<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>the daily grind — Bitcoin</title><description>BTC price action, ETF flows, mining economics, sovereign adoption, and the corporate treasury arms race. The largest crypto asset and everything orbiting it.</description><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The &apos;Crypto President&apos;s&apos; Own Media Company Just Quit the Bitcoin ETF Market Before Selling a Single Share</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/truth-social-bitcoin-etf-dead-york-ville-withdrawal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/truth-social-bitcoin-etf-dead-york-ville-withdrawal/</guid><description>Trump Media&apos;s Truth Social quietly withdrew all three of its spot crypto ETF filings from the SEC — the Bitcoin ETF, the BTC/ETH ETF, and the Crypto Blue Chip ETF — before a single share was ever sold. Here&apos;s why the market murdered them before launch.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>etf</category><category>regulation</category><category>trump</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>Kraken Fought the Fed for 5 Years to Get a Master Account. Trump Just Ordered Regulators to Fast-Track It for Everyone.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-fed-master-accounts-crypto-payment-rails/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-fed-master-accounts-crypto-payment-rails/</guid><description>Trump&apos;s new executive order directs the Federal Reserve to evaluate giving crypto firms direct access to Fedwire — the same payment rails that process trillions in bank transfers daily. Ripple, Anchorage, and Coinbase are next in line.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>policy</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>coinbase</category><category>ripple</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>Trump Typed 7 Words and $657 Million in Crypto Vanished</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-iran-657m-bitcoin-liquidations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-iran-657m-bitcoin-liquidations/</guid><description>A single Truth Social post warning Iran &apos;the clock is ticking&apos; sent Bitcoin below $77K and triggered the biggest crypto liquidation event since February — wiping out leveraged longs in hours.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>markets</category><category>liquidations</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>9,000 Bitcoin ATMs Went Dark Overnight — America&apos;s Largest Crypto ATM Operator Just Filed for Bankruptcy</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-depot-bankrupt-9000-atms-dark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-depot-bankrupt-9000-atms-dark/</guid><description>Bitcoin Depot, once the dominant force in Bitcoin ATMs with 9,000 machines across North America, filed Chapter 11 today and pulled the plug on its entire network. The era of the crypto ATM is ending — and regulators killed it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>crypto-atm</category><category>bankruptcy</category></item><item><title>Italy&apos;s $1 Trillion Bank Doubled Its Crypto Bet to $235M — and Completely Dumped Solana</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/intesa-sanpaolo-235m-crypto-dumped-solana/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/intesa-sanpaolo-235m-crypto-dumped-solana/</guid><description>Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy&apos;s largest bank with ~$1 trillion in assets, more than doubled its crypto exposure from $100M to $235M in Q1 2026, added Ethereum and XRP for the first time, bought Bitcoin call options — and slashed its Solana position by 99%.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>institutional-adoption</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ethereum</category><category>solana</category><category>banks</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>A Country&apos;s Bitcoin Fund Says &apos;I Don&apos;t Recall Selling&apos; — But the Blockchain Remembers Everything</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bhutan-bitcoin-1-billion-denied-arkham/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bhutan-bitcoin-1-billion-denied-arkham/</guid><description>Bhutan&apos;s sovereign wealth fund CEO told CoinDesk he doesn&apos;t recall selling any BTC. Arkham Intelligence&apos;s on-chain data shows $1 billion in outflows since mid-2025. Someone is wrong — and the blockchain doesn&apos;t lie.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>blockchain-analytics</category><category>sovereign-bitcoin</category></item><item><title>The New Fed Chair Owns $100M in Crypto — And Nobody at the Fed Has Ever Said That Before</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-crypto-holdings-bitcoin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-crypto-holdings-bitcoin/</guid><description>Kevin Warsh just replaced Jerome Powell as Fed Chair on May 15, 2026. He holds Solana, dYdX, Bitcoin Lightning equity, and a stablecoin stake. The most crypto-native person to ever run the Federal Reserve is now in charge of US monetary policy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>regulation</category><category>federal-reserve</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>One Republican Vote Stood Between Crypto and Real US Law — He Just Flipped</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/clarity-act-senate-committee-passed-kennedy-crypto-law/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/clarity-act-senate-committee-passed-kennedy-crypto-law/</guid><description>Senator Kennedy was the last holdout who could kill the CLARITY Act. Today he voted yes. The most comprehensive crypto market structure bill in US history just cleared the Senate Banking Committee and is headed to the Senate floor.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>clarity-act</category><category>legislation</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ethereum</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>40% of the CEOs Trump Flew to China Have Crypto Ties — and Bitcoin Just Noticed</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-china-summit-bitcoin-40-percent-ceo-crypto-delegation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-china-summit-bitcoin-40-percent-ceo-crypto-delegation/</guid><description>Trump boarded Air Force One to Beijing with Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Jensen Huang, and Tim Cook. Nearly 40% of the 16-CEO delegation has direct crypto exposure. Bitcoin is watching every minute of these talks.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>regulation</category><category>institutional</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>The $12 Trillion Brokerage Just Handed 35 Million Retail Investors Direct Bitcoin Access</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/schwab-spot-crypto-35-million-clients-bitcoin-ethereum/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/schwab-spot-crypto-35-million-clients-bitcoin-ethereum/</guid><description>Charles Schwab launched spot BTC and ETH trading for retail clients today — no new exchange account, no seed phrase, 0.75% flat fee. The largest non-bank brokerage in the US just went full crypto.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>institutional</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ethereum</category><category>trading</category><category>adoption</category></item><item><title>For 18 Months, Any Miner Could Have Crashed Bitcoin&apos;s Network. 43% of Nodes Still Haven&apos;t Patched.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-core-cve-2024-52911-43-percent-nodes-vulnerable/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-core-cve-2024-52911-43-percent-nodes-vulnerable/</guid><description>Bitcoin Core quietly patched its first-ever memory safety bug in late 2024, disguising the fix as a logging improvement. The vulnerability — now public — let miners remotely crash nodes running versions 0.14.0 through 28.x. Nearly half the network is still exposed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>security</category><category>bitcoin-core</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Wall Street Built a VIX for Bitcoin — And It Goes Live June 1</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cme-bitcoin-volatility-futures-bvi-vix-crypto/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cme-bitcoin-volatility-futures-bvi-vix-crypto/</guid><description>CME Group is launching Bitcoin Volatility futures (BVI) on June 1, giving institutional traders the first CFTC-regulated way to bet on how wild Bitcoin gets — not just where it goes. The VIX just got a crypto twin.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>institutional</category><category>derivatives</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>cme</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category></item><item><title>Oil Crossed $100 Last Night and Crypto Just Lost $300 Million</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/iran-oil-100-bitcoin-300m-liquidations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/iran-oil-100-bitcoin-300m-liquidations/</guid><description>Geopolitical escalation in the Middle East sent Brent crude above $100 a barrel overnight, wiping out $300 million in leveraged crypto bets by morning. This is what war does to 24/7 markets.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>markets</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>liquidations</category><category>macro</category></item><item><title>JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and the CFTC Chair All Showed Up to Crypto&apos;s Biggest Conference — on the Same Day Bitcoin Hit $81K</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/consensus-miami-wall-street-bitcoin-81k/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/consensus-miami-wall-street-bitcoin-81k/</guid><description>Consensus Miami 2026 opened with a jaw-dropper: Wall Street didn&apos;t just attend — they sponsored. Institutional attendance doubled to 35% of the crowd, representing $10 trillion in AUM. Bitcoin noticed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>consensus</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>institutional</category><category>wall-street</category><category>hiring</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Bitcoin Has Crashed After 8 of Powell&apos;s Last 9 Fed Meetings. He Has One Left.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-fomc-powell-last-meeting-sell-the-news/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-fomc-powell-last-meeting-sell-the-news/</guid><description>Tomorrow is Jerome Powell&apos;s final FOMC press conference before Kevin Warsh takes the chair on May 15. Bitcoin is up 21% since early April — and history says the 48 hours after a Fed decision are the most dangerous window in crypto.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>markets</category><category>fed</category><category>macro</category><category>trading</category></item><item><title>The FBI Director Just Walked Into a Bitcoin Conference to Say the War on Bitcoin Is Over</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/fbi-director-bitcoin-2026-code-is-free-speech/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/fbi-director-bitcoin-2026-code-is-free-speech/</guid><description>Kash Patel and Acting AG Todd Blanche take the stage at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas today — the nation&apos;s top law enforcement officials declaring &apos;Code is Free Speech&apos; at the world&apos;s biggest Bitcoin event.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>regulation</category><category>policy</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>developer-rights</category></item><item><title>One Company Now Controls More Bitcoin Than BlackRock — And It Just Bought $2.54 Billion More</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-815k-btc-blackrock-surpassed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-815k-btc-blackrock-surpassed/</guid><description>Strategy&apos;s 815,061 BTC hoard just eclipsed BlackRock&apos;s ETF holdings after a record $2.54B single purchase. Michael Saylor says he&apos;s not done.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>institutional</category><category>strategy</category><category>michael-saylor</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>The Man Who Could Set US Interest Rates Owns Solana, dYdX, and Polymarket</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/warsh-fed-chair-crypto-defi-senate-hearing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/warsh-fed-chair-crypto-defi-senate-hearing/</guid><description>Kevin Warsh — Trump&apos;s pick to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair — heads into his Senate confirmation hearing tomorrow with 30+ crypto investments in his portfolio. Here&apos;s what it means for rates, regulation, and the entire industry.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>fed</category><category>defi</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>jobs</category><category>institutional</category></item><item><title>Bitcoin Devs Just Cooked Up a Quantum Tripwire That Would Freeze Satoshi&apos;s $74B in BTC</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-quantum-tripwire-satoshi-coins-freeze/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-quantum-tripwire-satoshi-coins-freeze/</guid><description>A new &apos;canary address&apos; proposal would only freeze 6.5 million vulnerable BTC — including Satoshi&apos;s coins — if a quantum computer actually proves it can break Bitcoin first. Adam Back says there&apos;s a better way.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>quantum</category><category>security</category><category>bip-361</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>developers</category></item><item><title>Congress Wants to Let You Spend Stablecoins Tax-Free — But Bitcoin Still Gets Taxed Every Time You Buy a Coffee</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/parity-act-bitcoin-tax-stablecoin-exemption/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/parity-act-bitcoin-tax-stablecoin-exemption/</guid><description>The PARITY Act gives stablecoins a federal de minimis tax exemption while explicitly leaving Bitcoin behind. Bitcoin Policy Institute calls it a bill that &apos;picks winners and losers.&apos; Coinbase earned $1.35B in stablecoin revenue last year — make of that what you will.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>tax</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>Morgan Stanley Just Launched a Bitcoin ETF That Costs Half as Much as BlackRock&apos;s</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/morgan-stanley-msbt-bitcoin-etf-blackrock/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/morgan-stanley-msbt-bitcoin-etf-blackrock/</guid><description>MSBT debuted on NYSE Arca at 0.14% — nearly half BlackRock&apos;s IBIT fee — making Wall Street&apos;s biggest wealth manager the most aggressive new entrant in the Bitcoin ETF war.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>etf</category><category>morgan-stanley</category><category>wall-street</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Peace Deal Nukes $427M in Bitcoin Short Bets in 8 Hours</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-iran-ceasefire-short-squeeze-427m/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-iran-ceasefire-short-squeeze-427m/</guid><description>A two-week US-Iran ceasefire sent Bitcoin past $72,700 and liquidated nearly half a billion dollars in bearish positions — one of the fastest short squeezes of 2026.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>markets</category><category>liquidations</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Strategy Just Lost $14.5 Billion on Paper — and Bought $330M More Bitcoin Anyway</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-microstrategy-14-billion-bitcoin-loss-q1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-microstrategy-14-billion-bitcoin-loss-q1/</guid><description>MicroStrategy&apos;s rebranded successor posted the largest Q1 Bitcoin loss since 2018, then spent another $330 million on BTC the following week. This is what conviction looks like — or what it costs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>strategy</category><category>microstrategy</category><category>institutional</category><category>markets</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>$12 Trillion Charles Schwab Is About to Let Your Grandma Buy Bitcoin Directly</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/charles-schwab-crypto-spot-bitcoin-ethereum/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/charles-schwab-crypto-spot-bitcoin-ethereum/</guid><description>Charles Schwab — the brokerage that manages $12 trillion in client assets — just announced direct spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. This isn&apos;t Fidelity or a crypto-native firm. This is the brokerage where America&apos;s retirees keep their 401(k)s.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>institutional</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ethereum</category><category>hiring</category><category>tradfi</category></item><item><title>Crypto Job Postings Crashed 80% Since Liberation Day — And It&apos;s Not Just the Market</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/liberation-day-tariffs-crypto-jobs-crash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/liberation-day-tariffs-crypto-jobs-crash/</guid><description>One year after Trump&apos;s Liberation Day tariffs shook global markets, Bitcoin is down 20%+ from its peak and crypto job postings have collapsed 80% from a year ago. Here&apos;s what&apos;s really happening to crypto careers right now.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>crypto-jobs</category><category>market-analysis</category><category>layoffs</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>tariffs</category></item><item><title>SpaceX Just Filed for the Largest IPO in History. It&apos;s Bringing 8,285 Bitcoin With It.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/spacex-ipo-bitcoin-treasury-crypto-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/spacex-ipo-bitcoin-treasury-crypto-jobs/</guid><description>SpaceX has confidentially filed for a $1.75 trillion IPO — potentially the biggest public offering ever. 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The race to hire post-quantum crypto engineers starts now.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>quantum-computing</category><category>google</category><category>security</category><category>cryptography</category><category>jobs</category><category>post-quantum</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>The 20 Millionth Bitcoin Was Just Mined. Here&apos;s Who Gets Paid to Secure the Last Million.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/20-million-bitcoin-mined-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/20-million-bitcoin-mined-jobs/</guid><description>Only 1 million BTC remain after the 20 millionth was mined. 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