SBI VC Trade surpasses 2M registered accounts as Japanese firms use Bitcoin and XRP for loyalty programs

The post Adam Back Warns Bitcoin Markets Keep Repeating The FTX And Mt. Gox Playbook appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The bankruptcy filing lands. User funds get frozen. Lawyers start arguing over who owns what. For anyone who has followed crypto since 2014, the choreography is depressingly predictable. At BTC Prague 2026, Blockstream CEO Adam Back told the audience that Bitcoin markets keep replaying a script that should have been retired years ago. He pointed to the FTX collapse and, before it, Mt. Gox as evidence that the industry still refuses to adopt the basic structural safeguards that traditional finance built over centuries. Back’s remarks, first highlighted in the original report, did not just blame bad actors. He argued that the deeper flaw is an architectural one: exchanges that commingle custody with trading, creating a single point of failure that sweeps up customer assets whenever a platform implodes. This model has no equivalent in mature capital markets, where brok

The post A Dangerous Threat Faces Bitcoin, XRP, ETH and SOL, Alphractal CEO Warns appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Joao Wedson, founder and CEO of Alphractal, issued a sharp warning on July 7. His diagnosis is direct: unliquidated long positions now dominate Bitcoin, Ethereum (ETH), XRP, and Solana (SOL). Here is what the threat means, how it could hit prices, and what other analysts project next. What Threat the Alphractal CEO Is Flagging An unliquidated long is a leveraged bet that a price will rise, one that has not yet closed or been forced to sell. Wedson warns that these positions now dominate the market for the largest cryptocurrencies after a recent weak advance. The analyst’s message is blunt. Any slip in the coming hours could hand control to the bears. As a result, a fresh wave of fear and liquidations could sweep across the entire crypto market. The situation is especially delicate for ETH, SOL, and XRP. Those assets saw a massive buildup of longs over the past 30 days.

The post Bitcoin Holds Near $63K as Coffee Outshines Crypto and Gold appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Bitcoin News Bitcoin (BTC) traded quietly this week even as the single best trade across global markets came from an unlikely place: the coffee aisle. While Bitcoin and gold absorbed most of the attention, arabica coffee delivered a move neither could match, jumping in one session by a margin that dwarfed the crypto majors. For traders tracking Bitcoin as a macro barometer, the contrast is instructive: the flagship digital asset posted a steady but modest advance, while a soft commodity staged one of the largest daily rallies of the century, underscoring how rotation into hard assets is reshaping this cycle. The commodity that stole the spotlight was arabica coffee, which surged 16.19% on Monday for its biggest single-day gain this century and closed at a 5.5-month high. Robusta contracts climbed 8.83% in the same session to a five-month peak. The advance lifted coffee futures roug

The post Will Noah Doe’s Satoshi BTC claim ‘disrupt entire industries’? Defendants say… appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. After fourteen years, Satoshi-era Bitcoin is once again at the center of a lawsuit. On the 6th of July, a second amicus brief has been filed to oppose “Noah Doe’s” attempt to assert ownership of Satoshi’s coins as “abandoned property.” The first filing happened back in May 2026, when “Salomon Brothers” was claiming the legal ownership of Satoshi’s coins.  That said, the three pseudonymous plaintiffs—Noah Doe, ABC Company, and XYZ Company—are making attempts to acquire legal ownership of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets that they did not create and could not access.  Source: Galaxy Research Why does Noah Doe claim these wallets were abandoned? For context, the plaintiffs claim that they posted notices on the blockchain using Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN function. It was to direct wallet owners to an abandonment notice and provide them with 90 days to reply. After the notice

The post Has Bitcoin Bottomed This Cycle? Analysts Say ‘Not Yet’ appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Bitcoin is trading in a market that’s getting harder to define. Hovering around $64,000 at the time of writing, Bitcoin is down by almost 50% from its cycle peak. That’s a much shallower draw down than previous cycles, but the bull run this time around did not reach the same heights. The 2025 rally was driven by exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows, post-halving momentum and renewed institutional demand, pushing the market to a new all-time high of more than $126,000 in October 2025. Since then, the trend has been inexorably downward, but analysts are split on what that decline signifies. According to Standard Chartered and other bullish institutional desks, Bitcoin may have already reached its cycle bottom last month, with structural demand from ETFs and treasury companies, and improving long-term capital flows reducing the likelihood of a deeper draw down. Other analysts take a more ca

The post Bitcoin, XRP draw Japanese firms as weak yen drives treasury diversification appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Japanese companies are turning to bitcoin and XRP as a weak yen pushes them to diversify their corporate treasuries, according to SBI VC Trade, as the crypto exchange’s registered accounts passed 2 million. The crypto arm of financial group Tokyo-based SBI Holdings said use of its corporate service, SBIVC for Prime, has grown as the weak yen drives firms to spread reserves beyond cash, with added demand from companies that hand out bitcoin or XRP through shareholder-perk programs. It reported the account milestone on Tuesday, roughly double the 1 million it counted in 2025. The 2 million figure combines its VCTRADE and BITPOINT services and follows SBI VC Trade’s April 2026 merger with sister firm BitPoint Japan. The company plans to fully integrate the two brands around the end of December, which it said should cut costs and unify service levels. Source: https://w

The post XRP Breakthrough: A New Era of Market Dynamics Unfolds appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Recent market movements have seen XRP break through the formidable $1.14 resistance, illustrating a pivotal shift in its technical outlook. This breakthrough signals not a fleeting speculative spike but a substantial market change, largely fueled by intensified buying interest, according to seasoned market expert Vlad Anderson. Continue Reading:XRP Breakthrough: A New Era of Market Dynamics Unfolds Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/xrp-breakthrough-a-new-era-of-market-dynamics-unfolds

The post Why Japan’s Bond Market Could Kill the Easy-Money Rally in Stocks and Bitcoin appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Japan’s bond market stress deepened Monday as the 10-year yield touched 2.825%, its highest level since October 1996. The surge threatens the easy money that funded multi-year rallies in stocks and Bitcoin (BTC). The yen trades near 162 per dollar, its weakest since 1986, even after Tokyo spent a record sum defending it this spring. Japan 10-Year Treasury Yields. Source: TradingView Japan Bond Market Faces More Supply and a Shrinking Buyer Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government plans to mobilize over ¥370 trillion ($2.28 billion) in public and private investment across 17 strategic sectors through fiscal 2040. The roughly $2.3 trillion program implies heavier bond issuance ahead. Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan keeps trimming its bond purchases. Reuters reported that policymakers may pause the taper only from fiscal 2027. Until then, the market’s largest buyer ke