Block added more Bitcoin to its treasury, lifting long-term holdings to 9,117 BTC by June 30, 2026, even as Q2 brought $88.5 million in remeasurement losses. It’s a clear sign that Jack Dorsey’s company still sees BTC as a reserve asset, not just a branding exercise.
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Hardware wallet sales are surging in Russia as new crypto rules move closer, with buyers seemingly racing to self-custody before regulated access gets tighter. The shift shows growing demand for control, but also a reminder: self-custody helps only if users handle it correctly.
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Bitcoin slipped below $65K as traders lost confidence that the CLARITY Act will clear the Senate this year. The bill still matters for U.S. crypto rules and tokenization, but political gridlock is making a timely pass look increasingly unlikely.
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SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom says Ethereum’s EIP-8363 could squeeze staking yields enough to hit DeFi liquidity, borrowing costs, and institutional ETH demand. Supporters call it a fix for dilution and staking concentration, but critics say it may be a solution looking for a problem.
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Bitcoin’s BIP-110 has entered its signaling phase, but miner support is still barely above 2%, setting up a tense battle over whether Bitcoin should restrict certain non-financial transaction data. Supporters are betting on a user-activated soft fork, and a chain split is on the table.
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Bitcoin has crossed 20 million mined coins, bringing it to about 95% of its hard-capped 21 million supply. It’s a major milestone for Bitcoin’s fixed money schedule—but scarcity alone doesn’t guarantee price, adoption, or easy miner economics.
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Russian crypto buyers are rushing to hardware wallets ahead of new rules that tighten oversight but still ban domestic crypto payments. Sales are up sharply, but the data also shows how regulation, self-custody, and plain old price cuts can all push people toward taking control of their own keys.
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South Korea’s crypto frenzy has cooled fast, with trading volumes sliding from late-2024 highs as liquidity shifts into stocks, especially semiconductors. Bitcoin is getting caught in the slowdown, but the data points more to a broad market lull than a clean BTC-only collapse.
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A Coldcard firmware flaw reportedly weakened seed generation on some Bitcoin hardware wallets, helping fuel a massive drain that investigators say may have hit thousands of addresses and drained well over $100 million. Firmware updates won’t fix old seeds — users may need to move funds fast.
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Michael Saylor says AI helped Strategy design new preferred-stock funding tools after common-stock issuance became too dilutive, helping keep its Bitcoin-buying machine running. The company now leans on STRK and STRC to raise capital while holding 842,138 BTC.
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