Tagged: bitcoin

October 5, 2026 @ 4:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) price is pressing back toward the $87,000 area as October opens, giving seasonal bulls a fresh case for a move toward roughly $94,000 if the month’s historical pattern holds. Spot-market data over the weekend showed the asset lifting from an intraday low near… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Partners Banka has reportedly become the first bank in the Czech Republic to let customers buy and sell bitcoin in its own mobile banking app, after partnering with the domestic crypto firm Anycoin to handle trades and custody. The service was announced in Prague on 5 August 2026… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) finished the third quarter of 2026 with its strongest July-to-September result since 2017, then carried that momentum into early October by absorbing a dense band of offers near $85,000 and trading back toward its best levels of the year. Soft US hiring data… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 12:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy’s (NASDAQ: MSTR) large Bitcoin holdings now sit at the center of a capital-markets operation that raises fresh dollars and distributes regular, dollar-denominated income to preferred investors, while common shareholders retain leveraged exposure to further coin accumulation. In a September 29, 2026 explanation of the… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Government bond markets worldwide came under renewed strain at the start of October as investors reassessed the path of inflation and growth, pushing sovereign yields to levels not seen in decades and lifting borrowing costs across major economies. The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield briefly… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Core Lightning maintainers issued an urgent notice on October 2, 2026, telling operators of the open-source Bitcoin Lightning implementation to move off older builds after receiving reports that attackers are actively probing nodes that have not applied recent security updates. In a post from the… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 1:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kazakhstan is pursuing a new energy strategy that pairs unused gas from oil production with cryptocurrency mining, hoping to revive an industry that previously strained the national grid. Authorities want miners to generate their own electricity on site from associated petroleum gas that is now… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Uphold has rolled out Vault Inheritance, which is described as a legacy-planning option for customers who keep Bitcoin, XRP, and Hedera in the platform’s assisted self-custody wallet. The company framed the product as a response to a problem unique to crypto: legal title can pass… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 1:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts have opened a civil forfeiture case aimed at recovering digital assets they say are connected to a 2023 account takeover that drained 33.7 bitcoin from a single Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) login. According to court papers, a beneficiary of a Massachusetts family trust… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin is pressing into a densely packed band of long-term holder supply just as derivatives leverage has been stripped from the market. Glassnode’s latest on-chain maps show that more coins held by addresses inactive for months sit between $84,000 and $85,000 than in any other… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR), the Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, is asking common shareholders to approve a shift to daily dividend accruals on four of its Nasdaq-listed preferred securities: STRC, STRD, STRF, and STRK. The board backed the plan on September 24, 2026,… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Risk assets started the week on weaker footing after President Donald Trump declined to close off the chance of further US military action against Iran before November’s midterm elections. Speaking Sunday, he said he expected the conflict to be won “very soon” and that oil… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Corporate digital asset treasury firms kept expanding their positions even as bitcoin and the wider crypto market opened the week with a modest pullback. The buying underscores a structural trend that has persisted through 2026: publicly listed companies treating bitcoin and ether as core balance-sheet… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A New York cryptography research group has outlined a way to hide Bitcoin payment details on the base chain itself, without asking miners or node operators to adopt a protocol upgrade. The design, called Shielded Bitcoin, comes from [alloc] init researchers Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov,… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 3:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Large institutional investors increasingly describe Bitcoin (BTC) as a digital counterpart to gold, yet they still place it inside the same portfolio sleeve they use for technology and other crypto-assets. That contradiction sits at the center of a new Bitwise research study based on interviews… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 12:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anchorage Digital says it now offers Bitcoin staking to Bitcoin holders. Anchorage Digital is a federally regulated bank with a mission to support the digital asset sector. Bitcoin staking is its newest service, enabling clients to stake BTC held at Anchorage and benefit from staking… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s (BTC) latest rebound has cleared several cost-basis hurdles that capped the market through much of 2026, and on-chain researchers at Glassnode now frame the $95,000–$97,000 band as the first genuine stress test if the advance continues. The firm notes that BTC price has moved… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), issued a concise public reply after venture capitalist Jason Calacanis posted a lengthy critique that treated Bitcoin as a technology whose cultural moment had passed. The comments appeared as the cryptocurrency recovered toward the $80,000 level. Calacanis… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 3:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethical researchers appear to have done what many Coldcard victims had hoped for: they reached 52.37 bitcoin before thieves could empty the exposed wallets. Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital’s (NASDAQ: GLXY) head of firmwide research, said those coins have now been gathered into a single address… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional demand for Bitcoin has reasserted itself with striking speed. U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds absorbed about $1.7 billion in net inflows across two trading sessions as the price of Bitcoin climbed above the estimated average cost basis of ETF holders. The move put the… Read More