Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buys and Repurchases $205M of STRC Preferred Stock
Strategy held 848,517 BTC unchanged in the week to October 25 while repurchasing $204.9 million of STRC preferred stock.
Tether says 15 mining companies, ASIC makers and pools will build MDK Workers, with a stable 1.0 release targeted by the end of 2026.
The Federal Reserve held its target range at 3.75% to 4% on Oct. 28 on a 10-2 vote. Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack dissented, favoring an immediate quarter-point hike.
October 29, 2026, 8:30 amBitcoin ETFs are experiencing an interesting change in ownership. Some of Wall Street’s biggest trading firms have been reducing their positions, while sovereign wealth funds and wealth managers are quietly increasing theirs. At first glance, declining institutional holdings might suggest that investors are losing interest in Bitcoin.
October 29, 2026, 8:17 amStrategy held 848,517 BTC unchanged in the week to October 25 while repurchasing $204.9 million of STRC preferred stock.
A market at an inflection point could shape inflation trends and the prices of risk assets, from bitcoin to tech stocks.
Bitcoin ETFs drew $424 million over three days, lifting October net inflows to $111 million despite a hawkish Federal Reserve decision and weaker crypto sentiment.
Bitcoin Core developers have released security updates after an AI-powered code scan uncovered three vulnerabilities, including one that could allow attackers to crash Bitcoin nodes running on Windows and macOS. The findings were made public on October 28, after developers verified the issues and distributed fixes across supported software versions.
Strive bought 6,182 bitcoin for about $511.4 million, lifting its treasury to 43,000 BTC after a preferred-stock financing push.
The contrasting flows in Bitcoin and Ether ETFs highlight shifting investor preferences, impacting market dynamics and fund strategies.
Three flaws a language-model scan dug up are the first disclosed under Core’s new rules for bugs that are easy to find.
Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and XRP fell on October 29 as an initial crypto rebound after the Federal Reserve’s rate decision faded into renewed selling.
Bitwise projects Bitcoin (BTC) will hit $1.6 million by 2036, about 19 times its $83,557 starting price. Most of that value depends on Bitcoin winning a quarter of the store-of-value market it shares with gold. The store-of-value slot supplies about $27.5 trillion of the model’s $33.6 trillion total, roughly 82% of Bitcoin’s projected 2036 value.