HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:HIVE) announced on Thursday exceptional Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) production results for January 2026, marked by 290% year-over-year hashrate growth.

Bitcoin Produced: 297 BTC, a 191% increase from January 2025.

Average Daily Production: 9.6 BTC/day.

Hashrate: Averaged 22.2 EH/s, peaking at 23.7 EH/s, up 290% from January 2025.

Fleet Efficiency: 17.5 J/TH.

Global Bitcoin Network Share: Sustained above 2% of worldwide Bitcoin hashrate.

The company attributes its performance to its geographically diversified operations, which span nine time zones across three continents. This strategic distribution has enabled HIVE to maintain high uptime and…

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California Rep. Ro Khanna announced on Wednesday he has launched an investigation as ranking member of the Select Committee on China into a $500 million investment by Abu Dhabi’s ruling family in World Liberty Financial (CRYPTO: WLFI), a Trump-linked cryptocurrency company.

The probe focuses on a January 2025 deal in which lieutenants to Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the U.A.E. national security adviser, secretly signed an agreement to purchase a 49% stake in the firm.

The arrangement would steer $187 million to Trump family entities and $31 million to entities tied to Steve Witkoff‘s family, Trump’s Middle East envoy.

Congressional Democrats Demand Answers

According to the…

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Popular podcaster Ashley DCan revived her social media banter with Eric Trump on Wednesday amid Ethereum’s (CRYPTO: ETH) ongoing decline.

The Back-And-Forth

The feud dates back to June 2025, when Ashley mocked Trump’s advice to buy ETH at $2,900. In the months following that advice, the second-largest cryptocurrency had cratered to $1,472, and Ashley accused Trump for treating retail traders as “exit liquidity.”

However, Trump got his moment in August, when ETH rebounded to $4,800.

“You really ought to get out of this business…,” he told Ashley, feeling vindicated.

But the tide has shifted again as ETH crashed below $2,100, hitting levels not seen since May 2025. Ashley tagged…

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Economist Peter Schiff questioned on Wednesday President Donald Trump’s push to make the U.S. the “world capital” of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), arguing that Beijing couldn’t care less about the leading cryptocurrency.

China Not Bothered About Bitcoin, Says Schiff

In an X post, Schiff slammed Trump’s oft-repeated argument that the U.S. must dominate cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to stop China from getting ahead.

“But Chinese leadership is too smart to care about Bitcoin,” Schiff said. “While we’re wasting capital and resources, they’re building factories and buying gold.”

China Maintains Anti-Crypto Stance

Trump claimed in November that China was trying to get…

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Bitcoin is hovering around 15-month lows as market sentiment stays firmly in “Extreme Fear” territory.

Notable Statistics:

Coinglass data shows 145,087 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $631.75 million.       

In the past 24 hours, top gainers include Midnight, Morpho and LayerZero.

Notable Developments:

Trader Notes: Trader Michael van de Poppe said Bitcoin is attempting to form a higher low, a structure that could support a move toward the $82,000–$84,000 zone if current levels hold.

However, failure to defend this area may lead to a retest of the $69,700 region, which aligns with Bitcoin’s 2021 all-time high.

Van de Poppe emphasized that the current setup…

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CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) CEO Terry Duffy revealed the derivatives giant is exploring launching its own crypto that could operate on a decentralized network, as CME stock broke out from an inverse head and shoulders pattern targeting $320.

The ‘CME Coin’ Announcement

Duffy on Wednesday confirmed during the company’s latest earnings call that CME is exploring “initiatives with our own coin that we could potentially put on a decentralized network,” Coindesk reported. 

The comment came in response to Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) analyst Michael Cyprys asking about tokenized collateral.

Duffy distinguished between collateral sources. “If you were to give me a token from a systemically…

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushed back against speculation around a Strategic Bitcoin reserve, making clear that the federal government has no legal authority to support or “bail out” Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) using public funds.

No Bitcoin Bailout Authority

During a House Financial Services Committee hearing on financial stability risks, a lawmaker questioned whether the U.S. government could support Bitcoin by directing banks to buy it or by deploying taxpayer funds into crypto markets.

Bessent firmly rejected the premise, stating that neither the Treasury Department nor federal regulators have the authority to compel banks to purchase Bitcoin or to invest public money into crypto…

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IREN Ltd (NASDAQ:IREN) used to dig for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). Now it wants to mine the cloud. In less than two years, the company has leapt from crypto pioneer to “Neocloud” upstart — and Thursday’s second quarter earnings will decide whether that reinvention looks visionary or overreach.

$9.7B Microsoft Partnership

Once known as Iris Energy, IREN has pivoted hard into AI infrastructure, locking in a $9.7 billion partnership with Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) to host next-generation compute.

What began as stranded-energy Bitcoin sites are now being rebuilt into data centers meant to power AI workloads at scale.

The transformation is dramatic — but also expensive, and Wall Street knows…

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