Tagged: btc

September 16, 2026 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis has said it reclaimed about 15 bitcoin after a vulnerability in its native Bitcoin Bridge was used on September 11. The team also extended a 20 percent white-hat bounty to the attacker, with a September 13 cutoff for a direct return of… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted their heaviest single-session withdrawals since late June of this yaer after a landmark digital asset market-structure bill (the CLARITY Act) notably failed to clear a Senate procedural vote. The 13 products listed in the United States recorded a… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satsuma Technology PLC (LSE:SATS),  a United Kingdom company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has completed the sale of its entire Bitcoin treasury and secured court clearance to send the resulting cash back to investors. The firm disposed of 669.4867 Bitcoin in late July and will… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s rebound has lifted sentiment, yet CryptoQuant’s latest research argues that a new bull market has not been confirmed. After a roughly 24 percent advance over two weeks, the BTC price stalled inside a $76,000–$82,000 band and was trading near $77,000 when the firm published… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

There is never a shortage of Bitcoin price prognosticators. The world’s most popular crypto is highly volatile, if anything. Its capped issuance leads some to point to its inflation-fighting credibility. If demand increases while supply stays steady, prices must rise. Yesterday, Brian Armstrong, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN)… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 3:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

El Salvador has not directed taxpayer money toward additional bitcoin purchases since the first review of its IMF-backed loan program last June, according to the International Monetary Fund. Officials in San Salvador instead supplied records showing that coins added after that review arrived as private… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 1:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Metaplanet’s (TYO: 3350) stock weakened again after Chief Executive Simon Gerovich tried to answer shareholder criticism in a public note and left the market unconvinced. The Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company dropped nearly 10 percent on Tuesday to 244 yen, after a 7.5 percent decline on… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly rejected a high-profile forecast that artificial intelligence will trigger a sharp collapse in Bitcoin. In a September 7 exchange on X, he said he stands on the opposite side of a claim that AI will erode confidence in Bitcoin’s… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 6:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A long-quiet Bitcoin address that first received coins in mid-2016 moved more than a thousand coins in a single transaction, while holders of early physical Bitcoin collectibles also began unlocking a cluster of coins after years of inactivity. The sending wallet used the older P2PKH… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 4:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockstream’s Liquid Network, a federated Bitcoin sidechain used by exchanges and institutions for faster settlement and confidential transfers, temporarily halted new activity after nearly the entire bitcoin reserve backing its L-BTC token left the federation wallet. On September 6, 2026, two transactions moved approximately 3,998… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 10:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) absorbed a substantial wave of new money last week, drawing approximately $987 million in net creations and extending a rebound in regulated demand for the leading digital asset. The figure, compiled from issuer flow data, marked the third week… Read More

September 5, 2026 @ 10:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Geyser, a US-linked Bitcoin crowdfunding site, has refused a campaign from Cuba Bitcoin after an automated review labeled the submitted wallet a sanctions failure. The grassroots group made the rejection public on September 3, 2026, calling the explanation empty and arguing that origin, not the… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Supporters of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 or BIP-110 have revived a breakaway chain that had gone quiet after an early August split, pairing a new mining algorithm with a much smaller block limit. The minority network forked from Bitcoin at block 961,632 when nodes enforcing… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 6:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), which decisively remains the largest public holder of bitcoin and a prominent digital asset treasury company, has formally objected to a new consultation launched by index provider MSCI. The firm described the proposal as discriminatory toward companies that maintain substantial digital asset reserves as… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s current transaction signatures rely on elliptic-curve cryptography. A powerful enough quantum computer could, in principle, derive a private key from a public key that has already appeared on the blockchain and then spend the associated coins. No one can say with certainty when such… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

StarkWare has reported that a Bitcoin transfer designed to withstand a future quantum-computer attack has been confirmed on the live network. The company said the spend used Avihu Levy’s Quantum-Safe Bitcoin construction, which was first described in a research paper in April 2026 and has… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 1:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management, observed that presenting a positive outlook for bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency market has become notably more straightforward in 2026 than it was during earlier periods of market stress. Hougan contrasted the current climate with the… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 2:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has recently indicated that Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency sector appear to have transitioned into the initial stages of a new bull market. This assessment follows a sharp price recovery that has shifted several key metrics into positive territory, raising the… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A longtime Bitcoin Core contributor has flagged a noticeable decline in routine bitcoin transactions within El Zonte, the Salvadoran coastal community better known as Bitcoin Beach. Jon Atack, active on Bitcoin Core since 2019 and living in El Salvador since 2022, described a recent lunch… Read More

August 24, 2026 @ 11:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitget Chief Executive Officer Gracy Chen has expressed strong skepticism that the United States government will actively purchase Bitcoin on the open market to expand its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve before the end of President Donald Trump’s current term. In a recent interview, Chen described such… Read More