In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, crypto commentator Udi Wertheimer lays out a provocative thesis: Over the last five years, institutions have been quietly buying out old Bitcoin (BTC) holders — and it’s reshaping the market in a way few have appreciated.
“For the last five years,

Hive Digital, a Bitcoin miner turned data center infrastructure provider, reported record revenue and earnings in its fiscal first quarter, driven by strong growth in high-performance computing (HPC) hosting services alongside its core mining business.
In its fiscal Q1 2026, Hive generated $45.6 mi

Taiwan’s first publicly traded corporate Bitcoin treasury, Top Win International, raised $10 million to kickstart its BTC accumulation efforts.
The luxury watchmaker-turned-Bitcoin treasury announced Friday it raised $10 million from a group of investors led by zipper producer and software

Crypto kiosks or automatic teller machines (ATMs) are facing increasing pushback from US regulators amid concerns about fraud and crime.
Once seen as a bellwether of crypto adoption, crypto ATMs, which allow users to buy or convert crypto anonymously, are increasingly under lawmakers’ microscope. C

Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital closed a $1.4 billion secured term loan facility to accelerate the development of its Helios artificial intelligence datacenter campus in Texas
On Friday, the company announced that the loan will cover about 80% of the construction costs for the first phase of the p

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has proposed a provenance-based risk score system for crypto-to-fiat off-ramps.
In its Wednesday BIS Bulletin, the institution outlined “an approach to anti-money laundering compliance for cryptoassets,” recommending that a compliance score be assigned t

Key takeaways:
Peace talks can shift Bitcoin’s price through energy costs, inflation and interest rates.
In 2022, Bitcoin fell sharply, then rallied 27% above pre-invasion levels within a month.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs now act as a direct channel for macro sentiment.
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US spot Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded over $3 billion in net inflows in the first two weeks of August, marking their second-strongest monthly performance to date, with more than two weeks left in the month
According to ETF data tracker SoSoValue, spot Ether (ETH) ETFs are set to

Cryptocurrency exchange Garantex Europe, which was sanctioned on Thursday, could already have a contingency plan allowing it to skirt the impact of US sanctions, says blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs
On Thursday, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Garantex a

A new all-time high for Ether could still be weeks or months away, despite it currently sitting only a few hundred dollars off a new record price, analysts warn
“With ETH near its previous ATHs, we may consolidate for a bit, given the very large run-up in such a short time frame,” Nansen analyst

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David Bailey’s Bitcoin firm, Nakamoto, has completed its merger with healthcare company KindlyMD, forming a publicly-traded Bitcoin treasury vehicle with a plan to accumulate 1 million Bitcoin.
The merged entity will retain the KindlyMD name and continue trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker