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The 'crack' in the energy market is wider than ever. Bitcoin might feel it.

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 18 2026

By Omkar GodboleAug 18, 2026, 7:21 a.m. EDT

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Bitcoin's biggest holders, Strategy and Metaplanet, are betting on math, not price

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 17, 2026

By Omkar GodboleAug 17, 2026, 7:28 a.m. EDT

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor addresses Consensus 2026 in Miami.

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Fear is fading across markets, be it bitcoin, stocks, gold or bonds

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 14, 2026

By Omkar GodboleAug 14, 2026, 7:33 a.m. EDT

Implied volatility indexes in major markets. (TradingView)

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Strategy, Metaplanet unrealized bitcoin losses highlight risk of concentrating on just one token

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 13, 2026

By Omkar GodboleAug 13, 2026, 7:35 a.m. EDT

Depressed businessman in crisis with line graph showing negative trend

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XRP trading could get spicy after CPI report as futures bets hit highest since October

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 12, 2026

By Omkar GodboleAug 12, 2026, 7:15 a.m. EDT

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When safe assets compete with risk. Lessons from the 1960s–90s for bitcoin and stocks.

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 11 2026

By Omkar GodboleAug 11, 2026, 7:13 a.m. EDT

Front page of "The Philadelphia Inquirer" the day of the 1987 stock market crash.

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Bitcoin's BIP-110 episode is free-market capitalism in purest form

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 10, 2026

By Omkar GodboleAug 10, 2026, 7:31 a.m. EDT

Diagram showing relative block production on Bitcoin and the BIP-110 fork

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Bitcoin’s volatility has nearly disappeared. The risk hasn’t.

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 7, 2026

By Francisco Rodrigues, Olivier Acuna, Saksham DiwanAug 7, 2026, 7:42 a.m. EDT

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Bitcoin’s low volatility doesn’t necessarily mean low risk

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 6, 2026

By Omkar GodboleAug 6, 2026, 7:37 a.m. EDT

BTC's recent price action in candlestick format. (TradingView)

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The $120 million Coldcard hack lights up Bitcoin's memory pool

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 5, 2026

By Omkar GodboleAug 5, 2026, 7:20 a.m. EDT

Chart showing the number of transactions waiting in Bitcoin's mempool.

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BlackRock's Fink names a U.S. recession trigger, sounds alarm over $40 trillion national debt

BlackRock's CEO says "a moratorium of some sort" on data center buildouts would put the U.S. in a recession.

4 hours ago

Negative

Nearly $1 billion in crypto bets liquidated as bitcoin, ether and XRP slide

Ether accounted for nearly 60% of the forced closures across the two largest cryptocurrencies, falling roughly twice as much as bitcoin.

4 hours ago

Negative

Bitcoin mining pool once handling 2.3% of network shuts after hashrate falls 65%

Computing power directed at Binance Pool has fallen from 26 EH/s in December to about 9 EH/s. Its remaining miners must choose another provider before a Nov. 10 cutoff.

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Bitcoin wilts as Fed rate uncertainty weighs. Kospi plunges 8%

Bets on an October Fed rate hike briefly spiked to nearly 50% after Wednesday’s inflation report, but have since cooled.

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