
Bitcoin's Fed move could run straight into a $6.3 billion IBIT options wall
A 1.47 million-contract book maps the levels where the post-Fed move could persist or converge, without predicting either outcome.
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A 1.47 million-contract book maps the levels where the post-Fed move could persist or converge, without predicting either outcome.

Bitcoin Core 32.0 has entered final testing, bringing faster block checks and changes to how wallets prepare payments.

Bitcoin has fallen 3.2% to a $75,702 close after losing the $77,100 range floor, while futures data has shown traders rebuilding long positions despite weak U.S. spot demand. Bitfinex Alpha said in a Sep.

Bitcoin is hovering around $76,000 as the Federal Reserve raised the Federal Funds rate by 25 basis points. Cryptocurrency Ticker Price Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) $75,854 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) $2,403 Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) $98.02 XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) $1.28 Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) $0.08013 Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) $0.054849 Notable Statistics: Coinglass data shows 101,811 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $455.24 million.

Ripple says XRP's legal status remains unchanged after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act, while Strategy says Bitcoin already has U.S. regulatory clarity.
A missing destination tag is the most common avoidable error in XRP transfers to an exchange: the balance arrives but is allocated to no account. We checked 114 publicly attributed exchange accounts on the XRP Ledger and show where the network catches the error by itself.

Sentiment quickly went from inflows to redemptions.

To the surprise of most, BTC actually surges. For now.

The Federal Reserve unanimously voted to raise its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, bringing the new target range to 3.75% to 4.00%.

XRP price came under heavy selling pressure Wednesday as regulatory uncertainty and concerns over Federal Reserve policy weighed on the broader crypto market. XRP retreated from a recent high near $1.45 and briefly fell below $1.23 before staging a modest recovery.

Celsius Networks bankruptcy estate has filed a lawsuit against BitMEX-linked companies seeking the recovery of roughly 6,360 Bitcoin tied to disputed liquidations during the March 2020 crypto market crash. The September 12 filing comes just 11 days before BitMEX is scheduled to permanently halt trading on September 23.
Posting Bitcoin as collateral for a loan is not a sale in Germany, because section 39 of the Fiscal Code keeps the coins attributed to you for tax purposes. Tax arises only when the collateral is liquidated, and then the one thing that decides the bill is how long you held the coins beforehand.

Dogecoin (DOGE) extended its decline as weakness across the broader cryptocurrency market intensified following the CLARITY Act setback and uncertainty surrounding the Federal Reserves FOMC meeting. DOGE fell about 4% to $0.079, while Bitcoin dropped 0.8% and Ethereum declined 1.6%.

Evernorth CEO Ashish Birla said RLUSD's expansion on the XRP Ledger is central to deepening liquidity across the network, describing the dollar-backed stablecoin as “paramount” to XRP's broader ecosystem. He said RLUSD's share of XRP Ledger supply climbed from roughly 20% to 34%, a jump he called 642% growth.

Michael Saylor has weighed in on the recent setback for the CLARITY Act, arguing that the Senates failure to advance the crypto legislation does not mark the end of progress for Bitcoin or the broader digital asset industry. The development has added to negative sentiment across the cryptocurrency market, but Saylor maintained that U.S. regulators still have tools available to provide greater regulatory certainty.