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Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for US$104.73 million between 27 July and 2 August, at an average US$63,957 a coin. The company’s average purchase price stands at US$75,419, putting the sale about 15% below what it paid. Michael Saylor, Strategy’s executive chairman, said on X that he has never sold his own Bitcoin, a holding no company filing covers. Michael Saylor said he has never sold any of his own Bitcoin on the same day Strategy disclosed selling 1,638 BTC for US$104.73 million (AU$149.8 million), at an average price roughly 15% below what the company paid for its coins. “When I…

Block’s Bitcoin Engineering and Security team and independent Bitcoin Core developers have traced the recent batch of Coinkite Coldcard wallet losses to a specific firmware defect that exposed a hidden weakness in Bitcoin self-custody before any user touched a seed phrase.The bug diverted the device’s random-number generation from its STM32 hardware source to MicroPython’s deterministic Yasmarang fallback.Mk2 and Mk3 devices running firmware 4.0.1 through 4.1.9 produced seeds whose cryptographic randomness collapsed into a small, searchable set.Mk4, Q, and Mk5 models were less severely affected, producing seeds with about 72 bits of entropy, still well under the 128 bits specified by…

Ripple announced strategic investments in London firms ZILO and Licuido on Monday, without disclosing the amount paid or the size of either stake. Licuido supplied the tokenisation technology behind Aviva Investors’ tokenised share class, which went live on the XRP Ledger on 29 July. ZILO, founded in 2020, has raised US$59.9 million across two funding rounds and counts State Street among its live clients. Ripple has taken equity stakes in two British financial technology firms, ZILO and Licuido, to put regulated fund record-keeping and collateral trading directly onto the XRP Ledger. Neither the amount paid nor the size of either…

Bitcoin and jobs data are on a collision course this week, with the price pinned between $62,200 and $65,000 after the first economic release worked against the bulls.The ISM Manufacturing PMI printed 55.6 on Aug. 3, beating the 54.0 consensus and rising from June’s 53.3 to its highest reading since May 2022. New orders climbed to 56.7, and employment entered expansion for the first time in 33 months at 52.8.Prices paid held at 71.1, a level that keeps the inflation case alive even as growth accelerates.Bitcoin traded near $63,755 when the report landed, inside a session range of $62,227 to…

Caleb & Brown has expanded into the UK, targeting affluent investors with personalised cryptocurrency brokerage services. Swyftx sees strong growth potential as UK digital asset adoption trails Australia, the US and parts of Asia. The brokerage aims to fill a gap in private client crypto services while building on its established wealth management model. Australian digital asset brokerage Caleb & Brown has entered the UK market, bringing its private client cryptocurrency brokerage service to wealthy investors as it expands beyond its established operations in Australia and the United States. The move follows the company’s 2025 acquisition by Swyftx in a…

Strategy’s latest Bitcoin sale lifted its 2026 disposals to 5,258 BTC, the largest amount it has sold in any year since adopting the asset in 2020, as the company redirects capital toward supporting its preferred securities.The company sold 1,638 BTC for $104.7 million between July 27 and Aug. 2 and issued about 3.01 million MSTR common shares for another $290.6 million, according to an Aug. 3 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.None of the nearly $395 million raised went toward new Bitcoin purchases. Instead, Strategy used the capital to fund preferred dividends, repurchase STRC shares and complete the…

Bitcoin miner Sphere 3D has up to $10.3 million of amended at-the-market stock-sale capacity for working capital, while its standing policy also permits mined Bitcoin sales for working capital or growth.At the assumed $2.35 share price in its July 31 prospectus supplement, full use of the facility would add 4,382,978 common shares and expand the company’s basic share count by 50.9%.That sale would lift basic shares outstanding from 8,619,150 to 13,002,128. The amended facility replaced Sphere 3D’s prior ATM prospectus. It is authorization, not a completed issuance: A.G.P. and Maxim are not required to sell a minimum amount, and the…

EU sanctions rules will bar direct and indirect transactions with HTX from Aug. 23 when those dealings fall within the bloc’s jurisdiction. For some individuals still needing to exit the exchange, an ordinary withdrawal will then require a narrow authorization from a national authority.Council Regulation (EU) 2026/1848 lists “HTX (HUOBI GLOBAL SA)” in Annex XLV and sets Aug. 23, 2026, as the date the restriction applies. Article 5ad prohibits transactions with listed entities. Later amendments extend that prohibition to entities acting on behalf of or at the direction of a listed entity, as well as qualifying crypto-asset or payment service…

Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest banking group, cut the underlying-share amount of its reported iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF call position by 99.3% in the second quarter, while a 500,000-share-equivalent held put row appeared and its staked Ethereum ETF balance roughly tripled.The changes mark a reset in the Italian bank’s disclosed quarter-end crypto ETF positions. They do not, by themselves, show that Intesa adopted a net bearish Bitcoin strategy.The bank’s July 31 Form 13F captures positions held on June 30. Its May 15 filing provides the March 31 comparison point, making the figures quarter-end snapshots rather than a record of trades made…

Armada Acquisition Corp. II, the SPAC seeking to take XRP treasury operator Evernorth Holdings public, has borrowed $135,000 from Arrington XRP Capital Fund. Arrington is both Armada’s sponsor and the subscriber behind a major XRP commitment to the transaction. Related ReadingNew US company completes $1 billion XRP purchase as Ripple celebrates price surgeInstitutional momentum builds as Evernorth and XRPR ETF showcase growing demand for compliant XRP investment products. Oct 27, 2025 · Oluwapelumi Adejumo The unsecured note was signed July 27 and drawn July 31. Its proceeds may be used for ordinary administrative expenses, and Armada can seek more funding…