Altcoins, ETH & general crypto
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.
The 2026 policy address also puts tokenized gold in front of the SFC and sets the monetary authority a year-end test of tokenized Exchange Fund Bills.
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.
A group calling itself iamnotavillain set a 24-hour clock on data taken through a forged information request. Revolut says nobody has contacted it.
Bitcoin, ether and three e-money tokens for European corporate and institutional clients. The bank's release gives no date and names no regulator.
The administrator of Celsius's bankruptcy estate filed in New York on 12 September over March 2020 liquidations, eleven days before BitMEX stops trading.
Prosecutors in Manhattan say the pair traded perpetual futures on tokens Robinhood was about to list. Each allegedly cleared more than $50,000.
An on-chain table published on 1 September puts India ahead of every other country on bitcoin ownership, with 68 million holders and 4.6% of the population. The United States is second at about 50 million. By ownership rate India sits twelfth.
