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It took Polymarket less than 24 hours to turn a Middle Eastern war into an active trading floor.Since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran Saturday, the prediction market has seen a flood of new contracts covering everything from ceasefire timelines to whether the Iranian regime will collapse by June.The speed and specificity of the markets is striking. Bettors aren’t just wagering on whether the conflict escalates, but pricing the week it ends, who replaces Khamenei, and whether U.S. ground forces enter Iran by March 7.Polymarket’s largest completed market is “Khamenei out as Supreme Leader of Iran by March…

Bitcoin prices have recovered from their dip following the US-Israeli air strikes on Iran and reports of the death of the Iranian Supreme Leader.Bitcoin (BTC) prices reached $68,200 in early trading on Sunday morning on Coinbase, according to TradingView.The asset has now recovered all losses from its dip to $63,000 on Saturday, adding $5,000 in less than 24 hours following the news that the United States and Israel had commenced air strikes on Iran. BTC is currently trading back at Friday’s levels, around $67,350 at the time of writing, but remains within a three-week range-bound channel. Over the past 24 hours, around…

The price of Bitcoin rapidly fell overnight as the United States and Israel began joint “major combat operations” in Iran, bombing numerous military targets in what officials said were attempts to end the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, as well as take out key military leaders.But while Bitcoin plunged from a price of $65,572 to $63,176 in about an hour overnight following word of the strikes, the leading cryptocurrency has mostly recovered that ground in the hours since.It’s currently trading for $65,051, according to data from CoinGecko, still showing an approximately 0.8% loss on the day and 5.2% fall…

Key Takeaways The screenshot claiming the return of the “4chan Bitcoin prophet” has caused a splash on social media. The original 2019 bottom call has cemented the anonymous poster in crypto history. While some high-profile figures see Bitcoin reaching seven figures long term, others warn of severe downside risk. A viral post on X has sparked renewed debate over the possible return of a famed anonymous crypto forecaster, after a November 2025 prediction that Bitcoin would reach $1 million and Ethereum would hit $100,000 by the end of 2026 resurfaced this week. The post claims the return of the so-called…

Bitcoin is trading at weekly RSI levels historically seen near bear market bottoms, signaling that selling pressure may be easing. While confirmation is needed, the market is in a zone often marking late-stage capitulation. The key question: was the recent drop the final flush, or is one last shakeout still ahead? RSI Compression Signals Downside Exhaustion According to crypto analyst Batman, Bitcoin’s weekly RSI has fallen back into the same territory that historically marked prior bear market bottoms. This momentum zone has repeatedly appeared during late-stage capitulation phases, making it a critical signal that the market could be nearing another…

DCTRL, a Bitcoin hub and hacker space out of Vancouver, the fair-weather Canadian city, has announced the sunset of its downtown basement location, iconic among early adopters for its tinkerer mindset and hardware hacker culture. The community will be migrating to a new location in the coming weeks, and updates to the vision of the hub. The Vancouver Bitcoin community is renowned for having set up the first Bitcoin ATM in History, with DCTRL specifically having hosted a variety of renowned characters that, over the years, gave this industry much of its cultural and innovative flair.  Visited by some of…

Dubai, UAE, February 28th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has introduced a fixed-rate borrowing option under its Unified Trading Account (UTA) Loan product, bringing together leverage of up to 10 times and fixed borrowing periods of up to 180 days within a single unified account — a combination that remains rare in the digital asset market. Bybit’s Unified Trading Account is designed to allow users to manage spot trading, derivatives trading, and borrowing activities within a single account structure using shared collateral and integrated margin management. Through UTA Loan, users can borrow assets via…

Democrats in the U.S. Senate continue to pile onto Binance, asking the Treasury and Justice departments to investigate its sanctions compliance and protections against illicit finance following reports of potential terrorism funding.Nine senators, including a few that have been instrumental in negotiations over the crypto industry legislation known as the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, sent a letter Friday to the chiefs of the federal agencies, requesting they probe the exchange after news reports on possible breaches, which also claimed the company had fired some of the compliance personnel involved in discovering the transactions.The latest move from Democrats follows an…

Google Cloud, MoneyGram, Vodafone’s Pairpoint, and eToro will run launch-phase nodes on Midnight, a zero-knowledge privacy network targeting a mainnet launch at the end of March 2026.The pitch isn’t anonymity, but selective disclosure. It’s the ability to prove compliance or settlement eligibility without broadcasting raw customer data onto a public ledger.Midnight’s Kūkolu mainnet launches at the end of March 2026 with federated operators, with a transition to broader decentralization planned but not yet scheduled.Midnight describes these operators as “federated,” meaning a limited, named set running the protocol under explicit coordination rules to prioritize uptime and operational stability during the Kūkolu…

Japan’s SBI Holdings will issue a ¥10 billion retail bond on March 24, but the story is the XRP perk dangled in front of buyers, conditional on opening an account at SBI VC Trade and completing receipt procedures by noon on May 11.Pricing drops on March 10, subscription runs from March 11-23, and secondary trading launches on March 25 on Osaka Digital Exchange’s START platform.The timeline shows SBI’s bond subscription window from March 11-23, 2026, with the XRP perk requiring account setup by May 11, 2026.The bond itself is a conventional three-year instrument. XRP is a marketing lever designed to…