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Germany is weighing a draft bill to tax bitcoin gains more like stock investments, targeting tax-free sales after a 12-month holding period. Existing bitcoin holdings would keep their current tax treatment, according to CoinDesk.
Strategy doubled its STRC preferred-share repurchase authorization to $2 billion after seven weeks of increasingly large purchases. The shares remained below their $100 stated value as Michael Saylor’s Sept. 8 recovery benchmark arrived.
Senator Cynthia Lummis said the Clarity Act can still pass, but added that Democrats must make further compromises. Her comments came ahead of a vote on the cryptocurrency legislation, according to Bitcoin Magazine.
Strive, the Vivek Ramaswamy-founded asset manager, bought 1,375 BTC worth $109 million last week. It was the company’s third consecutive week of growth above 5%, while preferred stock approaches $1 billion.
Strive’s SATA is nearing a $1 billion market capitalization as its 13% annualized dividend and resilience around par support fundraising. CoinDesk reports that SATA is outperforming Strategy’s STRC, which continues to underperform.
Visa wants blockchain lenders to use VisaNet data to extend credit to stablecoin issuers. Its stablecoin settlement volume has surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate, up 15 times year over year.
CoinDesk reports that Bitcoin ETFs are still about $1 billion short of breaking even in 2026, highlighting the remaining gap for investors tracking Bitcoin-linked exchange-traded products.
South Korea’s budget office says stablecoin adoption could save merchants up to $3.8 billion annually, but warns it may weaken banks’ credit-intermediation role and put token pegs under pressure during mass redemptions.
Middle East crypto activity has tripled to $350 billion during the ongoing Iran conflict, the Bitcoin Policy Institute says, citing stronger demand for digital assets and continued Gulf business operations despite disruption.
CryptoSlate highlighted operator-failure risks in a Solana AI payments system associated with a million-payments-per-second benchmark, including whether merchants can recover funds after delivering goods or services.
Bitcoin’s latest rally began after the Treasury announced that, from Sept. 9, it would raise the maximum size of certain buyback operations for 10- to 30-year government bonds from $2 billion to $4 billion.
CryptoSlate highlights a $63 billion flow mechanism in the US Bitcoin ETF market. On August 27, $277.6 million was recorded entering BlackRock’s IBIT, illustrating how anonymous ETF flows appear near the close of US trading.
