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BIP-444 suggests rejecting the fork could bring “legal or moral” risks, angering the community over the perceived coercive language. The Bitcoin (BTC) developer community is facing some disquiet after the publication of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 444 (BIP-444), a “reduced data” soft fork that aims to restrict certain types of data storage on-chain. The proposal, introduced by contributor dathonohm and linked to long-time developer Luke Dashjr, has triggered debate due to language suggesting legal consequences for rejecting the fork. The Contentious Proposal Published on October 24, 2025, BIP-444 is labeled a “Reduced Data Temporary Softfork.” Its main goal is to…

Singapore, Singapore, October 27th, 2025, ChainwireRiver has announced the River Pts Public Sale, extending its Dynamic Airdrop Conversion — the first time-encoded tokenomics where time became a measurable dimension of value.In traditional token launches, price is fixed by design. In River’s system, time and behavior shape the curve.River Pts holders can convert to $RIVER anytime within 180 days, and their choices — combined with market dynamics — continuously redefine value.Over the past month, this system has shown strong traction:River Pts up +5,300% on DEX$RIVER up 5×, reaching a new $10 ATH100,000+ participants joined the dynamic airdrop1M River Pts ≈ $34,000…

HANGZHOU, China, Oct. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Jiuzi Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: JZXN; “the Company”) today announced it has entered into a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with the SOLV Foundation, a cross-chain Bitcoin staking and structured finance platform boasting a total value locked (TVL) of US$2.8 billion. This collaboration underscores the Company’s ambition as a Nasdaq-listed leader focused on building its treasury around Bitcoin as its primary digital asset holding.JZXN will leverage SOLV’s platform to maximize the efficiency of its Bitcoin holdings. Bitcoin assets held by the Company or its subsidiaries will be deposited into the SOLV platform under custody by approved,…

United States Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that the US and China have made “substantial” progress on a trade deal framework, sparking investor hopes of reigniting the bull market. The proposed trade framework will likely remove the need for the 100% additional tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on October 10, Bessent said. He added:”President Trump gave me a great deal of negotiating leverage with the threat of 100% tariffs on November 1, and I believe we have reached a very substantial framework that will avoid that and allow us to discuss many other things with the…

For his latest project, artist and photographer Justin Aversano (of “Twin Flames” fame) set out with a simple compass: love. Just a camera, intuition, and an unspoken promise to document humanity across all seven continents.The result is “Moments of the Unknown,” a living archive of global intimacy, presented as both an exhibition at Glitch Gallery in Marfa, Texas for Art Blocks Marfa Weekend this month and a documentary screening at the Crowley Theater down the road. Decrypt sat down with Aversano for an inside look at his journey, reflections, and creative process. At first, he said, the film was planned to…

Dolphins have been the primary accumulator in this cycle, so their demand structure could continue to fuel this bull cycle. Bitcoin’s current price movement continues to raise questions about whether the bull cycle is coming to an end. However, accumulation patterns across different cohorts of BTC investors indicate the cycle is in late-stage maturity, not at a definitive end. According to a report from CryptoQuant, on-chain data shows that although bitcoin’s short-term momentum is weakening, its long-term structural demand remains intact. This is substantiated by accumulation patterns in the dolphin cohort, the investor group comprising exchange-traded funds (ETFs), corporations,…

In brief A report from the U.S. and other Western nations has found that North Korea is becoming more systematic and sophisticated in its crypto-hacking activities. Yet one contributor to the report, Chainalysis, indicates that Western agencies and firms are increasingly adapting to the growing threat. North Korea’s hacking activities have been supplemented in recent months by an IT worker program, which has expanded into China and is expanding into Russia. North Korea has stolen $2.84 billion in crypto since January 2024, according to a new report from the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team.Responsible for monitoring the violation of UN sanctions…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model, one of the most widely cited BTC valuation frameworks, forecasts a peak price of $222,000 during this market cycle, but investors should exercise caution when using the model, according to André Dragosch, the European head of research at investment firm Bitwise.The Stock-to-Flow model does not take into account demand-side factors, and instead, centers its price modeling on Bitcoin’s halvings, which reduce the amount of newly issued BTC by half every four years, Dragosch said. He added:“Today, institutional demand via Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) and treasury holdings outweighs the annualized supply reduction from the latest Halving…

Strategy (formerly known as MicroStrategy), the largest corporate Bitcoin holder, is acquiring the top crypto at its slowest pace in recent memory.Yet its executive chairman, Michael Saylor, continues to hint that another large-scale purchase may be on the horizon.Sponsored Strategy’s Bitcoin Buying Spree Significantly SlowsOn October 26, CryptoQuant analyst J. Maartunn reported a sharp decline in Strategy’s weekly Bitcoin acquisitions. According to him, the company’s purchases have fallen from tens of thousands of BTC per week in late 2024 to roughly 200 BTC in recent weeks.For context, the company was buying more than 10,000 BTC in a single week, including…

Ethereum’s largest non-exchange holders are tiptoeing back into accumulation. On-chain analytics platform Santiment reported that wallets holding between 100 and 10,000 ETH, also known as whales and sharks, have begun to rebuild positions after unloading roughly 1.36 million ETH between October 5 and 16.  Notably, the Ethereum collective holdings chart shows that nearly one-sixth of those coins have already been clawed back, as some confidence starts to return to the second-largest crypto asset. Related Reading Whales Reverse Course After Early-October Capitulation The first half of October was highlighted by one of Ethereum’s most pronounced periods of capitulation this year. Macroeconomic…