Bitmine nears 5% of Ethereum supply despite $8.4B in unrealized losses
Tom Lee’s Ethereum treasury company keeps buying the second-biggest crypto through the downturn, while more…
Month: August 2026
Bessent Seeks Industry Feedback to Shape New GENIUS Rules
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to…
Fidelity Leads $389.7M Bitcoin ETF Weekly Outflow With $153M Exit
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $389.7 million in net outflows during the week of August…
Bitcoin Has Been Declared Dead 21 Times in 2026, Yet It Won’t Stay Buried
With bitcoin still holding above $60,000 and 19 full weeks left in 2026, critics have…
Strategy Holds Bitcoin at 840,447 BTC as Cash Reserve Hits $4.8B
Strategy kept its bitcoin holdings unchanged at 840,447 BTC through Aug. 16 while lifting its…
Strategy raises $334M through stock sales but buys no Bitcoin
Proceeds funded STRC dividends and repurchases, while $149.1 million was added to Strategy’s US dollar…
BTC price loses 200-week trend line as 2022 repeats: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin confirmed a weekly candle close below its 200-week moving average, copying the 2022 bear-market…
Ethereum Developers Consider New Privacy Transaction System
TLDR Ethereum developers are reviewing 66 proposals for the planned Hegotá upgrade, expected in 2027….
Harmony plans rollback, wiping 109,000 transactions after ONE exploit
Harmony said selectively restoring transactions could create inconsistent chain state, as Ravencoin faces a separate…
Binance gave Russian authorities client data used in terrorism financing case: Report
Reuters reported that Binance supplied transaction records and identity documents later used in a terrorism-financing…
Bitpanda fined in Austria’s first published MiCA penalty
The FMA said Bitpanda breached MiCA rules on crypto white papers and marketing communications, with…
BitMart account demands founder explain funds status, Xia calls claims ‘fabricated’
BitMart’s Chinese-language X account demanded an Aug. 19 repayment plan, while Sheldon Xia called its…
Vitalik Buterin Backs Bitcoin’s Utreexo Model for Ethereum Scaling
TLDR Vitalik Buterin praised Bitcoin’s Utreexo project while discussing Ethereum’s scaling research. A new proposal…
JPMorgan Launches Bitcoin and Ethereum Collateral Program for Loans
TLDR JPMorgan launched a program in March 2026 letting institutional clients pledge Bitcoin and Ethereum…
Curve Founder Blasts Pump.fun, Phantom Wallet Experience
Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov has called Pump.fun “a casino of scams called memecoins” while…