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Binance bought $300 million in Bitcoin for its SAFU reserve, pushing the fund past $720 million as the exchange shifts its emergency buffer to BTC. Binance added another $300 million worth of Bitcoin to its emergency reserves on Monday, continuing its experiment with a Bitcoin-backed protection fund as markets remain under pressure. Binance bought another 4,225 Bitcoin (BTC) worth $300 million for its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) wallet, which holds its emergency reserves, according to blockchain data platform Arkham. The acquisition lifts the fund’s Bitcoin holdings to more than $720 million at current prices. Read more

Bitcoin’s price story lately has been told like it only has one main character, the ETFs. Money goes in, price goes up, money goes out, price goes down. It’s a clean narrative, and it’s not wrong, but it’s incomplete, because Bitcoin is not just a ticker. The network has its own internal plumbing, and some […] The post Crypto market bottom is closer than you think as Bitcoin miner reserves crash to historic lows appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Whale and institutional demand for Bitcoin show signs of a comeback, but downside risks remain as analysts expect BTC price to retest $66,000 support. Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded 17% to trade near $70,000 on Monday, from its 15-month low below $60,000, as whales took advantage of discounted prices to accumulate.  Key takeaways: Large investors have bought the dip to $60,000, adding at least 40,000 BTC. Read more

Bitcoin extended recent losses as derivatives data show a clear risk-off shift.

Japan’s landslide election boosted equities but added near-term pressure to Bitcoin as capital rotated and liquidity tightened.

Bitcoin could revisit $87,000 during consolidation, but only as a chance to add shorts, and not confirmation of a trend.

Bitcoin price forecasts still favor lower macro lows as traders brace for US inflation data and renewed Japan-driven currency volatility. Bitcoin (BTC) starts the second week of February still on the defensive after last week’s sharp drawdown, with traders increasingly eyeing a deeper retracement toward $60,000 — and even $50,000 — before a durable macro bottom forms. Market forecasts agree that Bitcoin price action has not yet put in a reliable long-term bottom. CPI week comes as markets lose faith in Fed rate cuts in March. Read more

Most quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin sits in wallets holding under 100 Bitcoin, with CoinShares claiming it could take a millennium to compromise each one. Digital asset manager CoinShares has brushed aside concerns that quantum computers could soon shake up the Bitcoin market, arguing that only a fraction of coins are held in wallets worth attacking. In a post on Friday, CoinShares Bitcoin research lead Christopher Bendiksen argued that just 10,230 Bitcoin (BTC) of 1.63 million Bitcoin sit in wallet addresses with publicly visible cryptographic keys that are vulnerable to a quantum computing attack. A little over 7,000 Bitcoin are held in wallets with between 100 and 1,000 BTC, while roughly 3,230 Bitcoin are held in wallets with 1,000 to 10,000 BTC, equating to $719.1 million at current market prices, which Bendiksen said could even resemble a routine trade. Read more

New research says today’s quantum computers are far too weak to threaten Bitcoin’s cryptography, leaving the network years to prepare.

Bitcoin’s next big options gravity well sits on Mar. 27 (260327), and the reason is simple: this is where the market has parked a thick stack of conditional bets that will need to be unwound, rolled forward, or paid out as the clock runs down. The Mar. 27 expiry carries about $8.65B in notional OI […] The post Bitcoin bears could sleepwalk into a $8.65 billion trap as options max pain expiry nears $90,000 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

On Jan.30, 2026, US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $509.7 million in net outflows, which looks like pretty straightforward negative sentiment until you look at the individual tickers and realize a few of them stayed green. That contradiction aged fast over the next few days. Feb. 2 snapped back with $561.8 million in net inflows, then […] The post Bitcoin ETF flow numbers are fundamentally broken and most traders are missing the specific sign of a crash appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin trades every minute of every day, but CME Bitcoin futures stop for the weekend. That mismatch is how a CME gap is born, and why it keeps turning up in the middle of the most stressful weeks. A CME gap is the blank space on a CME futures chart between Friday’s final traded level […] The post Do CME gaps always have to fill? Bitcoin’s $60k flush says no appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin made a significant move with his Ethereum holdings, Bitcoin mining difficulty plunges: Hodler’s Digest

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin made a significant move with his Ethereum holdings, Bitcoin mining difficulty plunges: Hodler’s Digest

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin made a significant move with his Ethereum holdings, Bitcoin mining difficulty plunges: Hodler’s Digest

Bitcoin price analysis stayed bearish on the outlook for BTC, predicting new macro lows in a repeat of the 2022 bear market. Bitcoin (BTC) gained up to 3% Sunday, but some traders refused to believe that the BTC price crash was over. Key points: Bitcoin price comparisons warn that new macro lows are due if the 2022 bear market continues to repeat. Read more

Bitcoin keeps knocking on $71,500, sooner or later the door opens Bitcoin made a familiar but stressful move this week; it bounced hard enough to make the skeptics quiet and the dip buyers loud again. After the crash down to around $60,000, the price clawed its way back to the a spot that has become […] The post Bitcoin must retake $71,500 very soon or the mid-range drift back toward $61,000 begins appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin’s slide through $65,000 and toward $60,000 felt like a stress test the market had been postponing. The move was sharp enough to force a reset in positioning, and broad enough to pull the conversation away from single-catalyst explanations. Even mainstream media described the week as Bitcoin’s worst weekly performance since late 2022, with price briefly […] The post Bitcoin short term holders are panic selling at a loss but was this capitulation or just a leverage reset? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin is in a bear market and is “getting swept up” with the rest of the macro assets, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley declared during a television interview. Bitcoin’s drop below $70,000 is being seen very differently by long-time holders and institutional investors, according to Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley. “I think long-time holders are feeling unsure, and I think the new investor set, institutions are sort of getting a new crack at the apple,” Horsley said during an interview with CNBC on Friday. Horsley said that institutional buyers are “seeing prices they thought that they’d forever missed.”  It was only in October that Standard Chartered's head of digital asset research, Geoff Kendrick, said he doesn’t expect Bitcoin to fall below $100,000 again. Read more

Bithumb says it has reclaimed most of the excess BTC credited during a promotional error and used company funds to cover 1,788 Bitcoin that had already been sold. South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it has resolved an incident in which a promotional reward error credited certain user accounts with excess Bitcoin. In a Sunday statement, the exchange confirmed it recovered 99.7% of the overpaid Bitcoin (BTC) on the same day the incident occurred. The remaining 0.3%, totaling 1,788 Bitcoin that had already been sold, was covered using company funds to ensure customer balances remained fully matched. “Bithumb's holdings of all virtual assets, including Bitcoin (BTC), are 100% equivalent to or exceeding user deposits,” the exchange wrote. Read more