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2024-05-25 10:15:20 Spot bitcoin ETFs record net inflows for nine straight days

U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded a ninth consecutive day of net inflows, drawing in $107.91 million on Thursday. This is the longest streak of positive flows seen in spot bitcoin ETFs since mid-March, when they logged 10 straight days of inflows. BlackRock’s IBIT led the inflows with $89 million, followed by Fidelity’s FBTC that drew in $19 million. VanEck’s spot bitcoin fund also reported net inflows of $10 million, according to data from SoSoValue.

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2024-05-24 07:59:58 U.S. Bitcoin ETF Holdings Hit New High of More Than 850K Tokens

U.S.-listed spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds now hold a record 850,707 BTC in custody, beating a previous high above 845,000 from early April. Among those funds, Grayscale’s GBTC remains the biggest holder of bitcoin with 289,300 tokens worth more than $20 billion, followed closely by BlackRock’s IBIT at 283,200 and $19.6 billion, according to data tracked by HODL15Capital.

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2024-05-23 20:54:57 Bitcoin hash rate and difficulty rise following price increase on back of Ethereum ETF speculation

Bitcoin mining difficulty rose 1.5% to 84.4 trillion on Thursday after the network’s seven-day moving average hash rate moved back above 600 EH/s. The last Bitcoin difficulty adjustment on May 9 saw the metric fall 5.9%, the largest drop since the bear market lows of December 2022. The impact of reduced miner subsidy rewards following Bitcoin’s fourth halving event on April 20 began to take hold after an initial boost in transaction fee rewards stemming from the hype surrounding Runes subsided.

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2024-05-23 08:29:58 HAPPY BITCOIN PIZZA DAY

Laszlo made the first real-world transaction on May 22, 2010 using Bitcoin to purchase two Papa John's pizzas for 10,000 $BTC

Those 10,000 bitcoins are worth $701 million today

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2024-05-22 20:19:59 Bitcoin Policy Institute Launches the Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund to Help Defend Samourai Wallet Founders

The Bitcoin Policy Institute, a non-profit organization supporting bitcoin initiatives, has launched the Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund, a project seeking to protect bitcoin’s decentralized nature from regulatory overreach. The fund’s first objective is to aid in the defense of the founders of Samourai Wallet given the relevance of the case for the industry.

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2024-05-22 09:54:59 Standard Chartered says bitcoin expected to hit fresh all-time high by weekend

An approval of a spot ether exchange-traded fund (ETF) this week would further legitimize the cryptocurrency sector and therefore be positive for bitcoin as well, an analyst said. "I would expect a fresh all-time high in bitcoin by the weekend, through the 14 March $73,798 level," Standard Chartered Bank Head of FX Research and Digital Assets Research Geoff Kendrick said in an email sent to The Block.

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2024-05-21 09:15:16 BTC surges 6% to touch $70k as Ethereum ETF rumors cause market frenzy

Bitcoin (BTC) surged past the $70,000 mark on May 21, marking a significant milestone driven by a flood of investment into spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and a broader market rally. Ethereum (ETH) arguably led the rally over the past couple of hours — experiencing a staggering 14.5% rise within an hour on Monday amid speculation that the US SEC might approve spot Ethereum ETFs.

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2024-05-20 18:35:28 U.S. Bitcoin ETFs notch $948.3 million in accumulation over five days

Farside data shows that Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) accumulated an impressive $948.3 million over five consecutive trading days. This remarkable streak marks the first time such a feat has been achieved from March 11 to March 15. Farside data shows that on May 17 alone, the BTC ETFs witnessed a staggering $221.5 million in net inflows, with eight out of the 11 ETFs recording positive inflows.

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2024-05-19 19:00:35 Blackrock Bitcoin ETF Attracts 414 Institutional Holders — Analyst Says IBIT 'Blows Away Record'

Blackrock’s spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), the Ishares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), has amassed 414 insitutional holders in less than three months, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A senior Bloomberg analyst described this achievement as “mind-boggling” and “highly rare” for new ETFs. Other recently launched ETFs have significantly fewer institutional holders.

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2024-05-18 19:15:35 Steven Cohen's Point72 Also an Owner of Bitcoin Via Spot ETFs

Point72, the $34 billion hedge fund of billionaire and owner of the New York Mets, Steven Cohen, held $77.5 million of the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) as of the close of the first quarter, according to a filing. Out of the top 25 hedge funds in the U.S., 13 of them bought into the ETFs in the first quarter, according to data compiled by bitcoin brokerage firm River. Among them, in addition to the names mentioned earlier, were Fortress Investment Group and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors.

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