Live Markets: U.S. inflation is stickier than July’s mild CPI reading suggests
Bitcoin’s choppy price action as in-depth analysis of the U.S. CPI released Wednesday suggests the underlying price pressures remain sticky.
Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet unveils BitBonds with $1.3 million private debt sale
The inaugural unsecured bonds offer annual interest of up to 4.3%, while exposing investors to metaplanet’s credit and bitcoin-linked balance-sheet risks
How a wall of 1.79 million Bitcoin is quietly choking every attempt to break above $65,000
Bitcoin traders are rebuilding bets on a run toward $70,000 while still paying for protection against a fall to $60,000, showing that softer US inflation data has done little to break the market’s defensive positioning. The split held after the Consumer Price Index rose 0.1% in July and 3.4% from a year earlier, while core…
XRP Price Prediction: Ripple Not Out of the Woods as it Hovers Near $1
XRP price prediction has the asset trading at $1.01, down a modest -0.6% on the day, sitting right at the top of a session range that ran from $1 to $1.02. That’s not a recovery; that’s a token pinned against a ceiling. And there’s a bridge exploit in the background that most retail traders haven’t…
Strategy sold $100M to defend STRC’s $100 stock price as DeFi packages the risk into a 7% ‘safer’ trade
Solstice announced a tranched product built on Strategy’s Bitcoin-related STRC preferred stock, and said its senior tranche would not begin absorbing losses until STRC trades below $47.66. STRC currently trades near $95.315, putting that threshold roughly half of today’s market price and about 52% below the security’s $100 par value. Solstice COO David Plisek described…
Arthur Hayes says a $60 billion Fed cap is Bitcoin’s next liquidity trigger and needed for a price surge
Arthur Hayes says a $60 billion Federal Reserve limit is the next liquidity trigger he wants to see before adding more aggressively to risk assets, such as Bitcoin. His Aug. 11 essay focuses on the standing Foreign and International Monetary Authorities Repo Facility, or FIMA. The facility allows approved foreign official accounts to raise dollars…
Important Pi Network News and PI Token Price Update: August 13
Although the official X account behind the project hasn’t yet announced it as complete, numerous social media users claimed that Pi Network had deployed its second-to-last major upgrade by its deadline. We will take a deeper look into that. There’s also some regulatory news to be explored in this article, as well as the native…
Metaplanet denies selling bitcoin worth $320 million
Metaplanet CEO dismisses bitcoin sale rumors, confirms 43,000 BTC holdings
Trump Sued Over $100K Truth Social Feed as Trump Media Eyes Prediction Market Data Deals
US President Donald Trump was sued on August 12 in federal court in Manhattan over Truth API, the Truth Social feed that delivers his posts to paying subscribers for as much as $100,000 a month. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed the complaint alongside Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic,…
Bitcoin firms ask AI labs for same tools attackers already have
Coinbase, Block, BitGo and dozens of others signed a letter arguing that safety guardrails on frontier models are blocking legitimate security work while adversaries face no such limits.