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Trump Urges Senate to Pass Crypto’s CLARITY Act, Teases More Bitcoin Buys

U.S. President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to pass the on Wednesday — and also hinted that the government may accumulate more bitcoin. 

After gathering with crypto executives at the White House, Presiden

Bitcoin Shortsellers Get Destroyed With $1.7B in Positions Liquidated Following BTC Price Jump

Daily liquidations of Bitcoin positions surged on Wednesday after the flirted with $70,000. 

Over $1.7 billion in positions held by traders shorting the biggest cryptocurrency have been closed in the past

President Trump To Host Crypto Execs at White House

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host crypto bigwigs at the White House Wednesday. 

The meeting — first last week by POLITICO — will see executives from the prediction market and digital asset space

Bitcoin Blasts Past $68,000 After US Treasury Doubles Debt Buybacks

Bitcoin blew past $68,000 on Wednesday, jumping nearly 3% over a 24-hour period after news dropped that the U.S. Treasury planned to more than double the size of its government debt repurchases. 

The was

Bitcoin’s Volatility May Be Down But Expect a ‘Meaningful Move’ Soon, Says Fidelity

Bitcoin has been sitting still recently, and the coin’s volatility is now lower than 98.5% of all days in its 17-year history, according to asset manager Fidelity.

Writing on X, the firm’s digital asset arm th

BitBox Warns Bitcoiners After Discovering ‘Severe’ Vulnerability In Firmware

Bitcoin wallet manufacturer BitBox has told users it was able to fix “severe vulnerabilities” with its hardware wallet’s firmware, and reassured users that no funds were taken. Yet it still urged users to upgrade carefully. 

SEC Proposes Crypto Rulebook as Clarity Act Stalls

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed its own framework for crypto asset offerings, pressing ahead while landmark legislation stalls. 

The regulator unveiled “Regulation Crypto Assets” on Tue

Bitcoin’s Wild Swings Go Quiet, Even as the Bears Won’t Let Go

Bitcoin is deep into its bear market, though it’s doing something it doesn’t typically do: sit still. 

That’s to a new report by VanEck, which noted that thirty-day realized volatility has fallen to 27.2%

Bitcoin as Digital Real Estate: An Excerpt from Leon Wankum’s Digital Real Estate

Bitcoin can be understood through an analogy with real estate.16 Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), has compared investing in bitcoin to buying real estate in downtown Manhattan during the early

Bitcoin Is Down but Asset’s Role as Global Monetary Alternative Remains, Says Blackrock

Bitcoin’s price is down nearly 50% since its October record. But investors shouldn’t worry, the world’s largest asset manager has said, and the cryptocurrency still plays a role as “a global monetary alternative.” 

DMND Integrates Mempool Accelerator With Miner Revenue Sharing Using StratumV2

Last week on August 14th DMND, the Stratum V2 mining pool, announced an integration with Mempool Accelerator to introduce new transaction acceleration functionality to Stratum V2 miners. This will put individual miners in control of transaction ac

Hunting Down the Coldcard Hacker. Wave 1 Thief May Be Known to FBI

Law enforcement may already know who emptied more than a thousand Bitcoin from Coldcard wallets in the first and largest wave of the July 2026 drains. Block’s investigation believes they traced the attacker’s on-chain sweeps to a paid account at a

Citi to Debut Bitcoin Custody for Institutional Investors

Citi will debut a bitcoin custody service later this year. The top bank said Tuesday that its Custody+ product will allow institutional investors to custody both traditional assets and bitcoin within one framework, rather than needing separate sys

The Pack Is the Painting: Evil Biscuit and the Schizocollage Movement Come to Hong Kong

In 1956, at an exhibition hall in Tokyo, a Japanese artist named Saburō Murakami ran through a row of paper screens, leaving a torn, human-shaped hole in each one. The audience heard the rip in the moment but likely didn’t understand it.

Losses Top $115M In Coldcard Bitcoin Hack: Galaxy Research

New data from Galaxy Research shows that $115 million in bitcoin has been lost in the Coldcard theft. 

Writing on X Sunday, Galaxy Research that it had spoken with over 200 victims to support them and gat

Jane Street Reveals Nearly $1B Bitcoin Position

Quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider Jane Street has a nearly $1 billion bitcoin position — or 15,394 BTC at today’s prices. 

But the position is not held in the form of digital coins: to a re

Investors Cash Out Fast of Bitcoin ETFs but Price Remains Stable

American investors have reversed course, cashing out of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds after a hot run at the beginning of August. 

Data from Farside Investors that investors pulled over $385 million

US Treasury Asks For Public Input on Landmark Genius Act Crypto Legislation

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is moving fast with crypto regulation, with the government body asking for public comment on the landmark . 

In a Monday announcement, the Treasury said that it was welc

Strategy Goes Another Week Without Buying — Or Selling — Bitcoin, Builds Up Cash Reserve

Bitcoin treasury Strategy has gone another week without buying the leading cryptocurrency — but didn’t sell any this time. 

The Nasdaq-listed company Monday in a regulatory filing that it had upped its ca

Edelman Financial, Tudor Investment Reveal Significant Bitcoin Holdings

Edelman Financial Engines has a $34 million position in spot Bitcoin ETFs — a stake that now exceeds some of the firm’s other holdings in major tech companies. 

While the position is still tiny in the inv