Bitcoin news

20 Jul, 2026
"The reduced pace of buys reflects that Bitmine repurchased 5.5 million common shares," Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said in a statement.
XRP sat frozen near $1.08 while Bitcoin climbed and Solana led the market higher, and the reason it keeps getting left behind points to a single make-or-break moment working its way through the U.S. Senate right now.
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) opened at $64,680.23 on Monday, July 20, 2026, 0.2% lower than Sunday's opening price. Ethereum (ETH-USD) opened at $1,871.21 on Monday, July 20, 2026, up 0.5% from Sunday's opening price.
If you’re in it for the long-term, you can acquire more tokens at a lower average cost during a dip, while short-term trades are riskier.
IREN and Hut 8 rocketed higher Monday as both companies said more customers were spending on their cloud-computing infrastructure. IREN shares rose 16% in morning trading after the company said it had agreed to new multiyear cloud contracts with artificial-intelligence developers, representing $2.8 billion in total contract value. The company raised its target for annualized run-rate revenue from AI cloud services at the end of the year to more than $4 billion from $3.7 billion previously.
A surprise lease announcement just sent one battered energy infrastructure stock soaring 10% while dragging its crypto mining peers along for the ride, even as Bitcoin itself slipped lower.
IREN lifts cloud revenue forecast, as it upgrades contracts with AI leaders. Hut 8 lands a new $9.8 billion deal, with room to grow.
Hut 8 plans to bring a 352 MW Nvidia-powered AI data hall online by 2028, with the fully built-out campus expected to generate $1.31 billion in annual net operating revenue.
The company has now gone four consecutive weeks without increasing its Bitcoin position, including two weeks of sales followed by two weeks without purchases.
Prediction markets are quietly pricing a cascade of risks into MicroStrategy's bitcoin-heavy balance sheet, and the odds on margin calls, index removal, and the one-million BTC milestone tell a very different story than Wall Street analysts are projecting.
Mallers argued speculative capital chasing AI and prediction markets was never sustainable, Bitcoin demand to begin with.
Crypto-linked stocks, including Coinbase, Circle, Strategy and Bitmine, edged higher while investors awaited updates on the CLARITY Act and corporate crypto treasury announcements.
Martin Pelletier: Today's market environment is driven less by company specific fundamentals and more by broad macroeconomic themes
Sterling rose as Andy Burnham was set to become the U.K.'s prime minister Monday. It completes a surprisingly smooth transition of power from Keir Starmer who announced his resignation as prime minister last month, Commerzbank's Thu Lan Nguyen said in a note. The market appears to be betting that the period of political turmoil and recurring scandals in recent years is coming to an end, she said.
Bitcoin and gold were the worst-performing assets in 2026 amid growing macroeconomic volatility and capital rotation into AI names.
19 Jul, 2026
Ex-Goldman credit veteran Khing Oei values Strategy's STRC at $96 versus $85, arguing the 14% yield uses flawed math.
XRP ETFs launched to a frenzy that pulled in nearly a billion dollars before the calendar turned, but the numbers today tell a very different story, and the reasons behind the shift are not what most investors assume.
XRP just secured a record no other altcoin can claim: staying inside crypto's top 10 by market cap every year since 2014.
Investing.com -- Bitcoin on Sunday was muted, down slightly but holding above $64,000 after rebounding from below $58,000 earlier in July, while large options positions pointed to a potential move toward $72,000 around the Federal Reserve’s upcoming interest-rate decision, CoinDesk reported.
18 Jul, 2026
Adam Back mocks BIP-110 backers and predicts the Bitcoin fork stalls within three weeks of mandatory signaling.