Bitcoin stayed near $78,000 after U.S. forces struck Iranian launchers near Hormuz. Oil climbed above $90, yet BTC traders showed no matching rush to sell.
Michael Saylor has revived Strategy’s Bitcoin tracker after a run of sales, hinting that the company may be ready to add to its reserve again.
Bitcoin may have completed its cycle correction, but treasury-company shares face a separate repair job because their premiums depend on financing as well as BTC.
Bitcoin’s latest push toward $80,000 is meeting two on-chain warnings, but neither rising Binance reserves nor a higher STH-SOPR proves that a sell-off has begun.
Bitcoin slipped below $79,000 while Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivered an inflation-focused speech, as gold declined and major US stock indexes moved only slightly.
Bitcoin is entering a regime transition near $79,000, where muted miner distribution and steady ETF inflows indicate a shift from market repair toward institutional price discovery.
Bitcoin’s quantum-security work took two visible steps on August 26. StarkWare published a mined Bitcoin transaction built with its Quantum-Safe Bitcoin method, known as QSB. A team including Blockstream researcher Jonas Nick released a detailed SHRINCS specification, giving developers a hash-based signature scheme to examine.
Bitcoin remained near $79,000 as most major altcoins retreated. Several of the week’s strongest performers recorded the largest daily losses and kept much of their recent rise.
Thailand has moved closer to locally listed Bitcoin and Ether ETFs under draft rules that would keep fund management, trading and most custody activity within its domestic market.
Bitcoin briefly traded above $81,000 before easing toward $80,700. The rally has restored short-term momentum, but BTC is now pressing into a resistance area that extends to roughly $84,000.
eCash block production has begun, but Bitcoin holders haven't received permanent ECX. The August 23 launch generated temporary test coins ahead of the planned Mainnet split in late October.
Bitcoin Core developers are currently debating whether to keep support for CJDNS, an encrypted peer-to-peer routing protocol, after automated network checks revealed a surprisingly small population of active nodes.


