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Diego Whitfield

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Diego Whitfield covers business for Doctorcrypto, with a focus on breaking news and the day’s biggest stories.

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Live updates: Bitcoin rises ab as big AI compute deals continue to roll in

Bitcoin edged higher on Monday as a fresh wave of largescale artificial intelligence infrastructure agreements bolstered market sentiment, even as geopolitical tensions in the…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
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Live updates: Bitcoin remains trapped in tight range as big AI compute deals continue to roll in

Bitcoin continued to trade within a narrow band this week, hovering near $63,500 as traders weighed geopolitical tensions in the Middle East against a fresh wave of artificial…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

Live updates: Bitcoin flat near $63,500; lapsing US-Iran ceasefire revives the oil threat

Bitcoin held steady near $63,500 as traders weighed the collapse of a 60day truce between the United States and Iran, a development that has once again put oil markets—and by…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

Live updates: Bitcoin flat near $63,500, but the flows have quietly turned

Bitcoin is trading roughly flat near $63,500, but beneath the placid price action a meaningful shift in market flows is taking shape. Fresh institutional demand is arriving…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

September Fed interest-rate increase is 'very unlikely,' Goldman Sachs says

Goldman Sachs has concluded that a Federal Reserve interestrate increase in September is "very unlikely," a stance the investment bank attributes to a run of soft economic data…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

BitMart account demands founder explain funds status, Xia calls claims ‘fabricated’

A public dispute has erupted around cryptocurrency exchange BitMart after its Chineselanguage account on X issued demands to founder Sheldon Xia, who responded by dismissing the…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

Greenlane’s $70M BERA treasury ends Q2 valued at $16M

Greenlane Holdings has seen the value of its Berachain BERA treasury collapse from a $70 million investment to just $16 million by the close of the second quarter, underscoring…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

The bitcoin futures market looks like a crowded club with a tiny exit – and it could cause pain

Bitcoin's futures market may be sitting on a structural vulnerability, as a widening gap between open interest and daily trading volume raises the risk of violent price swings…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

XRP traders bet on a rebound as price slips to $1 and bearish chatter surges

XRP has tumbled toward the $1 mark, but traders appear to be leaning into the weakness, ramping up bullish futures positions even as social media sentiment sours to its lowest…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

Bitcoin nears $64,000 in Asia morning hours as HYPE jumps 8% on the week

Bitcoin climbed toward $64,000 during Asian trading hours on Sunday, part of a broad advance across major cryptocurrencies, even as most tokens remained in the red when measured…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

Bitcoin tops $64,000 in Asia morning hours as HYPE jumps 8% on the week

Bitcoin climbed past $64,000 during Asian morning trading on Sunday, leading a broad rally across major cryptocurrencies even as most of the top tokens remained in the red over…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

Chainalysis sues US over $95M ICE contract with TRM Labs

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has filed a lawsuit challenging the US government's decision to award a $95 million contract to rival TRM Labs, escalating a dispute over how…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-17
Business

Data of 54,000 wallet users leaked, CLARITY odds just 10%: Hodler’s Digest

A pair of separate data breaches affecting Trezor and SafePal has exposed personal information tied to tens of thousands of crypto wallet users, leaving them exposed to phishing…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-16
Business

The SEC meeting that wasn't: State of Crypto

A highly anticipated meeting between crypto industry stakeholders and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission failed to materialize, dampening hopes that regulators might…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-16
Opinion

Gemini 3.7 Flash Review: Google's Cheap Model Isn’t Dumb Anymore

Google's latest budgettier AI model, Gemini 3.7 Flash, marks a dramatic turnaround from its predecessor, successfully generating a playable game in a single attempt just three…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-16
Business

Crypto investors are looking past market-cap rankings and back to fundamentals

Crypto investors are increasingly shifting their focus away from headline marketcapitalization rankings and toward the underlying fundamentals of the projects they back, according…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-16
Business

Crypto wallet SafePal reveals a data breach exposing nearly 40,000 customers' order info

SafePal, the crypto hardware and software wallet provider, has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal order information of nearly 40,000 of its customers, though the…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-16
Business

People Are Turning to AI for Mental Health, California Wants It Banned

A California bill headed for an Assembly vote seeks to erect legal guardrails around AI chatbots, aiming to stop the technology from posing as licensed therapists as more people…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-16
Business

MiCA's cleanup is creating a new scam wave across the European Union

The European Union's landmark crypto regulation, designed to bring order and consumer protection to the digital asset market, is inadvertently fueling a surge of fraud as bad…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-16
Business

The 'long bitcoin, short the bankers' era is officially over as TradFi giants embrace digital assets

The rebellious slogan that once defined cryptocurrency's outsider ethos has lost its meaning, as the world's largest traditional financial institutions move decisively into…

Diego Whitfield · 2026-08-16