The United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for July is set to be released on Wednesday, August 12. Economists expect the yearly inflation figure to ease slightly to 3.4%, down from the 3.5% recorded in June. Following a weak July jobs report, markets have dialed down expectations for another Fed rate hike, giving risk
Empery Digital is lowering its Bitcoin [$BTC] stack at a rapid pace. The business sold 1,635 Bitcoin for roughly $102.2 million between 1st July and 6th August. And yet, despite those sales, Empery still had 1,279 $BTC as of 6th August. Worth noting, however, that there is one loophole of 954 $BTC pledged as collateral
Bitcoin’s $BTC$64,080.96 elite holders are quietly loading up again. The number of wallets holding at least 10,000 $BTC has climbed back to 90, a six-month high, according to analytics firm Santiment. Over the past eight weeks alone, the count of these “whale” wallets has risen by six, a 7.1% increase. The move builds on a
Bitcoin’s supply distribution is tilting further toward larger players as the number of wallets holding at least 10,000 $BTC reached 90 for the first time in six months. The shift marks a net addition of six such elite addresses over the past eight weeks, a 7.1% rise that has drawn the attention of on-chain analysts.
In the ongoing debate over BIP-110, Michael Saylor recently claimed that although BIP-110 was permitted to challenge Bitcoin [BTC], it was widely rejected by the larger Bitcoin community. For context, proponents of BIP-110 ran modified Bitcoin software with different rules to create a fork, and they were able to do so without obtaining permission thanks
Bitcoin traders focused in on macro factors when describing their outlook of where the digital currency will go next as it traded within a relatively narrow range. The world’s largest digital currency by total market value fell to roughly $63,700 today, dropping from $65,341.83 and suffering a modest decline of approximately 2.4%, according to Coinbase
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan expects Bitcoin to finish the year significantly higher. “Bad news has stopped moving the market,” Hougan said. “The sellers are gone. When bad news stops moving the market, that marks the bottom,” he added. Hougan also argued that institutional exposure to Bitcoin has continued to grow. According to the Bitwise executive,
Trump Media and Technology Group’s (DJT) bitcoin holdings shrank during the second quarter of the year as falling crypto prices saddled the Truth Social parent with $360.6 million in losses in the first half of the year. The company held 9,477.16 bitcoin $BTC$64,066.96 with a fair value of $557.1 million as of June 30, according
Bitcoin is consolidating above $65,000 as buyers struggle to overcome a cluster of technical resistance levels. The cryptocurrency remains below its 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day exponential moving averages, keeping the short-term price outlook uncertain. Although institutional demand and improving global liquidity conditions are helping to limit deeper losses, overhead supply continues to prevent a decisive
Bitwise’s 10 Crypto Index ETF ended the first half of 2026 with nearly half the net assets it started with, while its 10-asset basket became more concentrated in Bitcoin. Net assets at BITW fell 48.27%, from $1.03 billion on Dec. 31 to $532.8 million on June 30, according to the fund’s quarterly filing. That contraction