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LAHORE: Another impressive all-round performa­nce inspired Bangladesh to a 34-run victory over Scotland in their day/night match of the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday. With six points from three consecutive wins, Bang­ladesh now have strong chances to qualify for the main round of the World Cup to be held in India later this year. Besides them, Pakistan with three wins from as many matches, are the only other unbeaten team of the event have equally solid chances to qualify, as two top teams of the ongoing Qualifier in Lahore will make the mega…

Everyone knows the majors—the names you see in airports, the logos from the Super Bowl ads. They’ve helped define the space, bringing scale, access, and visibility to crypto on a global stage. But alongside them, a more focused class of platforms is taking shape. They’re lean, precisely built platforms for users who want focus, control, and a sharper edge. Some of them strip it all down to the bare essentials—one token, one mission. Bitcoin as a savings mechanism, not a speculative thrill ride. Others go full transparency—asset ledgers updating every 18 seconds, no hidden vaults, no clever leverage. You know…

KARACHI: In the most anticipated HBL Pakistan Super league fixture here at the National Bank Stadium on Tuesday, Lahore Qalandars were as clinical as Karachi Kings were underwhelming. Playing as the away team in front of a sparse Karachi crowd, Qalandars shone with the bat and then caused destruction with the ball — thanks to Kings’ all-or-nothing approach — to take the match comfortably by 65 runs. It was a match where the seasoned campaigners showed up for the Qalandars. After Fakhar Zaman’s second consecutive half-century of the season helped Lahore post 201-6, skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi hunted down three…

On Apr. 14, spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) listed in the U.S. recorded a positive net flow for the first time since “Liberation Day.” President Donald Trump refers to Apr. 2 as “Liberation Day,” when he hiked tariffs on countries as part of his tariff war before pausing them for 90 days for all except China on Apr. 9. The tariff tensions sent the global stock and crypto markets into a shock from which they are still trying to recover. Related: Trump Tariff Live Updates: Trump open to make a trade deal with Xi Jinping ​A spot Bitcoin ETF is a financial product that gives…

An increasing number of Americans are getting caught off-guard by crypto tax bills, with millennials leading the list of groups shocked by their hefty tax bills on April 15, according to new research from Bitcoin Postage. More than 10% of surveyed American millennials say they’ve received a larger-than-expected crypto tax bill after selling digital assets — an event that typically triggers federal capital gains taxes, or taxes on profits from such sales. Additionally, some U.S. states impose their own capital gains taxes on cryptocurrency transactions, potentially increasing the overall tax burden for investors. Overall, just 62% of respondents reported being aware…

Bitcoin’s recent price behavior shows it may be returning to its roots as a hedge, according to Custodia Bank CEO Caitlin Long. In a Roundtable discussion with TheStreet’s Rob Nelson, Long pointed out that for the first time in a long while, Bitcoin is trading more like gold than a tech stock. “Bitcoin’s correlation is higher with gold in the last two days than it is with the Nasdaq,” she said. “Historically, up until the last two days, that has not been the case. Bitcoin traded like a high vol Nasdaq stock and gold was quietly marching up and had…

SHANGHAI ((Reuters)) – China’s growing pile of cryptocurrencies seized from illegal transactions is prompting local governments to find ways to dispose of the hoard and spurring calls from courts and the financial industry for better regulation. Lawyers said the lack of rules around how authorities should handle seized bitcoin and other tokens, whose trading is banned on the mainland, has spawned inconsistent and opaque approaches that some fear could embolden lawbreakers and foster corruption. Together with senior judges and police, attorneys are debating changes to rules they said will soon change the way confiscated virtual currencies are treated. That could…

The cryptocurrency market has been suffering over the past month as multiple domestic and international factors continue to dent investor sentiment. Bitcoin (BTC), especially, has been taking a hit lately, with the cryptocurrency falling below $74,000 earlier last week on fears that the economy could slip into a recession after President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs. However, Bitcoin has regained some of the lost ground over the past week after Trump temporarily paused the tariffs, and the cryptocurrency is on track to resume its northbound journey. That said, Bitcoin is still sharply below its all-time high attained late last year…

Tokens associated with artificial intelligence (AI) fared worse than the biggest cryptocurrencies over the past 24 hours. The relative weakness comes amid unusual activity in put options tied to shares of Nvidia (NVDA), the chipmaker that on Monday said it will will start building its AI supercomputers in the U.S. While bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market value, added 0.6% over 24 hours to $85,500, TAO, the token of blockchain-based machine learning network Bittensor, traded 3.6% lower at $239 and decentralized GPU rendering platform Render Network’s RNDR token was 1.7% down at $3.93, according to data source Coingecko. Other…

Bitcoin miner CleanSpark (CLSK) is moving away from its strategy of HODLing 100% of the BTC it mines. The Henderson, Nevada-based company said it is returning to selling a portion of the bitcoin mined to support its operations in an announcement on Tuesday. “While we remain committed to bitcoin as a long-term, hardened asset, we believe a more effective way to increase shareholder value is through a balanced approach between monetizing new production and building long-term holdings,” CEO Zach Bradford said. CleanSpark’s holdings now exceed 12,000 BTC, worth just over $1 billion at current prices. The company has also increased…