Stablecoin backed by Strategy preferred shares loses parity with the dollar

“This is not a bug, it is expected behavior,” says the development team. apxUSD developers say calling the protocol insolvent is “misleading.” The apxUSD stablecoin, issued by the Apyx protocol, has been falling for 2 days and today, June 4, 2026, reaches a price of $0.918. Thus, it moves away from the ideal parity that … Read more

Bitcoin crash leaves Strategy with biggest unrealized loss in its history

Strategy, a company focused on the bitcoin (BTC) treasury, records an unrealized loss of $10.22 billion in its portfolio on June 4, 2026 after a marked drop in the price of the crypto asset. This negative balance represents the largest accounting devaluation in the company’s history since it began its bitcoin accumulation in 2020. The … Read more

Zcash mining concentration exposes its real centralization

Orchard’s pause was coordinated by distributing a voluntary binary to major mining pools There was no control mechanism in the code: the suspension depended on the decision of three actors On June 2, 2026, the Zcash network suspended transactions in the Orchard pool due to a critical vulnerability in its test circuit. The pause was … Read more

Coinbase launches SpaceX trading ahead of IPO

SpaceX contracts will be settled in USDC and available 24 hours a day. When SpaceX goes public, Coinbase will automatically convert it to SpaceX Perp. Coinbase announced this June 3, 2026 the launch of SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual contracts. This is a new category of derivatives that will allow eligible users to gain exposure to the … Read more

Guatemala requires KYC and reporting transactions to cryptocurrency platforms

The Congress of the Republic of Guatemala approved the Comprehensive Law for the Prevention and Repression of Money Laundering or Other Assets and the Financing of Terrorism, identified as Decree 15-2026. The legislators approved with 147 votes in favor of a total of 160 deputies. The law advanced in the third debate after an extraordinary … Read more

Mathematician argues that quantum will never break cryptography

Israeli mathematician Gil Kalai maintains that quantum computers will never be able to break cryptography, according to Eli Ben-Sasson, CEO of StarkWare, a company specialized in zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs and creator of StarkNet, a second layer (L2) network of Ethereum. Ben-Sasson clarified that he does not subscribe to that position but considered it relevant to … Read more

Bitcoin approaches 2026 low despite good news in the Middle East

Strategy’s bitcoin sale broke the narrative of the compulsive buyer who never sells. Bitcoin ETFs accumulate the longest streak of capital outflows in their history. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading this Thursday, June 4, 2026 around $63,000a level that places it close to the minimum of the current year, which is $60,000 and was reached in … Read more

There is a race among “quants” to break Bitcoin

A global and intensified competition between technology corporations, independent scientists and novice programmers is pushing the limits of quantum computing with the goal of breaching Bitcoin’s cryptography. The origin of this technical escalation dates back to March 30, when Google’s quantum intelligence division published a high-impact technical document. In said report, collected by CriptoNoticias, the … Read more

“If we deliver privacy with AI, every draft and idea will be analyzed”

The ship of digital freedoms has already hit the iceberg and began to sink silently. With this stark warning reminiscent of the Titanic, Telegram founder Pavel Durov shook the stage of the Oslo Freedom Forum by denouncing that Western democracies are importing, piece by piece, the surveillance and censorship manual of the authoritarian regimes of … Read more

¿qué es y cómo funciona?

La Lightning Network (LN) es una red de cheques sobre Bitcoin que facilita la transferencia de satoshis de forma casi gratuita, inmediata y privada. No es una contabilidad o blockchain distinta; Lightning es Bitcoin “desencadenado”, lo que quiere decir que mantiene las mismas características monetarias de BTC, pero las transacciones en Lightning no tienen que ser liquidadas de inmediato en la cadena de bloques, sino cuando las partes así lo decidan.  Lightning logra esto usando funcionalidades de la … Read more