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Key Takeaways Strategy purchased 155 additional Bitcoin for $18 million, increasing its digital asset holdings. The acquisition price equates to over $116,000 per Bitcoin. Share this article Strategy, the world’s largest Bitcoin corporate holder, has resumed its BTC acquisition. The company announced Monday it had added 155 BTC to its treasury last week, its smallest purchase since mid-March.Michael Saylor, the company’s Executive Chairman, dropped a hint about the acquisition yesterday. When Saylor puts out the Bitcoin tracker, it is often followed by an announcement within a few days. If you don’t stop buying Bitcoin, you won’t stop making Money. pic.twitter.com/G9S2gPO1t8…

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Amidst growing blockchain usage, Tron, a leading blockchain, continues to showcase remarkable performance compared to several other chains in the crypto sector. In terms of transactions, Tron is leading the charge, maintaining a near-perfect percentage of successful transactions in 2025 alone. Near-Perfect Percentage of Successful Transactions On Tron Darkfost, an author and market expert, has outlined a bullish trend in Tron’s on-chain activity, stating that Tron’s network stability and transaction records are set to soar in 2025. In the post on X, the expert highlighted that the blockchain is getting closer to perfect performance with its transaction success rate hovering near…

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The AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it’s about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the revenue they make from sales of high-end AI chips to China in exchange for licenses to sell to those chips in the country, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. According to the FT’s government source, Nvidia will share revenues from sales of its H20 AI chips in China, and AMD would share a cut of MI308 chip sales. The government has also started issuing licenses for the sale…

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Bitcoin’s run-up to fresh all-time highs of $123K in July was the spark that lit the current crypto boom. Now, the OG token is back to painting green candles, signaling that its consolidation phase may well be in the rearview. With nearly 4% gains over the last two days, Bitcoin is once again trading tantalizingly close to its ATH, and speculation is swirling over whether a new record could arrive this week. And if the current fundamental and technical strength is any indication, it very well could be. While the language covers crypto broadly, Bitcoin remains the beating heart of…

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Bo Hines’ abrupt exit over the weekend left a vacuum at the top of the White House’s crypto apparatus. But the Trump administration moved quickly. Patrick Witt is stepping in to run point on crypto policy from the West Wing as Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, while continuing to serve as Acting Director of the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC). Witt is not a Twitter-native crypto influencer; he’s a policy hand with one foot in national security and the other in crypto strategy. The Defense Department lists him as Acting Director of OSC,…

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Samson Mow, a well-known Bitcoin entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Jan3, warned that recent ether profits could be short-lived as some investors return their profits to Bitcoin. According to his post, many ETH buyers already hold Bitcoin (often from ICO or insider positions) and have spinned that BTC into ETH to raise prices. Related readings He claims that once the ether reaches a high enough level, those same owners may sell, leaving a set of fresh buyers holding the bags. “No one wants ETH in the long run,” he wrote, and he called the sales pressure near Big Price a “bag…

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Macroeconomist Lyn Alden believes $BTC has what it takes to hit $150K or ‘much higher’ this cycle. But when $BTC attracts increased demand, there’s often a hitch: The Bitcoin network becomes congested, slowing transactions and driving up fees. Fear not. Bitcoin Hyper is preparing to boost the network’s reliability this quarter. And the timing of the Bitcoin Layer 2 network’s launch, perhaps, couldn’t be any better. Alden Predicts $BTC to Climb Like Big-Tech Giants In a recent Cryptoslate interview, Alden explained how $BTC – currently valued at $121K – might experience a longer, less extreme cycle. One of which is…

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Bolivia and Algeria are taking opposite paths on crypto. Bolivia, which lifted its decade-long ban in mid-2024, has seen digital asset transactions surge over 500% in just six months, reaching $294M by April. Now, it’s partnering with El Salvador (the first country to adopt $BTC as legal tender) to share regulatory expertise, blockchain intelligence, and market oversight strategies. Source: Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB), Binance Algeria is moving in the opposite direction. Despite ranking among MENA’s fastest-growing crypto markets last year, the country has imposed a sweeping ban that criminalizes all digital asset use, trading, and mining. For investors, these…

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In his latest interview, Raoul Pal sharpened a long-running argument about how retail capital enters crypto markets, placing nominal price—what a single unit costs—at the center of early-cycle behavior. “Sorry, but people are going to buy XRP and Doge and Cardano, whether you like it or not. Because they’re cheap, in the absolute term of, you know, how much you pay for a token. So people will do that,” he said. He mapped the field into three risk buckets: large, adopted layer-1s he called “idiot-proof,” a harder “middle” composed of disparate DeFi names, and a mechanically simple momentum bet he…

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Dogecoin open interest has crashed from its July peaks to lower levels with the price drop that carried into the month of August. This steady decline has come with the price struggles triggered by uncertain market headwinds that have seen investors take a more conservative stance on the market. In this report, we take a look at the Dogecoin open interest and how it has performed over the last week, with the possibility of a price reversal. Dogecoin Open Interest Still Above $3 Billion The Dogecoin open interest has still remained high despite not breaking its all-time high levels yet.…

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