Bitcoin is holding above $75,880 after its sharp rebound, but the next move depends on whether fresh spot demand can carry price through the $81,480 ceiling.

Bitcoin remains near $78,000 while older coins become more active and spot-demand growth turns negative, putting more weight on whether spot-market buyers return during the next breakout attempt.

Standard Chartered completed 24X’s first spot Bitcoin trade, placing crypto beside foreign exchange in a wholesale workflow familiar to banks while leaving its commercial demand unmeasured.

Strategy sold 4.53 million MSTR shares last week, then directed most of the proceeds toward Bitcoin purchases and a preferred-stock repurchase while adding more cash to its balance sheet.

Bitcoin stayed near $78,000 after U.S. forces struck Iranian launchers near Hormuz. Oil climbed above $90, yet BTC traders showed no matching rush to sell.

Michael Saylor has revived Strategy’s Bitcoin tracker after a run of sales, hinting that the company may be ready to add to its reserve again.

Bitcoin may have completed its cycle correction, but treasury-company shares face a separate repair job because their premiums depend on financing as well as BTC.

Bitcoin’s latest push toward $80,000 is meeting two on-chain warnings, but neither rising Binance reserves nor a higher STH-SOPR proves that a sell-off has begun.

Bitcoin slipped below $79,000 while Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivered an inflation-focused speech, as gold declined and major US stock indexes moved only slightly.

Bitcoin is entering a regime transition near $79,000, where muted miner distribution and steady ETF inflows indicate a shift from market repair toward institutional price discovery.

Bitcoin’s quantum-security work took two visible steps on August 26. StarkWare published a mined Bitcoin transaction built with its Quantum-Safe Bitcoin method, known as QSB. A team including Blockstream researcher Jonas Nick released a detailed SHRINCS specification, giving developers a hash-based signature scheme to examine.

Thailand has moved closer to locally listed Bitcoin and Ether ETFs under draft rules that would keep fund management, trading and most custody activity within its domestic market.