
Spot Bitcoin ETFs Close Their Best Week Since April
US spot bitcoin ETFs drew $853.54M over five sessions with no outflow days, 81% of it into BlackRock's IBIT — but the funds are still billions in the red for 2026.
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US spot bitcoin ETFs drew $853.54M over five sessions with no outflow days, 81% of it into BlackRock's IBIT — but the funds are still billions in the red for 2026.

MARA lost $611.3M and CleanSpark $239.8M as revenue fell 27% and 30.5%. Both leaned harder on AI and data-center capacity, and both stocks fell on the print.

The Bitcoin Red Team filed 4,962 findings, 85 of them critical, across 390 open-source repositories in 27.5 hours, on just over $40,000 of OpenSats funding.

Bitcoin's transaction queue hit 89,031 unconfirmed entries on 5 August, with active addresses at a three-month high. The congestion came from wallet migration, not trading.

Bitcoin's 30-day implied volatility fell to 36%, its lowest since 31 May, while US spot ETFs took $211.49 million on a second straight day of inflows.

Galaxy Research counted at least 15 independent attackers sweeping vulnerable Coldcard wallets, with 1,596 BTC confirmed stolen and a suspected total of 2,055 BTC.

Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for $104.73 million at an average of $63,957, leaving 842,138 BTC carried at an average cost of $75,419 and a dollar reserve of $4 billion.

Daily active addresses neared 980,000 on 31 July, the most since December 2024, while exchange balances rose, with coin heading toward venues rather than away.

Coinkite told Coldcard owners to keep their devices but abandon their seeds, and named five rival wallets, as a third sweep wave pushed the tally near $89 million.

Three outlets put Saturday's bitcoin price in three different places, from $63,082 to a rejection off $65,000, on the thinnest spot volume since 2019.

A 2021 build-config error left Coldcard firmware using a general-purpose pseudorandom generator instead of the chip's hardware RNG, cutting seed entropy far below 128 bits.

Bitcoin ended July at $64,131.17 after printing the cycle low at $57,735 on the first of the month, with ether outperforming and ETF flows barely positive.