Crypto News

Bitcoin price erases 15 months of bull market gains with $69K comedown

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Bitcoin selling pressure sparked a retreat below the 2021 bull market high, with lower BTC price targets still expected to be hit.

Published Date: 2026-02-05 08:38:20
Creator: Cointelegraph by William Suberg
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Bitcoin ETFs ‘hanging in there’ despite BTC plunge: Analyst

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Bitcoin ETFs may be sitting on their “biggest losses” since launching in January 2024, but there is a silver lining, according to an ETF analyst.

Published Date: 2026-02-05 06:13:30
Creator: Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons
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Coinbase premium hits yearly low, hinting at institutional selling

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Bitcoin’s Coinbase Premium Gap has fallen to a yearly low, a move analysts say may reflect weaker relative demand on Coinbase-linked venues tied to institutional trading.

Published Date: 2026-02-05 06:11:31
Creator: Cointelegraph by Martin Young
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How blockchain tracing exposed $105M Incognito dark web market

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The dark web drug market used crypto for payments, but blockchain transaction tracing helped the FBI identify its creator, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Published Date: 2026-02-05 05:48:00
Creator: Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan
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Crypto firms offer ideas to break market structure gridlock: Report

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Some crypto companies have proposed giving community banks a bigger stablecoin role as Senate negotiations stall over the contentious market structure bill.

Published Date: 2026-02-05 05:12:15
Creator: Cointelegraph by Martin Young
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Bhutan makes second Bitcoin transfer in a week, worth $22M

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Bhutan has slipped to the seventh-largest nation-state Bitcoin holder, with its stash falling from 13,295 BTC in October 2024 to 5,700 BTC.

Published Date: 2026-02-05 04:38:20
Creator: Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea
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Crypto wallet provider Payy launches Ethereum L2 with built-in transaction privacy

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Payy says its new layer-2 network routes ERC-20 transfers through privacy pools by default without requiring new wallets or tokens.

Published Date: 2026-02-05 04:22:58
Creator: Cointelegraph by Brian Quarmby
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XRP traders more optimistic as BTC, ETH mood turns sour: Santiment

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Social media sentiment has turned “extremely bearish” toward Bitcoin and Ethereum this week, according to analytics platform Santiment.

Published Date: 2026-02-05 04:10:44
Creator: Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons
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CFTC pulls Biden-era proposal to ban sports, political prediction markets

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CFTC Chair Mike Selig described the proposal as a “frolic into merit regulation” by the Biden administration.

Published Date: 2026-02-05 02:05:17
Creator: Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan
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Startale, SBI launch blockchain for institutional FX, RWA trading

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Strium will begin with synthetic US and Japanese stocks and commodities before expanding to real tokenized shares and asset-backed products with identity verification.

Published Date: 2026-02-05 02:00:00
Creator: Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas
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