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Bitcoin registered an intraday low of $82,775.94 on Sept. 29 before rebounding above $83,000, close to a price that could change the estimated profitability of the average Bitcoin ETF holder when Wednesday’s US inflation data arrive.A decline of about 2.2% from mid-$83,000 would reach $81,722, a target that Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart estimated on Sept. 21 as the average ETF holder’s cost basis, saying the recent rally had put that holder back in profit.Individual investors have different purchase prices, and a move through $81,722 would make their trading decisions worth watching. A Sept. 9 Glassnode report placed a differently…

ASD’s Australian Cyber Security Centre co-signed a 18 September advisory, led by Japan’s National Police Agency, on the North Korean group WaterPlum. The agencies say WaterPlum infected at least 30,000 devices in more than 100 countries between December 2025 and July 2026. The group took funds or credentials from over 7,000 crypto wallets and moved US$10.71 million (AU$15.3 million) to North Korea, the advisory states. Australia’s cyber agency and its Japanese, US and German counterparts warned that North Korean hackers posing as recruiters have stolen US$10.71 million (AU$15.3 million) in crypto. Japan’s National Police Agency led the joint advisory, which…

Peter Brandt believes Bitcoin may already have entered a new bull market cycle, earlier than he previously expected. He sees Bitcoin potentially reaching between US$300K and US$600K by the end of 2029. Brandt remains sceptical of XRP’s investment case, while other traders argue XRP’s chart looks bullish, with a break above US$1.55 potentially opening a path towards US$2. Trading legend Peter Brandt thinks the market has entered a new phase. While he previously thought 4 October would mark the beginning of the bull market, he told Cointelegraph in a recent interview that the market may already be in one.   There’s…

Aave DAO would own the contracts for a proposed Ethereum lending market, but Sentora would make the day-to-day decisions that shape its credit risk.In a governance proposal posted Sept. 28, the DeFi risk manager asks to operate an isolated Aave V4 Hub and its lending Spokes through revocable roles. The split puts an immediate risk response in Sentora’s hands and leaves the DAO with ownership, a review path for new markets and the power to withdraw those roles.Sentora would choose its collateral, interest-rate curves, liquidation settings, and oracles. Aave’s existing risk service providers would have no assignment to monitor the…

Bitcoin miner Hut 8 announced on Sept. 28 that it had closed a four-year, $1 billion senior secured credit line.The facility gives the parent company room to borrow during site development and to back construction obligations with letters of credit. Its securities filing says no amounts were outstanding when the agreement closed on Sept. 24.Hut 8 says letters of credit can support interconnection deposits and obligations to utilities and equipment vendors, reducing the cash it needs to post as collateral. The $1 billion letter-of-credit sublimit is contained within the overall commitment.In effect, the line offers two ways to use a…

US job openings cooled modestly in August, but September households grew more worried about inflation and interest rates. That split left Bitcoin investors with only part of the case for easier financial conditions after Sept. 29 releases.Bitcoin registered an intraday low of $82,775.94 on Tuesday, and a reclaim of the $84,000 support level depends more on the path of yields and new demand than on a single vacancies report.The labor and consumer surveys describe different pressures, and neither establishes the cause of Bitcoin’s price.Job openings ease as rate worries riseAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, August job openings were…

The Federal Reserve’s stablecoin proposal would put a general two-business-day limit on redemption by issuers it supervises.For a customer holding stablecoins at an exchange, the first step is getting that venue to release or convert the balance. In a July 28 snapshot, researchers located $76 billion of stablecoins at centralized exchanges, where a customer may have to deal with the venue before reaching an issuer.Researchers at the Andersen Institute for Finance and Economics located that amount across 12 reserve-backed dollar stablecoins. They call the exchange figure a lower bound because some exchange wallets cannot be identified.Where the proposed clock startsThe…

El Salvador is turning to stablecoins for remittances, further separating everyday payments from the country’s pioneering Bitcoin experiment.Sivar, a new national community and payments app developed by Modveon, will use Coinbase infrastructure to settle transfers in stablecoins on Base, according to a Sept. 29 announcement. Users in the US can fund transfers with debit cards, while recipients in El Salvador receive the value through wallets embedded in the app.The rollout marks an evolution for a country that made Bitcoin legal tender in 2021 partly on the promise that the cryptocurrency could make cross-border payments cheaper. Five years later, El Salvador…

Tether says it helped freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT during 2026, while Democratic investigators on a Senate subcommittee allege that delays in blacklisting some identified wallets let tens of millions of dollars keep moving.A preliminary report released Sept. 28 by Democratic minority staff of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations analyzed 846 crypto wallets that US or Israeli authorities had sanctioned or targeted for seizure over their associations with Iran and regional groups. The report said 84% transacted exclusively or nearly exclusively in USDT.Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat and ranking member of the subcommittee, referred the findings…

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is scrutinizing a crypto-linked ETF tax strategy as Washington intensifies its campaign against structures designed to avoid taxable gains.The Treasury Department and IRS identified digital assets as one area where fund managers may be stretching tax provisions beyond their intended purpose, opening the door to additional rules or enforcement.On X, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the agencies were “serious about cracking down on transactions designed to dodge taxes or exploit our federal tax code,” casting the notice as part of a broader push against tax-motivated investment strategies.The move puts a fresh tax question over a…