With its recent performance demonstrating strength above $100,000, Bitcoin has been rising steadily. A more interesting view can be seen on the chart: Bitcoin might still be in a covert downward trend. Despite not forming bullish sentiment, it has achieved a higher high since its peak in late 2024. The daily chart's descending trendline is the most telling indicator.

Bitcoin has not made a clear move above this barrier, indicating that there is insufficient evidence to support a complete uptren

This Fridaymarks Gary Gensler's last full day as the head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Ripple, the San Francisco-based enterprise company known for its association with the XRP cryptocurrency, is alreadycelebrating Gensler's imminent departure.

"Starting tomorrow, ‘Gary who?’ will be the only appropriate response if someone mentions his name. Onward," Stuart Alderoty, chief legal officer at Ripple, said on social media.

Earlier this week, the SEC filed its opening brief in

According to data provided by cryptocurrency analytics platform IntoTheBlock, Ethereum (ETH) whales now control 43% of the cryptocurrency's total circulating supply after another accumulation spree.

As noted by the firm, this marks a substantial increase compared to early 2023. Back then, whales controlled only 22% of the token's total supply.

IntoTheBlock has opined that this surge is likely related to the Ethereum merge and staking opportunities.

The number of unique addresses supplying ETH

According to a report fromWhale Alert, 2,501Bitcoin (BTC) worth around $256.4 million have just been transferred to Coinbase International, a subsidiary of a major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. The details known about the sudden transfer of over a quarter of a billion BTC are few to none.

For instance, the receiving address, "bc1q5y," was only activated a week ago and showed no significant activity until another unknown address, "bc1qe2n7," deposited 2,502 BTC.

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There were some overlaps w

As the cryptocurrency market is rocketing on the CPI announcement, the potential end of the Ripple v. SEC legal battle and the upcoming U.S. presidential inauguration, meme coins have yet again stolen the spotlight. Segment capitalization added almost 10% and targets the $120 billion level.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) rallies by 12%, DOGE, BONK and PEPE follow

Shiba Inu (SHIB), major dog-themed cryptocurrency, is among the drivers of the cryptocurrency market surge today. Shiba Inu's (SHIB) price jumped

Nine years ago, a "death call" was made for Bitcoin when its price was only $400. This negative prognosis, which predicted that Bitcoin was on the verge of collapse, has been proven spectacularly wrong as Bitcoin continues to thrive and reach new highs.

Nine years ago, on Jan. 19, 2016, the Washington Post published an article titled "R.I.P. Bitcoin. It's time to move on," declaring the end of Bitcoin when it was valued at nearly $400. Today, Bitcoin has defied this prediction, reaching an all-

Cryptocurrency venture capital giant Digital Currency Group (DCG), which is helmed by "crypto king" Barry Silbert, has been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been charged for misleading investors, according to a Fridayfiling.

DCG will have to pay a $38 million civil money penalty to the SEC within the next 14 days as part of its settlement deal with the regulator.

It is worth noting that Silbert himself was not named by the SEC.

The SEC stated that the VC behemo

According to cryptocurrency analytics platform CryptoQuant, Ethereum's transaction fees have been consistently more expensive than those of Bitcoin over the past few months.

The graph shared by CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju shows that Bitcoin's media fees (orange bars) have consistently remained in the $0.50-$3.00 range. Meanwhile, Ethereum's fees (gray bars) tend to stay between $3 and $6.

ETH tx fees are higher than #Bitcoin’s. Just saying 🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/PXEPfEiRlo

— Ki Young Ju (@ki_y

After months of stringent internal stress testing of devnets and testnets, Ethereum (ETH) developers agreed to transition toward implementing Pectra on mainnet this March. The largest upgrade in Ethereum's (ETH) history since migration to proof of stake, Pectra is expected to make Ethereum (ETH) dramatically faster and cheaper.

Ethereum (ETH) Pectra mainnet rollout scheduled for March

Ethereum (ETH) Pectra upgrade's inaugural phase will be activated in mainnet by mid-March 2025. This decision

Here are the top three news stories over the past day presented to you by U.Today.

Ripple CTO reveals painful truth about XRP $3.84 "ATH"

Ripple CTO David Schwartz has recently taken to X platformto engage in a discussion regarding the $3.84 price point that XRP reached in January 2018, and whether it was indeed an all-time high for the asset. User @Onlyhoodvibes88tagged Schwartz, stating that the aforementioned price level was not an ATH for XRP; he argued that the $3.84 figure was misleading

Institutional players on the cryptocurrency market are busy as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) soars in an attempt to hit $103,000. Notably, leading asset manager BlackRock has registered massive interest, with over half a billion raked in by its ETF product, per daily inflows.

Record inflows for BlackRock Bitcoin ETF

Farside Investorsdata reveal that BlackRock led the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) market with $527.9 million. This is the second-largest inflow for BlackRock in 2025 after it recorded

Dog-themed cryptocurrency Shiba Inu (SHIB) has seen an increase in outflows, sparking speculation on what might be driving this trend.

According to data from IntoTheBlock, SHIB outflows have skyrocketed by 883% in a week. This significant movement saw large holder outflows increase from 647 billion SHIB on Jan. 15 to 1.11 trillion SHIB on Jan. 16. The surge in outflows during the week coincides with a major sell-off, which saw SHIB dip to lows of $0.0000196 as investors took profits.

However,

A ripple in theRipple ecosystem caught attention this week asRipple USD (RLUSD) temporarily broke its 1:1 peg with the U.S. dollar. The stablecoin, designed to maintain a consistent value, experienced an unexpected surge, briefly trading at $1.04 - a 4% increase that raised eyebrows across the XRP community.

The event did not go unnoticed, even if it was short-lived. Ripple's Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz, explained that this was because of the dynamics of the XRP/RLUSD market. He sai

Tron (TRX) blockchain managed to achieve the largest drop in illicit crypto activity, a new report by TRM Labs says. In total, the volume of illegal transfers dropped by 24% to $45 billion. Despite crypto being criticized for offering tech rails for illicit activity, this only accounts for 0.4% of overall crypto transfers.

Tron (TRX) sees largest drop in illicit crypto transfers, report says

In 2024, Tron (TRX) blockchain saw the volume of illicit transfers dropping by $6 billion. It is equal

Analytics account @lookonchain has spotted that one of the countries in the developing world that has recently embraced Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies for building a strategic crypto reserve has moved a large BTC stash.

The cryptocurrency community met this tweet with a wave of enthusiasm mixed with puzzlement, guessing at the nature of this transaction.

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Bhutan moves $65 million worth of Bitcoin

Bhutan, a country with less than one million people, is located in South Asia, i

Toncoin (TON) could be on the verge of a significant price surge, according to a recent analysis by CryptoQuant. A key indicator is signaling that TON is entering a low-risk phase, which might present an opportunity for strategic accumulation, CryptoQuant stated in its recent tweet.

The Normalized Risk Metric (NRM) for TON, both in the medium and long term, is approaching the blue zone. This metric is calculated by comparing the current price with exponential moving averages (SMA 50 and SMA 374

The prices of the majority of the coins keep growing, according to CoinStats.

SHIB/USD

The rate of SHIB has gone up by 6.82% since yesterday.

On the hourly chart, one should focus on the daily bar closure in terms of the local resistance of $0.00002463. If it happens around that mark, the accumulated energy might be enough for a move to the $0.000025 area.

On the bigger time frame, the rate of SHIB has once again tested the resistance of $0.00002464.

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If the bar closes not far from tha

Michael Saylor, a Bitcoin evangelist and MicroStrategy’s executive chairman, has taken to his account on the X social media giant in the past to talk to his millions of followers about the mysterious Bitcoin founder known under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

In his tweet, Saylor published a famous saying that is frequently used as a reply to an eternal question – “Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?” In the meantime, the Bitcoin price is approaching the $103,000 level.

"We are all Satoshi," Saylor says

The cryptocurrency market keeps going up, according to CoinMarketCap.

DOGE/USD

The rate of DOGE has risen by 8.04% over the last 24 hours.

On the hourly chart, the price of DOGE has made a false breakout of the local resistance of $0.4181. If the daily bar closes far from that mark, traders may seize the initiative, which may lead to a correction to the $0.40 area.

On the bigger time frame, one should pay attention to the candle's closure in terms of the nearest level of $0.4230.

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The price ofShiba Inu (SHIB) is having an incredible day today, soaring nearly 10% during the course of the trading session. With the price of the popular meme-inspired cryptocurrency regaining key support at $0.000024, all eyes are on the next crucial barrier at $0.00003.

Once seemingly unbreakable, this price level was lost for the Shiba Inu token at the beginning of the new year.

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However, SHIB's recent price action is giving some sort of indication that this important level will be co