CoinDesk 20 performance update: Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is only gainer, up 3.4%

Aptos (APT) declined 9.4% and NEAR Protocol (NEAR) fell 8%, leading index lower.

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Bitcoin value investors move in as price drops, 'capitulation' searches rise

Your day-ahead look for Feb. 9, 2026

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Michael Saylor's Strategy made modest bitcoin purchase at start of last week's crypto crash

The company added 1,142 bitcoin purchased for about $90 million, or an average price of $78,815 per coin.

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Bitcoin, major tokens drop as traders position for downside protection

Bitcoin extended recent losses as derivatives data show a clear risk-off shift.

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Crypto.com founder buys ai.com for record $70 million: FT

Kris Marszalek joined the AI industry with autonomous agents and a Super Bowl ad that briefly sidelined the website.

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Bitcoin mining difficulty drops by most since 2021 as miners capitulate

Miners are facing significant challenges, with bitcoin revenue per petahash falling by half from a peak of $70 to $35.

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Here's how market makers likely accelerated bitcoin's brutal crash to $60,000

The invisible hands of market makers likely accelerated bitcoin's recent crash.

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Story co-founder defends token unlock delay, says project needs ‘more time’

In an interview with CoinDesk, S.Y. Lee pointed to Worldcoin’s extended lockups as precedent for longer runways.

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Tether's gold stash tops $23 billion as buying outpaces nation states, Jefferies says

The Wall Street investment bank estimates the crypto firm holds at least 148 tonnes of physical gold holdings, joining top 30 global holders of bullion.

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$44B bitcoin blunder puts South Korea regulators on alert over local crypto exchanges

The watchdog said it plans to build tools that automatically extract suspicious trading patterns by the second and minute.

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