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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.
Ten institutions joined the round, among them Nasdaq Ventures, BNP Paribas and Coinbase Ventures. Kaiko disclosed no valuation.
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.
BitMine Immersion bought 27,180 ETH in the week to 13 September, taking its holdings to 5,956,378 tokens, about 4.9% of the supply. The company values the position at $14.96 billion and has 85% of it staked.
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.
Four sessions of net redemptions drained the US spot bitcoin funds while ether funds took in $216 million. The weekly totals published since do not agree.
Brian Armstrong told Bloomberg Television on 10 September that bitcoin's cycle low is already in, with the price near $78,000. A viral Instagram post builds a 2022 parallel on top of the call, and its central figure does not hold up.
Perpetual futures on Tesla, Apple and Nvidia would need the SEC and the CFTC to agree. Citadel Securities has already written to both agencies.
An Instagram deck prices the flippening at $214,000 per BTC for the pound and $2.8 million for the yuan. Checked against July and August M2 data and ECB reference rates, four of its six figures come close. The yen slide is the one that does not reconcile.
Zcash traded above $1,000 on 4 September for the first time since 2016. A widely shared post calls it a new all-time high, but ZEC printed roughly $3,192 in October 2016. The two framings do not reconcile.
US stocks and bitcoin both finished higher on 11 September, the day August CPI landed. Odds of a Fed hike at the following week's meeting climbed past 85% as the rally ran. A viral market post read the session the other way.
An Instagram post put the Nikkei's 11 September fall at 3.1 percent. Trading Economics logged 1.93 percent for the same session, Sunday Guardian 2.86 percent and News On Japan 2.8 percent. The figures do not reconcile.
