News and updates about Bitcoin, the first and most established cryptocurrency.
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A Treasury liquidity operation announced on 19 August, not a monetary pivot, triggered the biggest three-day bitcoin move since 2023. Short bitcoin positions built through months of range-bound trading were forced out at whatever bids remained.
The week ending Friday was the strongest for US spot bitcoin funds since October 2025. Fidelity took $293 million, VanEck's HODL bled $16 million.
Strategy disclosed the sale of 3,588 BTC across two tranches to fund dividends on its Digital Credit securities, marking its largest bitcoin disposal since the 2022 tax-loss transaction and confirming the shift from pure accumulation to selective monetisation.
US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $648.64 million in net outflows on May 18, the heaviest single-day redemption since January, as bitcoin slipped from $82,800 to just above $77,000 and BlackRock's IBIT absorbed its second-largest daily outflow of 2026.
Strategy disclosed in an 8-K filing on Monday that it had acquired 24,869 BTC for roughly $2.01 billion between May 11 and May 17, lifting total holdings to 843,738 coins — and funded about 97% of the buy through sales of its STRC perpetual preferred rather than common stock.
Iran's new Hormuz Safe platform offers cryptographically verified insurance certificates against vessel inspection, detention and confiscation — payable in bitcoin. The revenue target is $10 billion a year. CoinDesk and Bloomberg cannot confirm that a single policy has actually been sold.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $532 million in net inflows on May 4, the third straight day of positive flows. BlackRock's IBIT alone pulled in $335 million; Fidelity's FBTC took $185 million. Everyone else split the remaining $12 million.
The Federal Reserve held its target rate at 3.5 to 3.75 per cent on Wednesday, but four members voted against the decision — the deepest split since October 1992. Bitcoin slipped from $76,200 to $75,440 in the first hour after the announcement.
A New York Times investigation led by Pulitzer winner John Carreyrou has named Adam Back, the Blockstream CEO who invented Hashcash in 1997, as its best candidate for the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Back denies the claim, and the evidence falls short of proof while still clearing a higher bar than any previous unmasking attempt.
Bitcoin fell 22% in Q1 2026 from $94,000 to $73,000, underperforming the S&P 500's 8% decline and marking one of the worst quarterly showings in recent years.
By March 2026, Strategy accounted for approximately 76% of all Bitcoin held by publicly traded companies as other corporate treasury programs paused or reversed.
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) held 762,099 Bitcoin valued at $57.69 billion on March 22, 2026, near break-even on its average cost basis as prices recovered.
Foundry USA pool mined the 20 millionth Bitcoin on March 10, 2026, leaving only 1 million BTC remaining to be mined over approximately 114 years.
The crypto market shed $1 trillion in value across February 2026 as tariff shocks, tech stock collapse, record liquidations, and geopolitical tensions converged.
Bitcoin dropped more than 5% below $65,000 on February 23 as Trump announced a 15% global tariff rate, triggering $2.56 billion in liquidations across crypto markets.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs experienced record weekly net outflows in late February 2026, marking the first sustained selling since their launch in January 2024.
The US Treasury Department added newly seized Bitcoin from criminal proceedings to the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in February 2026.
Stifel Financial published a research note on February 5, 2026, predicting Bitcoin could fall to $38,000 amid macro headwinds and forced selling.
Texas launched its state cryptocurrency reserve in December 2025 with a $5 million initial Bitcoin purchase, becoming the first US state to fund such a reserve.
Bitcoin reached $126,198 on October 6, 2025, setting a new all-time high amid continued institutional inflows.
