Bitcoin $BTC$75,582.18 climbed as high as $79,400 on Friday, adding 8.8% since midnight UTC as a rally kicked off by the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday gathered steam. The largest cryptocurrency was trading recently just below $78,000. The Treasury’s bond buyback announcement helped extend bitcoin’s gains from earlier in the week. It’s now climbed for five
Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Asset Research at VanEck, maintained his optimistic forecast for Bitcoin’s future price performance. Sigel predicts Bitcoin will reach $100,000 again next year, and if a similar market cycle occurs, the cryptocurrency could rise to $500,000 by 2029. Sigel’s assessment indicates that long-term bullish expectations for the Bitcoin market remain. The
The U.S. Treasury on Wednesday said it would step in to support the market for its own bonds after the cost of long-term government borrowing shot up to the highest level in almost two decades. That rise in borrowing costs had become a problem for both the government’s finances and maybe even crypto. The new
Strategy MSTR$123.69·At close is back in profit on its bitcoin $BTC$75,582.18 holdings, with an unrealized gain of roughly $1.4 billion, or 2.4%, as the largest cryptocurrency added almost 22% in five straight days of advances . The company owns 840,447 $BTC, acquired at an average price of $75,385, compared with bitcoin’s current price of about
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said on Aug. 21 that countries could use tokenization to raise capital and attract foreign direct investment by offering digital representations of assets to global investors. “Let’s tokenize everything,” CZ wrote in an X post. He argued that countries and companies have an incentive to sell tokenized shares to investors worldwide.
Bitcoin’s latest rally has been backed by a sharp increase in institutional activity. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded more than $5.3 billion in trading volume as BTC reclaimed $74,000 for the first time in 86 days. BlackRock’s IBIT dominated activity with $4.44 billion in volume. Fidelity’s FBTC came next at $438 million and Grayscale at
Arbitrum activated ArbOS 61 Elara on Aug. 20, adding optional protocol-level transaction screening, priority-fee support and an alternative data-availability interface for dedicated chains, while changing base-fee administration and expanding Stylus capacity on Arbitrum One. The upgrade went live after approval through Arbitrum governance. The governance proposal included compliance and priority-fee capabilities in ArbOS 61 but
Strategy, the business intelligence firm formerly known as MicroStrategy, is on the verge of breaking even on its substantial Bitcoin investment. According to on-chain analyst EmberCN, the company’s average Bitcoin purchase price stands at $75,385. With Bitcoin trading around $75,085, a mere $300 increase would bring the firm’s holdings to breakeven. Recovery in Unrealized Losses