By the end of the first half of the year, the bitcoin holdings of iShares Bitcoin Trust, launched on January 11, 2024, had reached $72.4 billion. It took IBIT only 340 days to achieve this, making the fund the fastest-growing ETF in history.
Analysts have drawn attention to the Long-Term Holder Realized Profit & Loss metric, which makes it possible to assess the stages of Bitcoin’s (BTC) market cycle. This indicator records the volumes of realized profits and losses among long-term holders and has previously helped identify cycle tops and bottoms.
Bitcoin reserves on centralized exchanges (CEX) continue to shrink, reducing selling pressure and supporting relative price stability.
Institutional investors remain surprisingly optimistic about Bitcoin, deploying capital to buy every time the cryptocurrency’s price declines.
The Treasury Secretary described this approach as providing a “budget-neutral expansion” of the cryptocurrency reserve fund and supporting the official policy of Donald Trump’s administration to recognize Bitcoin as part of the nation’s assets alongside gold and oil.
Major cryptocurrencies declined, pushing the total crypto market capitalization below $4 trillion, Bloomberg reports.
Metaplanet Inc (TYO:3350) announced on Monday that it had purchased an additional 775 Bitcoin worth $93 million, bringing the Japanese hotel-operator-turned-crypto-treasury’s total holdings to 18,888 Bitcoin.
Bitcoin reached an all-time high on Thursday, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency was boosted by growing expectations of a September interest rate cut and optimism over increased corporate buying.
The U.S. federal debt has reached a record $37 trillion, reinforcing assumptions that the growing deficit and potential increase in money supply could contribute to Bitcoin’s rise to $132,000 by the end of the year.
According to the analyst, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has outperformed the first in terms of growth rate. Over the past month, Ether has risen by 17%, while Bitcoin gained less than 1%.
Bitcoin fell on Tuesday, erasing weekend gains, as risk appetite deteriorated ahead of key US inflation data, largely offsetting optimism over potentially more favorable regulation in the United States.
Bitcoin fell on Tuesday, sharply reversing its weekend gains, as risk appetite eased ahead of key U.S. inflation data — largely offsetting optimism about more favorable regulation in the country.
Metaplanet Inc (TYO:3350) announced on Tuesday that it had purchased an additional 518 bitcoins, bringing the total holdings of the Japanese hotel company—now refocused on cryptocurrency investments—to 118,113 coins.
Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, Truth+, and the fintech brand Truth.Fi, has moved closer to launching its own Bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) by submitting an amended application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 11.
Speaking at the Baltic Honeybadger 2025 conference in Riga, the expert said that even holders of small amounts of cryptocurrency should not feel safe today.
This week, Bitcoin’s price is expected to surpass the all-time high set in July at $123,236.
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