Bitcoin closed the week of Sept. 20 at $81,178, its first weekly settlement above the 50-week moving average since November 2025, and pushed further to an intraday high above $87,000 the next day. The breakout clears one of the market's most closely watched technical lines, but leaves open the question of whether the buying underneath […]
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Almost 4,000 Bitcoin left Liquid's reserve on Sept. 6 through a withdrawal the network approved, even though the private keys used to authorize it hadn't been stolen. Software had accepted a withdrawal that should never have qualified. Liquid lets people move a Bitcoin-backed token on a separate blockchain designed for faster, more private transactions. Bitcoin […]
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A strange thing has happened to Bitcoin's derivatives market over the past five years. The market is larger, institutions play a much bigger role, exchanges offer more sophisticated products, and traders have become far better at moving risk around. At the same time, one of the products that helped build that market has almost disappeared […]
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Some of the most consequential financial rules begin with surprisingly little text. For example, on page 36 of the European Commission's current MiCA review, item 66 asks whether Europe's treatment of staking is adequate and, if it isn't, what requirements should apply to companies providing staking services. The question is brief, but the consequences wouldn't […]
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Washington came surprisingly close this week to writing a dollar amount into one of its thorniest crypto ethics rule debates. Under the final Senate draft of the CLARITY Act, senior federal officials holding equity worth at least $15,000 in certain businesses that issue or sponsor digital assets would have had to sell that interest or […]
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Chelsea has found a cool new shirt sponsor whose main product is…a stablecoin? USDC is designed to be worth one dollar. Today, tomorrow, next Tuesday: one dollar. If everything is working properly, absolutely nothing should happen to its price, so there is not much room for a victory parade. And yet Circle, the company behind […]
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Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $81,400 on Friday, approaching the low-$82,000 zone that has capped every recovery attempt since late August. US spot Bitcoin ETF shares stop trading once American markets close for the weekend. Any further push through that ceiling over the next two days would occur in continuously open crypto markets, without […]
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The September 18 advance accompanied a tech rebound and yen weakness, while prior-session ETF inflows offered a tentative demand signal.
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Bitcoin fell to an intraday low of $75,064.82 on Sept. 16, but recovered and reclaimed the $76,000 zone after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's press conference wrapped up. The S&P 500 fell roughly 0.7%, the Dow dropped 1.2%, and the 2-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.734% in the same window, while Bitcoin held its ground. Warsh's […]
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Bitcoin fell to an intraday low below $75,000 on Sept. 15, extending a selloff already underway ahead of the Senate vote on the CLARITY Act. The Senate failed 49-50 to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to the bill, short of the 60 votes required, leading Bitcoin to its intraday low. Coinbase fell about […]
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Standard Chartered initiated coverage on Arbitrum's ARB token on the morning of Sept. 15 with a $10 price target for 2030. That implies roughly 70 times upside from a token trading near $0.13 and down about 1% over the prior 24 hours. In the same session, ARB gained up to 9%, Bitcoin fell around 4%, […]
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Stablecoin growth stayed below 6% while ETH and SOL gained more than 32%, leaving the inflow picture unresolved.
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Those groups carry nearly three-quarters of realized capital as Binance sees heavy two-way flows before the Senate’s Sept. 15 CLARITY cloture test.
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Glassnode reported that altcoin market capitalization climbed 21% over the past month, while altcoins' share of the combined Bitcoin-and-altcoin market fell 0.9 percentage points over 90 days, based on data as of Sept. 7. Capital has moved up the entire crypto ladder together, with Bitcoin absorbing most of the gain while higher-beta tokens held their […]
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Firelight's planned coverage rollout would lengthen withdrawals while eligible claims could reduce exiting collateral after emissions stop.
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If validators disable a signing scheme, the draft design’s recovery path depends on which owner permissions survive.
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The Q2 snapshot points to larger gross books, but any crypto spillover still depends on funding stress after the FOMC.
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Nasdaq futures led early losses while software shares rose, leaving the cash session to test whether selling spreads.
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His three-stage proposal points toward binding cross-lab limits, a narrow public brake and independently distributed scrutiny.
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With Bitcoin near $77,743 and weekend options volatility elevated, Wednesday’s Fed decision will test whether the gap persists.
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Hardware wallets might be able to protect your keys, but the paperwork from buying them could expose your identity. To buy a hardware wallet, you give a company your name and address so it can send you a device designed to put you in control of your money. Once you've unpacked the box and set […]
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When you send money to someone abroad, the confirmation on your phone is only your half of the transaction: the other half belongs to the person who has to use it. Their rent may be due in local currency. Their nearest cash collection point may be across town. They may want to spend some of […]
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Imagine asking an AI assistant to book a decent hotel for a weekend away. You give it a budget and say you’d like somewhere near the center, then it finds a room, pays, and sends you the confirmation. The hotel is within budget and in a solid location, but the room has no window, breakfast […]
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Buying shares in a Bitcoin treasury company gives ownership in a business that holds Bitcoin, and management decides how to pay for the coins and when to buy or sell them. The company also has bills to pay and may owe money to lenders, so the shares' value depends on those decisions and Bitcoin's price. […]
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Imagine your company has enough money to pay a supplier, but the money is in its Singapore account and the bill must be paid from New York. If the transfer between those accounts has to wait until Monday, having enough cash overall doesn't solve the immediate problem. Businesses work around this by moving money early […]
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US consumer prices increased faster in August, giving the Federal Reserve another reason to be cautious about lowering interest rates and leaving Bitcoin investors exposed to a prolonged period of expensive borrowing. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% from July, when it increased 0.1%, while the annual inflation rate held at 3.4%. Excluding food […]
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Daylight-saving changes and NYSE holidays tie Kraken's 2016–2025 realized variance pattern to the U.S. cash-equity session.
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Bitcoin fell below $77,000 on Sept. 10 as oil rose above $100, and a global bond selloff pushed traders toward another Fed hike. BTC reached an intraday low of $76,676.07, Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.7%, and the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.93% while the 30-year touched 5.35%, its highest level in 19 years. The […]
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The wallet and infrastructure businesses now operate independently, while Monad products and private networks complicate the link to ETH demand.
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Bitquery’s audit says a 767-account machine subset generated 92%, separating ledger throughput from durable XRP demand.
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