BitMEX Shuts September 23. Its Futures Were Due to Settle the 25th.
BitMEX settles four September futures 46 days early on August 10. Three adjustment rates came back at 1.00, one at 1.03, and 18 contracts go Tuesday.
BitMEX settles four September futures 46 days early on August 10. Three adjustment rates came back at 1.00, one at 1.03, and 18 contracts go Tuesday.
BitFuFu's bitcoin treasury fell 357 coins in July to prepay for hashrate. The fleet mined 112 BTC and managed capacity shrank again.
3iQ will manage part of Gelephu's bitcoin. The Bhutan bitcoin treasury behind it is listed at 3,121, 4,973, 10,769 or 11,286 BTC.
Russia bars crypto mining in Moscow until 2032. The one gigawatt behind the decree works out to 3.5% to 5.7% of global hashrate.
The SEC stayed Nasdaq bitcoin options after a CME petition. The contract settles on a CME CF benchmark, and statements are due August 24.
BIP 110 has 21 signaling blocks and needs 1,109. Paul Sztorc's eCash hard fork activates at block 964,000 with no miner vote required.
A Coldcard firmware flaw drained 594 BTC. Block puts the seed search space at 32 bits, Coinkite at 72. Here is how to check your own device.
Over 34% of bitcoin has revealed its public key on chain. What quantum computers could reach, and the two BIPs written to close the gap.
Bitcoin's institutional bull case rested on three supports: steady ETF demand, Strategy's treasury buying, and its digital-gold role. This week the ETFs logged their worst week ever, Strategy fell below the value of its own Bitcoin, and the gold trade unwound. All three broke for the same reason.
Bitcoin closed below $60,000 for the first time since Q3 2024, hitting $58,100 before bouncing. A hot PCE print and $696M in ETF outflows cracked the floor, and derivatives desks are positioned for more.
Bitcoin clung to $62,500 in extreme fear, but the day's real moves were elsewhere: the CLARITY Act hit political risk, Wall Street pushed into prediction markets, and Binance faced a June 30 EU deadline.
In one week, CME sued the CFTC over perps, Oman made its national Bitcoin mining pool mandatory, and China advanced a SWIFT rival. Three layers, one pattern: states and incumbents claiming crypto's rails.
Trump signed the Iran deal and stocks rallied, but crypto fell after Warsh's first Fed meeting signaled fewer cuts. Here is what the dot plot means for Bitcoin's range into Q3.
A US-Iran deal to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz sent oil sliding and Bitcoin above $65,500, a two-week high. The catch: it fixes oil, not crypto's demand problem.
The Fed is near-certain to hold on Wednesday, so crypto's real test is the dot plot and Kevin Warsh's first meeting as chair. Bitcoin's bounce off $59K hangs on the tone.
Bitcoin fell under $63K as record ETF outflows, Strategy's first BTC sale in years, a Mt. Gox transfer and geopolitics pulled crypto below $2.5 trillion.