Bitcoin broke past the $75,000 threshold on August 21, successfully blowing through the $73,200 ceiling that stalled its recovery just a day prior.

Bitcoin’s move above $72,000 drew sharply different reactions from some of the market’s best-known voices.

Bitcoin rose 12.3% in past 24h to trade near $71,720 on Bitstamp on August 20, climbing above $70,000 and crossing its 50-, 100- and 200-day simple moving averages.

Bitcoin fell from its October 2025 record near $126,000 to a June 2026 low around $57,750, a decline of roughly 53%. During that stretch, Robbie Mitchnick, BlackRock’s head of digital assets, argued that the market’s strongest demand had moved elsewhere: into artificial-intelligence companies and the infrastructure built around them.

Citi plans to launch digital-asset custody later in 2026, beginning with Bitcoin. Through Custody+, the bank says clients will be able to hold BTC within the same custody framework used for traditional securities.

Texas ended the second quarter of 2026 with exactly the same number of BlackRock Bitcoin ETF shares it reported on March 31.

Bitcoin’s immediate exchange inflow pressure has eased sharply, yet exchange balances are rebuilding and ETF demand has weakened. The market is calmer, but the bullish turn remains unproven.

Mubadala and Abu Dhabi Investment Council ended the second quarter with the same net IBIT share counts they reported in March, even as the combined value fell by $117.7 million. Changes elsewhere in their portfolios made that unchanged Bitcoin ETF position more prominent at ADIC and less prominent at Mubadala.

Cboe BZX has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to approve two funds targeting three times the daily performance of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Strategy and Metaplanet survived MSCI's attempt to create a special index rule for digital asset treasury companies earlier this year. A broader replacement now puts both on the wrong side of the proposed eligibility test.

VanEck believes Bitcoin is getting close to a cyclical bottom after a decline that has cut its price roughly in half. The daily chart is not confirming that view yet.

Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, expanded its exposure to BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF in the second quarter, but the biggest change was not in the ETF shares themselves.