
Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Cost Falls 79% to About $67
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.
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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.

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.

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.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao told Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong on 27 August that bitcoin will reach $1 million and that it will not take 25 years. He put payments at scale and pension money ahead of price.

Bitwise's Matt Hougan says it is reasonable to expect bitcoin to reach a quarter of gold's market by 2035, the base case behind the firm's $1.3 million price target for that year. Bitcoin sits a little over 5% of gold today.

A bill approved 28-21 would move roughly 324,527 bitcoin already in federal hands into one reserve and bar any sale for at least 20 years. It now goes to the full House.

A conference pie chart puts 13.98 million BTC, or 66.6% of the 21 million cap, in individual hands. Treasury trackers match its fund and corporate slices almost exactly. Its government figure is the one that will not settle.

The federal funds target moved a quarter point on Wednesday, its first increase since July 2023. Three accounts of the same evening give three bitcoin prices.

Bitcoin, ether and three e-money tokens for European corporate and institutional clients. The bank's release gives no date and names no regulator.