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After bouncing 2.6% from recent lows, Bitcoin (BTC) has been attempting to turn the $82,000-$83,000 area into support. Some analysts have warned that the cryptocurrency must hold the crucial macro support levels or it will “confirm bearish acceleration.” Related Reading Bitcoin To Drop 76% From its Peak On Thursday, Bitcoin crashed alongside the rest of the market, retracing nearly 9% in a day toward the $81,314 area. BTC had been trading between $86,000-$93,500 since early November, closing above the lower boundary of its two-month range in the weekly timeframe despite constant volatility. At the moment, the flagship cryptocurrency has lost…

The Plan ₿ Network just announced the global premiere of CypherTank, a Bitcoin-focused pitch series designed to highlight innovative builders, explore bold ideas, and bring the global Bitcoin community directly into the conversation. The series blends live pitching, founder storytelling, and community-driven discussion, all framed around Bitcoin culture and values.  Each episode gives viewers an inside look at how entrepreneurs think, build, and pitch in the Bitcoin ecosystem, offering both entertainment and insight for enthusiasts, investors, and fellow builders alike. Episode 1 is scheduled to debut on January 31, 2026, during Plan ₿ Forum El Salvador, with a live main-stage…

The U.S. government is set to partially shut down at midnight, despite the Senate voting in favor of a funding package intended to keep the government running — showing the importance of specificity in prediction market contracts.The House of Representatives is out of session this week, and will not be back until Monday. Because the House needs to pass the package the Senate voted on Friday evening, this means that the government will technically shut down at 12:00 a.m. ET Saturday, and likely remain shut through the weekend. It’s just a partial shutdown and should not have a significant effect…

In brief The Bitcoin mining profit/loss sustainability index hit a 14-month low, according to CryptoQuant. The metric measures the price of Bitcoin versus the profitability of running a Bitcoin mining operation. Shares of publicly traded BTC miners have fallen by double digits this week. Bitcoin miners are struggling to eke out a profit lately amid the asset’s falling price and external complications, including a winter storm that rocked a large chunk of the United States last weekend, impacting the production of top mining firms.A ratio that tracks the relationship between Bitcoin’s price and the profitability of running Bitcoin mining operations…

The SEC and CFTC have relaunched Project Crypto to provide clear, coordinated regulation for the growing U.S. digital asset industry. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have relaunched Project Crypto in a coordinated effort to provide regulatory clarity for the digital asset industry. The initiative is part of a strategy to align the two agencies’ approaches to crypto markets and ensure U.S. financial leadership keeps pace with technological innovation. Project Crypto Targets Clearer Crypto Rules In a January 29 joint statement, SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Heath Tarbert emphasized that…

Key NotesThe restaurant chain converts same-store sales into Bitcoin holdings through a strategic reserve system launched in May 2025.Employees receive $0.21 per hour in Bitcoin bonuses with a two-year vesting period as part of the transformation initiative.Same-store sales increased 18% in 2026 following the cryptocurrency adoption strategy and improved food quality focus. Route 66-born, classic American brand Steak ‘n Shake has increased its Bitcoin BTC $89 267 24h volatility: 2.0% Market cap: $1.78 T Vol. 24h: $42.61 B exposure by $5 million, according to a recent update. The steakburger house has been making notable moves around the leading cryptocurrency, gathering…

Coinbase is testing Flipcash’s in-development stablecoin, USDF, on its backend as part of a new feature that will allow businesses to create their own branded, dollar-backed tokens.The “Coinbase Custom Stablecoins” feature, introduced in December, will let businesses earn rewards on activity and allow them to move funds seamlessly between Coinbase-supported chains, with the tokens collateralized by Circle’s USDC (USDC).“A new Coinbase Custom Stablecoin, USDF, has been enabled on Coinbase Exchange for operational testing,” Coinbase posted to X on Tuesday, adding: “This is a backend test phase only. Trading, deposits, and withdrawals are currently unavailable. Stay tuned for more updates.”Custom stablecoins can…

The use of centralized crypto exchanges for laundering illicit funds is on the decline, with Chinese-language money laundering networks now being used more than ever, according to Chainalysis.Chainalysis said in a report on Tuesday that informal service-based networks offered through Chinese-speaking channels have a wide variety of laundering-as-a-service businesses that use money mules, informal over-the-counter trade desks, and gambling platforms to mix and swap crypto.The networks emerged during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, and now “dominate known crypto money laundering activity.”Centralized crypto exchanges have made strides to beef up customer checks and security in the last…

Jessie A Ellis Jan 27, 2026 19:22 NVIDIA releases FastGen, an open-source library that accelerates diffusion models up to 100x. 14B parameter video models now train in 16 hours on 64 H100 GPUs. NVIDIA dropped FastGen on January 27, an open-source library that promises to slash diffusion model inference times by 10x to 100x. The toolkit targets what’s become a brutal bottleneck in generative AI: getting these models to produce output fast enough for real-world use. Standard diffusion models need tens to hundreds of denoising steps per generation. For images, that’s annoying. For video? It’s a dealbreaker. Generating a single…

The UK’s advertising watchdog has reportedly banned a series of advertisements from Coinbase, claiming they presented the crypto exchange as a solution to cost-of-living concerns while making light of the risks of investing in crypto.The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the ads — which included a satirical musical-style video and three posters — were “irresponsible” and “trivialized the risks of cryptocurrency,” The Guardian reported on Wednesday.“We considered that using humour to reference serious financial concerns, alongside a cue to ‘change,’ risked presenting complex, high-risk financial products as an easy or obvious response to those concerns,” the ASA said.Coinbase released…