
Bitcoin Barely Moves as the Fed Raises Rates 25 Basis Points
The federal funds target moved a quarter point on Wednesday, its first increase since July 2023. Three accounts of the same evening give three bitcoin prices.
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The federal funds target moved a quarter point on Wednesday, its first increase since July 2023. Three accounts of the same evening give three bitcoin prices.

Version 32.0rc1 was tagged on 14 September with a 10 October release in view. Parallel validation, a mempool fee estimator and two security fixes.

A group calling itself iamnotavillain set a 24-hour clock on data taken through a forged information request. Revolut says nobody has contacted it.

The administrator of Celsius's bankruptcy estate filed in New York on 12 September over March 2020 liquidations, eleven days before BitMEX stops trading.

Ethiopian Electric Power is delivering about 23% of what miners contracted for, blaming low reservoir inflows. Mining was 35% of its revenue last year.

BIS Working Paper 1377 sets three ways of counting bitcoin transfer value against each other. The widest and the narrowest are a factor of six apart.

A trading account's post ranks six assets by what $10,000 would be worth now if it had been bought in the March 2020 Covid crash. Ethereum leads at $205,000, ahead of altcoins at $195,000 and bitcoin at $130,000. Gold sits last at $28,500.

An on-chain table published on 1 September puts India ahead of every other country on bitcoin ownership, with 68 million holders and 4.6% of the population. The United States is second at about 50 million. By ownership rate India sits twelfth.

Bitcoin fell from an overnight high of $79,530 to about $77,400 on Tuesday, hours before the Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. The procedural vote needed 60. A widely shared post puts the later price far lower.

An Instagram post puts BlackRock's IBIT at well over 765,000 BTC. Two independent trackers put it higher, and they disagree with each other by about 1,700 coins. The quote driving the post dates to August, not last week.

A pie chart from a Bitcoin conference account splits $157 trillion of global money into eight wedges and gives Bitcoin 1% of it. The dollar wedge matches the Fed's July M2 print exactly. The gold wedge does not match the tracker this desk checked.

Nasdaq 100 futures fell more than 1.5% after a weekend essay argued for slower AI development. Bitcoin traded around $78,200 and 94 of the CoinDesk 100 rose.