Bitcoin trades at $62,980, down 2.7% over 24 hours, having lost the support band it was defending only hours earlier.
Bitcoin and most major cryptocurrencies fell sharply on July 31 after a Reuters report said the U.S. Treasury had told banks to prepare for possible intervention in the yen market.
Bitcoin started on July 31 at $64,700, reached $65,340, and trades at $63,660 at the time of writing, down roughly $1,050 on the session.
Ethereum climbed to $1,930 on July 31 before reversing to $1,880, down 1.8% as resistance near the 100-day SMA held again.
The Bank of Japan held its policy rate at 1.0% on July 31, six weeks after raising borrowing costs in June.
Coinkite has warned Coldcard Mk3 owners that a weakness in how some devices generated seed phrases may have left their Bitcoin exposed.
Strategy holds 843,775 BTC bought at an average of $75,476, against a price near $64,800 at the time of writing. That puts the position roughly $9 billion below the $63.69 billion the company spent acquiring it.
Open USD will launch on Ethereum from its first day of operation as part of a broader multichain rollout that also includes Solana, Base, Stellar and Polygon.
HYPE continued lower on July 30 as sellers maintained control of the short-term structure.
South Korea will begin taxing crypto gains on January 1, 2027, with the government ruling out a fourth delay.
Bitcoin has declined during the August–September window before all three U.S. midterms in its trading history, then fallen further in the fourth quarter each time.
Russian authorities have placed BitRiver founder Igor Runets in custody under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code, the provision covering aggravated fraud.
