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El Salvador drew $138 million from its $1.4 billion IMF loan after the Fund waived missed Bitcoin targets and kept state purchases barred. From here the reserve grows only through documented donations, so its dollar value now depends mostly on the Bitcoin price.
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BIS data on 130 economies show stablecoin flows rise with currency stress, as dollar deposits do, while appearing less affected by capital controls. Turkey's roughly $38 billion of lira swapped into stablecoins in a year shows how large that harder-to-block channel already is.
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Illinois has published draft rules for its 0.2% tax on the value of crypto transactions, owed from Jan. 1, 2027 whether a trade gains or loses. The carve-outs make a fee paid to a broker or protocol the trigger for much of the tax, so active traders on venues that charge fees would pay most of it.
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HIFI, Atum and MeshWallet raised $60.5 million for stablecoin payments in the week to Sep. 25, most of crypto's disclosed private funding. The week's one direct bet on a token price came from Forward Industries selling $25 million of stock to buy more Solana.
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Crypto tax firms say the first 1099-DA forms left out basis and trades, reporting one client's $300,000-plus of stablecoin trades as under $100,000. Holders who moved coins between platforms now pay to rebuild that basis before they file.
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SlowMist says its evidence for the iPhone Safari attack on crypto wallet keys covers iOS 18.4 to 18.6.2 and that it has confirmed no theft victim. The firm calls this week's iOS 13 to 26.5 warnings preliminary and still tells iPhone users to install security updates.
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Cryptobriefing traces every dollar of crypto's $740 billion gain since late August to the Treasury's expanded bond buybacks. Cointelegraph, reporting the same prices on the same day, does not mention it. Perpetual futures leverage is near $160 billion in both accounts.
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The company says nearly $5 billion of roughly $5,500 Ether perpetual trades came from programs that pay market makers to post resting orders, and its evidence is that the maker lost money to takers who kept winning.
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Bitcoin gained about 3% to $79,000 and took back its 50-week average at $77,430 after Trump said Iran wants a deal. Crude dipped but held above $100, and CME's FedWatch tool puts Wednesday's quarter-point hike at 92.7%.
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LONG's own figures put more than $425 million of stock-paired volume against almost $12 million of locked liquidity. Angelo Aspris blames thin reserves for a tokenized HIMS price that came apart from the real one.
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The August print matched expectations, the 30-year touched its highest since June 2004 before settling at 5.309%, and QCP Capital says the competing risk-free rate is the worst mix Bitcoin can face.
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Traders are waiting on Thursday's PPI and Friday's CPI, but the order book already brackets spot at 78,800 and 80,500, and with a quarter-point hike 58.4% priced there is less left for the Sept. 16 meeting to move.
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US spot bitcoin ETFs booked $986.9m in the week to Friday and $3.8bn across three weeks, but $730.9m of that came on Thursday alone, and the three-week run finished decelerating rather than building.
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The June restraining order metered noncompliance at $120,000 a day; Judge Aquilina's September 1 replacement charges up to $500,000, and it now travels down the clearing chain to the brokers routing the orders.
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CME's September odds moved by 18.6 points on a Jackson Hole speech that deliberately gave no guidance, which makes the hike a price rather than a forecast, and prices assembled that fast can come apart on Friday's payrolls.
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A stakeholder vote has shortened Solana's issuance curve by years. The same week, Bitcoin researchers filed a post-quantum signature proposal whose cost is measured in block space. Both are trade-offs somebody has to price.
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Blockstream's SHRINCS is the first post-quantum signature scheme written to Bitcoin's block economics, and Jonas Nick says up front it is not optimal. The argument now is about price.
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The bank sees $125,000 reclaimed by late 2026 and a 2029 peak near $300,000. Its own multiple compresses along the way, which puts the weight on miner costs, and it cut Strategy's target to $350.
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A 2021 survey found 54% of owners could not say what return to expect. A 2025 experiment lifted desired allocations by half again by showing households a single trailing return.
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Ten lawmakers want the FIU to file its own criminal complaints against unregistered crypto operators. Police had dropped 23 of 25 referrals, mostly because the targets sat overseas.
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Invest · August 19, 2026 · 1 publisher