A bitcoin wallet that had been dormant since 2011 moved nearly 50 $BTC worth about $3.2 million on Thursday, shifting the coins to an address with a history of sending bitcoin to institutional crypto brokerage FalconX. The wallet received the coins on July 16, 2011, when bitcoin traded around $10, and had not spent them
Bitcoin whales accumulated 38,000 $BTC through accumulation addresses, reducing the amount of available supply on exchanges. The estimated average purchase price is near $70,000, creating a critical market level. Analysts believe the move could represent long-term confidence or an attempt to recover losses, making whale activity a key factor for Bitcoin’s next direction. Large holders
Market Momentum and Intraday Volatility Bitcoin nearly reached $65,000 on Thursday as the cryptocurrency’s gradual rise, albeit a slower one since the start of the month, showed no signs of slowing. Although selling pressure weighed on the market at times, bitcoin’s daily chart showed support above $64,500 during pullbacks. However, bitcoin slipped below that threshold
Developed by Breez in partnership with Bitcoin Spark, the Glow app lets users send stablecoins from their Bitcoin balance, while empowering developers to build better user experiences without having to worry about the difficult parts of building on top of Bitcoin. Breez’s SDK takes care of asset exchange in the background while supporting lightning payments
BIP-110 Faces Its Moment of Truth At block 961,289 on Thursday morning, Bitcoin sat roughly 343 blocks from BIP-110’s mandatory signaling phase. The bip110.org/monitor dashboard showed just 41 supporting blocks among 1,674 counted in the current period, leaving signaling at 2.45%. The mandatory window was projected to begin Aug. 8 at approximately 5:16 p.m. EDT.
Credit unions now have a production-ready path to offer Bitcoin and other digital asset services without relying on outside platforms after DaLand CUSO and Circuit, an 80-member credit union collaborative, announced that Circuit’s Digital Asset Initiative has moved into implementation. The program grants participating institutions access to DaLand’s CODE Engine and Coin2Core technology, which integrates
Bitcoin software provider Breez has released a new app it says will serve both everyday users and developers. The product, dubbed Glow, is supposed to be an easy way to make Lightning transactions easier for everyday users, while also doubling as an open-source blueprint — a way to see exactly how easy it is to
Demand for US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has accelerated over the past week, with a string of daily inflows coinciding with the Coldcard wallet hack — timing that has prompted speculation about whether some investors are reconsidering self-custody. According to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), Fidelity Wise Origin
A Bitcoin strategic reserve is a government-held stockpile of Bitcoin treated as a national asset alongside gold, oil, and foreign currency reserves. The United States signed an executive order creating one in March 2025, and at least a dozen other countries are now exploring the same idea. Every country holds reserves. The composition of those