Cointelegraph by Vince Quill

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Bitcoin mining difficulty falls, but projected to rise in next adjustment

Crypto April 19, 2026

The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the BTC blockchain, fell on Saturday, amid public mining companies selling record amounts of BTC to cover operatingοΏ½...

Polymarket odds of Hormuz Strait traffic normalizing by end of May spike to 73%

Crypto April 18, 2026

Polymarket prediction market odds of the Strait of Hormuz returning to normal by the end of May spiked to 73% on Friday, following news that Iranian officials have temporarily opened up the Strait ofοΏ½...

Justin Sun calls out WLFI, platform threatens lawsuit in response

Crypto April 14, 2026

Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron layer-1 blockchain network, criticized World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance platform co-founded by US President Donald Trumps sons, over lengthyοΏ½...

BTC recovery fragile, Iran war fallout to 'dominate' markets in 2026: Analyst

Crypto April 14, 2026

Now almost a week old, the Bitcoin (BTC) recovery is fragile as the crypto market faces geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds from the ongoing war in the Middle East, according to Nic Puckrin, a cοΏ½...

Bitcoin community weighs in on reports of Iran's crypto toll for oil ships

Crypto April 11, 2026

The Bitcoin (BTC) community is discussing the feasibility and implications of the Iranian government accepting BTC for tolls paid by oil tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping lanοΏ½...

CoreWeave lands multi-year agreement with Anthropic to run AI workloads

Crypto April 11, 2026

CoreWeave, a publicly traded AI cloud infrastructure company, announced on Friday a multi-year agreement with AI developer Anthropic, which will use CoreWeaves cloud computing data centers for its ClοΏ½...

TON blockchain claims sub-second finality with Catchain 2.0 upgrade

Crypto April 10, 2026

The Open Network (TON), an independent layer-1 blockchain that has integrations with the Telegram messaging application, said it has slashed block times to 400 milliseconds with the release of its CaοΏ½...

US Treasury expands cybersecurity threat intel to crypto industry

Crypto April 10, 2026

The US Department of the Treasurys Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP) announced on Thursday that it is expanding its cybersecurity threat identification program toοΏ½...

Bitcoin difficulty drops by over 11%, sharpest drop since 2021 China ban

Crypto February 9, 2026

The Bitcoin network mining difficulty, a metric tracking the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the Bitcoin (BTC) ledger, fell by about 11.16% in the last 24 hours, the worst drop in a singleοΏ½...

CFTC expands payment stablecoin criteria to include national trust banks

Crypto February 9, 2026

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a US financial regulator, reissued a staff letter on Friday to expand the criteria for payment stablecoins to include national trust banks, recognizinοΏ½...