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Michael Saylor’s Strategy did not purchase any Bitcoin last week, reporting just two acquisitions in July totaling 10,445 BTC, a 39% drop from June. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public holder of Bitcoin, reported no Bitcoin buys last week despite the asset seeing volatility after breaking all-time highs in mid-July. Strategy’s Bitcoin (BTC) holdings remained unchanged at 607,770 BTC as the company opted not to buy more BTC last week, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The price of Bitcoin climbed from about $118,000 to more than $119,000 over the course of the week, despite Strategy’s inactivity and a reported 80,000 BTC sale by an early investor on Friday, according to data from CoinGecko. Read more

Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs broke records in July with $11.2 billion monthly inflows, as ETH funds continue to outpace Bitcoin.

Japanese company Metaplanet cemented its status as the top non-US Bitcoin treasury with a 780 BTC purchase, bringing its total holdings to 17,132 BTC. Japanese investment company Metaplanet bought an additional 780 Bitcoin, reinforcing its position as the only non-US company among the top 10 corporate Bitcoin holders. The company disclosed the acquisition in a Monday announcement. Following its latest Bitcoin (BTC) purchase, Metaplanet’s holdings reached a total of 17,132 BTC, with an average purchase price on the newly added Bitcoin of 17,520,454 Japanese yen per coin (around $118,145) for a total cost of about $92 million. Metaplanet has spent a total of $1.7 billion on Bitcoin at an average cost of $99,640 per coin. Read more

Bitcoin gets an early macro tailwind as the US seals trade deals, but plenty of BTC price volatility catalysts are waiting in the wings into August. Bitcoin (BTC) heads into the July monthly close eyeing $120,000 as a BTC price rebound holds firm. BTC price action is giving market participants cause to expect all-time highs again, but the threat of a $113,000 comedown remains. A giant week of US macro data combines with the Fed meeting on interest rates amid pressure on Chair Jerome Powell. Read more

Quantum Solutions is turning to Bitcoin via a Hong Kong subsidiary, joining struggling firms chasing upside through crypto treasury plays.

Bitcoin suddenly ups the volatility into Sunday's weekly close, with key liquidation zones on the radar and predictions of bigger BTC "price swings" to come. Key points: Bitcoin stages a late comeback into the weekly close as price approaches important liquidation zones. Traders and analysts emphasize various key price points to reclaim next. Read more

A crypto analyst disagreed with the statement, saying, “Everyone dies. At some point, investment returns become irrelevant.” A prominent crypto analyst has sparked debate in the Bitcoin community by claiming that Bitcoin OGs are losing confidence in the asset as it becomes increasingly adopted by institutions. “Many of the most ardent early whales have seen their faith shaken and have been selling at these prices,” Scott Melker, aka The Wolf of All Street, said in an X post on Saturday. “Bitcoin is amazing, but it’s obviously been co-opted to some degree by the very people that it was created as a hedge against,” Melker said. Read more

The Bitwise Invest executive admits he “could be wrong” but doesn’t see 2025 as the end of the upside for Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s price could see significant upside in 2026, bucking the traditional four-year market cycle, according to Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan. The prediction comes as other analysts are divided on whether Bitcoin (BTC) will stray from its historical pattern or follow the traditional halving cycle and peak in the coming months. “I bet 2026 is an up year,” Hougan said in an X video on Friday. “I broadly think we’re in for a good few years,” Hougan added. Read more

Bitcoin delivers a classic liquidity grab with a correction below $115,000 only to bounce back, while traders eye a BTC price showdown with new all-time highs next. Key takeaways: Bitcoin traders now turn their focus to higher levels after Friday’s $115,000 liquidity grab. Fundstrat’s Tom Lee predicts Bitcoin could hit $250,000 by year-end.  Read more

A young and tech-savvy population, combating inflationary pressures, is driving Bitcoin adoption and a new financial system in Pakistan. Pakistan’s demographics position the country as a major catalyst for Bitcoin (BTC) adoption, allowing it to “leapfrog” developed nations, according to Bilal Bin Saqib, Pakistan’s state minister of crypto and blockchain. “A global policy shift has happened, not just in Pakistan, but all around the world,” Bin Saqib told Cointelegraph in an exclusive interview. The government of Pakistan moved to regulate crypto in November 2024. The country has 40 million crypto wallets and is one of the “top five” countries in terms of crypto adoption, which the minister attributed to Pakistan’s young demographic. He told Cointelegraph: Read more

Bitcoin’s quiet rally has captured the attention of Wall Street and beyond, but some voices from OG Bitcoiners like American HODL are predicting that what we’ve witnessed so far is just the calm before an explosive storm. The Bitcoin treasury bubble thesis The Bitcoin treasury bubble thesis is that, within just a few years, a […] The post The coming Bitcoin treasury bubble could rival the dot-com era with $11T of capital chasing BTC appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A $1-million Bitcoin would upend global finance, reshaping wealth, inflation, energy markets and the very role of fiat currencies. Bitcoin has already achieved major highs that very few thought possible. The ink on the current drivers of its all-time high is still wet. One of the major catalysts was the introduction of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in early 2024, such as BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF. By mid-2025, US Bitcoin ETFs had amassed $14.8 billion in net inflows, with BlackRock’s ETF alone raising over $1.3 billion in just two days.  Read more

Investor and “Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki warned investors to beware of holding Bitcoin (BTC), gold and silver through exchange‑traded funds, saying those paper‑based instruments are no substitute for the real thing. Kiyosaki likened ETFs to having only a “picture of a gun” for self‑defense, useful in good times but useless in a […] The post Robert Kiyosaki slams ETFs for being ‘paper versions’ of Bitcoin, gold and silver appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Changes to El Salvador's Bitcoin laws under the IMF agreement put the benefits of BTC even further out of reach for the average resident. El Salvador’s Bitcoin (BTC) reserve has had limited impact on the broader population, and the country’s loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may further complicate its Bitcoin strategy, according to Quentin Ehrenmann, general manager at My First Bitcoin, a non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on Bitcoin adoption. Ehrenmann told Reuters that repealing the Bitcoin legal tender laws under the IMF agreement has created a vacuum in public BTC education or state-led adoption initiatives. In a translated statement, he told the news outlet: The Central American country also agreed not to purchase any new BTC under the agreement, a detail that was confirmed in a recent IMF report, which contradicted claims by El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office that the country is accumulating BTC daily. Read more

Bitcoin traders turn cautious as BTC trades near a critical support level, but outright panic is absent in derivatives markets. Key takeaways: Bitcoin options and futures data suggest traders are neutral despite a 7% drop from the peak. Stablecoin demand in China remains steady, showing marginal fear in crypto markets. Read more

Hive Digital Technologies, the first publicly traded Bitcoin miner, marks a major milestone at Nasdaq as it accelerates its HPC expansion. Hive Digital Technologies (HIVE) has many firsts in the crypto industry. It was the first publicly traded Bitcoin miner in 2017 and one of the earliest to make a decisive pivot into high-performance computing (HPC) in 2022. Now, Hive is back in the spotlight, ringing the closing bell at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange as it eyes a $100 million annual run rate for its HPC business by next year. Cointelegraph received an exclusive invitation to the Nasdaq event, where we sat down with Executive Chairman Frank Holmes and CEO Aydin Kilic. The two discussed the mining industry’s escalating “scramble for electricity and land,” Bitcoin’s (BTC) evolving role as a reserve asset, and the challenges of still being viewed as a Bitcoin proxy stock in 2025. Read more

Data shows the market still favors ETH even after Bitcoin’s sharp sell-off to $115,000. Key takeaways: Ether’s bullish structure remains intact even as the broader crypto market shows weakness. Over 540,000 ETH have been accumulated by new whale wallets since July 9. Read more

Bitcoin’s long-standing four-year cycle, once a dominant framework for predicting price movements, is beginning to lose its influence, according to Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan. In a July 25 post on X, Hougan pointed out that the maturing nature of the crypto market, coupled with rising institutional involvement, is weakening the forces that historically shaped Bitcoin’s […] The post Bitcoin’s four-year cycle loses grip as maturing market reshapes dynamics appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Analysts expect a “pivotal stretch” in crypto markets, as institutional appetite and open interest are at peak levels. Corporate adoption of Bitcoin is accelerating, with 35 publicly traded companies now holding at least 1,000 BTC each, signaling growing institutional interest in the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Demand for Bitcoin (BTC) is soaring among public companies four months after US President Donald Trump’s executive order outlined the creation of a federal Bitcoin reserve for the world’s largest economy. According to Chris Kuiper, vice president of research at Fidelity Digital Assets, at least 35 public companies have now surpassed 1,000 BTC in holdings on their balance sheets, worth more than $116 billion at the time of writing, up from 24 companies at the end of Q1. Read more

Bitcoin’s drop below $115,000 saw significant liquidations of late longs, but BTC’s bullish scenario remained intact, according to analysts and onchain metrics. Key takeaways: A whale bet $23.7 million targeting Bitcoin at $200,000 by year-end, signaling strong bullish conviction. Analysts say Bitcoin remains bullish, but $115,000 will be key for uptrend continuation. Read more