A prominent investor is urging people to shift away from bonds and toward gold and Bitcoin (BTC) to shield against a potential major US debt problem. Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, made the comments in a LinkedIn post published Friday, August 21st, 2026. He linked recent Treasury actions, including Secretary Scott Bessent’s announcement of …
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Coinkite, the maker of the Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallet, released new standard firmware on Aug. 20 that forces users to add physical randomness whenever they generate a seed. Owners who generate a seed after installing the current fixed release can use the hardened process. Owners still relying on a seed produced by affected firmware must …
Grayscale’s proposed Zcash ETF would carry a 2.5% annual fee. Under one dated ownership calculation, a DCG affiliate could receive about 34% of the fund. If effective, the Aug. 21 SEC amendment would rename the existing trust “The Zcash ETF” and list it on NYSE Arca under ZCSH. The registration remains preliminary. The securities cannot …
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Illinois’s 0.2% digital asset tax, scheduled to start Jan. 1, 2027, now faces another industry complaint as brokers prepare for a levy tied to the value of customer assets rather than their gains or service fees. Blockchain Association and the Crypto Council for Innovation said they filed the complaint on Aug. 21 in the Circuit …
Hazync’s developer reports that a 1.7 MB standalone verifier checked a 226,434-byte cryptographic receipt covering the first 1,789 blocks of Bitcoin in 27 milliseconds. The Aug. 15 disclosure limits that result to an early stretch of Bitcoin’s history. A complete genesis-to-tip proof campaign remains unfinished. Hazync is a research prototype that uses RISC Zero’s zero-knowledge …
ZeroStack’s Aug. 21 resale registration puts a shareholder vote between the company and 36.2 million new shares tied to its MemeCore acquisition, a warrant block larger than its current outstanding stock. The company completed the transaction on Aug. 19, acquiring 925,925,926 MemeCore M tokens in exchange for 3.5 million common shares and pre-funded warrants covering …
RocketFuel Blockchain transferred substantially all assets used in its payments business to RPay, whose sole director and CEO, Peter M. Jensen, also serves as a RocketFuel director and executive officer. The related-person deal closed Aug. 13 and was disclosed in an Aug. 21 regulatory filing. RocketFuel said the assets used primarily in payments included intellectual …
The U.S. Senate has put the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on course for a 60-vote procedural test on Sept. 15. The bill is intended to create a broader federal framework for digital asset markets. Under the official floor schedule, cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 is scheduled to ripen at 2:15 …
The Bank Policy Institute, representing the massive U.S. banking lobby, filed a comment letter asking FinCEN to apply customer identification requirements to secondary stabilization markets, extending the provision applied to stablecoin issuers to exchanges with a direct relationship with retail customers. Big Banks Ask For Customer ID Requirements to Be Extended to Secondary Stablecoin Markets …
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Bitcoin holders are lined up to receive a matching balance of a new asset called ecash (ECX) when the project kicks off its three-stage hard-fork rollout with an alpha launch around Bitcoin block height 963648. The launch comes from Layertwo Labs, founded and led by longtime Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc, also known as Truthcoin. The …
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Grayscale says bitcoin’s sharp weekly rally could mark a turning point after a relatively shallow bear market. Historical cycle comparisons and improving institutional demand suggest the market may be forming a more durable bottom. Grayscale Sees Potential Bitcoin Turning Point Bitcoin’s rapid recovery may signal that its latest bear market has reached a turning point, …
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Robert Kiyosaki says expanded U.S. Treasury debt buybacks amount to quantitative easing and renewed his preference for bitcoin, gold, silver, and selected real estate. Treasury describes the operations as liquidity support for longer-dated markets. Kiyosaki Calls Treasury Buybacks Money Printing Renewed concern about the dollar prompted Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki to endorse …
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Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick says record bitcoin short liquidations and renewed ETF demand have increased the market’s upside risk. He now sees a possible year-end run from $79,500 toward bitcoin’s $126,000 record, a 58% climb. Record Short Liquidations Reshape Bitcoin Outlook Bitcoin’s sharp recovery has raised the possibility that Geoffrey Kendrick’s $100,000 year-end forecast may …
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Ethereum (ETH) surged 29.8% higher over the past seven days, smoking bitcoin’s 22.9% gain as returning exchange-traded fund (ETF) buyers, squeezed shorts, and a shrinking pile of readily tradable coins drove ETH to a weekly high of $2,546 on Saturday afternoon. ETH was trading around $2,435 late Saturday at 5 p.m. EDT after cooling from …
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Grayscale sees three conditions aligning for people asking whether now is a good time to buy bitcoin. The crypto asset manager points to continued adoption, a mature bear market, and a supportive macro outlook, while acknowledging that prices could still fall. Grayscale Sees 3 Factors Converging for Bitcoin Buyers Bitcoin may now offer a worthwhile …
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