Dormant Bitcoin Erupts as 10 August Days Blow Past All of July
Dormant bitcoin is moving at a dramatically faster pace in August, with 2,209.05 BTC leaving long-idle addresses during the first 10 days of the month, already 74.7% more than the…
MARA Sells 23,093 Bitcoin for $1.6 Billion as Treasury Strategy Shifts
MARA sold 23,093 bitcoin during the first half of 2026, marking a significant shift from its earlier accumulation strategy. The miner is also borrowing against its remaining BTC to finance…
OCEAN Pledges BTC Refunds After Chain-Split Error
Bitcoin mining pool OCEAN revealed that a configuration issue caused some miners to unknowingly mine on the stalled BIP-110 chain for roughly 18 hours. The pool said it will distribute…
Bitcoin’s Price Barely Blinks Amid Coldcard Sweeps and BIP-110’s Collapse
Bitcoin barely flinched through two potentially disruptive events, holding near $65,000 as losses tied to the Coldcard hardware wallet exploit mounted and the BIP-110 minority chain stalled almost immediately after…
Bitcoin’s ECX Hard Fork Splinters Into 3 Launches Through October
The upcoming Bitcoin hard fork known as ECX will not launch all at once on Aug. 23. Instead, its creator says the rollout will happen in three separate stages stretched…
Bitcoin Fork Watch: Where to Track BIP-110’s Showdown Live
BIP-110 mandatory signaling begins today, putting block 961632 under a microscope as the risk of a blockchain split moves from theory to a live test. At the time of writing,…
Bitcoin Wallets Spike to 2026 High as Coldcard Hack Fallout Spreads
Bitcoin logged 2.27 million new wallets and 751,000 active wallets this week, its strongest onchain activity in months, as holders raced to move funds off Coldcard hardware wallets following a…
Intesa Sanpaolo Cuts BTC ETF Stake by 94%, Triples Staked ETH Position
In its Q2 2026 Form 13F filing, Italian banking giant Intesa Sanpaolo revealed a 94% reduction in its flagship spot bitcoin ETF while tripling its position in Blackrock’s iShares Staked…
BIP-110 Supporters Prepare PoW Switch If Miners Refuse Soft Fork Plan
Bitcoin developer Chris Guida has dusted off code that could swap the mining algorithm on a breakaway BIP-110 chain if supporters fail to overcome miners’ resistance. With the activation height…
Bitcoin Red Team Finds 4,962 Flaws After Coldcard Hack
A volunteer security group called the Bitcoin Red Team uncovered 4,962 vulnerabilities, 85 of them critical, across 390 open-source Bitcoin projects over a 27-hour stretch after the Coldcard hack. A…