform, enabling stablecoin holders to deploy assets and yield strategies across leading protocols with a single signature — and have execution complete automatically on-chain. Built for self-directed DeFi users with meaningful on-chain capital, Ymax replaces manual, interruptible workflows...
Hedge fund veteran Dan Ives believes “armageddon” fears in one stock market sector have triggered a golden buying opportunity. In a new CNBC interview, Ives argues that accelerating AI spending will create a multiplier effect across tech, benefiting software stocks that have taken a beating. [adinserter block="1"] “The spending is even going to be more accelerated than I think people thought...
Media and tech giant Comcast is preparing to pay more than $100 million to settle a series of lawsuits over a massive data breach. The breach happened back in 2023, when “unauthorized third parties” accessed Comcast’s internal network. In total, 31.6 million customers are affected, with usernames and passwords, names, contact information, dates of birth and the last four digits of Social Security...
February 17, 2026 – George Town, Cayman Islands Zircuit, a security-first digital asset company backed by YZiLabs, Dragonfly and Pantera, today announced the launch of Zircuit Finance. Incubated by a team from Quantstamp, Zircuit Finance is a secure platform for institutional-grade strategies, a stablecoin vault designed to generate yield on USDC and USDT, with a stated target range of 8-11%...
February 17, 2026 – Karavas, Cyprus At a time when much of the blockchain industry is still recovering from one of its harshest downturns, a small number of companies are quietly moving in the opposite direction – expanding, building and positioning themselves for the next era of adoption. Public Masterpiece, a Cyprus-based RWA (real-world asset) tokenization company, has announced PMT Chain,...