Cointelegraph by Vince Quill

Articles by Cointelegraph by Vince Quill

PENGUIN memecoin surges 564% following White House social media post

Crypto January 26, 2026

The Nietzschean Penguin (PENGUIN) token, a memecoin launched on the Solana layer-1 blockchain network, surged by about 564% following a social media post from the United States White House. On FridaοΏ½...

Bitcoin payments held back by tax policy, not scaling tech: Crypto exec

Crypto January 26, 2026

The biggest obstacle to Bitcoin (BTC) being used as a payment method is tax policy, not scaling technology that reduces settlement times and transaction costs, according to Pierre Rochard, a board meοΏ½...

Ethereum treasury company BitMine crosses 1 million staked ETH milestone

Crypto January 12, 2026

Crypto treasury company BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) staked an additional 86,400 Ether (ETH) on Saturday, valued at about $268.7 million at the time of this writing, crossing the 1 million sοΏ½...

ETH-BTC ratio bottomed in April, mirrors 2019 cycle: Analyst

Crypto January 12, 2026

The price of Ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum layer-1 blockchain network, bottomed out in April 2025, and its price action mirrors the 2019 cycle, according to market analyst MiοΏ½...

Bitcoin mining difficulty falls in first adjustment of 2026

Crypto January 11, 2026

The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the decentralized blockchain ledger, fell slightly to 146.4 trillion on Thursday, in the first dοΏ½...

Starknet publishes post-mortem report after temporary network outage

Crypto January 11, 2026

The team behind Starknet, an Ethereum layer2 (L2) scaling network, released a post-mortem report outlining the root cause of the temporary mainnet downtime on Monday. The root cause of the mainnet dοΏ½...

Bitcoiners celebrate 17th anniversary of Hal Finney's Bitcoin post

Crypto January 11, 2026

The Bitcoin (BTC) community is celebrating the anniversary of cypherpunk and Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finneys post on January 10, 2009, telling the world that he was running the Bitcoin node software RunοΏ½...

Nasdaq and CME Group join forces to launch Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index

Crypto January 10, 2026

The Nasdaq Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group joined forces to unify their crypto indexes, rebranding the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) as the Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index. The NCοΏ½...

CLARITY Act hinges on bipartisan support, and here are the numbers: Analyst

Crypto January 10, 2026

The passage of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, also known as the CLARITY market structure bill, hinges on bipartisan support in the United States Senate Banking Committee, according to οΏ½...

BNY launches tokenized deposits amid TradFi rush into blockchain and crypto

Crypto January 10, 2026

BNY, a financial services company that traces its roots back to one of the oldest financial institutions in the United States, launched tokenized bank deposits for its institutional clients on FridayοΏ½...