
Bitcoin and Ether ETFs Snap an Eight-Week Outflow Run
Spot bitcoin and ether funds took in a combined $281.8M in the week to July 10, the first positive week after $9.46B of withdrawals.
Browse 226 articles across 6 topics

Spot bitcoin and ether funds took in a combined $281.8M in the week to July 10, the first positive week after $9.46B of withdrawals.

Bitcoin's mining difficulty fell 5.00% to 127.17 trillion on July 11, the second large downward move in a month, lifting hashprice 12.5% to $31.1.

US spot bitcoin ETFs shed about $85 million on Wednesday, ending a three-day inflow run, while ether funds pulled in $70 million as both assets fell 3%.

A hobbyist's $150 Bitaxe solved block 957382 solo on July 9, taking the full 3.1382 BTC reward against odds of one block per 16,000 years.

The maintenance release stops the chainstate database from rewriting itself repeatedly, closes a PrivateBroadcast clearnet leak, and credits 20 contributors.

Data compiled by Blockchair and reported by one outlet put Bitcoin's daily transaction count well above 2025 levels. The metric counts transfers, not value.

Bitcoin rose 1.4% on July 4 to clear $63,000, a two-week high, with ether up 11.5% and solana 13.2% over seven days in thin holiday trading.

On-chain data on July 3 put 10.83M BTC below their last traded price against 9.22M above it, the first such crossover this cycle, with bitcoin near $62,000.

Bitcoin rose 4% to $61,200 and the CoinDesk 20 gained 4.77%, with open interest and funding rates turning in a way June's brief rallies never did.

Bitcoin bottomed at $57,735 on the first day of July, then a spot buying surge carried it back above $60,000, closing a first half down about 30%.

Strategy's board authorized the sale of up to $1.25 billion of bitcoin, two days after its mNAV fell below 1.0 and shut off the equity-issuance model behind four years of buying. It holds more than 843,000 BTC against preferred dividends above $700 million a year.

Bitcoin traded down to about $58,000 on Thursday, its lowest level since September 2024, before recovering to roughly $59,460. US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $696.3 million, the month's largest single-day outflow, with about $10 billion of options due to expire the next day.