China Makes Largest Gold Purchase Since 2023 as Bullion’s Price Surges 8%
Gold continues to perform a lot better on a YTD scale than BTC.
Mining News
PoW & Bitcoin mining headlines grouped by the Bitcoin block at each article’s publication time.
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'This Can Only End in One Way': Bitcoin Volatility Falls to New 2026 Low
Bitcoin's implied volatility has fallen to a new 2026 low just as U.S. Treasury yields have climbed to their highest levels of the year.
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New Bitcoin Fork Already Deemed Failure
The minority chain has rapidly fallen behind the main Bitcoin network due to a severe lack of miner support.
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Controversial Bitcoin fork BIP-110 mines two blocks, then stops
The breakaway chain inherited bitcoin’s mining difficulty with only a tiny share of hashpower, leaving blocks hours apart while both chains still accept the same transactions.
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Bitcoin’s BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with miner support below 3%
The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback.
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Bitcoin hits block 961,632 as the controversial BIP-110 soft fork attempt begins
The proposal has scant support from bitcoin miners and influential commentators have also voiced their opposition.
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SharpLink CEO Warns Against New Ethereum Network Proposal EIP-8363
SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom has come out against EIP-8363. This Ethereum proposal would burn validator rewards as the staking ratio rises, warning that the change would weaken decentralized finance and erase ETH’s native yield advantage over Bitcoin (BTC). Joseph Chalom, a former BlackRock executive, laid out the opposition on Friday. Analysts, however, doubt the draft The post SharpLink CEO Warns Against New Ethereum Network Proposal EIP-8363 appeared first on BeInCrypto .
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AI Bitcoin Security Campaign Finds Nearly 5,000 Software Issues in 390 Projects
About one in seven reported findings were classified as high or critical severity.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs break $1B in their best week since April and BlackRock brought in 80% of the cash
US-listed spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds pulled in more than $1 billion in fresh cash this week, with both groups registering their strongest inflows since April as demand for regulated crypto investment products rebounded. Data from SoSoValue shows that spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $853.54 million during the week ended Aug. 7, their biggest haul […] The post Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs break $1B in their best week since April and BlackRock brought in 80% of the cash appeared first on CryptoSlate .
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Pi Network Price Outlook As Bitcoin Rallies Above $65k
Pi Network price has strengthened as Bitcoin trades above $65,000 and broader crypto sentiment improves. PI coin price gained 2.80% to $0.0910 during the past day, outperforming Bitcoin’s modest advance. The action follows Protocol 26 and new utility developments as well as potential future listings on the major cryptocurrency exchanges. Ad Ad Bitcoin Strength Supports The post Pi Network Price Outlook As Bitcoin Rallies Above $65k appeared first on CoinGape .
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Bitcoin Red Team Says AI Is Finding Critical Exploits Across Core Projects
A volunteer security effort says it has scanned 150 Bitcoin repositories, disclosed more than a dozen vulnerabilities, and is building an open-source AI platform to automate software security reviews.
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Grayscale Says CLARITY Act Delay Has Minimal Impact on Digital Assets
The Senate’s decision to delay the CLARITY Act vote has raised doubts about 2026 passage, but Grayscale says crypto activity can continue without the legislation. Ad Ad Grayscale Sees Limited Near-Term Effect Grayscale said the delay would not immediately disrupt major blockchain networks, Bitcoin demand or stablecoin payment growth. His assessment came after the Senate The post Grayscale Says CLARITY Act Delay Has Minimal Impact on Digital Assets appeared first on CoinGape .
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Bitcoin ETFs Log a Perfect Week as Inflows Reach a 3-Month Record
Meanwhile, the spot Ethereum ETFs extended their consecutive weekly streak to five in a row.
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Bitcoin, XRP, Solana and Tron beat Ethereum and Cardano every month since 2022 on investor buying
Crypto’s favorite buy-the-dip strategy failed to make money for Ethereum and Cardano investors who stuck with it since the start of 2022. An investor who placed $100 into Ethereum every month from January 2022 through August 2026 would have contributed $5,600 but ended up with about $4,898, a 12.5% loss, CryptoRank data showed. The same […] The post Bitcoin, XRP, Solana and Tron beat Ethereum and Cardano every month since 2022 on investor buying appeared first on CryptoSlate .
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XRP U-Turns Against BTC: Can a Bigger Rebound Follow?
XRP turns corner against BTC after entering oversold territory with traders watching what comes next.
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Bitcoin’s first institutional bear market is starting to take shape and draining liquidity
In an institutional bear market, a Bitcoin ETF redemption is almost aggressively boring. An investor sells shares, an authorized participant returns a large block to the trust, and the fund either pays cash or transfers BTC. Its assets shrink while the shares keep trading near net asset value and the custodian carries on. Since the […] The post Bitcoin’s first institutional bear market is starting to take shape and draining liquidity appeared first on CryptoSlate .
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Trillions in institutional money to flow into bitcoin, says Bitwise's Matt Hougan
The digital asset manager's CIO says large capital pools control up to $200 trillion globally, and just a 1% shift toward bitcoin could unlock massive long-term growth.
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The US says it has a Bitcoin reserve, but nobody can agree on how much it owns
On March 6, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and most of the attention went straight to the grand idea: America had built a digital Fort Knox, the government would stop selling Bitcoin, and Washington could perhaps add more without charging taxpayers. However, the executive order’s operative language […] The post The US says it has a Bitcoin reserve, but nobody can agree on how much it owns appeared first on CryptoSlate .
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Crypto Market Update August 8: BTC Price Tests $65K, MSTR Stock Tops $100, and PI Leads Altcoins
The crypto market is up today, August 8, after a decline in the US nonfarm payrolls data for July 2026 reduced the odds of the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates in September. Bitcoin (BTC) price moved above $65,000 while Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) stock closed trading at $100. Pi Network (PI) is also the top gainer The post Crypto Market Update August 8: BTC Price Tests $65K, MSTR Stock Tops $100, and PI Leads Altcoins appeared first on CoinGape .
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Ethereum Price Target $2k as ETFs Record Biggest Weekly Inflow in Nearly Four Months
Ethereum price held above $1,918 after a modest rebound supported by improving sentiment across the broader cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin price also remained above $64,900 as major digital assets recovered from recent weakness. The Ethereum exchange-traded funds registered a record weekly inflow in almost four months, which enhanced the prospects of further gains. Meanwhile, the U.S. The post Ethereum Price Target $2k as ETFs Record Biggest Weekly Inflow in Nearly Four Months appeared first on CoinGape .