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Bitcoin Yawns As Fed’s Favorite Inflation Gauge Eases

Bitcoin’s price dipped slightly before remaining mostly steady after data on Wednesday that U.S. inflation was subdued. 

The price of the largest cryptocurrency recently , mostly unmoved over a 24-hour pe

AI Hyperscalers Are Pricing Bitcoin Miners Off the Grid— Here’s Why Its a Massive Win-Win

If you’ve scanned headlines over the last year, you’ve likely seen the prevailing market narrative: Bitcoin miners are abandoning their operations and pivoting to AI data centers, signaling a retreat from proof-of-work.

Coinbase Expands Derivatives Trading To UK Professional Clients

Coinbase has launched futures, options, and perpetuals for professional clients in the United Kingdom, expanding its derivatives offering through its MiFID authorization.

The rollout is not for UK retail users. Eligibility i

Riot’s Anthropic Deal Shows Bitcoin Miners Are Moving Deeper Into AI Compute

Riot Platforms has signed a long-term data center lease agreement tied to Anthropic, giving the Bitcoin miner another route into AI and high-performance computing as miners continue looking beyond block rewards.

The company’

BlackRock Cuts IBIT In-Kind Conversion Minimum To $1M

BlackRock has reduced the in-kind conversion minimum for its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, potentially making the mechanism available to a wider group of institutional participants.

The change was dis

Regulators To Push Pro-Crypto Initiatives Following Clarity Act Delay

The long-awaited crypto has stalled and is due a September vote but regulators are ready to step in to advance crypto rules regardless, according to reports. 

Bloomberg Tuesday that the Securities and Ex

BitMine Pushes Ethereum Treasury Past 5.8M ETH

BitMine Immersion Technologies has added another 7,391 ETH to its balance sheet, pushing its Ethereum treasury to about 5.81 million ETH.

The company’s Ethereum position now represents roughly 4.8% of circulating supply, whi

Should Bitcoin Companies Build USD Reserves? Understanding The Truth

Strategy’s U.S. dollar reserve has reached $4.65 billion, up from $3.75 billion two weeks earlier. It has also almost 7,000 BTC since late June 2026. 

Many are wondering why a company built around accumul

Strategy Boosts Cash Reserve As Bitcoin Treasury Model Gets More Complex

Strategy has added $650 million to its USD reserve and repurchased $109 million of STRC preferred stock, showing again that the company’s Bitcoin strategy is no longer just a simple accumulation story.

The company, formerly

CFTC Charges Goliath Ventures With $400M Bitcoin Fraud

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has a Florida crypto trading firm and its chief executive, alleging they ran a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $397 million from about 1,600 customers and spent it on fake payouts and personal luxuries.

SharpLink Reports $394M Q2 Loss As Ethereum Revaluation Hits Results

SharpLink reported a $394.3 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026, with the result driven largely by non-cash Ethereum revaluation losses and liquid token impairment charges.

The company’s filing shows $321.0 mill

Casa CEO Nick Neuman: 233k BTC Moved To Safety After Coldcard Exploit Proves Self-Custody Resilience

pointed to onchain data from the recent as evidence that self-custody strengthens Bitcoin’s resilience as an asset class.

In an X post on Aug. 9, Neuman cited figures showing that in the days after the Coldca

Twenty One to Become ‘More Than a Bitcoin Treasury,’ Says New CEO

Bitcoin treasury Twenty One’s new CEO has reassured investors that the firm will become “more than a Bitcoin treasury” following shareholder concerns about the company. 

The Tuesday letter to shareholders

Empery Digital Sells 1,635 Bitcoin As Treasury Buffer Shrinks

Empery Digital has disclosed the sale of 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million, using the proceeds to support debt repayment and share buybacks as its unrestricted Bitcoin buffer narrows.

The company’s Form 10-Q filed on August 7 sho

Bitcoin Treasury Twenty One to Become ‘More Than a Treasury Company’, Says New CEO

Bitcoin treasury Twenty One’s new CEO has reassured investors that the firm will become “more than a Bitcon treasury” following shareholder concerns about the company. 

The Tuesday letter to shareholders c

Wintermute Says Institutions Drove 72% Of Its Spot OTC Volume In H1 2026

Institutional investors accounted for 72% of Wintermute’s spot OTC trading volume in the first half of 2026, up from 59% a year earlier, showing how professional capital is becoming a larger part of crypto trading flow.

The

Luke Dashjr Removed As BIP Editor After BIP-110 Controversy

Luke Dashjr has been removed as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor after a dispute around BIP-110, marking a rare governance flashpoint inside Bitcoin’s usually slow-moving technical process.

The change was merged through

BTCPay Server Patches Critical LND Credential Bug After Lightning Wallet Drain

BTCPay Server has released version 2.4.2 to patch a critical vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated remote access to LND credential files, after attackers used the issue to drain merchant Lightning wallets.

The project’s

Bank of Russia Approves Bitcoin Trading For Retail Investors

Russia’s central bank has approved Bitcoin trading for the public on the country’s crypto exchanges, according to reports. 

Citing the Bank of Russia’s Telegram channel, news agency Tass that the central

Luke Dashjr Removed as Bitcoin BIP Editor Following (BIP)-110 Fork Failure

Bitcoin developer , who backed the failed Bitcoin Improvement Proposal , has been removed from his position as an editor of such proposals for the development of the Bitcoin network. 

The decision, voted o