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MEV Explained: Ethereum’s Top Sandwich Bot Made $295M, Then Lost $7.5M
30.8.2026
A single Ethereum contract has pulled in more than 117,000 ETH, roughly $295 million at current prices, sandwiching other traders since March 2023, and in June, an anonymous attacker turned its own playbook against it for a $7.5 million payday. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted Earlier this year...
Bitcoin to Solana: How 8 Crypto Networks Reach Consensus
24.8.2026
Every blockchain eventually hits a hard wall: thousands of independent computers have to settle on one history without a central referee deciding which version wins. That process is called a consensus algorithm, and the design determines who can add transactions, how rival versions of the ledger...
Stablecoin Depegs Explained: What Really Happens When a Digital Dollar Breaks the Buck
23.8.2026
Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether’s USDT at $0.88, and Terra’s UST collapsed to virtually zero in a crash that erased roughly $40 billion. As recently as November 2025, a DeFi stablecoin called xUSD lost more than half its value in a single day....
Bitcoin’s Final 929,465 BTC Will Take More Than a Century to Mine
16.8.2026
Bitcoin has already produced about 20.07 million BTC since it launched in January 2009. At block height 962570, roughly 929,465 bitcoin remain under the 21 million cap, but they will not hit the market anytime soon. The easy years of new bitcoin issuance are long over. What remains is an extended...
Liquidation Cascades Explained: How $19 Billion in Crypto Vanished in a Single Day
15.8.2026
Crypto’s derivatives markets forcibly closed over $19 billion in positions held by 1.6 million traders on Oct. 10, 2025, and 2026 has already delivered three separate billion-dollar sequels. The Machine Behind the Margin Call Most crypto speculation doesn’t happen in the spot market...
What Is FINMA? Why Crypto Firms Keep Flocking to Switzerland
12.8.2026
Switzerland has turned financial regulation into a competitive machine, pairing the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, better known as FINMA, with specialized regulatory pathways that have helped make the country one of the world’s premier destinations for finance, fintech...
Where Stolen Crypto Really Goes: Inside the 45-Day Laundering Machine
9.8.2026
Hackers stole $3.4 billion in crypto in 2025 and topped $1 billion again in the first half of 2026. Once the coins start moving, investigators have roughly 45 days before the trail goes cold. Six Years, More Than $16 Billion Gone Crypto theft is no longer a phase that the digital asset industry...
What Is a Secure Element? How It Protects Hardware Wallets
7.8.2026
For anyone who stores cryptocurrency in a hardware wallet, one tiny computer chip quietly performs one of the most important security jobs in the entire device. Most people never see it, never interact with it and rarely hear it mentioned. Yet this specialized chip is responsible for protecting...
Seed Phrases: The 12 Words Standing Between You and Losing Everything
2.8.2026
On Jan. 10, 2026, a bitcoin and litecoin holder handed over their 12-word recovery phrase to someone posing as Trezor support and watched $282 million vanish in minutes, not because any encryption was broken, but because those 12 words are the entire wallet, and whoever holds them holds the funds....
What Happens When Two Miners Find a Block at the Same Second? Inside an Orphan Race
29.7.2026
On March 24, 2026, Antpool mined block 941,881 at 15:49:35 UTC while Foundry USA mined its own, completely different version of block 941,881 just 12 seconds later, splitting Bitcoin’s blockchain into two competing versions of history until one pool mined six blocks in a row to force...
Top 10 Publicly Traded Firms by BTC Holdings Reveal a Million-Bitcoin Power Bloc
26.7.2026
Ten public companies now hold more than 1 million bitcoin between them, and the gap between the winners and losers on Wall Street has never been wider. In 2026, Saylor’s Strategy Still Holds a Significant Lead Strategy, the company Michael Saylor built into the world’s largest corporate...
Bitcoin’s Difficulty Adjustment Explained: How the Network Punishes Itself Every Two Weeks
25.7.2026
Every 2,016 blocks, i.e. roughly every two weeks, Bitcoin automatically resets how hard it is to mine a block, a self-correcting rule that swung from an 11.16% cut on Feb. 7, 2026 to a 14.7% hike just 12 days later, the network’s sharpest whipsaw since 2021. The Rule Nobody Votes On Bitcoin...
55.84 Billion XRP Appears Across the Top 40 Wallets, but Escrow Changes the Picture
22.7.2026
XRP’s 40 largest listed accounts carry a displayed footprint of 55.84 billion XRP worth more than $64 billion, but the rankings reveal that Ripple escrow and exchange custody shape the list far more than a simple collection of individual whales. The Rich List Is Bigger Than It Looks...
What Happens When a Bitcoin Block Is Full? Every Byte Sparks a Live Fee Auction
21.7.2026
When Bitcoin traffic gets heavy, a full block does not stop the network; it turns the next available space into a live auction where urgency has a price. The Line Forms Before the Block Think of a crowded subway platform at rush hour. Every new rider has a valid ticket, but the arriving train...
Ethereum’s 12 Biggest Wallets Expose 6 Exchanges Controlling 6.6 Million ETH
19.7.2026
Ethereum’s largest wallets hold more than 82% of the supply tracked across the network’s top 12 addresses, according to onchain data reviewed by Bitcoin.com News. The list spans staking infrastructure, a token wrapping contract, five exchange wallets, two layer two (L2) bridges, and...
Bitcoin Chain Splits Explained: Why Every BTC Holder Gets a New 1:1 Asset
11.7.2026
Bitcoin has two forks on the calendar for 2026. Developer Paul Sztorc plans a deliberate hard fork called eCash, activating at block height 964,000, expected around August 21. Separately, a contested soft fork proposal called BIP-110 carries the chance of splitting the chain by accident during...
2 Bitcoin Forks Are Coming in August: Everything You Need to Know
7.7.2026
Bitcoin is heading toward two separate fork events in August 2026, and knowing the difference between them is the first step to understanding what’s actually at stake. One is a proposed soft fork called BIP-110. The other is a planned hard fork called eCash, backed by Drivechain architect Paul...
Inside the Top 12 Bitcoin Addresses: Who Holds 1.35 Million BTC
6.7.2026
Twelve addresses on bitcoin’s rich list hold a combined 1,347,380 BTC, worth roughly $85.2 billion at current prices near $63,265. That’s 6.72% of all bitcoin in existence sitting behind twelve public keys. Some belong to exchanges moving customer funds around the clock. Others haven’t moved...
What Is Solana’s Alpenglow Upgrade? New Consensus Could Deliver 150ms Transaction Finality
13.3.2026
Solana’s next major protocol overhaul is edging closer to reality, and developers say it could dramatically reduce transaction confirmation times while simplifying the network’s core mechanics. Solana’s Alpenglow Upgrade Targets Near-Instant Finality and Simpler Consensus Solana developers...
What Is ERC-8004? Ethereum’s New Agent Standard Powers Thousands of Onchain AI Identities
14.2.2026
Ethereum’s latest draft standard, ERC-8004, is turning artificial intelligence (AI) agents into portable, reputation-backed economic actors across EVM chains — and 21,562 of them are already live. Trustless AI Goes Onchain: How ERC-8004 Is Redefining Agent Discovery ERC-8004, formally titled...