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October 6, 2026

23:56 Bitcoin

US Government Wallets Move 833.6 BTC and $31.6M in BNB After Six-Week Pause

US government moves 833.6 BTC in first transfer since Aug. 26 U.S. government-linked wallets moved 833.6 BTC worth just over $71 million on Tuesday, marking their first bitcoin transfer in six weeks. The transfers included test transactions to Coinbase Prime and coins tied to the 2016 Bitfinex hack and the Potapenko-Turogin fraud case; separate forfeited FTX wallets also moved 40,285.07 BNB worth about $31.63 million. The government still holds 323,693.83 BTC valued at roughly $27.72 billion.

September 30, 2026

04:55 Bitcoin

Strive Adds 1,107 Bitcoin for $94.5 Million, Bringing Treasury to 27,462 BTC

Strive buys 1,107 BTC for $94.5M, holdings rise to 27,462 BTC Strive said it bought 1,107 Bitcoin for about $94.5 million between Sept. 21 and Sept. 25 at an average price of $85,396 per BTC, lifting its treasury to 27,462 BTC. The company said about 85% of the funds came from SATA preferred stock, with warrant exercises adding roughly $12.4 million.

September 28, 2026

12:26 Bitcoin

Strategy Adds 1,665 BTC, Bringing Total Bitcoin Holdings to 847,666

Strategy buys 1,665 BTC, lifting holdings to 847,666 Strategy said it bought 1,665 BTC over the past week at an average price of $85,681, marking its second consecutive weekly purchase after a three-week pause. Michael Saylor said the company now holds 847,666 BTC acquired for nearly $64 billion; it also repurchased $152 million of STRC and held $6.02 billion in USD assets as of Sept. 27, 2026.

September 16, 2026

12:17 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Core 32.0 Enters Final Testing Ahead of October Release

Bitcoin Core 32.0 enters final testing before Oct. 10 release Bitcoin Core 32.0 has entered final testing ahead of its scheduled Oct. 10 release, bringing faster node sync, a new fee estimator, and fixes for two security issues. The update adds a second fee estimator that uses unconfirmed transactions to adjust estimates faster and suggest lower fees when possible, enables multi-threaded transaction and block verification with eight threads by default, and patches wallet and web server flaws that could enable command execution or memory exhaustion under certain conditions.

September 8, 2026

21:42 Bitcoin

Strive Adds 1,375 Bitcoin, Taking Treasury to 24,531 BTC and SATA to $999 Million

Strive buys 1,375 BTC, lifts treasury to 24,531 Bitcoin Strive (ASST) bought 1,375 Bitcoin for about $109 million between Aug. 31 and Sept. 4 at an average price of $79,281, taking its holdings to 24,531 BTC. CEO Matt Cole said 70% of this week’s funding came from SATA perpetual preferred stock sales, pushing the SATA balance to $999 million; he also said the company could raise up to $1.4 billion more through unexercised warrants as it tries to surpass Twenty One Capital in BTC holdings.

09:25 Bitcoin

Fractal Bitcoin completes first halving and cuts block reward to 6.25 FB

Fractal Bitcoin completes first halving, cuts block reward to 6.25 FB Fractal Bitcoin said its first halving was completed at block 2,100,000, activating the FIP-102 upgrade and reducing the network’s block reward to 6.25 FB. The change also sets aside an equivalent 6.25 FB emission budget for future distribution on the Bitcoin mainnet without increasing FB’s total supply, while FIP-103 is set to define the rollout, targeted for Q1 2027.

September 3, 2026

22:10 Bitcoin

Bitcoin rises above $81,000 after Waller comments cut rate-hike expectations

Bitcoin tops $81,000 as Waller comments trigger $415M short squeeze Bitcoin climbed above $81,000 after Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he would be inclined to support keeping rates steady if inflation keeps improving, cutting September rate-hike odds in CME FedWatch from 63.2% to 50.4%. The move sparked more than $415 million in crypto short liquidations in 24 hours, with total market liquidations topping $500 million.

September 2, 2026

13:42 Bitcoin

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Reserve Reaches 7,762 BTC as Daily Buying Continues

El Salvador adds 1 BTC, lifting national reserve to 7,762 BTC El Salvador bought another bitcoin this week, taking its national reserve to 7,762 BTC despite IMF pressure to curb public-sector BTC purchases under a $1.4 billion financing deal. The government has kept its one-bitcoin-a-day policy even after scrapping bitcoin’s legal-tender status in a legislative amendment tied to the IMF agreement.

August 31, 2026

21:56 Bitcoin

Strategy Restarts Bitcoin Buying With $370 Million Purchase After Two-Week Pause

Strategy resumes Bitcoin buying with $370M purchase Strategy (MSTR) bought 4,603 BTC for $370 million at an average price of $80,318, marking its first Bitcoin purchase since June 22 after a two-week pause. The move follows $432 million in BTC sales across five transactions since May under its monetization program, which the company says is meant to boost cash reserves and support dividend payments.

August 28, 2026

21:11 Bitcoin

500 BTC From Clifton Collins-Linked Wallet Group Transferred to Coinbase Prime

500 BTC from Clifton Collins-linked wallet group sent to Coinbase Prime A wallet tied to the Bitcoin stash linked to convicted Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins transferred 500 BTC worth about $39.56 million to Coinbase Prime on Aug. 28, blockchain tracker Lookonchain said. The coins came from a group of wallets that once held about 6,000 BTC and were long thought inaccessible after private keys were reportedly lost. A Coinbase Prime deposit does not confirm the Bitcoin was sold.

August 27, 2026

22:57 Bitcoin

StarkWare Reports First Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction on Mainnet

StarkWare mines first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet StarkWare said it has mined the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet, using Bitcoin’s existing rules rather than a network upgrade. The Quantum-Safe Bitcoin method protects individual transactions by using off-chain “signature grinding” to produce a hash Bitcoin accepts as a valid signature, but StarkWare said it does not secure Bitcoin overall, cannot protect addresses with already-exposed public keys, and currently requires sending transactions directly to miners.

August 21, 2026

16:30 Bitcoin

Bhutan Moves 490.87 BTC to Fresh Wallets as State-Linked Transfers Continue

Bhutan moves 490.87 BTC to fresh wallets The Royal Government of Bhutan transferred 490.87 BTC worth about $32.74 million to fresh wallets over the past 24 hours, including a 485 BTC move worth roughly $32.31 million, Onchain Lens said. The recipient addresses were not identified as exchanges or trading firms, and the data does not confirm the transfers were sales, extending a run of large state-linked BTC movements in 2026.

August 8, 2026

12:40 Bitcoin

Bhutan Moves 434.87 BTC to Binance, Extending Government Selling Trend

Bhutan sends 435 BTC to Binance after month-long pause The Royal Government of Bhutan deposited 434.87 BTC worth about $27.93 million to Binance on Aug. 7 after a month of inactivity, on-chain tracker Lookonchain said, indicating another likely sale. The transfer continues Bhutan’s recent offloading streak as it raises funds for the planned Gelephu Mindfulness City, a 2,600-square-kilometer special administrative region.

August 7, 2026

10:41 Bitcoin

Binance BTC Futures-to-Spot Volume Ratio Reaches Record 7.82x

Binance BTC futures-to-spot volume ratio hits record 7.82x Bitcoin price discovery is shifting further into derivatives on Binance, where futures volumes are now about 7.82 times spot turnover, based on CryptoQuant data. As of Aug. 6, BTC open interest stood at $24.47 billion, down from more than $44 billion in October 2025, while daily futures volume reached $57.82 billion versus roughly $6 billion in spot, pointing to weaker spot demand and more short-term speculative trading.

July 27, 2026

18:01 Bitcoin

Strive Adds 79 BTC, Taking Treasury Holdings to 20,000 Bitcoin

Strive buys 79 BTC to bring corporate treasury to 20,000 Bitcoin Strive said it bought 79 BTC between July 20 and 24 for about $5.2 million at an average price of $65,723 per coin plus fees, lifting its holdings from 19,921 to 20,000 BTC. The company, which adopted Bitcoin as a treasury asset in September 2025, now holds roughly $1.3 billion in BTC and has authorized a $4.2 billion capital raise program aimed at converting new cash into Bitcoin.

July 18, 2026

19:47 Bitcoin

Michael Saylor Opposes BIP 110, Citing Governance and Chain-Split Risks

Saylor rejects BIP 110 softfork over Bitcoin governance and split risk Strategy founder Michael Saylor published a 100-point essay Saturday opposing BIP 110, a proposed Bitcoin softfork that would temporarily restrict several non-payment data transaction types. He said the plan would use consensus rules to police disputed but valid activity, could cut miner fee revenue, and raise chain-split risk because it uses a 55% miner-signaling threshold instead of the 95% standard used in BIP 9.

July 13, 2026

12:22 Bitcoin

Dormant Bitcoin Wallet Moves 2,931 BTC Worth About $188 Million After Nearly Eight Years

Dormant Bitcoin wallet moves 2,931 BTC to new address A Bitcoin wallet inactive since Oct. 23, 2018 moved all 2,931 BTC, worth about $188 million, to an unmarked address on July 12 at around 3:41 p.m. ET, Onchain Lens said, citing Arkham data. The recipient wallet had not moved the funds at the time of reporting, and no exchange or OTC affiliation was identified, leaving the transfer classified as wallet-to-wallet rather than a confirmed exchange inflow.

July 12, 2026

18:20 Bitcoin

Saylor and Adam Back reject BIP-110 proposal to curb Ordinals activity on Bitcoin

Saylor and Back oppose proposed Bitcoin fork to curb Ordinals spam Michael Saylor and Adam Back have publicly opposed BIP-110, a Bitcoin proposal introduced in December 2025 to temporarily restrict non-monetary transactions such as Ordinals-style inscriptions. Saylor said the fork could invalidate ordinary transactions and hurt Bitcoin’s credibility, while Back called it an attempt to “police other people” that clashes with Bitcoin’s permissionless, censorship-resistant ethos.