
August Core CPI Runs Hot and Bitcoin Slides Below $77,000
Headline inflation landed where economists expected. The monthly core reading did not, and bitcoin lost about $1,000 before clawing most of it back.
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Headline inflation landed where economists expected. The monthly core reading did not, and bitcoin lost about $1,000 before clawing most of it back.

A Bitcoin Magazine post says 18% of Americans own crypto. The table beneath it is narrower: 176 current owners in a sample of 1,000 registered voters polled by Cygnal, or 17.6%. Other 2026 surveys land far apart.

A viral post says scientists want Bitcoin to serve as money between Earth and Mars. The paper behind it is real, but it went up on arXiv in August 2025. Its own light-delay figures contradict the post's graphic.

A viral Instagram carousel says Warren Buffett called Bitcoin dead at $600 exactly 12 years ago. CNBC and CoinDesk show the remarks came from two March 2014 interviews eleven days apart. The quote was trimmed as well.

An Instagram post says Cathie Wood predicts Bitcoin at $1.5 million by 2030. ARK Invest does publish that number, but as the top of a three-case model whose base case sits near $710,000. The floor went missing.

Block has applied to charter Builders Bank and Trust, an uninsured national bank for bitcoin and stablecoin custody. It would take no deposits and make no loans.

An Instagram post compared XRP with Bitcoin and the world's stock markets to argue it is still early. Two trackers put XRP near $89 billion on 9 September, against $1.59 trillion for Bitcoin.

Strategy bought 1,810,885 preferred shares for $176.3 million in the week to September 7 and left its 845,050 bitcoin untouched.

A watcher.guru carousel ranks the best-returning asset of each decade and ends with bitcoin at 9,000,000% for the 2010s. That figure traces to a Bank of America Securities note from December 2019. A second tally of the same decade lands at 8,900,000%.

A social post pairing Jamie Dimon's harshest bitcoin lines with JPMorgan's growing crypto offering is circulating again. The quotes check out. So does the gap between them and what the bank now lets clients do.

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.