Bitcoin news

20 Jul, 2026
Crypto-linked stocks, including Coinbase, Circle, Strategy and Bitmine, edged higher while investors awaited updates on the CLARITY Act and corporate crypto treasury announcements.
Hut 8, a crypto-mining turned AI data center company, said on Monday it has signed a second 15-year ‌lease worth $9.8 billion with an existing investment-grade customer, fully commercializing its ‌1-gigawatt Beacon Point campus in Texas. Like several former bitcoin miners, Hut 8 has pivoted toward AI infrastructure, seeking to leverage power assets and data center expertise developed during the cryptocurrency boom to serve AI customers. Demand for compute infrastructure has ‌accelerated since the launch of ⁠generative AI services, prompting technology companies to commit hundreds of billions of dollars toward data centers packed with advanced ⁠chips from Nvidia and others.
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
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.
Investing.com -- A potential shift by Japan’s public pension funds from foreign bonds into domestic assets would support Japanese government bonds and strengthen the yen, with smaller spillovers across US and European debt markets, according to BofA Securities.
Investing.com -- Bitcoin recovered toward $65,000 on Saturday after sliding alongside semiconductor and technology stocks, as a new Chinese artificial intelligence model and fading expectations for US crypto legislation pressured risk appetite.
17 Jul, 2026
T. Rowe Price spent 89 years avoiding anything that looks like a gamble, then built a crypto fund where five managers hand-pick the coins instead of following any index. Their opening bets reveal a sharp disagreement with what the broader market currently says these assets are worth.
Robinhood and Webull are selling off hard Friday while the broader market barely flinches, and the reason behind their outsized drop reveals exactly how exposed retail brokerages remain to forces most investors overlook.
Wall Street analysts are nearly unanimous on MicroStrategy, yet the stock sits near a 52-week low while carrying billions in debt and a balance sheet dominated by a single volatile asset. Here is what the math actually says about where this trade goes from here.
Strategy's Reddit fanbase turned from true believers into brutal critics in a matter of weeks, and the chain of events that triggered the collapse reveals just how fragile the leveraged bitcoin treasury model always was.
A Politico report suggested the CLARITY Act may struggle to win enough Democratic support in the Senate.
Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS), an artificial intelligence ("AI") data center company anchored by Bitcoin ("Hyperscale Data" or the "Company"), today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Omnipresent Robotics, LLC ("Omnipresent Robotics" or "OPR"), has begun installing OPR-R2 robots at the Company's Michigan AI data center (the "Facility").The first OPR-R2 unit was assembled at the Facility on July 16, 2026, marking the beginning of the Company's large-scale visual data collec
16 Jul, 2026
Ripple keeps stacking licenses, bank deals, and regulatory wins, yet the XRP price barely moves. Here is what it would actually take to carry XRP from $1.10 into territory no cryptocurrency except Bitcoin has ever reached.
Visa said its new stablecoin platform will allow banks, fintechs, and crypto firms to issue, store, transfer, and redeem stablecoins through a managed infrastructure.
Bitcoin's safe-haven edge grows as gold and silver shed $700 billion. Dollar strength and Fed bets crush metals.
Strategy's Bitcoin treasury strategy has shifted from relentless accumulation to protecting its balance sheet. As the model evolves, direct Bitcoin ownership or spot ETFs remain the best way to gain crypto exposure.