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Cointelegraph.com - 17:32 Aug 31, 2025
Bitcoin faces the support retest that will decide the fate of its latest bull market, analysis says — can bullish RSI divergences save the day? Key points: Bitcoin bulls can kiss goodbye to the entire bull market if they lose $100,000 support, a new forecast predicts. BTC price action faces a battle of RSI signals as bullish and bearish divergences compete. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Aug 31, 2025
Bitcoin is evolving from digital gold to productive capital as BTC now earns native yield, while holders maintain custody and decentralization. Opinion by: Armando Aguilar, head of capital formation and growth at TeraHash Bitcoin was treated as a purely inert asset for years: a decentralized vault, economically passive despite its fixed issuance schedule. Yet more than $7 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) already earns native, onchain yield via major protocols — that premise is breaking down. Gold’s ~$23-trillion market cap mostly sits idle. Bitcoin, by contrast, now earns onchain, while holders keep custody. As new layers unlock returns, Bitcoin crosses a structural threshold: from merely passive to productively scarce. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:42 Aug 31, 2025
Bitcoin’s daily transaction fees have dropped over 80% since April 2024, raising concerns about long-term network security. BTCfi could offer a way out. Daily transaction fees on the Bitcoin network have collapsed by more than 80% since April, according to a report from Galaxy Digital. As of August 2025, nearly 15% of blocks are “free,” meaning they’re being mined with minimal or no transaction fees, just one satoshi per virtual byte or less. Lower Bitcoin (BTC) transaction fees benefit users but reduce miners’ revenue, raising concerns about the sustainability of the network’s long-term security model. Bitcoin’s incentive structure relies on miners being compensated for their work through block rewards and transaction fees. But with the April 2024 halving cutting rewards to 3.125 BTC per block, miners are leaning heavily on the fee market, and it’s drying up. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:00 Aug 31, 2025
Bitcoin is sluggish at the end of the month, but that didn’t stop Strategy and Metaplanet from buying over 5,000 BTC in August. The Ethereum network is seeing bullish signals, with the network recording a year high of 1.8 million transactions this month. More Ether is being locked into the network as American regulators issue guidance and definitions for staking. Bitcoin (BTC) is in a slump, meanwhile, with the currency trading down over 5% over the last 30 days. A $2.7-billion whale trade sparked a flash crash on Aug. 24. Bitcoin treasury countries continue to issue debt to fund their major Bitcoin purchases. In August, Strategy and Metaplanet picked up 5,370 BTC between the two of them. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:11 Aug 31, 2025
Bitcoin is in position for a rebound toward $124,500 in September, even as history brands the month as one of its weakest. Key takeaways: Bitcoin may avoid a big September drop and could aim for new highs soon. A weaker dollar and Fed rate cuts can be significant tailwinds for BTC price. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:31 Aug 31, 2025
California Governor Gavin Newsom says his planned memecoin is meant to expose the absurdity of Trump’s crypto ventures. California Governor Gavin Newsom has teased plans to launch a “Trump Corruption Coin” as a direct response to Donald Trump’s controversial involvement in crypto, especially through memecoins. Speaking on the “Pivot” podcast, Newsom, a Democrat, said the planned memecoin, named explicitly after Trump’s alleged scandals, is part of his broader “Campaign for Democracy” initiative, with proceeds from the coin going toward redistricting efforts and voter outreach. “We’re about to put a meme coin out,” Newsom said during the interview. “And you know what, Donald Trump? We’ll see how well your coin does versus our coin.” When asked if it would be called a “Gavin Coin,” the governor replied: “No, it’s Trump Corruption Coin.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:50 Aug 31, 2025
Metaplanet’s stock has plunged 54% since mid-June, forcing the Tokyo-listed firm to seek alternative fundraising as its share-based “flywheel” falters. Metaplanet, the Tokyo-listed firm aggressively accumulating Bitcoin, is facing mounting pressure as its share price tumbles, threatening the fundraising model it has used to build one of the largest corporate Bitcoin treasuries globally. The company’s stock has dropped 54% since mid-June, despite Bitcoin (BTC) gaining around 2% during the same period. The decline has put its capital-raising “flywheel” under stress, a mechanism dependent on rising share prices to unlock funding through MS warrants issued to Evo Fund, its key investor. With shares down sharply, exercising these warrants is no longer attractive for Evo, squeezing Metaplanet’s liquidity and slowing its Bitcoin acquisition strategy, according to a Sunday report by Bloomberg. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:12 Aug 31, 2025
Buy the dip mentions on social media are climbing as Bitcoin falls, which could be a sign the market hasn’t bottomed yet, Santiment says. The rising number of “buy the dip” calls on social media following Bitcoin’s 5% decline over the past week could signal more downside ahead for the crypto market, sentiment platform Santiment says. “Clearly, overall, in the markets, people are getting antsy and trying to find some entry spots now that prices have cooled down a bit,” Santiment analyst Brian Quinlivan said in a video published on YouTube on Saturday. Santiment said in a separate report published on the same day that social media mentions of “buy the dip” have increased significantly amid the crypto market downturn, which may be a warning sign for the market. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 03:48 Aug 31, 2025
A Bitcoin adviser says Bitcoin could reach as high as $10 million, and people will still be saying, “It can’t go any higher, right?” Skepticism over Bitcoin’s ability to rise further has followed the asset for years, and will likely continue even if the price reaches into the millions, according to a Bitcoin adviser. “I think it’s going to be that way for a very long time,” The Bitcoin Adviser’s Luke Broyles told Natalie Brunell on the Coin Stories podcast on Friday. “I think Bitcoin will be at $5 million, $10 million or more, and people will still be saying, Yeah, well it’s 8% of world assets now. It can’t go any higher, right?” he added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:29 Aug 30, 2025
Elon Musk’s attorney will chair a company that aims to raise $200 million to invest in DOGE, Ether ETFs cross $13.7 billion: Hodler’s Digest Ether spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have seen steady growth since their US debut in July 2024, while corporate treasuries tied to the token are also on the rise. Inflows into Ether funds climbed 44% this month, rising from $9.5 billion on Aug. 1 to $13.7 billion on Aug. 28, according to cryptocurrency research platform SoSoValue. Market participants say renewed institutional demand is fueling the momentum. After an extended period of underperformance relative to Bitcoin and a souring investor sentiment, Ethereum has recently experienced a significant revival in the recognition of both its adoption rate and value proposition, Sygnum Chief Investment Officer Fabian Dori told Cointelegraph. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:29 Aug 30, 2025
Elon Musk’s attorney will chair a company that aims to raise $200 million to invest in DOGE, Ether ETFs cross $13.7 billion: Hodler’s Digest Ether spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have seen steady growth since their US debut in July 2024, while corporate treasuries tied to the token are also on the rise. Inflows into Ether funds climbed 44% this month, rising from $9.5 billion on Aug. 1 to $13.7 billion on Aug. 28, according to cryptocurrency research platform SoSoValue. Market participants say renewed institutional demand is fueling the momentum. After an extended period of underperformance relative to Bitcoin and a souring investor sentiment, Ethereum has recently experienced a significant revival in the recognition of both its adoption rate and value proposition, Sygnum Chief Investment Officer Fabian Dori told Cointelegraph. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:20 Aug 30, 2025
Trump reiterated calls for $1 million Bitcoin but said the vast majority of market participants still don’t understand digital money. Eric Trump, the son of US president Donald Trump and the co-founder of Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm American Bitcoin (ABTC), said on Friday that there is “no question” that BTC hits $1 million in the next several years. Trump previously predicted that BTC would reach $1 million per coin in December 2024. Speaking to the audience at the Bitcoin 2025 Asia conference in Hong Kong, Trump said: That's an incredible thing, and that's why I've always said that I really believe in the next several years, Bitcoin will hit $1 million. There's no question that Bitcoin hits $1 million,” Trump continued. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:58 Aug 30, 2025
Crypto treasury firms introduce several layers of risk to an asset class that inherently features reduced or no counterparty risk. Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto treasury firms pose similar risks as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), securitized baskets of home mortgages and other types of debt that triggered the 2007-2008 financial crisis, Josip Rupena, CEO of lending platform Milo and former Goldman Sachs analyst, told Cointelegraph. Crypto treasury companies take bearer assets with no counterparty risk and introduce several layers of risk, including the competence of the corporate management, cybersecurity, and the ability of the business to generate cash flow, Rupena said. He added: Rupena told Cointelegraph that while he does not expect crypto treasury companies to be the cause of the next bear market, overleveraged firms could “exacerbate” a market downturn through forced selling, but it is still too early to tell what the exact effects will be. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:27 Aug 30, 2025
Permissionless financial protocols will survive government and corporate efforts to impose traditional financial controls on DeFi. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols will survive government and corporate efforts to impose traditional financial regulations designed to create a walled garden of permissioned digital systems, according to Will Reeves, CEO and co-founder of Bitcoin (BTC) rewards company Fold. Reeves told Cointelegraph that regulatory proposals requiring DeFi protocols to embed biometric identity checks within smart contracts, or other similar traditional financial (TradFi) regulations, will backfire, as did efforts to control the spread of information on the internet. He also warned that governments and legacy financial institutions will use TradFi incentives to drive people to permissioned custody through traditional investment vehicles like exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which have benefits over holding crypto directly, including use as collateral for loans. He added: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Aug 30, 2025
Crypto transactions are vulnerable to warrant-free surveillance, making privacy-enhancing tools essential for blockchain’s future. Opinion by: Vikrant Sharma, CEO of Cake Labs When the United States Supreme Court refused to hear Harper v. Faulkender on June 30, 2025, the court essentially endorsed the Internal Revenue Service’s sweeping “John Doe” summonses for cryptocurrency records. By letting a lower court ruling stand, the court confirmed that the century-old third-party doctrine stands for public ledgers just as it does for bank statements. Under the third-party doctrine, information voluntarily shared with another party, like a bank or blockchain, is no longer protected by the Fourth Amendment. When data leaves a person’s direct control, constitutional privacy protections vanish. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:02 Aug 30, 2025
Pump.fun has spent over $62 million on buybacks, absorbing 16.5 billion PUMP tokens in a bid to reduce sell pressure. Pump.fun has spent more than $62.6 million repurchasing its native token, PUMP, according to data from Dune Analytics. The buybacks have soaked up over 16.5 billion tokens at an average cost of $0.003785, as the platform looks to stabilize price action and reduce sell pressure. The buyback strategy uses platform-generated revenue, primarily fees collected from users launching memecoins, to execute daily token repurchases. Daily buybacks have consistently ranged between $1.3 million and $2.3 million over the past week, Dune Analytics data shows. Since launch, Pump.fun has generated over $775 million in revenue, according to data from DefiLlama. Notably, the platform saw a sharp revenue drop from July 28 to Aug. 3. During that time, Pump.fun brought in only $1.72 million weekly revenue, its lowest since March 2024. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:50 Aug 30, 2025
BTC could drop to $80,000 by 2025's end if support breaks decisively, but analysts say that wouldn’t necessarily mark the start of a bear market. Key takeaways: Bitcoin is dropping below a critical multiyear trendline support, sparking bear market fears. One analyst sees the breakdown as a fakeout, however, suggesting that dips below $100,000 will serve as a buying opportunity. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:00 Aug 30, 2025
Tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Michael Saylor have different approaches to crypto, which are reflected in how they invest in the space. Tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Michael Saylor are establishing crypto company treasuries, but some financial observers note that their strategies could pose significant risk. Both Thiel and Saylor have poured substantial capital into cryptocurrencies through their respective firms and investment vehicles: Saylor, with his software firm Strategy’s frequent Bitcoin (BTC) buys, and Thiel, through venture capital investments in crypto firms, and his exchange, Bullish, which went public earlier in August. Each is not only seeking to expand his holdings but also how the cryptocurrency industry is shaped and regulated. But there are still significant differences in their respective strategies and outlooks regarding crypto, and companies that decided to form crypto treasuries could be inviting a “death spiral” when prices crash. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:16 Aug 30, 2025
A former BJP legislator and 11 police officials have been convicted for the 2018 abduction of a Surat businessman in a plot to seize over 750 Bitcoin. An Indian anti-corruption court has sentenced 14 individuals, including 11 police officials and a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), to life imprisonment in a case involving the kidnapping and extortion of crypto from a Surat-based businessman in 2018. The judgment, delivered by Special Judge B.B. Jadav in Ahmedabad on Friday, found the group guilty of criminal conspiracy, kidnapping for ransom, illegal detention, and assault, according to a report by The Times of India. Among those convicted are former Amreli district superintendent of police Jagdish Patel and ex-MLA Nalin Kotadiya. All 11 police officers, including former IPS officer Patel, were also found guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act for misconduct by public servants. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:03 Aug 30, 2025
Bitcoin and Ether ETFs saw outflows on Friday after the Fed reported rising core inflation, driven in part by Trump’s tariff policies. Spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs recorded outflows on Friday as the Federal Reserve released key inflation data showing price pressures are creeping higher under President Donald Trump’s trade policies. According to SoSoValue data, Ether (ETH) ETFs saw a net outflow of $164.64 million, reversing five straight days of inflows that had added more than $1.5 billion to the asset class. Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs also turned negative with $126.64 million in net outflows, their first daily loss since Aug. 22. Total assets under management dropped to $28.58 billion for Ethereum and $139.95 billion for Bitcoin. Read more
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