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Circulating supply: 20,085,571 BTC · Total supply: 20,085,571 · Maximum supply: 21,000,000.
Market data: CoinMarketCap. Daily observations, not live quotes.
THE BRIEFING
15 Sep 2026 · Erin Douglas
Bitcoin attracted $933 million into digital asset investment products during the week covered by CoinShares’ April 27 report, comfortably exceeding flows into other individual crypto assets. Bitcoin accounted for the largest asset-level inflow as total digital asset investment products recorded $1.2 billion…
Read the full story ↗THE DEFI FOOTPRINT
DeFi TVL is distinct from Bitcoin’s price and market capitalization. Observed · 17 Sep 2026, 11:15 UTC.
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THE CHRONOLOGY
A running record of our Bitcoin coverage and tracked project publications. Read the essentials here, then follow a story for the detail. Dates show when something was published, which may differ from when the underlying event happened.
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Nakamoto Inc. reported a GAAP net loss of $238.8 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, even as operating revenue rose sharply to $2.7 million. The results, disclosed on May 13, show how Bitcoin treasury accounting can overwhelm operating progress when…
Marathon Digital Holdings sold roughly 20,880 BTC for $1.5 billion during the first quarter of 2026, using the proceeds to reduce debt and fund a major shift into AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. The move marks a decisive break from Marathon’s pure…
VanEck’s head of digital assets research, Matthew Sigel, said the firm’s baseline forecast puts Bitcoin at $1 million within a five-year horizon. The projection sits inside a broader multi-stage valuation framework that also includes a $180,000 year-end target and a long-run scenario…
CME Group plans to launch cash-settled Bitcoin Volatility futures on June 1, 2026, pending regulatory approval, giving trading desks a direct way to trade Bitcoin volatility without building synthetic exposure through spot and options positions. The contracts will trade under the BVI…
Nine Hood County property owners have sued MARA Holdings Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, alleging that the company’s Bitcoin-mining facility in Granbury created a continual private nuisance. Filed on May 1, 2026, the complaint seeks…
Bitcoin remains locked near the $78,000 to $80,000 resistance zone, repeatedly testing the level without securing a decisive breakout. The setup reflects a fragile balance between strong ETF demand and a market structure still heavily influenced by leveraged derivatives. The bullish trend…
Peter Schiff has renewed his criticism of MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin financing strategy, calling the company’s STRC perpetual preferred shares an “obvious Ponzi scheme” and warning that the structure could become unsustainable if market access weakens. His latest comments intensified debate over MicroStrategy’s reliance…
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan said MicroStrategy’s aggressive Bitcoin buying acted as the “hidden force” behind BTC’s roughly 20% rebound from its February lows. In a memo, Hougan linked the rally to sustained corporate demand as Bitcoin traded in a narrow…
Tether and Canaan have expanded their mining hardware collaboration with a follow-on order for high-density Avalon hash-board modules designed for immersion-cooled, modular mining systems. The agreement builds on a 2025 proof-of-concept with ACME Swisstech and points to a more vertically integrated mining…
Adam Back has reopened one of Bitcoin’s most persistent assumptions: that Satoshi Nakamoto controls roughly 1.1 million BTC and has left those coins untouched for more than a decade. The Blockstream chief executive and early Bitcoin figure challenged the technical basis for…
A software release was published by Bitcoin Core. Open the release notes for the changes, compatibility details and upgrade instructions. This publication does not establish a network activation date.
U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds pulled in $411.5 million in net inflows, a sharp one-day rebound that pushed year-to-date flows back into positive territory at about $245 million and lifted total ETF assets above $96.5 billion. The move matters because regulated Bitcoin…
Exodus has moved decisively beyond wallet storage with the launch of Exodus Pay, a product that turns its self-custodial crypto app into a spending tool for everyday payments. Officially launched in the United States on April 9, 2026 after an earlier phased…
XRP pulled in $120 million in exchange-traded product inflows for the week ending April 7, 2026, surpassing Bitcoin’s roughly $107 million and marking one of the clearest signs of concentrated institutional demand in the digital-asset market that week. The surprise was not…
Bitcoin ripped back above $71,000 after President Donald Trump announced a pause in planned strikes on Iran, giving the market a sudden reason to unwind one of its most crowded bearish trades. By April 7, the price had reached roughly $71,500, and…
A long-dormant Bitcoin address identified as bc1quz sent roughly 300 BTC, valued at about $20.6 million at the time, to Binance after sitting inactive for nearly a year. The transfer stood out not only because of its size, but because it appears…
James Wynn’s Hyperliquid account was reduced to about $900 after a roughly $100 million Bitcoin short was liquidated on April 6, 2026. The collapse came after Bitcoin pushed above $69,000 and turned a highly leveraged bearish position into a near-total wipeout. The…
A software release was published by Bitcoin Core. Open the release notes for the changes, compatibility details and upgrade instructions. This publication does not establish a network activation date.
Moody’s Investors Service took a notable step for the digital-asset credit market on March 31, 2026, when it assigned a provisional Ba2 rating to a proposed municipal revenue bond backed by bitcoin and structured through the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority. The…
Peter Brandt does not expect Bitcoin to reach a new all-time high in 2026, adding to a more cautious tone that has started to dominate market expectations for the rest of the year. Brandt said he does not see a fresh peak…
All published, unprotected stories in this project’s category are available through these pages. Official publications cover the last 180 days of our tracked sources. Dates indicate publication, not necessarily when an event occurred.
BENEATH THE HEADLINES
CHAIN PROGRESS
Block height counts the chain’s progress. It is not a transaction count or an estimate of network usage.
Observed · 17 Sep 2026, 11:45 UTCWAITING TO BE INCLUDED
A node’s view of waiting transactions. Queues differ across nodes and can change before confirmation.
Observed · 17 Sep 2026, 11:45 UTCCOST TO TRANSACT
Fee rate per virtual byte, not total transaction cost. Time targets are estimates, not guarantees.
Observed · 17 Sep 2026, 11:45 UTCBITCOIN’S DEFI ECOSYSTEM
Daily TVL observations use their own scale. USD prices and protocol coverage can change the total without a matching change in token deposits. Observed · 16 Sep 2026, 12:24 UTC.
Fees describe current transaction demand in the observed snapshot. TVL describes a separate slice of DeFi activity. Neither is a complete measure of Bitcoin adoption, investment demand or network security.
BUILD & SHIP
Follow published Bitcoin software versions and open their release notes. Publication order does not establish which branch is the recommended upgrade. Release counts are not developer counts, commit activity or a quality score.
Bitcoin Core
A software release was published by Bitcoin Core. Open the release notes for the changes, compatibility details and upgrade instructions. This publication does not establish a network activation date.
Open release notes ↗Bitcoin Core
A software release was published by Bitcoin Core. Open the release notes for the changes, compatibility details and upgrade instructions. This publication does not establish a network activation date.
Open release notes ↗Bitcoin Core
A software release was published by Bitcoin Core. Open the release notes for the changes, compatibility details and upgrade instructions. This publication does not establish a network activation date.
Open release notes ↗Bitcoin Core
A software release was published by Bitcoin Core. Open the release notes for the changes, compatibility details and upgrade instructions. This publication does not establish a network activation date.
Open release notes ↗Bitcoin Core
A software release was published by Bitcoin Core. Open the release notes for the changes, compatibility details and upgrade instructions. This publication does not establish a network activation date.
Open release notes ↗THE PROJECT IN PERSPECTIVE
Bitcoin is an open network for transferring value without a central operator. Its native asset, BTC, is used for transfers and transaction fees. Proof-of-work miners propose blocks, while validating nodes enforce the protocol’s rules.
The protocol, the asset and the businesses built around them are related but distinct. This dossier brings together newsroom coverage, selected software publications and network observations so those different stories can be followed in context.
