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View More NewsBitcoin starts the week with new August highs as traders weigh the impact of crunch US inflation data.Key points:US CPI and PPI data comes amid fluctuating bets on Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes in 2026.The Japanese yen remains at the forefront as it creeps back toward the key 160 level against the US dollar.Bitcoin (BTC) traders see the area around $65,800 as crucial for bulls after BTC/USD hits new month-to-date highs.Larger Bitcoin wallets contrast with retail holders after a conspicuous two-month accumulation spree.Baskets of onchain indicators still see the bear market continuing in the second half of the year. CPI, PPI data…
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In 1940, one of the great literary showdowns of the last century took place between one of Britain’s great men of letters and a writer whose name most readers of this essay will never have heard. From one corner of the literary ring strode George Orwell, the ancient-jacketed patron saint of plain speaking, cigarette adroop. Facing him was another assiduous smoker—a pipe man, in this case—and writer of popular children’s stories. This mismatched fight did not go as expected.The morbidly private Charles Hamilton was the undisputed world champion of that peculiarly British genre, the English school story, and over the…
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Demand for US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) rebounded sharply this week, signaling renewed investor appetite after months of uneven flows, even as uncertainty…
Brazil’s central bank will require crypto exchanges to delay some customer transfers to foreign platforms and self-custody wallets for up to 24 hours as…
US Senate Majority Leader John Thune has filed cloture on a motion to take up the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, also known as…
Bitcoin will draw trillions of dollars from institutional investors over the next decade as financial advisers, family offices, pension plans and sovereign wealth funds…
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Key takeaways:$2 billion in spot Bitcoin ETF outflows spark downside fears, but this metric is typically backward-looking.A sustained discount on stablecoins in China signals…