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Strategy launches $1.6B cash pool after $2B common shares raise, maintains hold on BTC buys   north  
Strategy held off on new Bitcoin buying, maintaining holdings at 840,447 BTC as it launched a $1.59 billion cash pool after raising $2 billion from MSTR stock sales.
Keywords: Latest News

Authors: Helen Partz ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-24 12:45:00
Strategy launches $1.6B cash pool after $2B common shares raise, maintains hold on BTC buys
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First bear-market trend line reclaim since 2025: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week   north  
Bitcoin closed a weekly candle above its 50-week EMA for the first time since late 2025 as markets prepared for the Jackson Hole symposium.
Keywords: Markets

Authors: William Suberg ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-24 11:23:58
First bear-market trend line reclaim since 2025: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
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ECB defends digital euro privacy as CBDCs face global scrutiny   north  
Piero Cipollone said the Eurosystem would not identify digital euro users as central bank digital currencies face privacy concerns worldwide.
Keywords: Latest News

Authors: Yohan Yun ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-24 11:21:19
ECB defends digital euro privacy as CBDCs face global scrutiny
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US -Canada Trade War Escalates, while US Seek to Choke the Iranian Economy   north  
The US dollar is trading higher against nearly all the currencies. Equity markets are mixed and bond yields are lower alongside oil prices. There are two major developments. First, the US and Canada trade talks broke down, and the risk is further escalation. Last week, President Trump has [...]
Keywords: Currency Movement

Authors: Marc Chandler ( top authors )
Source: Marc to Market ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-24 10:44:52
US -Canada Trade War Escalates, while US Seek to Choke the Iranian Economy
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Germany widens MiCA lead as latest EU register update adds 6 banks   north  
Germany expands its lead in EU MiCA authorizations with 79 crypto asset service providers, ahead of France and the Netherlands.
Keywords: Latest News

Authors: Helen Partz ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-24 10:41:34
Germany widens MiCA lead as latest EU register update adds 6 banks
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Private Mempool on Polygon: What It Protects, Use Case by Use Case   north  
Moving Money Confidentially with Private Mempool on Polygon: What That Means for Every Use Case

Source: Polygon Blog — Payments & Stablecoin Insights ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-24 00:00:00
Private Mempool on Polygon: What It Protects, Use Case by Use Case
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Week Ahead: Warsh at Jackson Hole   north  
Introduced by the Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Samuelson in the late 1930s, "reveal preferences" says to look at what people are actually doing to determine their true preferences rather than what they say. Applying this to the US now suggests the administration is worried about the US [...]
Keywords: Macro, Prices

Authors: Marc Chandler ( top authors )
Source: Marc to Market ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-22 11:03:12
Week Ahead: Warsh at Jackson Hole
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Bitget CEO sees Bitcoin near current levels at year-end, doubts US will buy BTC   north  
Gracy Chen says macroeconomic uncertainty could keep Bitcoin within $10,000 to $20,000 of current levels, while US government purchases remain unlikely within the next two years.
Keywords: Markets

Authors: Nate Kostar ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-21 20:26:16
Bitget CEO sees Bitcoin near current levels at year-end, doubts US will buy BTC
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Digital Asset, Paul Ryan foundation target US state benefits with Canton pilot   north  
The RISE program would use the Canton Network to combine and distribute state-administered benefits across three US states beginning in 2027.
Keywords: Latest News

Authors: Nate Kostar ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-21 16:25:29
Digital Asset, Paul Ryan foundation target US state benefits with Canton pilot
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Standard Chartered wavers on $100K Bitcoin year-end call, says it may be ‘too low’   north  
Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick said Bitcoin could move toward its $126,000 all-time high after Oct. 6 as spot Bitcoin ETF inflows recover.
Keywords: Latest News

Authors: Zoltan Vardai ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-21 11:58:10
Standard Chartered wavers on $100K Bitcoin year-end call, says it may be ‘too low’
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Bessent Doubles Down, Dollar Slumps but Rates Little Changed   north  
The market is pushing against the US recent initiatives. Japanese investors themselves have continued to buy foreign assets in size in the first two weeks after the intervention. The Ministry of Finance data showed Japanese investors bought around $36.5 bln of foreign assets in the first two [...]
Keywords: Currency Movement

Authors: Marc Chandler ( top authors )
Source: Marc to Market ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-21 10:52:36
Bessent Doubles Down, Dollar Slumps but Rates Little Changed
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Coldcard strengthens seed generation with firmware update   north  
Coinkite urged Coldcard users to generate new seed phrases, warning that existing vulnerable seeds remain unsafe despite the security upgrade.
Keywords: Latest News

Authors: Zoltan Vardai ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-21 10:13:23
Coldcard strengthens seed generation with firmware update
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Strategy Bitcoin treasury hits breakeven point as BTC price passes $77K   north  
Bitcoin gains 20% in two days as Strategy sees its BTC treasury climb out of the red.
Keywords: Markets

Authors: William Suberg ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-21 08:48:52
Strategy Bitcoin treasury hits breakeven point as BTC price passes $77K
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Bitcoin ETFs draw $608M as Ether ETFs see largest inflow since October   north  
Bitcoin ETF inflows pushed August’s total to a 2026 high of $2.07 billion as Bitcoin traded above $75,000 and Ether climbed to $2,357.
Keywords: Markets

Authors: Yohan Yun ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-21 07:50:01
Bitcoin ETFs draw $608M as Ether ETFs see largest inflow since October
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The First (F)air Drop is Here: Introducing Self and Google Cloud’s USA₮ Mainnet Faucet   north  
Verified Humans Can Earn Free Stablecoins, Claiming the US Dollar-Backed Stablecoin Issued by Anchorage and Backed by Tether through Self VerificationSelf and Google Cloud’s USA₮ Mainnet Faucet is now live on Celo, unlocking free stablecoins for real, verified humans for the first time.Celo is [...]
Keywords: news, stable-coin, tusa

Authors: Celo Core Co. ( top authors )
Source: The Celo Blog - Medium ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-20 16:27:53
The First (F)air Drop is Here: Introducing Self and Google Cloud’s USA₮ Mainnet Faucet
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Bitcoin price reaches $72.5K as US issues ‘Economic D-Day’ threat to Iran   north  
Bitcoin saw new multimonth highs above $72,500 even as US stocks cooled amid US threats of “economic warfare” with Iran.
Keywords: Markets

Authors: William Suberg ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-20 15:40:54
Bitcoin price reaches $72.5K as US issues ‘Economic D-Day’ threat to Iran
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MiCA cracks down on USDT in Europe... but no one else cares   north  
USDT is disappearing from regulated European platforms, but there is little sign that it has resulted in weakening global demand for Tether.
Keywords: Magazine

Authors: Christina Comben ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-20 13:30:00
MiCA cracks down on USDT in Europe... but no one else cares
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Cybersecurity firm unveils crypto phishing campaign targeting 885,000 phone numbers   north  
Rapid7 unveiled a new cryptocurrency phishing campaign targeting 885,000 phone numbers, aiming to steal investors’ holdings by redirecting them to fake wallet provider websites.
Keywords: Latest News

Authors: Zoltan Vardai ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-20 12:35:32
Cybersecurity firm unveils crypto phishing campaign targeting 885,000 phone numbers
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Bitcoin ETFs draw $517M in largest one-day inflow since early May   north  
Investors have poured more than $1 billion into US spot Bitcoin ETFs this week as BTC neared $72,000 and Ether climbed 19% to about $2,286 on Thursday.
Keywords: Markets

Authors: Yohan Yun ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-20 11:16:41
Bitcoin ETFs draw $517M in largest one-day inflow since early May
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Crypto generated about 1% of Webull’s record $198M Q2 revenue   north  
While Webull reported a record $198 million in second-quarter revenue, cryptocurrency trading only generated about $2.25 million of the quarter’s revenue stream.
Keywords: Latest News

Authors: Zoltan Vardai ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-20 11:05:00
Crypto generated about 1% of Webull’s record $198M Q2 revenue
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To Support the US Treasury Market, Bessent Sent the Greenback Reeling   north  
The US Treasury announcement early in North America yesterday that it would at least double the size of liquidity support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities. The current maximum size is $16 bln a quarter. The stepped-up purchases will take effect on September 9. [...]
Keywords: Currency Movement

Authors: Marc Chandler ( top authors )
Source: Marc to Market ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-20 10:45:05
To Support the US Treasury Market, Bessent Sent the Greenback Reeling
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Raising machine-checked security benchmarks to advance hash-based SNARKs through agentic collaboration   north  
better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge built by the Ethereum Foundation Formal Verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, is now live. better.codes takes a self-contained problem from the Proximity Prize research, formalized in Lean, and puts its soundness bound on a [...]
Keywords: Research & Development

Source: Ethereum Foundation Blog ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-20 00:00:00
Raising machine-checked security benchmarks to advance hash-based SNARKs through agentic collaboration
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Bitcoin price hits 11-week high as US Treasury doubles debt buyback size   north  
Bitcoin joined US stocks in a broad rally after the US Treasury announced that it was at least doubling the amount of its debt buyback operations from September.
Keywords: Markets

Authors: William Suberg ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-19 15:44:09
Bitcoin price hits 11-week high as US Treasury doubles debt buyback size
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200,000 fake AI ‘victims’ deployed to scam bait online fraudsters   north  
Apate’s 200,000 fake AI ‘victims’ are so good at scam baiting, the company has a monthly KPI for how many F-bombs scammers drop at the infuriating bots.
Keywords: Magazine

Authors: Andrew Fenton ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-19 13:30:00
200,000 fake AI ‘victims’ deployed to scam bait online fraudsters
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Sweden’s H100 reports $26M H1 loss driven by falling Bitcoin value   north  
Sweden’s H100 reported a $26 million loss for the first half of the year, as it completed its acquisitions to become Europe’s second-largest Bitcoin treasury by holdings.
Keywords: Latest News

Authors: Zoltan Vardai ( top authors )
Source: Cointelegraph.com News ( active sources )
Published: 2026-08-19 11:59:30
Sweden’s H100 reports $26M H1 loss driven by falling Bitcoin value
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