SideSwap reopened its markets on Liquid while the network’s route back to Bitcoin remained closed. The split gives Liquid Bitcoin a market price before holders regain the process that converts L-$BTC into $BTC. At 22:55 UTC on Sept. 10, a Blockstream explorer endpoint showed 4,229 L-$BTC outstanding. A simultaneous Bitcoin address reading for the cited […]
Jiang Zhuoer, a well-known cryptocurrency miner from China and the founder of the $BTC.TOP mining pool, announced that he has sold all of his Bitcoin ($BTC) positions. Jiang stated that he liquidated 100% of his $BTC holdings at the price of $77,226. Jiang’s decision to exit Bitcoin entirely comes amidst rising inflation data from the […]
Bitcoin dipped toward $76,000 as underlying price pressures in the US appeared slightly higher than expected in the last US inflation report. No wider crypto sell-off followed, and Bitcoin jumped back above $77,000, while Ethereum and some larger altcoins remained higher during the session. US inflation remains above the Fed’s target The Consumer Price Index […]
Binance’s Bitcoin [$BTC] holdings have climbed above 693,000 $BTC—the highest level in almost two years. In fact, Binance’s holdings have risen by around 77,000 $BTC since the end of April. The most simple reason behind this surge could be that investors transferred Bitcoin to Binance [$BNB] during periods of strong price appreciation. This mainly includes […]
Bitcoin Cash [$BCH] declined roughly 10% over the past day. Interestingly, whale-sized orders dominated activity across $BCH’s Spot and perpetual markets during the decline. What were $BCH whales doing? Analysis showed whale-sized orders dominated both markets during the past 24 hours. Average Order Size measures the average volume traded per transaction. The Futures Average Order […]
A Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia working paper published this month found that public notifications of large crypto transfers were followed by sharply different trading activity on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Non-whale Bitcoin wallets became active and traded in the alerted whale’s direction most strongly during the first 15 minutes. Ethereum participation, by contrast, remained comparatively […]
Bitcoin’s path higher just got harder in the short term, but the setup further out may be improving, according to a new report. In a Friday note, European asset manager CoinShares’ Head of Research, James Butterfill, said firmer-than-expected core inflation raises the odds of tighter Fed policy and could cap bitcoin below $80,000 for now. […]
Bitcoin experienced another small blockchain reorganization on Sept. 11. The latest incident occurred at block height 966,500. Two different mining pools produced valid competing blocks built on the same parent block. SpiderPool’s version was treated as the tip of the Bitcoin blockchain after reaching Galaxy Research’s node. However, AntPool had independently produced another valid block […]
The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, made a significant jump in August, climbing from around $62,000 to over $80,000. While this rise increased expectations that July’s $58,000 level was the bottom for $BTC, the recent drop has reignited debates about whether $58,000 was the bottom of the current market cycle. According to a seasoned analyst, on-chain data […]
Bitcoin trades nonstop, but a decade of data shows its volatility increasingly follows Wall Street’s clock. A recent study found that the nine hours from 13:00 to 21:59 UTC accounted for 50.6% of Bitcoin’s daily realized variance between 2022 and 2025, up from 38.4% in 2016-2018. Those hours represent just 37.5% of a full day, […]