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Discover how Claude ai predicts a price rise to $150,000 by December amid diminishing supply and regulatory clarity. The post Dario Amodei Claude AI Predicts the Next Chapter for Bitcoin in 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback. Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 entered its mandatory-signaling phase at block 961,632 on Saturday, with miners signaling support in just 51 of the preceding 2,016 blocks, or 2.53%, well below the 55% threshold required for early activation, according to the BIP-110 monitor. Starting at block 961,632, nodes enforcing BIP-110 began rejecting blocks that did not set version bit 4, while ordinary Bitcoin nodes continued accepting both signaling and non-signaling blocks. A minority BIP-110 branch subsequently emerged, but quickly fell behind the dominant chain. The low signaling rate makes a sustained rival chain unlikely without substantially greater miner participation. With relatively little mining support, a BIP-110 branch could advance slowly or stop producing blocks altogether. Read more

US-listed spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds pulled in more than $1 billion in fresh cash this week, with both groups registering their strongest inflows since April as demand for regulated crypto investment products rebounded. Data from SoSoValue shows that spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $853.54 million during the week ended Aug. 7, their biggest haul […] The post Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs break $1B in their best week since April and BlackRock brought in 80% of the cash appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Crypto’s favorite buy-the-dip strategy failed to make money for Ethereum and Cardano investors who stuck with it since the start of 2022. An investor who placed $100 into Ethereum every month from January 2022 through August 2026 would have contributed $5,600 but ended up with about $4,898, a 12.5% loss, CryptoRank data showed. The same […] The post Bitcoin, XRP, Solana and Tron beat Ethereum and Cardano every month since 2022 on investor buying appeared first on CryptoSlate.

In an institutional bear market, a Bitcoin ETF redemption is almost aggressively boring. An investor sells shares, an authorized participant returns a large block to the trust, and the fund either pays cash or transfers BTC. Its assets shrink while the shares keep trading near net asset value and the custodian carries on. Since the […] The post Bitcoin’s first institutional bear market is starting to take shape and draining liquidity appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Crypto is growing up thanks to trading in real world assets, and Bitcoin will never dip below $60K again, says Nansen founder founder Alex Svanevik. Crypto is finally shaking off the “get rich quick” reputation that has defined the industry for more than a decade according to Nansen founder and CEO Alex Svanevik — and it’s not just because nobody’s getting rich right now. “Crypto assets have kind of been like the ‘toy world’ era of blockchains. And now we’re moving into the real-world era, where you see tokenized stocks, you see people trading indices like the S&P 500 and Hyperliquid,” Svanevik tells Magazine on the Trade Secrets show. “I think the interesting spot that blockchains are in right now is that they are basically giving a lot of room for non-crypto assets,” Svanevik says. Read more

On March 6, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and most of the attention went straight to the grand idea: America had built a digital Fort Knox, the government would stop selling Bitcoin, and Washington could perhaps add more without charging taxpayers. However, the executive order’s operative language […] The post The US says it has a Bitcoin reserve, but nobody can agree on how much it owns appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin traded near $65,000 heading into the weekend, sitting at the center of two macro forces pulling in opposite directions. The Aug. 7 jobs report weakened the case for a September rate hike, and tensions around the Strait of Hormuz threaten to revive the inflation trade that the report just cooled. The US economy lost […] The post Bitcoin faces $70,000 breakout or $60,000 drop this weekend as Hormuz tensions rise appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The 55-hour campaign shows AI can rapidly fill a security-review pipeline, while public data still cannot show how many findings were valid or fixed. The post Bitcoin’s AI security sprint found 6,700 issues in 55 hours, but no one knows how many are real appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin climbed back above $65,000 this week, extending an unusual stretch of resilience as the cryptocurrency absorbed a string of developments that would typically pressure prices. The top digital asset rose about 2% over the past 24 hours to as high as $65,212, its strongest level since late July, CryptoSlate data shows. The move coincided […] The post Bitcoin’s $65K recovery shows its growing immunity to bad news as ETFs and whales buy $2 billion appeared first on CryptoSlate.

At height 961,632, enforcing nodes reject non-signaling blocks, but Bitcoin does not automatically adopt the proposal. The post Bitcoin has 185 blocks left before BIP-110 rules begin rejecting blocks appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin hit month-to-date highs above $65,000 as risk-assets gained on low US nonfarm payrolls data. Bitcoin (BTC) hit new August highs into Friday’s Wall Street open as markets reacted to weaker US jobs numbers. Key points: Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting $65,340 on Bitstamp, up 1.3% on the day, as fresh US labour-market data was released. Read more

The miner sold 2,213 BTC and later pledged 18,750 BTC, while the differently dated collateral pools cannot be reconciled. The post MARA sold almost all its mined Bitcoin, then pledged 18,750 BTC for an AI dream with no disclosed safety net appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin valuation-line shifts equaled 87% of the reversal in magnitude, while Sandersville still needs substantial capital. The post A $433 million Bitcoin accounting crash just exposed the high-stakes gap in CleanSpark’s massive AI transition appeared first on CryptoSlate.

ADP private-job growth fell to 44,000 from 95,000, but wages and yields resist a simple relief trade. The post Bitcoin holds $64,000 as private hiring drops 53% before today’s macro test that could break support appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin whales accumulate $1.2 billion in BTC while spot ETFs pull in $754 million this week.

WalletExplorer documents IP-plus-URL logging inside Chainalysis, while other major services disclose sharply different linkage, retention and access rules. The post Searching your Bitcoin wallet can put your IP address in Chainalysis’ hands appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The waiver required a $1.3 million payment, increased the remaining note and left $5.437 million under lender control. The post AVAX One holds $88 million in Avalanche tokens, but its lender only wants cash or Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin miner MARA posted its highest quarterly Bitcoin production in over a year, but was overshadowed by a 28% decline in the average price of Bitcoin. Bitcoin miner MARA swung to a net loss of $611.3 million from a year-earlier profit in the second quarter of 2026, driven primarily by a change in the value of its Bitcoin holdings, despite reporting its highest quarterly Bitcoin production in more than a year.  The net loss, equivalent to $1.60 per diluted share, is down compared to a net income of $808.2 million, or $1.84 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2025, according to the company’s 10-Q SEC filing. MARA mined 2,422 Bitcoin in the quarter, 3% more than the prior year period, but higher production was more than offset by a 28% decline in the average Bitcoin price.  “Two things defined Q2 for MARA. Bitcoin prices created a challenging revenue environment [and] we used the quarter to fundamentally transform our power portfolio and capital structure,” said MARA chief financial officer Salman Kha...

The low rate lasts one period; on Sept. 2, PowerCompute must repay, surrender collateral or accept repriced terms. The post Inside the $18 million Bitcoin gamble with zero margin calls until September appeared first on CryptoSlate.