Liquid Bridge Loses 4,000 BTC as CTO Rejects Whitehat Claim
Ledger's CTO publicly disputes the framing, comparing the drain to the Ronin hack while exchanges freeze LBTC. Blockstream says the SideSwap key was used, not compromised.
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Ledger's CTO publicly disputes the framing, comparing the drain to the Ronin hack while exchanges freeze LBTC. Blockstream says the SideSwap key was used, not compromised.
The shift supports Bitcoin's digital-gold thesis and gives institutions a clearer macro-hedge lens, but correlation is a moving signal rather than a permanent link.
GBTC alone is responsible for $27.65B of rival exits, and the rest of the field still trails IBIT by more than 3x.
The synthetic opening bell is created by chart intervals and API defaults that pull thousands of independent systems toward the same clock boundary, even in a market designed to run without…
A 6.01% combined MSTR and Robinhood weight inside an active US large-cap fund shows crypto beta can reach generalist equity portfolios through public-company proxies, not dedicated crypto products.
A University of Porto preprint reviewed 23 Bitcoin prediction papers and found none demonstrated durable superiority over simple naive forecasts across multiple market regimes at one-to-six-month…
The Treasury's Aug 19 buyback doubling is doing more than just adding liquidity; it is repositioning Bitcoin as a parallel savings asset alongside gold, not a tech-stock proxy.
The 2010 mining origin puts long-dormant Bitcoin supply back in focus, while the transfer alone does not confirm selling pressure.
The convergence of voices from Bitwise, BlackRock, Bessent and a USC finance professor points to a structural bid tied to $40T-and-climbing sovereign debt, not a trade.
The paired 1D and 7D gains broaden the institutional demand signal beyond a single asset.
A dovish lean from Fed Governor Waller was the immediate trigger, but the real read is BTC's six-year-high correlation with gold and a near-zero correlation with the S&P 500, which puts jobs and CPI…
That long-run erosion turns a currency statistic into an allocation question, keeping inflation, Federal Reserve policy and Bitcoin's scarcity case in focus.
Bitwise's Andre Dragosch calls timing bitcoin "close to impossible." The asset is boring most of the year, and that boredom is exactly why a handful of explosive sessions carry nearly all the returns.
A 162K August payrolls print didn't just push Bitcoin under $80K, it repriced September Fed hike odds to 59%. The classic higher-yields, stronger-dollar headwind now sits on top of every crypto trade.
CEL Solicitors identified a 5,500 BTC wallet tied to former Intersango users, opening a recovery path for other customers who can prove decade-old ownership.
The Clarity Act vote lands the same afternoon as the Fed's FOMC rate decision, putting two binary catalysts on a single day for US crypto markets.
EUR/JPY remains 29.4% above Hayes's 140 trigger, while FIMA repo is at $0 and no reserve-management purchases are scheduled in the current window.
A BEA methodology change could alter the Fed's preferred inflation gauge without changing CPI, splitting the rate signal across an immediate decision and a later data revision.
The flow mix makes breadth the key read, since demand was concentrated in BTC and ETH rather than spread across all four products.
Zero net debt changed the financing math, making MSTR share issuance at a premium more attractive for funding Bitcoin purchases.