Altcoins, ETH & general crypto
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.
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.
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.
Galaxy says the wave-three attacker routed bitcoin through THORChain into ether, the first movement out of the original addresses. Over 90% stayed put.
The bank's DIFC branch began quoting spot bitcoin and ether to institutional clients on Thursday, through the same channels they use for foreign exchange.
Wallets identified in 2024 sold more than $30 million of bitcoin on the venue over three weeks, converted the proceeds and moved them to three exchanges.
Two CME FedWatch readings for a September rate increase came in at 57.5% and 58% on Monday. Bitcoin held just under $78,000 as August's last session ran.
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.
