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Bitcoin could rise toward $100,000 from around $64,000 if markets understand Michael Saylor’s shift in Strategy Inc.’s bitcoin approach, with Standard Chartered arguing that recent selling pressure reflects confusion over the strategy rather than a change in bitcoin’s long-term outlook. Why Saylor’s Bitcoin Strategy Has Created Market Uncertainty Strategy Inc.’s shift in its bitcoin approach…Read More

Ripple Swell 2026 is approaching this fall, bringing financial executives, developers and the XRP community to New York for an expanded conference examining the growing connection between traditional finance, XRP and blockchain-based markets. Why Ripple Swell 2026 Will Be Different As Ripple Swell 2026 moves closer, Ripple shared on July 10 that early bird pricing…Read More

Bitcoin has two forks on the calendar for 2026. Developer Paul Sztorc plans a deliberate hard fork called eCash, activating at block height 964,000, expected around August 21. Separately, a contested soft fork proposal called BIP-110 carries the chance of splitting the chain by accident during its August signaling window. Both events raise the same…Read More

Bitcoin is hovering below $64,000, but where it lands next is anyone’s wager. We asked a roster of artificial intelligence (AI) models to cut through the market noise and name their BTC price for Aug. 1. July has treated BTC somewhat more kindly than June. Yet bitcoin remains down more than 40% over the past…Read More

Patrick Shyu, the former Meta and Google engineer known online as Techlead, warns that quantum computing and decaying miner incentives are two undefused threats hanging over Bitcoin. A Warning Worth Heeding Shyu, who served as a tech lead at Google and later as a staff software engineer at Meta before building a YouTube audience of…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine U.S. Representatives Urge Senate to Vote on CLARITY Act in July, Address Ethics Concerns Rep. French Hill urged the Senate to vote on the CLARITY Act before the August recess, arguing the bill would establish a transparent crypto market framework that addresses ethics concerns surrounding President Trump’s digital asset ventures. This post U.S.…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Circle (CRCL) Wins Final OCC Approval for National Trust Bank Circle won final OCC approval to establish a national trust bank, allowing it to place USDC reserves under federal oversight and expanding its regulated digital asset custody business. This post Circle (CRCL) Wins Final OCC Approval for National Trust Bank first appeared on…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Metaplanet Announces Joint Study to Bring Bitcoin-Backed Digital Credit to Japan Metaplanet is taking its Bitcoin strategy beyond treasury accumulation, launching a study to explore tokenized, Bitcoin-backed credit products that could reshape Japan’s debt market. This post Metaplanet Announces Joint Study to Bring Bitcoin-Backed Digital Credit to Japan first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin is “A Screaming Buy”: Standard Chartered Backs $100,000 Target, Shrugs Off Strategy (MSTR) Sell-Off Standard Chartered reaffirmed its $100,000 end-2026 Bitcoin price target, calling Bitcoin “a screaming buy” and arguing that Strategy’s recent sell-off reflects a communication issue around its new monetization strategy rather than a weakening Bitcoin outlook. This post Bitcoin…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine JPMorgan Says the Real Threat to Bitcoin Isn’t Strategy (MSTR) — It’s Private Blockchains JPMorgan says Strategy’s Bitcoin sales are a short-term concern, but the bigger long-term risk is that banks and institutions adopt private blockchains over public networks, reducing activity and capital flows across the broader crypto ecosystem. This post JPMorgan Says…Read More