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Analyst Willy Woo suggests Bitcoin could be moving from its traditional four-year cycle toward a six-to-eight-year macro rhythm. Recent research, however, indicates that the established pattern may still be present.
Sony has rejected a $508 million tariff refund claim from PS5 buyers as “illogical,” Decrypt reports. The dispute follows a second PlayStation price increase in March, five weeks after the tariffs were struck down.
Memecoin pairs involving Robinhood’s tokenized stocks recorded $217 million in volume on Robinhood Chain on Sept. 2, exceeding the $127 million traded in direct stock-token markets, according to data compiled by Adam Tehc.
CryptoSlate reported that a layer-1 blockchain paused for about four hours after a $4.9 million exploit. An emergency patch disabled binary-options settlement, while researchers linked an address holding roughly 1,980 ETH to the incident.
Circle’s cirBTC held 40 BTC and was overcollateralized at its Aug. 27 snapshot, but remained thousands of times smaller than WBTC and cbBTC. Arc is set to become the product’s next distribution test.
The SEC is reviewing automatic filing pathways after a wave of proposals for crypto, leveraged, private-asset and election- or economic-event-linked ETFs reached the market, CryptoSlate reports.
Grayscale’s research team says bitcoin is benefiting from the so-called debasement trade, which Bitcoin Magazine linked to government debt. The asset manager said the environment could support bitcoin.
A small Bitcoin transfer from a US government-tagged wallet has renewed market concerns about possible sales of forfeited BTC and highlighted questions over the scope of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’s “shall not be sold” provision.
