
Better Can Reuse the Bitcoin Pledged Against Its Coinbase Mortgages
Better told CoinDesk it may reuse pledged bitcoin as long as it keeps an equivalent amount to return. Pre-applications since launch stand at $360 million.
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Better told CoinDesk it may reuse pledged bitcoin as long as it keeps an equivalent amount to return. Pre-applications since launch stand at $360 million.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

August payrolls printed at 162,000 against a 56,000 consensus and bitcoin gave up 3%. Outlets put September hike odds at 61% and 70%.

The UK platform opened bitcoin and ether ETNs on 3 September, eleven months after the FCA lifted its retail ban. Stocks-and-shares ISAs are excluded.

US spot bitcoin funds drew $730.87 million on Thursday, their largest day since 14 January. The provisional counts published that afternoon were a fraction of it.