Author: Oguz Ozdemir

A tax employee in Bobigny used internal software to compile dossiers on cryptocurrency specialists, billionaire Vincent Bolloré, prison guards, and a judge. She passed the information to criminals who paid €800 to attack a prison officer at home in Montreuil.Her appeal was rejected Jan. 6, as reported by local media.The case matters less for what happened than for how targets were selected. The newest vector isn’t Telegram doxxing or compromised exchanges. It’s privileged access to state identity systems that map names to addresses, phone numbers, and family structures with a single query.France’s National Police Inspectorate logged 93 investigations in 2024…

Bitcoin trades near $91054.6 on the 4-hour chart after a strong rally stalled. Price failed near the upper Bollinger Band at $94274.6 and rotated lower. Volatility expanded on the rejection, then tightened as candles clustered around the 20 EMA at $91429.5. The structure now shows compression between moving averages, signaling a pressure zone where momentum must resolve. What are the Supports and Resistances Level Price (USD) Description Support 1 $90569.3 Major horizontal pivot where buyers defended multiple tests. Support 2 $89518.2 Lower Bollinger Band that capped recent downside wicks. Resistance 1 $91429.5 20 EMA acting as near-term dynamic resistance. Resistance…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! The ORACLE Act, known as the Oversight and Regulation of Activity for Contracts Linked to Events, was reintroduced in the New York State Assembly by Assembly Member Clyde Vanel on January 7 to set stricter rules for platforms that offer prediction markets. Under these changes, betting on specific match results, such as NFL games, would not be allowed, while bets on tournament outcomes, such as who wins the Super Bowl, would remain accepted.Additionally, the bill would stop “prop betting”, which refers to betting on specific moments during games, such as the first team to score or a player’s in-game statistics.…

ZEC stands in one corner, while POL is in the other. Bitcoin’s weekend price stagnation continues as the asset has failed to make even a minor move out of the $90,000-$91,000 tight range. Most larger-cap alts have remained sluggish as well, with just a few impressive price gainers over the past 24 hours – XMR and RAIN. BTC Stalls at $90.5K Bitcoin entered 2026 after a controversial 2025 that actually ended in the red. It quickly started to regain value and surged past $90,000 on the second day of the new year. Even the geopolitical tension between the US…

Inquiries about whether pensions can be paid in crypto have become one of the most frequent non-standard requests received by the Social Fund of Russia, a state-run institution responsible for managing Russia’s public pension system.In 2025, the Social Fund’s call center handled roughly 37 million calls, the vast majority related to routine matters such as pensions, benefits and maternity capital. However, operators also increasingly fielded questions about digital assets, according to a Saturday report from Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Russian Gazette), the official daily newspaper of the Russian government.Among the most common crypto-related inquiries were whether Russian citizens could receive pension payments…

In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, Tennessee officials issued cease-and-desist orders to major prediction market platforms alleging unlicensed sports wagering, while BNY advances the tokenized deposit platform launch. Summary Tennessee ordered Kalshi, Polymarket and Crypto.com to halt sports prediction markets. BNY Mellon launched blockchain-based deposit settlement as banks expand into crypto rails. Truebit lost $26.6M in ETH as security risks and regulatory pressure hit the market. Tennessee targets prediction market platforms The Tennessee Sports Wagering Council issued January 9 cease-and-desist letters to Kalshi, Polymarket, and Crypto.com, ordering them to stop offering sports event contracts to state residents. Regulators…

Jan3 founder Samson Mow anticipates billionaire investor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk will aggressively move into Bitcoin in 2026.It was one of five bold Bitcoin (BTC) predictions from Mow for 2026, coming off a year where several Bitcoin forecasts from prominent crypto executives missed the mark.“@elonmusk goes hard into BTC,” Mow said in an X post on Saturday.Musk has shown his support for cryptocurrency over the years, but has raised concerns around Bitcoin’s environmental risks. Tesla stopped taking Bitcoin payments in May 2021 due to environmental concerns. The following year, in July 2022, the electric vehicle manufacturer revealed that it…

Polygon Ecosystem Token [POL] has rallied 9.29% in 24 hours and was up 48.5% over the past week. This impressive performance began on the 1st of January, when Bitcoin [BTC] and the wider crypto market started to make quick gains. POL has sustained its momentum over the past week, despite Bitcoin’s stall. The momentum was likely driven by developments such as the recent token burn. On the 7th of January, the Polygon Foundation revealed in a network update on X that POL had reached an “all-time high for demand and single-day fees generated”. The impressive milestone saw a record burn…

Two years ago, Bitcoin gained something it had chased for a long time: a place in the tradfi default menu.Plenty of people could get exposure to Bitcoin in 2023, as anyone with an exchange account and a tolerance for operational risk could click “buy.” Yet most capital in the US moves through brokerages, retirement accounts, advisory platforms, model portfolios, and compliance checklists.For that money, Bitcoin needed to arrive in a form that looked and felt like the rest of a portfolio.On Jan. 10, 2024, the SEC approved the listing and trading of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products. A day later, the…

Major Shiba Inu transfers are picking up again, suggesting that large traders are returning to the meme-coin market. The shift first appeared in on-chain data. Santiment reported that SHIB saw a +111% jump in transactions worth at least $100,000 over the past week.  (Source: Santiment) That puts the token among the top ten projects showing the fastest growth in large transfers for assets valued above $500M.  The update came on Jan. 8, as traders adjusted their positions early in the new year. SHIB’s price has not reacted sharply as the token traded near $0.00000875 on Friday, up about -0.1% in…