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Bitcoin Is Holding Near 77,000 Dollars as Rate Rise Odds Climb, Which Is Better Than the Textbook Says It Should

Down 4 per cent on the week and 34 per cent on the year, but up 21 per cent on the month, with the Fed about to raise rates and oil up eleven per cent in five days. Ether is at 2,500. What the price is telling you, and what it is not.

Sep 15, 2026/3 min read

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Bitcoin Reclaimed 81,000 Dollars on a Rate Signal, Which Is Not What an Inflation Hedge Does

Bitcoin rose 5.5 percent to 81,491 dollars on Thursday after a Federal Reserve governor signalled a hold, with the total crypto market up 4.7 percent to 2.82 trillion. The rally came from lower rate expectations while oil sat near 96 dollars.

Sep 4, 2026/3 min read

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The Exchange Has Built a Crypto Index That Deliberately Leaves Out Bitcoin and Ether

CME and CF Benchmarks switched on two indices on Monday. One is a broad market benchmark built around bitcoin and ether. The other excludes both of them and tracks ten other assets, which is a statement about what the rest of the market is for.

Sep 1, 2026/3 min read

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An Attacker Minted Forty Nine Billion Dollars of SAND and Left With Six Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand

Roughly 329 trillion tokens appeared on Base and BNB Smart Chain across 703 mint events. The real theft was capped by how much SAND was actually locked on Ethereum, and the keys came from a developer's infected laptop.

Aug 30, 2026/4 min read

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You Can Buy a House Without Selling Your Bitcoin Now, and the Collateral Terms Tell You What It Is Really Worth

The first crypto backed conforming mortgages are being written in the United States. Pledge bitcoin, keep the coins, skip the taxable sale. The catch is not a margin call. It is that you must post 250 dollars of bitcoin for every 100 dollars you borrow.

Aug 28, 2026/4 min read

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Bitcoin Is Having Its Best August Since 2017. It Is Also Still a Third Below Its Record.

August has closed red for bitcoin every year since 2022. This one is up about a quarter, spot ETFs took nearly two billion dollars in five sessions, and the price is back near eighty thousand. It peaked at a hundred and twenty six.

Aug 25, 2026/3 min read

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The SEC Has Asked 27 Questions About the Next Generation of Crypto Funds, and You Have Until 31 August to Answer

A proceeding opened on 30 June is deciding what exchange traded funds holding unusual assets may look like. Two designs dominate it: funds that earn staking rewards, and funds tracking small altcoins. The comment period closes in days.

Aug 24, 2026/4 min read

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The Rulebook for Stablecoins Missed Its Own Deadline, and the Compliance Date Did Not Move

Six federal agencies were required to finalise the GENIUS Act rules by 18 July. They did not. The law still takes effect on 18 January 2027, which leaves issuers building to a rulebook that has not been written.

Aug 24, 2026/4 min read

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Bitcoin Went From $64,000 to Almost $80,000 in Three Sessions, and the Trigger Was a Treasury Announcement

From Wednesday to Friday the price rose more than twenty two per cent, the strongest week in over three years, helped by a record short squeeze of about 2.7 billion dollars. Very little of the explanation is about cryptocurrency.

Aug 22, 2026/4 min read

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Ether Rose Seventeen Per Cent in a Day on a Piece of Legislation That Has Not Passed

The SEC proposed a framework, the president pushed the Senate on the Clarity Act, and the market moved before either was settled. What the bill would actually decide is the oldest unanswered question in the industry.

Aug 21, 2026/3 min read

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More Than a Third of Ether Is Locked Up, and That Cuts Both Ways

Staking and long-term holding have taken a large share of ether out of circulation. It is read as conviction. It is also a thinner market, and thin markets move faster in both directions.

Aug 17, 2026/3 min read

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