BTC USD trades at $81,965, up 1.67% over 24 hours, after slipping back below the $82,000 handle it reclaimed on Friday morning. The bounce followed US inflation reaching 3.7% and a sharp move in Treasury yields, against a significant flush of leveraged long positions. That level is doing more work than its round number suggests. …
Ahead of Thursday’s seismic Trump-Xi summit, Polymarket traders are currently pricing a 92% chance that the United States and China reach a tariff agreement by December 31, according to the platform’s live Trump-Xi market page. On the same day, the odds of a US-China military clash before 2027 sit at just 3%. Those are two …
Bitcoin is trading at $80,000. This after the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tehran-based cryptocurrency exchange BitBank on Sept. 17, alleging the platform moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The muted recovering price action around BTC USD raises the central question …
Markets were betting on a 90% chance of a Federal Reserve rate hike at Wednesday’s policy meeting, according to CME FedWatch, as reported by Yahoo Finance. FOMC Polymarket odds are similar, at an 82% chance of a hike. The shift followed an August inflation report in which core CPI, excluding food and energy, rose 0.3% …
CoinCorner and AnchorWatch have launched a retail Bitcoin custody product called Vault. It charges holders 1.5% of their balance annually in exchange for a two-company signing structure and insurance arranged through the Lloyd’s of London market. The coverage is intended for specified risks, including key loss and unauthorized access; it does not protect against a …
Today’s Bitcoin price prediction is driven by Brent crude, which moved above $110 a barrel amid surging U.S. Treasury yields. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield climbed to 4.93%, while Bitcoin fell below $77,000 and reached a daily low of $76,600. The move placed the closely watched $76,000 support level in focus. Oil above $100 has …
Malone Lam, 22, from Singapore, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal racketeering conspiracy charge tied to the theft of more than 4,100 Bitcoin from a Washington, D.C., resident. Prosecutors valued the theft at roughly $245M when it occurred and described it as one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts involving a single victim in U.S. …
Traders using CME FedWatch, the CME Group tool that tracks rate-hike probabilities implied by 30-Day Fed Funds futures prices, now put the FOMC September odds of a 25-basis-point Federal Reserve rate hike at next week’s FOMC meeting at over 60%. Kalshi traders assigned a 57% probability to the same outcome, while Polymarket traders put it …
In Bitcoin ETF news, Canary Capital’s Canary Staked TRX ETF began trading on Cboe on September 9 under the ticker TRXS, becoming the first US-listed exchange-traded fund to combine direct exposure to TRON’s native token with built-in staking rewards. The product provides a brokerage-based route to TRX without requiring investors to hold the token directly …
In Bitcoin news today, an unidentified group behind Sunday’s Liquid Network breach has returned 3,400 of the 4,000 BTC withdrawn from the network’s federation wallet, according to information shared by Samson Mow. Mow is a former Blockstream chief strategy officer who has posted regular updates on the incident. About 598 BTC, worth roughly $47M, remains …
