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Strategy doubled the size of its preferred-stock repurchase program to $2 billion Tuesday as Michael Saylor’s Sept. 8 recovery benchmark arrived with STRC still short of its $100 stated value.The board’s decision extends a campaign that was approaching the limits of its original $1 billion authorization after seven weeks of increasingly large purchases.Data from STRC.live showed that STRC entered Tuesday around $97 to $98, leaving the variable-rate preferred roughly 2% below the level Strategy has spent much of the summer trying to restore.Sept. 8 had emerged as an informal milestone after Saylor compared STRC’s latest recovery with the roughly 70…

Metaplanet’s Bitcoin expansion has exposed an executive compensation windfall that shareholders want the company to unwind.The dispute centers on an executive options pool that expanded as the Tokyo-listed company repeatedly issued equity to finance its Bitcoin purchases.Shareholders are now demanding the cancellation of roughly 273 million potential shares added to management’s compensation package during that expansion.Bitcoin fundraising swelled the executive pay poolThe controversy centers on Metaplanet’s Series 10 stock acquisition rights. Shareholders approved the plan in early 2023, before the company’s pivot to digital assets, and it initially covered 46 million shares.The plan also contained an adjustment mechanism designed to…

A Sept. 2, 2026 analysis by New York Fed researchers shows how a few large reserve portfolios can lower the global dollar share without a broad retreat from dollars. For investors assessing future sovereign demand for Bitcoin, the distinction is between a changing average and an investment decision.Linda S. Goldberg, Oliver Hannaoui and Sneha Parthasarathy report that the dollar share of global official foreign-exchange reserves fell from 64% at year-end 2015 to 56% at year-end 2025, using IMF COFER data.Their country-level evidence points to concentrated decisions and changes in reserve sizes.Countries can change the currency mix of their portfolios, the…

Strategy’s $250 Bitcoin-themed Air Jordans have sold out, extending Michael Saylor’s treasury brand from Wall Street into consumer culture.The shoes, launched Sept. 4 through Strategy’s online store, were sold out by Sept. 8, with all nine advertised sizes listed as unavailable. The company did not disclose how many pairs it offered or when inventory ran out.The release pushes Strategy’s Bitcoin identity beyond its balance sheet and securities business into merchandise aimed directly at consumers.The Saylor-led company holds 845,050 BTC, equivalent to about 4.02% of Bitcoin’s fixed 21 million supply, making its association with the asset central to both its financial…

Bitcoin’s derivatives market is turning more bullish even as spot traders remain reluctant to chase another move above $80,000.Glassnode’s latest Market Pulse showed demand shifting toward call options while US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows accelerated. Yet aggressive selling still outweighed buying on centralized exchanges, leaving the market without the broad participation that would make another breakout more convincing.Data from CryptoSlate showed Bitcoin traded around $78,800 on Tuesday after failing to sustain its latest move above $80,000. This puts the divergence between speculative positioning and actual spot demand back in focus.Options traders start paying for upsideThe clearest change came in Bitcoin’s…

Bitcoin’s next macro catalyst may weaken the dollar without delivering the easier money bulls need.The European Central Bank’s Sept. 10 policy decision could strengthen the euro and push the dollar index lower, potentially offering relief to Bitcoin after its latest slide below $80,000. But a currency-driven drop in DXY would provide limited evidence that the financing conditions restraining risk assets have actually improved.Data from CryptoSlate showed that Bitcoin was trading around $78,800, down roughly 1% over 24 hours, after stronger US labor data revived expectations that interest rates could remain elevated.That leaves Thursday’s ECB decision as the next major macro…

An AI-payment hub on the XRP Ledger has recorded almost 4.5 million transactions while settling only a few thousand XRP.Near press time, the XRPL AI Hub, a dashboard run by t54 labs, showed 4,491,820 all-time transactions alongside cumulative settlements of 5,836.71 XRP and 4,125.29 RLUSD, Ripple’s dollar stablecoin. The figures cover the hub’s tracked activity, not all payments on the ledger.For XRP holders, the distinction is between a service processing frequent payments and one generating substantial demand to buy and hold the token. The hub’s activity establishes the former; its counters alone cannot establish the latter.XRP traded around $1.40 on…

Cardano’s Leios upgrade has demonstrated sixfold throughput gains, but staking economics still depend on paying users.The scaling protocol peaked at 26.8 transaction kilobytes per second during its first public testnet phase, compared with a 4.51 TxkB/s ceiling for Cardano’s existing Ouroboros Praos system, according to the network developer Input Output.In the stable final days of the 41-day test, Leios carried 54% of traffic reaching the chain and processed 18 times the transaction count seen on Cardano mainnet over the comparable period. The traffic, however, was artificially generated to stress the system rather than produced by users paying to transact.That distinction…

Bitcoin trades below $80,000 on Sept. 8 as oil approached $100 a barrel following a fresh disruption to Saudi energy facilities. The new energy shock could complicate the inflation outlook even if Friday’s US consumer-price report brings encouraging news.Bitcoin’s price stood near $78,300 at press time, down 1.52% over 24 hours, although it remained up 20% over the past 30 days. Its monthly gains therefore remained intact as the latest energy disruption added uncertainty.Reuters reported that operations at some Saudi energy facilities halted Tuesday following attacks by Yemen’s Houthi movement, citing Saudi authorities. Brent crude futures touched $99.46 a barrel…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino’s vision of financial autonomy for people and machines puts a practical decision in developers’ hands: how much spending authority should an AI agent receive when a wallet’s owner unlocks it?Tether’s Sept. 3 explanation of WDK CLI, the local command-line wallet built with its Wallet Development Kit, gives a concrete answer for that product. The human opens a timed session. On macOS and Linux, another process running as the wallet owner can request transactions if it can reach the unlocked wallet’s local endpoint. The CLI daemon does not require fresh approval of each payment.That distinction matters for…