
StarkWare Says a Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Was Mined on Mainnet
A transaction secured by a hash instead of an elliptic-curve key was mined in block 964,199. StarkWare says the method does not make Bitcoin quantum-safe.
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A transaction secured by a hash instead of an elliptic-curve key was mined in block 964,199. StarkWare says the method does not make Bitcoin quantum-safe.

Core Lightning says several vulnerabilities reported through AI-generated submissions are real. The technical details stay embargoed for two weeks.

Bitcoin traded just under $79,000 on Thursday, off an intraday high above $81,000. The week's gain is reported as 14%, 23% and nearly 25%.

US spot bitcoin funds took in $314.37 million on Tuesday, a seventh straight day of net inflows. BlackRock's IBIT accounted for about 90% of it.

Four Tuesday snapshots of the same rally give four different bitcoin prices. Two outlets call $80,000 a three-month high; the weekly gain figures do not agree.

The flash-crash dip stretched to $75,546 early Sunday, then got bought back to $77,400. Ether goes into the 00:00 UTC weekly close sitting on its $2,450 trigger.

The best combined ETF week since October 2025 landed the same morning a 04:00 UTC flash crash handed the rally its first long-side liquidation flush.

Bitcoin traded above $72,000 intraday as roughly $3 billion in crypto shorts were liquidated, a day after the US Treasury doubled its long-dated bond buybacks.

Metaplanet is putting 2,100 BTC and $2.5M cash into Nasdaq-listed Super League for a 95.7% stake, renaming it Superplanet as its US bitcoin-treasury platform.

A quiet Sunday close at $62,919 caps a 3% down week, with the Coinbase premium negative for a record 90 straight days and CME futures open interest at a 30-month low.

Bitcoin drifted to $62,812 on Saturday with 1.79 million BTC at break-even between $62,000 and $65,000 and long-term holders down 210,000 BTC since late July.

US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $389.7 million in the week to 14 August, their worst in six weeks, while Solana funds added $10.26 million, their best since mid-May.