Adam Back, Michael Saylor oppose BIP 110 Bitcoin proposal
Two of Bitcoin's loudest institutional voices are now publicly lined up against a policy-style consensus change, framing it as a fork risk and a dangerous precedent for transaction validity.
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Two of Bitcoin's loudest institutional voices are now publicly lined up against a policy-style consensus change, framing it as a fork risk and a dangerous precedent for transaction validity.
The 2020 case almost ended the company before its token became a legal landmark; choosing to fight cost hundreds of jobs but built the record that survived a 2023 court win.
The latest jab lands a week after Musk's legal fight with the ChatGPT maker made headlines, but the feud has been a public fixture since Musk's 2018 split from the board.
The thesis rests on three structural shifts rather than a single catalyst: SEC clarity in 2025, $1.4B+ in spot XRP ETF inflows already locked in, and RLUSD scaling into Japan and MiCA-regulated…
The same institutional plumbing that legitimised Bitcoin ETFs is also the mechanism that drains fastest when risk appetite turns. The SEC's renewed scrutiny is a symptom, not the cause.
Physical wrench attacks on crypto holders in Southeast Asia keep recurring, and each one reminds holders that on-chain security does nothing if the keys can be pried out of a person.
Bessent's America 250 speech framed digital assets as instruments of American economic statecraft, while his principle-one industrial buildout dovetails with six straight months of expanding PMI.
The disclosure gives CLARITY backers a compliance defense while dragging the President's memecoin, stablecoin, BTC, ETH, and staking exposure into the unresolved ethics fight on Capitol Hill.
The IMF's warning is not about solvency but velocity: in a panic, dollar stablecoins let holders race for the exit faster than any bank can process withdrawals, and reserves may not keep pace.
Five straight weeks of decline have erased nearly half of June's turnover on Upbit, Bithumb and peers, with the weekly KRW figure now at a multi-year low.
If untouched Bitcoin is treated as abandoned after five years, every cold wallet becomes a legal liability, and the Institute's amicus makes that exact argument to the court.
The case spans a half-billion-dollar-plus fraud and a Trump-era pivot; the optics alone will shape how crypto enforcement reads through 2026.
Beijing's July 7 package pairs a 2,000-tonne gold clearing push with 500B yuan in HKMA funding and an 800B yuan Bond Connect quota, building TradFi plumbing for institutions that want a non-dollar…
The FCA's finalized crypto rules and the Bank of England's rollback of holding caps arrive weeks before a Labour leadership change, testing whether the UK's regulatory pivot can survive political…
The largest BTC sale in Strategy's six-year history funds dividends on its preferred-stock program, while spot ETFs pulled in $487M across two sessions to snap a 10-day, $2.73B outflow streak.
The OCC approval lets the $USDC issuer hold its own reserves and offer digital-asset custody, but bars ordinary deposits and lending.
The CLARITY Act faces a procedural ethics standoff in the Senate, putting a floor vote this month in real doubt and freezing the regulatory clarity the market has been pricing in.
Buyers keep defending the $1.00-$1.05 floor and exchange outflows just quadrupled to 123M XRP, but RSI still sits below 50, so the next leg depends on Washington moving first.
Fundstrat's Tom Lee frames the convergence as inevitable: 24/7 crypto rails inside every major bank's product menu, with $BTC and $ETH sitting beside equities on the same balance sheets.
A statutory ban on retail and wholesale central bank digital dollars now sits on the books through 2030, removing the policy ambiguity that hung over US digital-asset strategy for years and reshaping…