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.
Speaking with Steven Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO podcast, the Strategy executive chairman described AI as a tool for solving problems that traditional finance had never encountered. He opened the discussion with a simple message: “Bitcoin is digital capital. AI is digital intelligence.” Together, he stressed, the technologies are reshaping business, markets, work,
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
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said regulators must give financial innovation room to lead as the global derivatives market enters a new phase of development. Selig rejects restrictive derivatives rules Writing in The Economist, Selig argued that regulators should avoid importing or copying rules that could limit competition and prevent new financial products from reaching the
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