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A Bitcoin balance scale weighs rising whales and blue liquidity against broken hardware, dark market pressure, and exhausted traders.

Bitcoin’s $65K recovery shows its growing immunity to bad news as ETFs and whales buy $2 billion

Spot Bitcoin funds are heading for their best week since April while whales add more than $1.2 billion, even as derivatives traders refuse to chase the rally.

Oluwapelumi Adejumo 6 min read 1 week ago

Raised hand separates rejected and accepted Bitcoin blocks at a glowing BIP-110 enforcement gate.

Mining

Bitcoin has 185 blocks left before BIP-110 rules begin rejecting blocks

Bitcoin's BIP-110 enforcement starts at height 961,632, with adoption still waiting on hashpower and economic support.

3 min read 1 week ago

Legal Bearish

BitGo investors face flood of Aug. 7 class-action deadline warnings

The lawsuit accuses BitGo of understating crypto risk, but today’s deadline applies only to investors seeking the lead-plaintiff role.

3 min read 1 week ago

Editorial collage of the U.S. Capitol wrapped in CLARITY Act delay tape, with August recess, overseas investment, and 14% passage odds.

Legislation Bearish

Senate abandons August CLARITY Act vote – leaving 14 ‘work days’ until midterm election season kills it

Supporters now have roughly 14 scheduled weekdays to rebuild a 60-vote coalition before the midterm campaign sharply narrows the calendar.

6 min read 1 week ago

Worried LRC holder faces Coinbase market suspension and Loopring shutdown notices beside signs pointing toward alternative exit routes.

Exchanges LRC -2.18% Bearish

Coinbase is pulling Loopring trading today – finding a safe place to sell LRC tokens is getting complicated

At 10:47 a.m. ET, LRC-USD was still limit-only while 74% of displayed volume sat on four outside venues.

3 min read 1 week ago

ETF

Wintermute takes aim at Wall Street’s crypto ETF gatekeepers

Its new SEC-registered broker-dealer can pursue roles currently occupied by traditional market makers such as Jane Street.

3 min read 1 week ago

Yellow Cypher card and midnight clock pierced by an industrial punch, surrounded by torn notes marking card and platform shutdown deadlines.

Payments USDC 0.00% Bearish

If you use a Cypher or Osmosis card, your spending dies tonight and unbacked wallets could go with it

The Cypher wind-down makes Aug. 7 the final spending day; cardholders should complete withdrawals, reward claims and wallet-access steps before Sept. 6.

3 min read 1 week ago

Open Bitcoin vault beside mining rigs and Long Ridge power infrastructure, with MARA collateral and lender financing details.

Mining Bearish

MARA sold almost all its mined Bitcoin, then pledged 18,750 BTC for an AI dream with no disclosed safety net

The miner sold 2,213 BTC and later pledged 18,750 BTC, while the differently dated collateral pools cannot be reconciled.

3 min read 1 week ago

CleanSpark paper boat sinks amid falling revenue, rising losses, debt figures, Bitcoin pressure, and the Sandersville AI lease.

Earnings Bearish

A $433 million Bitcoin accounting crash just exposed the high-stakes gap in CleanSpark’s massive AI transition

Bitcoin valuation changes represented 87% of the profit-to-loss swing, while Sandersville still needs substantial capital.

3 min read 1 week ago

Mining

American Bitcoin built an 8,002 BTC reserve, but nearly 40% of it is quietly tied up with Bitmain

Mining supplied roughly 95% of Q2 reserve growth, while first-half operations and Bitcoin purchases used $129.1 million in cash.

3 min read 1 week ago

Cracked Bitcoin above $64,000 support amid weak ADP hiring, rising Treasury yields, Wall Street, and the Aug. 7 jobs report.

Market

Bitcoin holds $64,000 as private hiring drops 53% before today’s macro test that could break support

ADP private-job growth fell to 44,000 from 95,000, but wages and yields resist a simple relief trade.

3 min read 1 week ago

Weathered XRP lifebuoy is dragged by a red anchor through turbulent blue water, symbolizing concentrated leverage and market stress.

Market XRP -0.16% Bearish

With leverage outnumbering spot volume 6 to 1, XRP traders are walking a $2.36B tightrope

XRP price sits near $1 as Binance leverage hits a 15-month low and Bybit carries $229 million in open interest.

5 min read 1 week ago

Editorial collage representing Naomi Bashkansky’s move to Conduit, with a neural-recording headband sending fragmented signals toward an AI coding interface alongside Conduit’s 10,000-hour dataset and accuracy figures.

Inside the race to create AI telepathy – and why an OpenAI researcher just staked her career on it

Former OpenAI researcher joins Conduit to turn neural data into AI prompts, though free-form performance remains unpublished.

2 min read 1 week ago

Editorial collage showing a Bullish trading machine with a widened central gap, sparse order slips, and data fragments highlighting a 42.9% volume drop and 72.4% wider spread.

Exchanges ETH +0.68% Bearish

Ethereum volume plunged 73% on Bullish, but a 72% spread jump saved its monthly bottom line

Bullish's filing-derived volume-times-spread proxy slipped 1.6% year over year and 38.3% from June despite the wider company-defined spread.

3 min read 1 week ago

A punk editorial collage shows a Bitcoin address search linked to a surveillance camera and server racks, with an anonymous silhouette and torn-paper network and legal documents.

Privacy Bearish

Searching a Bitcoin wallet online could secretly hand your IP address to Chainalysis

Bitcoin tool WalletExplorer logs IPs and URLs within Chainalysis, while other major explorers follow different retention and access rules.

6 min read 1 week ago

Editorial collage depicting BlackRock’s IBIT and ETHA trusts as a split institutional vault, with red redemption flows, smaller blue-green inflows, and torn SEC filing fragments showing a Q2 capital-flow reversal.

ETF Bearish

SEC filings show a $17.4 billion BlackRock crypto reversal as mystery investors redeem 106,000 BTC

BlackRock’s crypto ETFs moved from a $13.9 billion Q2 increase to a $3.5 billion decrease, while positive August sessions remain inconclusive.

2 min read 1 week ago

AVAX One holds $88 million in AVAX, but its lender only wants cash or Bitcoin

Digital Asset Treasuries AVAX +0.17%

AVAX One debt amendment raises cash and Bitcoin liquidity floor to $3.5 million

An amended legacy debenture excludes AVAX from the liquidity calculation after the company’s CEO transition.

3 min read 1 week ago

Crypto News

Bitcoin’s $65K recovery shows its growing immunity to bad news as ETFs and whales buy $2 billion

Bitcoin has 185 blocks left before BIP-110 rules begin rejecting blocks

BitGo investors face flood of Aug. 7 class-action deadline warnings

Senate abandons August CLARITY Act vote – leaving 14 ‘work days’ until midterm election season kills it

Coinbase is pulling Loopring trading today – finding a safe place to sell LRC tokens is getting complicated

Wintermute takes aim at Wall Street’s crypto ETF gatekeepers

If you use a Cypher or Osmosis card, your spending dies tonight and unbacked wallets could go with it

MARA sold almost all its mined Bitcoin, then pledged 18,750 BTC for an AI dream with no disclosed safety net

A $433 million Bitcoin accounting crash just exposed the high-stakes gap in CleanSpark’s massive AI transition

American Bitcoin built an 8,002 BTC reserve, but nearly 40% of it is quietly tied up with Bitmain

Bitcoin holds $64,000 as private hiring drops 53% before today’s macro test that could break support

With leverage outnumbering spot volume 6 to 1, XRP traders are walking a $2.36B tightrope

Inside the race to create AI telepathy – and why an OpenAI researcher just staked her career on it

Ethereum volume plunged 73% on Bullish, but a 72% spread jump saved its monthly bottom line

Searching a Bitcoin wallet online could secretly hand your IP address to Chainalysis

SEC filings show a $17.4 billion BlackRock crypto reversal as mystery investors redeem 106,000 BTC

AVAX One debt amendment raises cash and Bitcoin liquidity floor to $3.5 million

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