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Zcash Clears $1,200 With ZEC Futures Open Interest Past $2 Billion

ZEC passed $1,200 late Sunday as open interest in its perpetual futures reached $2.4 billion. Three liquidation tallies for the same session disagree.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Mastercard Won Its New York BitLicense in May, Aimed at Stablecoins

New York's financial regulator granted Mastercard Transaction Services (U.S.) LLC a BitLicense on 27 May 2026, and a social post revived the news this week as if it were fresh. Mastercard's own statement ties the approval to stablecoins and tokenized deposits, not bitcoin.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

The $8 Bitcoin Anniversary Post Cites Nakamoto Eight Months Too Late

An Instagram slide says Bitcoin was $8 exactly 15 years ago today, pinned to a BitcoinTalk post dated 18 August 2011. Satoshi Nakamoto's last public post on that forum was 12 December 2010. The date on the slide is also three weeks past.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

BlackRock Cuts IBIT's Bitcoin Swap Minimum From $25M to $1M

BlackRock has cut the in-kind minimum on its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, opening direct bitcoin-for-shares swaps to smaller institutions. Robbie Mitchnick told Bloomberg the fund keeps growing because access keeps widening.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Harmony Proposes Shutting Down Its Layer 1 and Moving ONE to Ethereum

Harmony wants to end its seven-year-old chain and reissue ONE on Ethereum. Validators can start shutting down on 10 September, and the vote is non-binding.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

SpaceX IPO Meme Puts Bitcoin at $63,000 as It Trades Near $78,000

A viral post shows crowds queuing for a SpaceX IPO while one lone buyer waits at a door marked Bitcoin $63,000. The tape disagrees. Bitcoin traded near $78,000 in early September, and the SpaceX listing closed back in June.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Blockstream's Liquid Pauses as $320M in Bitcoin Leaves the Federation

Roughly 4,000 bitcoin left Liquid's federation wallet on Sunday afternoon. Six accounts of the amount are on the record and none of them match.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Bitcoin's Climb From $60,000 to $80,000 Took Three Weeks, Not Five Days

An Instagram post credited Bitcoin with a $60,000 to $80,000 run in five days. The price levels hold up. The timeline does not: outlet records place the move across about three weeks, with one fast week in mid-August.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Strategy holds 845,050 BTC as popular holder rankings fall behind

Strategy's bitcoin position stood at 845,050 BTC at the end of August, well above the 672,497 in a holder ranking now circulating. Checked against current trackers, most of that list carries figures dated December 2024.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

River Estimates 825,000 People Own a Whole Bitcoin, or 1 in 10,000

River puts the number of people holding at least one entire bitcoin at roughly 825,000, about one in every 10,000 people alive. Its own range runs from 600,000 to 1 million. Rival address counts do not agree with it.

· 6 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read