Capital B is converting traditional capital-market funding into direct Bitcoin purchases, including through ATM equity issuance. The U.S. reserve primarily changes potential sell-side supply because its initial $BTC came from government forfeitures rather than market purchases. Corporate $BTC can look structurally scarce until financing conditions change, making dilution, conversion terms and refinancing risk part of
Bitcoin’s BIP138 wallet-backup proposal was merged into the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository on Sept. 21, but the specification remains Draft. It aims to preserve information that a seed phrase may not restore in a complex wallet. The tradeoff is that a third party could read that information if it already holds an eligible extended public
In brief A quantum computer could someday derive private keys from exposed public keys and drain Bitcoin wallets—the hypothetical “Q-Day”—though no such machine exists and timelines vary widely. Fixes fall into three buckets, all in the news this week: quantum-safe transactions under current rules, protocol upgrades like a soft fork, and custody-layer defenses. Nothing shipped
Saylor’s Orange Chart Puts Another Bitcoin Buy in Focus Another bitcoin purchase may be coming from Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR), after Executive Chairman Michael Saylor shared a chart of the company’s holdings on Sept. 27. His message about adding more orange accompanied a graphic that marks Strategy’s bitcoin purchases with orange circles. Saylor wrote: “Even
One-Hour Chart: Bitcoin Takes Another Crack at $85,000 The one-hour chart shows bitcoin’s price steadily clawing back ground following its Sept. 23 retreat into the low-$83,000s. After spending Sept. 24-25 trading between approximately $83,300 and $85,300, $BTC has worked its way toward $84,870, putting the $85,000 threshold squarely in the spotlight. $BTC/USD 1-hour chart via
Crypto analyst and former FTX community partner Benson Sun stated that Bitcoin’s current bull cycle may unfold differently than past bull markets, suggesting that $BTC could reach new highs slowly and steadily. According to Sun, unlike the rapid, culminating rallies in the Bitcoin market in 2013 and 2017, the current cycle may be more gradual.
The continued resilience of employment and consumption in the US economy strengthens expectations that the Fed may keep interest rates at high levels for a longer period. According to Bloomberg and Reuters surveys, economists expect non-farm payrolls in the US to increase by approximately 90,000 and 100,000 respectively in September. The unemployment rate is estimated
Bitcoin has been climbing steadily since July, but one chart analyst thinks October could finally bring the pullback traders have been waiting for. After a rally that began in July and has continued through late September, a technical analyst says Bitcoin may be due for a healthier cooling-off period, and October could be the month
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have attracted about $5.3 billion since the Treasury announced larger long-dated bond buybacks, according to ETF analyst Nate Geraci. Geraci said on Sept. 26 that the funds collected $2.4 billion during the latest week alone, while Monday’s roughly $1 billion intake ranked as the ninth-largest single-day inflow since U.S. spot Bitcoin