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BTC price strength starts to convince traders that new highs are back on the table, but Bitcoin still needs spot-market support. Key points: Bitcoin revisits $113,000 before Tuesday’s Wall Street open amid talk of a new gold copycat move. That level becomes a recommendation for long entries, but not everyone is bullish. Read more

Ripple will provide crypto custody services to Spain’s BBVA bank, expanding its existing partnership amid MiCA-driven adoption by European banks. Ripple, the US blockchain firm behind the XRP cryptocurrency, will provide crypto custody services to Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). According to a Tuesday announcement, Ripple’s agreement to provide crypto custody services to BBVA follows the bank’s recent announcement of its Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) retail trading and custody service. BBVA will rely on Ripple’s institutional custody service to power services to its customers. BBVA’s head of digital assets, Francisco Maroto, said that Ripple’s custody service allows it to meet the necessary standards to “directly provide an end-to-end custody service.” Read more

Bitcoin’s quiet start to the week could give way to turbulence as key U.S. economic data and the Fed's decisions collide with expiring volatility contracts.

Bitcoin derivatives markets showed persistent caution, with sentiment influenced by BTC spot ETF outflows and Strategy not being included in the S&P 500 index. Key takeaways: Bitcoin options skew and futures funding rates highlight persistent caution, despite BTC defending the $110,000 support level. spot Bitcoin ETF outflows and Strategy’s S&P 500 index negative decision continue weighing on trader sentiment. Read more

Bitcoin’s supply–demand balance narrowed further last week as corporate treasuries captured a dominant share of new issuance. Last week, two publicly traded firms, Strategy and Tokyo-listed Metaplanet, purchased more than $230 million worth of BTC. According to their separate announcements, their combined acquisitions, totaling 2,091 BTC, represented about two-thirds, or 66%, of all coins produced […] The post Strategy and Metaplanet scooped up 66% of newly mined Bitcoin last week appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Strategy’s latest 1,955 Bitcoin acquisition brought its total BTC holdings to 638,460 BTC, purchased at an average price of $73,880 per coin. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest holder of Bitcoin, continued stacking the cryptocurrency as the BTC price edged up slightly last week.  Strategy acquired 1,955 Bitcoin (BTC) for $217.4 million between Sept. 2 and 7, according to a Tuesday US Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The purchase was made at an average price of $111,196 per coin as the cryptocurrency briefly surged above $113,000 last Friday before slipping to around $110,000, according to CoinGecko. Read more

XRP price has painted a classic bullish reversal pattern against Bitcoin, eyeing gains of over 100% in the coming months. Key takeaways: XRP/BTC is up around 300% since Trump’s election victory. The pair could rally by another 100%-250% due to multiple bullish setups aligning. Read more

Selling by Bitcoin long-term holders, reduced buying by treasury companies and a weakening technical structure could push BTC’s price toward $95K. Key takeaways: Long-term Bitcoin holders sold 241,000 BTC over the past 30 days. BTC price bear flag targets $95,500.  Read more

Bitcoin surfs volatility catalysts as key US macro data combines with increasing worries over a BTC price capitulation event. Bitcoin (BTC) starts the second week of September facing crucial resistance as traders maintain downside targets. Bitcoin price action coils below $112,000 over the weekend, but fears of a 10% correction or worse are mounting. CPI week is here again, and markets are wondering how large next week’s Federal Reserve interest-rate cut will be. Read more

El Salvador marked the fourth anniversary of its Bitcoin Law with a 21 BTC purchase, with holdings now worth $701 million.

Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, the issuer of the largest stablecoin USDT, took to X on Sunday to refute claims about the firm selling its Bitcoin (BTC) to invest in gold. In his post, Ardoino wrote that “Tether didn’t sell any Bitcoin,” adding that: “While the world continues to get darker, Tether will continue to […] The post Tether CEO refutes claims that the firm sold Bitcoin and bought gold appeared first on CryptoSlate.

“Dear Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin is and must remain censorship resistant.” That’s the promise, the battle, and the line in the sand drawn this week as Leonidas, the host of The Ordinal Show, weighs in on the raging Spam Wars, warning Bitcoin Core: “Any serious attempt by Bitcoin Core to tighten policy rules or censor Ordinals […] The post Open letter to Bitcoin Core: ‘Bitcoin is and must remain censorship resistant’ appeared first on CryptoSlate.

El Salvador was the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender, but it has since scaled back its Bitcoin laws and public sector involvement. El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office is celebrating “Bitcoin Day,” the anniversary of the Bitcoin (BTC) legal tender law taking effect in September 2021. The Bitcoin Office highlighted the country’s Bitcoin strategic reserve, which now holds 6,313 BTC, valued at over $702 million, and the new banking law, which allows BTC investment banks to serve sophisticated investors, in a Sunday X post. The government BTC agency also said 80,000 public servants have received a Bitcoin certification as of 2025, and added that El Salvador now hosts several public Bitcoin and artificial intelligence education programs. Read more

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the firm “didn’t sell any Bitcoin” and is still allocating profits into BTC, gold and land. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has denied recent rumors that the stablecoin issuer is offloading its Bitcoin holdings to buy gold. In a Sunday post on X, Ardoino said the company “didn’t sell any Bitcoin,” and reaffirmed its strategy of allocating profits into assets like “Bitcoin, gold, and land.” The comments came in response to speculation from YouTuber Clive Thompson, who cited Tether’s Q1 and Q2 2025 attestation data from BDO to claim the firm had reduced its Bitcoin (BTC) position. Thompson pointed to a drop from 92,650 BTC in Q1 to 83,274 BTC in Q2 as evidence of a sell-off. Read more

Bitcoin retesting $100,000 would match previous BTC price dips since the end of 2024, Fibonacci retracement analysis shows. Key points: Bitcoin sees a modest rebound into the weekly candle close, but traders see key resistance overhead. BTC price action risks a much deeper drop if bulls fail to reclaim that resistance zone. Read more

An analyst forecasts Bitcoin may tap $50,000 in the 2026 bear market, Justin Sun urges WLFI to unfreeze tokens: Hodler’s Digest Several financial institutions and market analysts are now projecting the US Federal Reserve, the countrys central bank, will slash interest rates from the current target rate of 4.25%-4.5% at least twice in 2025. The banking forecasts followed a weak August jobs report that saw only 22,000 jobs added for the month, versus expectations of about 75,000. Analysts at Bank of America, a banking and financial services company, reversed their long-held stance of no rate cuts in 2025 and are now projecting two 25 basis point (BPS) cuts one in September and another in December according to Bloomberg. Read more

An analyst forecasts Bitcoin may tap $50,000 in the 2026 bear market, Justin Sun urges WLFI to unfreeze tokens: Hodler’s Digest Several financial institutions and market analysts are now projecting the US Federal Reserve, the countrys central bank, will slash interest rates from the current target rate of 4.25%-4.5% at least twice in 2025. The banking forecasts followed a weak August jobs report that saw only 22,000 jobs added for the month, versus expectations of about 75,000. Analysts at Bank of America, a banking and financial services company, reversed their long-held stance of no rate cuts in 2025 and are now projecting two 25 basis point (BPS) cuts one in September and another in December according to Bloomberg. Read more

The Bitcoin network mining difficulty continues its long-term upward trend, hitting an all-time high of 134.7 trillion on Friday. The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, the average difficulty level for mining a block on the network, climbed to a new all-time high of 134.7 trillion on Friday. Network difficulty hit a previous all-time high in August and steadily rose throughout the month, despite projections that network difficulty would decrease. Bitcoin’s hashrate, the average of the total number of hashes per second from all miners on the network, has fallen to 967 billion hashes per second, down from the all-time high of over 1 trillion hashes per second recorded on August 4, according to CryptoQuant.  Read more

It may take a minute to get to grips with magic internet money, but once you see the scarcity, durability, and predictability, it somehow all falls into place. From Jamie Dimon to Donald Trump, eventually everyone understands Bitcoin. Eventually everyone understands Bitcoin Anthony Pompliano summed it up best, against an image of some high-profile personalities, […] The post From Jamie Dimon to Donald Trump: Why everyone eventually understands Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin analyst PlanC says there is no reason for Bitcoin to reach a cycle high this year except for a “psychological, self-fulfilling prophecy.” Traders who predict Bitcoin will reach its cycle-high price by the end of this year may be misunderstanding the principles of statistics, a Bitcoin analyst says. It comes as several analysts have been forecasting the outcome for Bitcoin (BTC) in recent times. “Anyone who thinks Bitcoin has to peak in Q4 of this year does not understand statistics or probability,” PlanC said in an X post on Friday. Read more