Tag: Bitcoin
Bitcoin trades near $79,300 on Monday, 7 September 2026, after failing to hold a break above $81,400 over the weekend and slipping as U.S. equity futures rose on the Labor Day holiday. Spot bitcoin ETFs still absorbed $986.9 million in the week ended 4 September — the third straight inflow week, led by BlackRock’s IBIT at $691.5 million — so the tape is split between persistent institutional bid and a hawkish macro overlay. August payrolls...
Liquid Network attacker returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream patches Elements bug
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Self-described white-hat actors returned 3,400 BTC of the roughly 4,000 BTC withdrawn from Liquid Network’s federation wallet on Sept. 6.
About 598.5 BTC, worth roughly $47 million, remains outstanding as talks continue.
Blockstream said a bug in the Elements software enabled unbacked L-BTC to be minted and pegged out; no federation keys were compromised.
The sidechain remains paused while operators patch nodes, resolve a chain split and...
US Bitcoin ETFs Log $731 Million, Largest Inflow Day Since January
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US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded about $731 million in net inflows on Thursday, Sept. 3, the largest single session since mid-January.
BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for roughly $454 million, or more than 60% of the day’s total.
Combined net assets crossed $103.34 billion for the first time, equal to about 6.32% of bitcoin’s market cap.
The surge followed Fed Governor Christopher Waller’s comments that he could support...
Strategy Buys $370 Million of Bitcoin After Two-Month Pause, Treasury Hits 845,050 BTC
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Strategy purchased 4,603 BTC for $369.7 million between Aug. 24 and Aug. 30 at an average price of $80,318.
Total holdings rose to 845,050 BTC, acquired for $63.73 billion at an average cost of $75,412 per coin.
The buy was funded by $602.8 million in at-the-market sales of MSTR common stock.
The company also spent $151.8 million repurchasing STRC preferred shares and reported 0.0% net leverage.
The purchase is Strategy’s first...
Bitcoin’s Spot Demand Flips Positive: What History Says Comes Next
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On July 23, Bitcoin’s 30-day apparent spot demand sat at roughly –206,000 BTC. That is not a soft reading. It means the market was absorbing far less coin than miners were issuing and old holders were reactivating. Price was stuck in the low $60,000s. The tape felt empty.
Three weeks later the same metric was hugging zero — about –5,000 BTC — for the first time since February 26, 2026. By the last week of August, CryptoQuant’s...


