
Robinhood Sets 10x Leverage on Bitcoin Perps for US Traders
Robinhood is bringing eight perpetual futures contracts to eligible US customers, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether and 3x on the rest.
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Robinhood is bringing eight perpetual futures contracts to eligible US customers, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether and 3x on the rest.

Strategy spent about $142.7 million on 1,665 bitcoin last week at an average of $85,681 a coin, and bought back $151.7 million of its STRC preferred stock.

River Financial says 81% of Bitcoin's circulating supply has not moved in at least six months, leaving roughly 3.7 million coins to do the trading. Long-term holders have added more than 3 million BTC since 2020. Dormancy alone does not prove fresh demand.

Uptober starts on Thursday, and an Instagram post counting down to it says a bull market is coming soon. Bitcoin is holding near $84,000 after a quarter up roughly 43.5%. The seasonal record is strong, and last October broke it.

A week-long optimization contest run by StarkWare cut the estimated GPU cost from about $320. The gains are benchmark results, not a price anyone has paid.

Lightning joins a payment standard where stablecoins have carried the traffic so far. Block named no date for Square, Cash App or Bitkey.

Withdrawals reopen in four stages from Monday, starting with bitcoin. The revised total is a recount, not fresh theft, and equals about 84% of the protection fund.

The joint EBA, ESMA and EIOPA report says the risk could arrive before quantum computing is commercially useful. Estimates of exposed bitcoin do not agree.

Robert Kiyosaki told his followers on 15 September that the biggest crash in history has started, and repeated his advice to hold gold, silver and bitcoin over cash. He blamed debt, the AI boom and retiring Baby Boomers.

The 19 September retarget took difficulty to 132.76 trillion while hashrate sat near 914 EH/s. Three estimators disagree on what comes next.

One company accounted for most of it. Glassnode puts the group's average entry at $80,500, about 6% above where bitcoin traded on Friday morning.

A prototype circulating under the CryptoAxe name renders bitcoin as a paper banknote with a 1,000-satoshi face value, a printed serial number and portraits of Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney. At Thursday's price that denomination came to about 77 cents.