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The first hike in over three years came with a hawkish dot plot: 16 of 18 policymakers see another quarter-point move this year, setting up a longer tightening path than markets had priced.
Glassnode flagged the True Market Mean as the line BTC needed to defend. Losing it flips the structure from range-bound to corrective, with the short-term holder cost basis near $70K as the next…
Three weeks of ETF inflows that helped fuel the August rally have reversed; the dip is being met with selling, not buying, and that is the bearish read for BTC's near-term floor.
The release candidate adds a second fee estimator that reacts to live mempool conditions, parallel block validation on eight threads, and PSBT v2 defaults, with two security flaws patched before the…
The Strategy chairman's read: regulatory momentum is now coming from the banking side, not Congress, and custody plus credit against Bitcoin holdings is the next institutional front.
The vault targets 1.5% to 2% annual yield with a $250,000 minimum, and the $10 million first-loss commitment signals how seriously Two Prime is betting its own balance sheet on onchain bitcoin credit.
The post-cross pullback has historically been 10-15% in confirmed bull cycles and 50-60% when the bear continued; the bounce structure, not the drop, is what decides which analogue is running.
Correlations with the dollar, stocks and gold have all collapsed, leaving hedges built on bitcoin's equity link unreliable just as the Fed decides rates.
The cloture tally was procedural, but the market read was immediate: Bitcoin tagged $74,967, altcoin market cap gave back 3.6%, and $665M+ in 24h liquidations piled into a vote that denied the…
Warsh cannot match the hawkish pricing already in markets. A softer message risks dollar weakness and inflation-driven yields, which historically revives Bitcoin's sovereign-hedge trade.
One wallet moved $65M of Bitcoin exposure into Ether in a single swap, a notable single-actor vote on the BTC-to-ETH rotation trade.
The BitMEX co-founder frames the call around monetary easing turning into large-scale money printing, though his prediction track record comes with a well-known caveat.
The rapid recovery points to volatility around a psychological level, with $75K in focus as potential support.
PSBTv2 by default, parallel prefetch and a leaner transaction index are real upgrades, but the RC window is when wallets, exchanges and node operators should be stress-testing before the Oct.
Bandwidth is solvable at ~8 MB a day, but mobile Silent Payments still require trusting the indexer that delivers scan data. A missing tweak can hide a payment silently.
The one-hour liquidation burst puts leverage risk in focus, showing how a break below $76,000 can amplify Bitcoin downside across crypto markets.
Lower water inflows are squeezing hydropower generation, exposing how renewable-powered mining still depends on reliable electricity.
The cost-price gap is shifting listed miners from expansion to survival, with hardware cancellations, shutdowns and wind-downs already underway.
A projected 4.7% difficulty bump at the Sept. 19 retarget would compress hashprice by ~4.5%, and rigs above 34.6 J/TH would fail to cover power even at $84,000.
The $77,000 zone had anchored the post-ETF accumulation base for months. With that floor now in the rearview, the next major support band becomes the line the bid has to defend.
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