Three months ago, we examined how public bitcoin miners were beginning to dismantle or repurpose mining fleets for AI and high-performance computing infrastructure.

Bitcoin has already produced about 20.07 million BTC since it launched in January 2009. At block height 962570, roughly 929,465 bitcoin remain under the 21 million cap, but they will not hit the market anytime soon. The easy years of new bitcoin issuance are long over. What remains is an extended, slow wind-down that will test the mining industry every four years.

U.S. traders could gain access to bitcoin and ether funds designed to deliver three times each asset’s daily performance under a Cboe proposal covering six leveraged commodity products. The SEC initially has 45 days from Federal Register publication to approve, reject, or begin proceedings.

Binance will stop processing transactions involving 16 crypto platforms following regulatory developments. Transfers attempted after the applicable deadlines may undergo compliance reviews and trigger temporary restrictions on affected wallets.

XRP Ledger activity climbed to its strongest level in more than two months as bearish social commentary reached a three-month extreme. The divergence shows heavier network participation even as weak price action continues to pressure investor sentiment.

Galaxy Research now puts the CLARITY Act’s chance of passing this year at 10%, ahead of a possible Senate procedural vote in September. Unresolved ethics rules and bank lobbying have weakened the measure’s support.

Ripple has expanded its Swell 2026 speaker lineup with executives from Robinhood, BNY, and Intercontinental Exchange as the company prepares its largest conference for institutional finance and XRP Ledger development.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor argues bitcoin can preserve and transfer economic value more efficiently than gold or fiat currency, framing the cryptocurrency as a technological upgrade to money itself. His thesis places proof of work, fixed supply, digital ownership, and financial infrastructure at the center of bitcoin’s potential role as a long-term monetary foundation.

Two of Abu Dhabi’s biggest sovereign investment vehicles sat through a roughly $118 million hit to their Blackrock spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) positions in the second quarter and did not cut a single net share, leaving nearly $764 million riding on IBIT when June ended.

Edelman Financial Engines, which manages $326 billion in client assets, disclosed a $34 million position in spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in its latest regulatory filing, a stake that now exceeds the firm’s holding in Amazon.

Since Bitcoin split at block 961632 on Aug. 8, the tiny Roughnecks pool has burned scarce hashpower chasing a chain almost nobody can trade, grinding out just four blocks across seven days. Now, BIP-110 supporters are preparing an even bigger gamble: abandoning double SHA-256 for Blake2b, a proof-of-work (PoW) primitive used by only a handful of Nakamoto-consensus chains, most notably Sia.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones’ Tudor Investment Corp increased its stake in Blackrock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) to $22.9 million, according to a newly filed 13F.

Technical research firm Fairlead’s Katie Stockton says bitcoin is flashing a rare long-term oversold signal after its slide toward $60,000, and now argues ether’s chart may have already carved out its own major low too.

France’s 30-year government bond yield has surged near 4.85%, joining jumps in Germany, Japan, and the United States that expose a brutal reset in global borrowing costs.

President Donald Trump is expected to host Coinbase, Ripple and other crypto and prediction-market executives at the White House on Wednesday, August 19, kicking off a week of regulatory meetings in Washington.