Bitcoin Tops $81K as Fed Rate-Hike Odds Fall to 50%
The macro trigger is Fed Governor Waller backing a hold if disinflation continues, which pulled September hike odds below 50% and sent buyers back into risk across the board.
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The macro trigger is Fed Governor Waller backing a hold if disinflation continues, which pulled September hike odds below 50% and sent buyers back into risk across the board.
The full-service national-bank route sets OpenReserve apart from the trust-company charters behind most recent crypto approvals and targets institutional treasury, stablecoins and tokenized deposits.
The trade puts exit timing in focus, contrasting a realized $71K loss with a $5.3M counterfactual profit from holding.
Garlinghouse’s call makes policy execution the key variable in US crypto competitiveness, with investors watching whether the ambition translates into durable adoption.
Gold's volatility sits in the 93rd percentile of its history while Bitcoin's is near the 10th, so the convergence reflects safe-haven turbulence as well as calmer crypto trading.
The ratio is the headline. The macro context is Bessent's G20 line: the world is 'awash in debt' and policymakers are betting on nominal growth, not austerity, to dig out.
The breadth across BTC and ETH funds matters more than either single tally, with follow-through the key test for sustained demand.
Fidelity points investors beyond August's price gains to cycle timing, policy, institutional adoption and on-chain activity as the next signals to watch.
The two seller cohorts in that $47B band (recent buyers near $71K and LTHs at $83K-$86K) sit in the path of any breakout. ETF outflows just made it the first live demand test since the rally began.
Bitcoin's role as crypto's primary directional signal makes a sustained hold at $78,000 relevant well beyond BTC.
The overlap gives traders a tighter map of the range, focusing attention on where supply and leveraged positioning intersect.
The filing puts the largest US crypto exchange on a collision course with the SEC over a product class that currently lives almost entirely offshore, and it lands weeks after the CFTC opened the door…
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The standoff puts North American commerce under pressure, with new tariffs threatening to widen trade friction and reinforce risk-off sentiment.
Remixpoint's exit lifts its Bitcoin stack to roughly 1,506 BTC, about $121M, and signals that Japan's listed-company crypto playbook is narrowing to a single asset after Metaplanet set the template.
Bitquery's block-by-block census puts the cost in numbers: 96,231 unspendable outputs now live in node state, while 4.4M OP_RETURN bytes never had to.
The case just shifted from a static forensic ledger to a live cross-chain trace: 20.5 BTC routed through 34 swaps while 1,402 BTC of identified loot still sits parked.
The rule ties certain political contributions to a bar on compensated government work, putting adviser access to public-sector mandates at the center of the proposal.
The outlook ties near-term momentum to the US midterms, while macro deterioration remains the key risk to the upside case.
Public companies and Bitcoin ETPs already hold 16x what miners issue each year. Each halving shrinks the supply shock further, so the four-year clock that defined Bitcoin's first decade is becoming…