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About $6.4 billion in Bitcoin options are due to expire in Deribit’s Friday settlement, representing nearly one-fifth of the exchange’s BTC open interest. Max pain is well below Bitcoin’s current trading level.
The Japanese Bitcoin Industry has unveiled Aurora, a Bitcoin and Lightning-focused initiative designed to improve cross-border payments for global fans of Japan’s anime and games market, valued at 2 trillion yen.
Bitcoin is again nearing $81,000 ahead of Kevin Warsh’s first major speech as Federal Reserve chairman at the Jackson Hole meeting, Bitcoin Magazine reported.
Zcash has climbed roughly 19-fold in a year, while Grayscale says its market cap remains below 1% of Bitcoin’s. The firm sees potential for ZEC to challenge Bitcoin’s network effects as privacy demand grows.
Bitcoin’s first post-quantum transaction was broadcast this week, Bitcoin Magazine reported. The Sharknet Foundation explained the process at Bitcoin Asia, where it discussed how the transaction was completed without a Bitcoin fork.
Bitcoin remains above $80,000 as Jackson Hole opens with a first-in-40-years focus on payments and financial infrastructure, putting crypto-related themes under heightened market scrutiny.
Bitcoin and crypto assets gained with U.S. stocks after Nvidia’s second-quarter earnings beat expectations by about $4 billion. Bitcoin is drawing attention around the $81,000 level as risk assets strengthen.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said Bitcoin could overtake gold in the next bull run, while noting that gold is currently worth about 10 times more. He also described any national shift toward Bitcoin as a years-long process.
Bitcoin Lightning developers are preparing fixes after confirming several AI-generated vulnerability reports were accurate. The reports identified a critical flaw, leading the project to issue an emergency warning, Decrypt reported.
CoinDesk’s Aug. 27 briefing says bitcoin experts favor a defined-risk strategy for a possible next move higher. The supplied material does not specify the instruments, terms, price target or risk limits involved.
Unstoppable Domains has dropped plans to bring .crypto and .bitcoin to the standard internet. CoinDesk reports that the abandoned bids would have cost more than $2 million in base fees alone.
Bitcoin ETFs have drawn $2.8 billion over an eight-day inflow streak as BTC tests $80,000. An analyst said August could become the strongest inflow month since October 2025 if the pace continues.
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.
Bithumb reportedly won two first-instance lawsuits seeking proceeds from users who sold Bitcoin credited during a $40 billion exchange error. The cases concern recovery of funds from the mistaken BTC credits.
