https://livebtcnews.com/ Bitcoin and crypto industry headlines, summarized in our own words with a link to every original source. en-us Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:13:58 +0000 60 https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-18-zcash-clears-1-500-on-a-215-run.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-18-zcash-clears-1-500-on-a-215-run.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets ZEC pushed above $1,500 Friday, hitting an intraday high near $1,526, up more than 10% on the day and roughly 46% on the week. That extends a climb from about $470 in mid-August, a gain near 215% in a month, and lifts market cap to around $25 billion at rank nine. Most coverage is calling this an all-time high, which is wrong: Zcash traded at $3,191.93 in 2016, so this is a ten-year high rather than a record. Circulating supply sits at 16.94 million against the 21 million cap. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-18-nu7-gets-a-date-and-99-9-of.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-18-nu7-gets-a-date-and-99-9-of.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Zcash developers set November 5 as the mainnet target for the NU7 upgrade after reaching unanimous agreement across the Zcash Foundation, Project Tachyon, Valar Group, ZODL and Shielded Labs. The headline change cuts block target spacing from 75 seconds to 25. Nearly 2.4 million ZEC participated in the governance vote, with 99.9% backing faster blocks and 98.9% voting to preserve the existing Bitcoin-style halving schedule. Testnet activation comes in October, with the final mainnet activation height decided October 20. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-18-zcsh-passes-500-million-as-paradigm-discloses-a.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-18-zcsh-passes-500-million-as-paradigm-discloses-a.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Institutional Grayscale's spot Zcash ETF, which listed August 25, has reportedly surpassed $500 million in assets under management by mid-September. Paradigm founder Matt Huang disclosed ZEC holdings and an investment in the ZODL wallet, and Grayscale head of research Zach Pandl argued Zcash could reach 10% market share relative to Bitcoin within five years, the basis for the firm's much-quoted $8,100 target. Treat that number as a house view rather than a forecast. Arthur Hayes added to the noise by publicly asking whether he should buy the top. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-18-the-signal-worth-watching-in-zec-is-the.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-18-the-signal-worth-watching-in-zec-is-the.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Futures open interest climbed to 2.3 million ZEC Thursday from 1.76 million the day before, the lowest since August 10, which points to retail piling in. The more interesting reading is the open-interest-weighted funding rate, negative for close to two days, meaning longs are not paying a premium to hold despite the vertical move. RSI at 71 is overbought while MACD stays positive. Support sits at $1,400 and $1,200 with structural support at $1,005, and there is no overhead resistance on the daily chart because the price has never been here in a decade. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-18-bitcoin-round-trips-the-hike-and-sits-at.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-18-bitcoin-round-trips-the-hike-and-sits-at.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin spiked to $76,499.99 five minutes after the Fed release Wednesday and gave the entire move back within half an hour, and now trades below $76,000 at a three-and-a-half-week low. The median policymaker projection moved to 4.1% at end-2026 against 3.8% in June, which is the part that keeps working against risk assets. The contrast with Zcash is stark: the privacy token is up roughly 130% over 30 days while Bitcoin has spent the same period grinding lower. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-17-746-million-out-of-bitcoin-funds-in-two.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-17-746-million-out-of-bitcoin-funds-in-two.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Institutional US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $450.33 million in net redemptions on September 15 and another $295.98 million on the 16th, roughly $746 million across the two sessions, per SoSoValue. Total assets fell to about $95.19 billion, with the ETF share of Bitcoin's market cap near 6.21%. Farside's breakdown shows the selling concentrated in the largest funds: BlackRock's IBIT at $144.1 million, ARK 21Shares at $84.4 million, Fidelity at $52.7 million and Grayscale at $18.2 million. Morgan Stanley's MSBT was the only product with a positive print, at $3.5 million. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-17-bitcoin-holds-75k-after-absorbing-both-hits.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-17-bitcoin-holds-75k-after-absorbing-both-hits.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin traded near $76,000 Thursday, holding around the $75,000 level after a week that delivered a failed Senate vote and the first Fed rate increase in three years. Resistance sits at $77,000 to $78,000, and a break below $75,000 would put lower support zones back in play, while clearing resistance brings the $81,600 area into view. CoinGecko has it closing at $81,265 on September 3 against $76,147 on the 16th, which frames the two weeks cleanly. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-16-the-fed-raises-rates-for-the-first-time.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-16-the-fed-raises-rates-for-the-first-time.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets The Federal Open Market Committee lifted the target range 25 basis points to 3.75% to 4.00%, its first increase since July 2023, on a unanimous 12-0 vote. Chair Kevin Warsh said the economy appears to be strengthening and that he would be hard-pressed to describe broad financial conditions as restrictive. The dot plot was the harder part: 16 of 18 policymakers expect at least one more increase in 2026, with the median year-end projection at 4.1%. Bitcoin's immediate reaction was limited, since the hike itself was priced. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-16-the-clarity-act-dies-on-the-procedural-vote.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-16-the-clarity-act-dies-on-the-procedural-vote.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Regulation The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed its Senate cloture vote Tuesday, falling well short of the 60 needed to proceed to debate, with reports putting the tally at 50-49. Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz called the outcome a sign that government feels broken, describing eighteen months of work between the industry, Democrats and Republicans falling apart on the five-yard line. The bill passed the House 294-134 in July 2025 and stalled in the Senate over ethics provisions, staking rewards, decentralized finance and the split of authority between the SEC and CFTC. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-16-sentiment-falls-from-greed-to-neutral-in-a.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-16-sentiment-falls-from-greed-to-neutral-in-a.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin opened Wednesday 3.3% below Tuesday and traded near $75,656 in European hours, down roughly 4% from the weekly high, with Ethereum opening at $2,397.64, off 4.6%. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index dropped to 51, neutral, from 69 the previous day. Total crypto market value fell 1.21% over 24 hours to about $2.58 trillion, with XRP below $1.30 and Solana near $97. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-16-futures-showed-more-resilience-than-the-headlines-did.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-16-futures-showed-more-resilience-than-the-headlines-did.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets While spot coverage focused on the double hit, CME continuous Bitcoin futures found buyers near support on the four-hour chart, sitting around $76,270 midday. Analyst Itai Levitan flagged $77,550 as the level that would need to hold on a sustained basis to strengthen the recovery case, while noting bulls had not regained control. TradingKey mapped downside support at $71,000, $70,000 and $67,000 with resistance at $76,500, which is the wider range worth watching now that both catalysts have cleared. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-15-bitcoin-breaks-under-76k-with-hike-odds-at.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-15-bitcoin-breaks-under-76k-with-hike-odds-at.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin opened at $78,181.33 Tuesday, 1.8% above Monday, then gave the entire move back and more, sliding through $76,931 in early trading and dropping below $76,000 by the afternoon. That takes out the $76,500 to $77,000 support zone analysts had flagged as the floor, and the next structural level sits well below in the $72,000 to $74,000 gap. Ethereum opened at $2,515.17 and fell to $2,480.37. CME FedWatch puts the probability of a rate increase tomorrow at 92.5%, up from 85% to 87% at the start of the week, with the Iran conflict continuing to push energy prices and inflation expectations higher. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-15-the-clarity-act-vote-lands-today-with-the.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-15-the-clarity-act-vote-lands-today-with-the.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Regulation The Senate votes on cloture for the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 today, and analysts say it remains uncertain whether supporters have the 60 votes needed, with industry lobbying running to the last hour. The House passed the bill 294-134 in July 2025, and Senate disagreements over ethics provisions, staking rewards, DeFi and the SEC-CFTC split have stalled it since. Senate Democrats pushed back publicly ahead of the vote, with Elizabeth Warren criticizing the administration's crypto ties. Failure would not kill the bill outright but would push market structure legislation toward a much tighter calendar before the November midterms. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-15-revolut-client-data-published-with-a-10-000.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-15-revolut-client-data-published-with-a-10-000.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Security Hackers published Revolut customer data and demanded 10,000 BTC, roughly $770 million at current prices, a figure large enough that it reads more as leverage or provocation than a realistic payment expectation. Publishing the data before the demand inverts the usual sequence, which removes whatever incentive the company had to pay. It lands in a stretch that already included the Liquid Network withdrawal, the Coldcard exploit and the Zilliqa emergency fork. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-15-ark-dumps-arkb-shares-while-strive-adds-469.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-15-ark-dumps-arkb-shares-while-strive-adds-469.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Institutional ARK Invest sold a significant block of its own ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF shares on Monday following the fund's strong month, which is a notable move from an issuer that has been among the most vocal Bitcoin advocates. Strive went the other direction, adding 469 BTC to reach 25,000 in total holdings. The split between a fund manager trimming and a treasury company accumulating is the cleanest illustration of how differently the two sides read this level. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-14-a-5-benchmark-lands-weeks-after-the-national.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-14-a-5-benchmark-lands-weeks-after-the-national.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets The move through 5% arrives only weeks after US national debt crossed $40 trillion for the first time, and that sequencing is the part drawing attention rather than the yield itself. Albion Financial's Jason Ware attributes the selloff to a supply and demand imbalance, with Treasury and corporate issuance competing for the same pool of capital, and says he does not expect markets to break simply because the number starts with a five. The counterargument is straightforward: yields rising on strong growth mean one thing, and yields rising on deficits and inflation mean another, and this looks like the second kind. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-14-the-10-year-tops-5-for-the-first.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-14-the-10-year-tops-5-for-the-first.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield pushed through 5% Monday, trading near 5.008%, up about 0.039 percentage points on the session and the first print above the level since October 2023. The distinction worth holding onto: October 2023's intraday peak was 5.021%, and only a move beyond that would make this the highest since July 2007, before the financial crisis. The 2-year sits at 4.654%, its highest since July 2024, and the 30-year at 5.361%. Mortgage rates have moved above 7% alongside it. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-14-why-5-matters-for-bitcoin-specifically.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-14-why-5-matters-for-bitcoin-specifically.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets A 5% risk-free rate is the number QCP Capital was pointing at last week when it called this the worst mix for Bitcoin: a competing yield that high without a growth impulse behind it. Every duration asset gets discounted harder, and an asset generating no cash flow at all has the least to offer against it. More than $8.4 trillion in government securities roll over before year-end, which is the structural reason this pressure does not simply resolve after Wednesday's meeting. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-14-the-buyback-that-was-supposed-to-fix-this.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-14-the-buyback-that-was-supposed-to-fix-this.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Treasury repurchased $5.2 billion of bonds in its expanded operation, below the $6 billion cap and roughly half of the $10.5 billion holders offered to sell. That is the mechanism that broke Bitcoin out of its range in August, and it is now failing twice over: the operation underdelivered, and yields rose anyway. Saudi Arabia shutting the East-West pipeline, the alternative route around the Strait of Hormuz, added a fresh oil shock on top. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-14-warsh-walks-into-wednesday-with-the-bond-market.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-14-warsh-walks-into-wednesday-with-the-bond-market.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Markets price roughly an 86% chance of a 25 basis point hike Wednesday, with another expected later this year. The awkward part for Chair Kevin Warsh is that the bond market has already delivered much of the tightening, and he has previously described higher yields approvingly as a tightening mechanism. Bloomberg framed the selloff as raising the stakes for him going into the meeting. The Senate's Clarity Act cloture vote lands Tuesday, the day before. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-13-hike-odds-reach-87-into-the-most-consequential.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-13-hike-odds-reach-87-into-the-most-consequential.html Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin is holding above $77,000 after another failed push at $80,000, with federal funds futures now pricing an 85.4% to 87% probability of a hike Wednesday from the current 3.50% to 3.75% target range. The argument being made by several desks is that the hike itself is largely priced and the guidance is what moves the market, since a hike delivered with language suggesting it is the last one reads very differently from the same hike framed as the start of a sequence. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-13-462-7-million-left-bitcoin-funds-in-four.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-13-462-7-million-left-bitcoin-funds-in-four.html Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Institutional US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $462.7 million between September 8 and 11, with the damage concentrated on Thursday's $282.7 million, led by ARK Invest at $164.3 million. Grayscale and Fidelity were consistent sellers across the week and BlackRock's IBIT, which had led nearly every inflow session in August, posted redemptions on three of the four days. Spot Ethereum funds pulled in $197 million over the same stretch, which makes this look more like rotation between the two than a wholesale exit from crypto. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-13-five-events-in-nine-days-decide-where-this.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-13-five-events-in-nine-days-decide-where-this.html Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets PPI and CPI have landed, and three more sit in the window: the Senate's Clarity Act cloture vote Tuesday, the Fed decision Wednesday, and the Bank of Japan on the 18th. The BoJ is the one getting least attention and arguably matters most, since Japanese yields feed the carry trade that has funded risk positioning globally. Bitcoin spent the week between $76,000 and $82,000 and remains stuck below $80,000, with the week's range now the structure everything else resolves against. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-13-tuesday-s-clarity-act-vote-is-about-debate.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-13-tuesday-s-clarity-act-vote-is-about-debate.html Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Regulation The September 15 cloture vote determines whether the Senate proceeds to debate the market structure bill, not whether it becomes law, a distinction getting lost in coverage treating it as a pass-fail moment for crypto regulation. It needs 60 votes. Prediction markets have priced the bill being signed this year at roughly 18%, and a failed cloture vote landing the day before a Fed hike would stack two negative catalysts inside 24 hours. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-12-the-cpi-rally-was-a-trap-and-it.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-12-the-cpi-rally-was-a-trap-and-it.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin opened Friday at $76,529, dipped to $76,040 in the minutes after the inflation print, then reversed hard and ran as high as $79,837 before giving the entire move back. It now trades near $77,259, roughly where it sat before the release, leaving a long upper wick on the daily chart. The full swing was close to $5,000 inside 90 minutes. Coin Edition described it as looking more like a positioning shakeout than a fundamental shift, which is the more useful read: the headline number triggered relief buying, and the detail underneath unwound it. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-12-hike-odds-jump-from-60-to-85-on.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-12-hike-odds-jump-from-60-to-85-on.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Annual core inflation slowed to 2.4%, its lowest in 66 months, which is what sparked the initial rally. The monthly figures told the opposite story: headline CPI rose 0.4%, the biggest monthly increase since May 2026, core rose 0.3% against a 0.2% consensus, and core services excluding housing jumped 0.5%. That supercore strength, which excludes both energy and shelter, is the reading that cannot be blamed on the Iran conflict and oil. CME FedWatch and Polymarket both moved the probability of a September 16 hike from around 60% a week ago to above 85%. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-12-qcp-calls-this-the-worst-mix-for-bitcoin.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-12-qcp-calls-this-the-worst-mix-for-bitcoin.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Trading firm QCP Capital framed the current setup bluntly, describing a competing 5% risk-free rate without a growth impulse as the worst possible environment for Bitcoin. The 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since 2004 following the print, with the 10-year near 4.95%. Analyst Ted Pillows separately noted the rally was not backed by strong spot demand, and while a weekly close above $80,000 with solid ETF flows could open $85,000, he reads the current structure as favoring a pullback. Spot Bitcoin ETF outflows have now run four days, even as Ethereum funds took in $216 million. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-12-one-analyst-maps-the-path-down-to-53.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-12-one-analyst-maps-the-path-down-to-53.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets A pseudonymous account posting as Bitcoin Intelligence declared the bull trap complete on September 11, laying out a roadmap of $79,000 to $70,000 to $62,000 before bottoming near $53,000 and starting a new cycle. The account claims to have called a long near $58,000 and a short near $82,000. Treat it as one voice rather than a forecast, but the level worth actually watching is nearer: Coin Edition puts $76,706 as the line Bitcoin needs to hold to avoid a faster slide toward $72,000. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-12-zcash-tops-1-200-as-dorsey-files-for.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-12-zcash-tops-1-200-as-dorsey-files-for.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets ZEC pushed above $1,200, extending a run that has taken it from roughly $40 a year ago through the Grayscale ZCSH listing in late August and past $1,000 earlier this month. Separately, Jack Dorsey filed for a Bitcoin bank, a structural development worth watching given his Block and Square infrastructure already touches merchant payments. Both items land in a week where Bitcoin itself went nowhere. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-11-core-inflation-runs-hot-and-puts-a-fed.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-11-core-inflation-runs-hot-and-puts-a-fed.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets August consumer prices rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4% for the month, putting the annual rate at 3.4%, both in line with the Dow Jones consensus. The problem is underneath: core CPI, which strips out food and energy, gained 0.3% on the month, a tenth of a point above forecast, with the core annual rate at 2.4%. CBS reported the headline figure came in slightly above the 3.3% economists polled by FactSet had expected, with gasoline costs keeping prices elevated. It is the last major inflation reading the Fed sees before its meeting concludes Wednesday with a vote on rates. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-11-what-a-hot-core-print-means-for-a.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-11-what-a-hot-core-print-means-for-a.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Fed funds futures were implying roughly a 71% chance of a 25 basis point hike before the release, and a core number above consensus removes the argument that underlying inflation is cooling on its own. Chair Kevin Warsh used his Jackson Hole speech last month to signal he was not ready to declare victory, and this print does nothing to change that. For Bitcoin, the levels flagged into the release were $76,500 to $77,000 as support, with a break opening a gap toward $72,000 to $74,000, and $78,700 then $79,600 as the reclaim levels on the other side. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-11-oil-at-108-and-a-4-95-ten.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-11-oil-at-108-and-a-4-95-ten.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin fell 1.6% over 24 hours to touch $76,500 as Brent crude climbed above $108 a barrel and the US 10-year Treasury yield reached 4.95%, triggering a broad risk-off move. It traded between roughly $76,671 and $78,521 over the session before settling near $77,200. Both of those inputs point the same direction ahead of today's inflation print: oil feeds the headline number, and the yield move raises the opportunity cost of holding an asset that pays nothing. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-11-rate-hike-odds-hit-71-with-cpi-landing.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-11-rate-hike-odds-hit-71-with-cpi-landing.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Fed funds futures now imply roughly a 71% probability of a 25 basis point hike at the September 15-16 meeting, up from the 58% to 60% range earlier in the week. August headline CPI is forecast at 0.4% month over month and 3.4% year over year, with core at 0.2% and 2.4%. The market has already shown what it does with a hot number: Bitcoin dropped about $1,000 within minutes of Thursday's PPI release, which came in at 5.4% annually. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-11-76-500-is-the-floor-and-72-000.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-11-76-500-is-the-floor-and-72-000.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin is holding the $76,500 to $77,000 support zone, but analysts describe the level as increasingly fragile. A break below opens a downside zone at $72,000 to $74,000, a considerable gap with little structure inside it. On the other side, the bullish path requires holding $76,800 to $77,600, reclaiming $78,700, then clearing $79,600 to open $80,400. Stochastic below 20 leaves room for a rebound, though the Ultimate Oscillator at 47.32 shows momentum has not turned. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-10-lowest-open-of-the-week-with-two-inflation.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-10-lowest-open-of-the-week-with-two-inflation.html Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin opened at $78,291.64 Thursday, 0.2% below Wednesday, then slid to $77,941.56 by mid-morning, its weakest open of the week. Ethereum did the same thing, opening at $2,467 and easing to $2,464.92. Producer prices land today and consumer prices tomorrow, the final inflation readings before the Fed's two-day meeting starts Tuesday, and both assets are still holding solid month-over-month gains despite the soft opens. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-10-the-three-week-inflow-run-ends-with-167.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-10-the-three-week-inflow-run-ends-with-167.html Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Institutional Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $166.8 million in net redemptions across two days, ending the $3.8 billion accumulation run that was the strongest stretch of 2026. The amounts are small against a $99.3 billion asset base, but BlackRock's IBIT joining the redemptions is the detail that matters, since IBIT led nearly every inflow session during the run. Wholesale inflation coming in hotter than expected and sovereign yields at their highest since late 2023 are the cited causes. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-10-bessent-buys-6-billion-of-bonds-and-the.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-10-bessent-buys-6-billion-of-bonds-and-the.html Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets The Treasury boosted its September 10 buyback operation to $6 billion, the same lever that broke Bitcoin out of its range in August, and this time bond investors were unmoved. Yields stayed elevated, with reporting describing the market as rebuffing the plan to reduce borrowing costs. That matters for crypto because the August rally was built almost entirely on this mechanism working. Bitcoin sits near $78,200 with 71% of supply in profit. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-10-germany-moves-to-kill-its-tax-free-bitcoin.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-10-germany-moves-to-kill-its-tax-free-bitcoin.html Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Regulation The German finance ministry proposed ending tax-free gains for long-term holders, with coins bought after December 31, 2026 facing a flat 25% tax on sale. The current one-year holding rule has made Germany one of the more favorable jurisdictions in Europe for patient holders. The draft still requires parliamentary approval. Separately, the CFTC cleared Singapore Exchange crypto perpetual futures for US institutional access, and Bessent publicly pressed the Senate to move the Clarity Act ahead of its September 15 vote. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-10-a-lightning-wallet-flaw-and-a-fake-hardware.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-10-a-lightning-wallet-flaw-and-a-fake-hardware.html Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Security Alby confirmed a critical vulnerability in older Alby Hub versions that could let attackers gain unauthorized access and send funds, with at least one user known to be affected. Separately, BitBox warned that a phishing email impersonating the company, claiming a faulty random number generator, is circulating and telling users not to click links or enter seed phrases. The second one is worth noting precisely because it borrows the shape of a real incident, the Coldcard RNG failure from July, to make the lie plausible. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-09-a-golden-cross-arrives-with-the-confirmation-still.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-09-a-golden-cross-arrives-with-the-confirmation-still.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin's 50-day moving average crossed above its 200-day Wednesday, the first golden cross since the death cross of November 2025, and historically that setup has preceded significant rallies. BloFin Research, which flagged it, was careful to say the critical confirmation is not there yet. Worth remembering the same analysts laid out how price got here: Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole read pushed hike odds above 60% and took Bitcoin from $81,000 to $77,000, then bond yields rose across major markets into September. A crossing of two lagging averages describes where price has been, not where it is going. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-09-80-468-is-the-number-that-separates-breakout.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-09-80-468-is-the-number-that-separates-breakout.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin is coiling near $79,164 with a resistance wall at $79,816 directly overhead and smart money positioned long. A clean break above $80,468 opens a run toward $82,000 and above. Failure there, with price sliding back into the range it has occupied since late August, would make this the fifth rejection in the low $80,000s in three weeks and fit the textbook bull trap pattern: a run into resistance, a failed breakout, and a return to prior lows. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-09-nine-months-in-this-is-the-mildest-bear.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-09-nine-months-in-this-is-the-mildest-bear.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Measured from the October 6, 2025 peak of $126,296, Bitcoin is roughly nine months into its bear phase carrying a drawdown near 47%, shallower at this stage than any prior cycle. Analysts using the cycle framework put the historical window for a trough at September through November 2026, which is now. That cuts both ways: it means a bottom may be close, and it means the mildness of the decline so far is not evidence the decline is finished. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-08-fresh-iran-strikes-push-oil-toward-100-and.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-08-fresh-iran-strikes-push-oil-toward-100-and.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin opened at $79,093.85 Tuesday, 1.6% below Monday, then fell to $78,370.62 by mid-morning as new attacks followed weekend military exchanges between the US and Iran. Oil back near $100 a barrel is the transmission mechanism that matters here, since it feeds the inflation problem one week before the Fed meets. Ethereum opened at $2,489.84, down 1%, and slipped to $2,473.66. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-08-long-liquidations-not-thin-liquidity-did-the-damage.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-08-long-liquidations-not-thin-liquidity-did-the-damage.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Monday's slide could be written off as holiday-thinned books, but Tuesday's had a concrete cause in forced closure of leveraged long positions. After a second failed attempt at the $80,335 to $82,239 band, the $79,237 support broke overnight and price nearly reached $78,632, bottoming at $78,707 before recovering. Open interest sits at $52.97 billion, up 14% on the month, with funding rates low at 2.35% annualized, which points to spot-driven demand rather than overheated leverage even as liquidation risk stays elevated. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-08-3-8-billion-across-three-weeks-and-strategy.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-08-3-8-billion-across-three-weeks-and-strategy.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Institutional Spot Bitcoin ETFs now hold about $101.3 billion, roughly 6.3% of Bitcoin's market cap, after a third consecutive positive week brought the running total near $3.8 billion. Friday's $174.6 million was a 76% drop from Thursday's $730.8 million, with only BlackRock's IBIT and Fidelity's FBTC posting positive flows out of twelve products, and Monday's US holiday meant no trading at all. Strategy meanwhile reported zero share sales under its at-the-market program, with holdings flat at 845,050 BTC acquired for $63.73 billion at an average of $75,412 per coin. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-08-two-rate-gauges-two-different-answers-on-september.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-08-two-rate-gauges-two-different-answers-on-september.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets CME FedWatch puts the odds of a 25 basis point hike next week between 58% and 60%, while Polymarket has it at 51.5%, a gap worth noting given both are supposedly pricing the same event. The 10-year Treasury yield is holding near 4.80%, lifting discount rates across every duration asset. Traders have marked $78,000 to $78,500 as the shelf that has to hold, with a daily close below opening the way toward $75,000. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-07-320-million-leaves-liquid-and-the-attacker-says.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-07-320-million-leaves-liquid-and-the-attacker-says.html Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Security Roughly 4,000 BTC was withdrawn from the Liquid Network, the Bitcoin sidechain, by parties describing themselves as white-hat hackers, who have since said they intend to return most of it once the underlying bug is fixed. Recovery framed as voluntary is not recovery until the coins actually move, and holders are relying on the word of whoever holds the keys. It lands in a stretch that has already included the Coldcard exploit, the BTCPay Server disclosure and the Zilliqa emergency fork. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-07-bitcoin-opens-at-80-3k-with-everything-riding.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-07-bitcoin-opens-at-80-3k-with-everything-riding.html Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin opened at $80,351.40 Monday, 0.7% above Sunday, then eased to $79,349.91 by mid-morning. Ethereum opened at $2,514.80, up 1.4% and its strongest open since August 22. The week's only real event is Friday's August Consumer Price Index release, with the Cleveland Fed nowcast at 0.36% headline and 0.20% core month-over-month against Wall Street consensus of 0.4% and 0.2%. As Fifth Third's Bill Adams put it, the jobs report has pushed the Fed's attention squarely onto inflation. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-07-four-rejections-at-82-000-in-two-weeks.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-07-four-rejections-at-82-000-in-two-weeks.html Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets Bitcoin has been turned back in the low $82,000s four separate times since August 25, failing at $81,265 on the 25th, $81,480 on the 28th, $82,283 on September 3, and $81,438 on the 4th. It trades near $79,863, up 23.15% since the August 7 low but still down 10% on the year and 27.49% over twelve months. Two dates decide the next move: the Senate's Clarity Act vote on September 15 and the Fed decision on the 16th, with Polymarket pricing the bill being signed this year at roughly 18%. A failed cloture vote paired with a hike likely means a retest of $77,307. https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-06-another-987-million-into-bitcoin-funds-last-week.html https://livebtcnews.com/articles/2026-09-06-another-987-million-into-bitcoin-funds-last-week.html Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Institutional Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $987 million over the week, extending the run that began in mid-August and pushing the reversal of this year's outflows further along. The consistency is the story rather than any single session, with buying persisting through a week in which price failed twice at $82,000. Whether it holds through a Fed hike is the open question. https://livebtcnews.com/analysis/2026-09-18-chop-at-the-top.html https://livebtcnews.com/analysis/2026-09-18-chop-at-the-top.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Analysis ZEC tagged $1,500 and came straight back. Where the levels sit now, and why the downside targets look more attractive from here. https://livebtcnews.com/analysis/2026-09-05-zec-price-action-reflecting-early-bitcoin.html https://livebtcnews.com/analysis/2026-09-05-zec-price-action-reflecting-early-bitcoin.html Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Analysis Fresh price discovery above $1,000, and what the chart says about where profit taking makes sense.