🗞 Weekly Crypto News Digest (Key numbers)
Here’s what stood out this week across market, mining, and Ethereum ecosystem - facts only:
📉 Market
- Bitcoin: down ~4% over the week (about -25% over the last 30 days). Price moved from around $70,000 on Monday to a weekly low near $65,000 on Thursday, then recovered to about $67,000 by Sunday.
- Ethereum: followed BTC and failed to hold $2,000, ending the week -5.5%.
- Fear & Greed Index: stayed near the bottom at 9 (extreme fear zone).
- Dominance: BTC ~56.6%, ETH ~9.8%.
⛏️ Mining
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$BTC mining difficulty: up 14.73% to 144.4T — one of the largest adjustments since 2021.
- Hashrate: remained above 1 ZH/s.
- Hashprice: continued dropping, from $34 → $28 per PH/s/day over the week.
- Miner behavior:
@bitdeer reported selling its BTC holdings, releasing 943.1 BTC to the market; it also surpassed MARA Holdings in self-mined hashrate.
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@ethereum roadmap & staking
- Ethereum Foundation shared a 2026 roadmap focused on scaling, UX improvements, and L1 security (including work around gas limits and account abstraction).
- Staking snapshot mentioned: 37.1M ETH locked in mainnet staking (~30.54% of supply) with 964,799 active validators.
- Security reminder (general): keep 2FA enabled and review API
permissions regularly.