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James Howells lost his court battle against Newport City Council in January The judge ruled that there were “no reasonable grounds” for succeeding at a full trial Today, Howells’ Bitcoin would be worth around $780 million A UK landfill site where a man lost his hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin is reportedly set to close in the 2025-26 financial year. The site, in Newport, Wales, “has been in exploitation since the early 2000s and is coming to the end of its life, therefore the council is working on a planned closure and capping of the site over the next two years,” said a council spokesperson. According to the BBC, a solar farm will be built on part of the site after it received planning permission last August. Lost battle In January, James Howells lost his court battle against Newport City Council to recover his lost hard drive. In 2013, his former partner mistakenly threw it out in a black bin bag.  Judge Keyser KC, ...

The Popcat price has soared 37% in the last 24 hours to trade at $0.281 as of 9:00 p.m. EST on a 42% plunge in trading volume to $132 million. The POPCAT price surge follows Coinbase International Exchange’s confirmation that it will add POPCAT, PENGU And MORPHO to its listings roadmap and also introduce perpetual futures for POPCAT, PENGU and Helium (HNT). Assets added to the roadmap today: Morpho Token (MORPHO), Pudgy Penguins (PENGU), and Popcat (SOL) (POPCAT)https://t.co/rRB9d3hSr2 — Coinbase Assets 🛡️ (@CoinbaseAssets) February 7, 2025 The new perpetuals futures contract POPCAT-PERP is scheduled to go live on February 13 at 9:30 AM UTC. This move is part of Coinbase’s broader strategy to expand its derivatives market, which could enhance liquidity and trading volume for the listed tokens. @CoinbaseIntExch will add support for PENGU, Popcat, and Helium perpetual futures on Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced. The opening of ...

Bitcoin fell 4.72% over the weekend and another 3.50% during Monday’s Asian session as tensions driven by Trump’s tariffs have investors de-risking their positions Over the weekend, China responded to Trump’s tariffs by indicating interest in imposing tariffs on US goods, while Canada imposed a 25% tariff on CA$155 billion worth of US goods Bitcoin tumbled below $100,000 over the weekend, extending losses into today as threats of a possible trade war rock markets worldwide. While most of Bitcoin’s price decline came this weekend, weakness began when its price failed to swing higher than the $108,000 level two weeks ago (January 20). A failure to swing higher can signify insufficient buy pressure to push prices higher. If that is the case, prices will seek the next major liquidity level, which could mean lower prices in the interim, as seen over the last two weeks. Scaling down to a lower time frame, Bitcoin’s price continued t...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has moved closer to approving Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by acknowledging a filing by fund management titan Grayscale for a spot Solana ETF. The filing marks a significant step forward, coming after previous rejections of similar applications. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas called the development ”notable” because it’s the first time an ETF tracking a cryptocurrency that was previously deemed a security has been acknowledged by the SEC. UPDATE: SEC just acknowledged the @Grayscale Solana 19b-4. This is actually newsworthy because the SEC had refused to do this in recent filing attempts for SOL pic.twitter.com/m2D88GKG5i — James Seyffart (@JSeyff) February 6, 2025 The shift is boosting optimism in the Solana ecosystem, with investors betting that the eventual approval of spot Solana ETFs could spark a major influx of capital into the ecosystem. That could bolster projects like the layer 2 presa...

Bitcoin DeFi has grown substantially in recent years. Thanks to the introduction of new Layer 1 protocols, such as Ordinals and Runes, and the growing Bitcoin Layer 2 ecosystem, there are now several opportunities for you to earn yield by lending your BTC in the DeFi lending markets.  Read on to discover a list of some of the best Bitcoin DeFi lending apps you could consider if you’re looking to put your bitcoin to work.  Top Bitcoin DeFi Lending Platforms Liquidium  Liquidium is a leading peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin lending platform built on Bitcoin Layer 1. The platform’s users can either borrow BTC using BRC-20 tokens, Ordinals, or Runes as collateral or earn a yield on their BTC by lending it out to other marketplace participants.   The protocol utilizes Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBTs) and Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs) to enable secure, trust-minimized lending and borrowing, ensuring that assets remain under user contr...

Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) has been one of the more well-known AI agent meme coins in the market, but recent price action has raised concerns about its future. The token is down nearly 30% on the day, 59% over the past week, and a staggering 60% in the past month. This sharp decline has wiped out most of its previous gains, leading to the question: is this a dip worth buying, or is it time to move on from Fartcoin? Fartcoin price prediction Fartcoin reached a market capitalization of approximately $2.3 billion at its peak.  Now, with its value around a half-billion-dollar market cap, a potential 5x return exists if it revisits its previous all-time high. The key question is whether AI agent meme coins, including Fartcoin, can recover from their current downturn. Just weeks ago, AI agent meme coins dominated the crypto market. However, investor enthusiasm seems to be cooling off, at least temporarily.  This decline has been fueled by shifting market sentiment. Over the past few...

The Bitcoin price is down more than 6% over the last week following a minor 24-hour loss to trade at $97,326.27 as of 10:01 p.m. EST as investors shift their focus away from the leading crypto. Amid the drop in the BTC price, software firm MicroStrategy, led by Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor, has rebranded to “Strategy.” To reflect the company’s pro-Bitcoin ethos, the firm has also adopted a Bitcoin-themed visual marketing scheme. MicroStrategy is now Strategy. https://t.co/p6UvQgOvnz — Michael Saylor⚡️ (@saylor) February 5, 2025 Bitcoin Price Forms A Bearish Channel On The 4-Hour Chart 4-hour chart for BTC/USDT (Source: TradingView ) The Bitcoin price has printed a series of lower lows and lower highs in the last 48 hours on the 4-hour chart, resulting in the formation of a bearish price channel. Should the leading crypto continue to trade within this descending channel, it could end up testing the $93,904.24 support soon. However, the beari...

The Department of Government Efficiency price plunged 63% in the last 2 weeks and 1% in the last 24 hours to trade at $0.04944 as of 02:47 a.m. EST on trading volume that plummeted 35% to $5.2 million. This drop in the DOGE price comes as Elon Musk called the US Agency for International Development (USAID) a criminal organization without providing any evidence and said it was “time for it to die.”  Trump has entrusted Elon Musk, under the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to reduce the federal government’s spending and oversee the project. Department Of Government Efficiency Price On A Bearish Trend The DOGE price has been a strong bearish trend since reaching its peak near $0.52 in November. After failing to hold above key Fibonacci Retracement levels, the price has steadily declined and is now hovering just above the 0.786 Fibonacci level at $0.11193, according to data from GeckoTerminal . Additionally, the price of DOGE has fallen below both th...

Cryptocurrency analyst and trader Jason Pizzino is warning that one Solana (SOL) competitor is at risk of a severe correction. In a new video, Pizzino tells his 345,000 YouTube subscribers that Sui (SUI) may be repeating a historic pattern that could lead to a collapse. According to Pizzino, SUI saw an overbalance in time and price following its collapse to a low of $2.38. Pizzino explains that the overbalance means SUI went down longer in price and further in time than any corrective period it witnessed during this bull market. With the current setup, the trader says SUI may be following in the footsteps of its April to August https://cdn.thebittimes.com/images/2025/02/05/6ecfd09b5fd240ab782a32fbfc883101.webp4 price action when it initially crashed from about $2 to below $1 before witnessing another deep corrective move. “[Sui is] trying to hold the 50% level similar to what it did last time [in April https://cdn.thebittimes.com/images/2025/02/05/6ecfd09b5...

Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump told his followers on X yesterday that it’s a “great time” to buy ether (ETH) before removing a polite reminder from his post that told his followers to thank him for his financial advice. Trump posted, “In my opinion, it’s a great time to add $ETH. You can thank me later” at 4:52 pm (EST). He removed the “thank me later” line 30 minutes later.  The price of ETH shot up 5.5% from $2,748 to almost $2,900 in the wake of this post but it has since fallen 6.9% to $2,700. World Liberty Financial (WLF) gold paper lists Eric Trump as a “web3 ambassador” under the crypto project’s supporting team. Hours before this post, WLF sent 73,783 ETH (now worth $202 million) to Coinbase Prime. It also sent Coinbase Prime roughly $95 million worth of crypto assets , including USDC, WBTC, AAVE, LINK, ENA, MOVE, and ONDO. World Liberty Financial (@worldlibertyfi) moved $307.41M in 8 assets to #CoinbasePrime 6 hours ago—as part of treasury manag...

As crypto prices fell 7% over the past seven days and market capitalizations shed hundreds of billions of dollars, investors looking for a scapegoat found their perfect target in Wintermute. Wintermute is a market maker, hedge fund, quant shop, and liquidity provider on large digital asset exchanges like Binance. When a customer sets a stop-loss order on a leveraged-long product, Wintermute can benefit from taking the other side of the trade if a crypto price decline causes a liquidation of that stop. Bemoaning billions of dollars in alleged stop-loss liquidations, traders pulled quotes from Wintermute quants about their shocking profits. When markets crash, traders often look to blame quantitative traders, arbitrageurs, market makers, and other sophisticated participants. This skepticism dates back to at least April 30, 2018, when BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes admitted to operating a secret, for-profit, second business on his own exchange that profited from his customers’ l...

Anyone who bought any coin offering by Donald Trump or his family as of their US exchange listing has lost money. The list of crashing crypto projects launched by the First Family includes multi-billion dollar TRUMP and MELANIA memecoins, Trump Digital Trading Cards, and Melania Trump’s Head of State NFT collection. Indeed, Robinhood listed the official TRUMP memecoin near $50 but it’s since crashed below $18 and incinerated billions of dollars in market capitalization.  Coinbase Wallet listed MELANIA near $10, imputing a $10 billion fully diluted valuation. As of today, the coin has tanked below $1.50 . As if that list wasn’t embarrassing enough, many victims have also lost out to phony Trump family coins like DJT and BARRON. Everyone who has ever bought $TRUMP on US regulated exchanges @RobinhoodApp and @Coinbase are in loss pic.twitter.com/4b1X2fanYK — Pledditor (@Pledditor) February 1, 2025 Last month, Mark Hays, the associate director of...

The Stacks price prediction shows that STX is showing signs of consolidation and potential bullish momentum, if the price successfully breaks to the upside, it could trigger a strong bullish rally. Stacks Prediction Data: Stacks price now – $1.33 Stacks market cap – $2.05 billion Stacks circulating supply – 1.51 billion Stacks total supply – 1.51 billion Stacks CoinMarketCap ranking – #55 Getting in early on crypto projects can be a game-changer, as history has shown with numerous tokens surging in value over time. Take Stacks (STX) as an example—since hitting its all-time low of $0.04501 on March 13, 2020, it has skyrocketed by a staggering +2929.4%, proving the power of long-term holding in the right projects. While its all-time high of $3.84 in April 2024 is a distant memory, STX remains a strong performer in the crypto space. Keeping an eye on such tokens and their historical growth can help you identify promising opportunities early. ST...