Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Faces a Make-or-Break Week

Bitcoin is consolidating around $77.3K after a powerful breakout from the $67K area. While the broader structure has improved significantly, BTC is now facing an important resistance cluster near $80K-$82K. Meanwhile, the latest Coinbase Premium reading suggests that US spot demand has yet to fully confirm the recent advance.  Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart  The daily chart shows a significant structural recovery. After falling to the $60K demand zone in June, Bitcoin spent several months building a broad base before breaking decisively above the $67K resistance area in late August. The subsequent rally carried BTC rapidly through the $72K-$74K zone and toward the $80K area.  The $72K-$74K region has now become the first major support zone. A successful retest of this area would preserve the bullish structure established by the recent breakout. Below it, the $67K zone is a more important structural support, as it previously capped the market for several months. A deeper correction could bring the $60K demand zone back into focus.  On the upside, BTC is approaching the $80K-$82K resistance zone. The price has already tested this area several times but has failed to establish a sustained breakout above it. A daily close above $82K would therefore be significant, as

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Bruno Mars Ties A Historic Record With His Biggest R&B Smash

Bruno Mars‘s “I Just Might” spends a thirty-fourth week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B Songs chart, tying Leon Thomas’s “Mutt” as the second-longest-running leader. LOS ANGELES – FEBRUARY 2: Bruno Mars backstage at The 67th Annual Grammy Awards, airing live from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, Sunday, Feb. 2 (8:00-11:30 PM, live ET/5:00-8:30 PM, live PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming live and on demand on Paramount+.* (Photo by Stewart Cook/CBS via Getty Images)  CBS via Getty Images  Sometimes Bruno Mars is referred to as a pop star, while in other cases, it‘s fair to call him one of the most successful R&B musicians of all time. Those two statements are true, as many of the singer’s most popular tunes can be classified under either – and usually both – of those genre labels.  That‘s been part of Mars’s generation-defining success: his work typically appeals to a wide swath of music lovers, and he produces the kind of tunes that radio stations love to play nonstop for years. Mars continues to promote his latest album The Romantic, which features multiple hit songs, and more recently he scored a win alongside Latin powerhouse Karol G – but it is

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Schumer Calls Senate Caucus to Decide Fate of CLARITY Bill

Key TakeawaysSchumer called a Senate caucus on the CLARITY bill, setting up a decisive vote on its future.Ethics disputes and stablecoin yield concerns threaten to block the bill from advancing on Tuesday.Demands for official crypto divestments derailed bipartisan support, putting passage at risk.  Senate Democrats To Consider Position On CLARITY Bill  The destiny of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, often called the CLARITY bill, and the crypto industry in the U.S. might be determined today.  Per Politico, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for a caucus meeting on Sunday to discuss the partys stance on the new draft text that Senate Republicans circulated on Thursday with over 100 changes allegedly requested by Democrats.  The meeting comes as the Senate will vote on whether to advance a cloture vote on the bill or drop it entirely on Tuesday, with Republicans exhorting their counterparts to allow the bill to be discussed while negotiations occur.  While the bill had bipartisan support at some point, negotiations derailed, and now most Democrats are expected to vote against it, as key disagreements in the ethics provision remain, and community banks still have major objections to how CLARITY regulates stablecoin yields.  On Friday, President Donald Trump met with advisors to consider

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Coinbase gives community banks a stablecoin bridge while supplying infrastructure underneath

Coinbase‘s new partnership with payments platform Moov gives community banks and credit unions a route to offer stablecoin services through the financial relationship they already have with businesses. The local institution can remain the customer’s front door, while Coinbase supplies the disclosed custody and transaction infrastructure behind it.  Related Company Coinbase A leading digital currency company  Moov CEO Wade Arnold framed the demand bluntly: business customers asked to accept stablecoins currently go outside their primary financial institution. Moov and Coinbase want that service to appear inside the institution‘s existing payments experience. The arrangement could preserve the bank’s customer connection. Control of the economics, data and operational risk remains unresolved until the companies disclose their terms.  How the split stack would work  Under the partnership announced Sept. 10, Moov will integrate Coinbases stablecoin payments infrastructure into its existing platform for financial institutions. Coinbase said its CDP Custodial Wallet accounts will provide fund custody and its Payments API will orchestrate stablecoin movement. Moov will connect those functions to the systems used by its bank and credit-union customers.  That division places three parties between a business and the stablecoin rail. The bank or credit union owns the primary customer interaction. Moov supplies the payments-platform connection. Coinbase provides the

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Central banks in focus: Key levels for NZD/USD, EUR/GBP and USD/JPY

Central bank decisions are the major highlight of the week, with the Federal Reserve, Bank of England and Bank of Japan set to announce their monetary policy decisions. Much of the markets attention will be on their policy statements and comments for clues about future rate paths as rates decisions are expected to be in line with expectations.  Apart from the central bank events, CAD will once again be in the spotlight as Canada‘s inflation report is scheduled for Monday. The BOC adopted a hawkish tone at its last meeting, highlighting inflationary pressures. However, fragile employment conditions and trade tensions between the US and Canada have limited the currency’s ability to benefit from higher oil prices. A softer inflation report could challenge the BOCs hawkish stance and leave CAD vulnerable to further weakness.  The lead-up to the BOE monetary policy decision is particularly interesting. UK labor market figures and Wednesday‘s CPI report could cause some push and pull for GBP before Thursday’s decision, making it difficult to maintain a clear directional bias for the currency.  Fed: NZD/USD tests support around 0.5809  The Federal Reserve is set to announce its decision on Wednesday, September 16, with expectations leaning towards a 25-basis-point rate hike. The markets

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Malicious bots are actively probing exposed Bitcoin payment servers to steal master administrative keys

Bitcoin payment processor BTCPay Server has warned that bots are probing exposed Lightning nodes for a potential route to administrative control.  Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $77,334.87 24-hour change: up 0.22% 24H Up 0.22% 7D Down 3.18% 30D Up 22.75%  The activity follows a separate critical BTCPay vulnerability that attackers exploited a month ago to obtain credentials protecting LND nodes and drain merchant wallets.  BTCPay subsequently disabled external access to LND, a widely used implementation of Bitcoins Lightning Network, in its standard Docker deployment. The project now says automated systems are targeting servers where operators manually restored that access, repeatedly calling an LND password-change endpoint.  The latest mechanism differs from the vulnerability exploited in August but could lead to a similar outcome: an attacker obtaining credentials that can control an LND node.  BTCPay said the opening appears during a short interval after LND restarts, while its wallet remains locked. During that period, the targeted password-change method does not require a macaroon, the credential LND normally uses to authorize administrative actions.  Older BTCPay LND wallets compounded the risk by using a shared default password. An attacker who could reach the interface before BTCPays internal unlocker could potentially submit that password first, replace it, and request an

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What Happens to XRP if the CLARITY Act Vote Fails on September 15? AI Maps the Downside

XRP investors brace for a potentially volatile 48-hour period as US Senate is scheuled to hold a cloture vote on the motion to proceed with the CLARITY Act.  Although the upcoming vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act is not a final passage vote, it still holds significance for the broader crypto market as senators will decide whether to advance debate on the legislation. Cloture requires 60 votes, meaning that even if all Republicans support it, they would still need assistance from some Democrats or independents.  XRP could be among the most intertwined crypto assets with the bill, which is why a potential failure could weigh on its price quite considerably. As such, we asked ChatGPT about its take on the matter and what could happen to the cross-border token.  Why CLARITY Matters for XRP  The bill aims to create a comprehensive federal crypto market structure, including clearer responsibilities for the two main watchdogs – the SEC and the CFTC, and rules for exchanges, brokers, dealers, and digital commodities. This is particularly relevant for the cross-border token following Ripples years-long regulatory battle with the SEC.  After the conclusion of the lawsuit that began in late 2020, the regulator identified XRP as a digital commodity.

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Cosmos is back online after outage, but Ledger users still cant see or send their ATOM

Ledgers status page continued to list Cosmos (ATOM) as a major outage on Sept. 13, leaving users unable to view ATOM balances or transaction history and unable to submit transactions through Ledger Wallet more than four days after the incident began.  Related Asset Cosmos #66 ATOM · $1.61 24-hour change: down 1.36% Price history is not available. 24H Down 1.36% 7D Up 1.23% 30D Up 5.98%  The company opened the incident at 19:41 CEST on Sept. 8. As of press time, its latest update, posted at 16:12 CEST on Sept. 10, said restoration work was continuing and that the affected features remained unavailable. Ledger has not disclosed a cause or an estimated restoration time.  The continuing warning does not mean Cosmos Hub is still halted. It shows that Ledger Wallets service path for retrieving account data and sending ATOM transactions has not recovered with the network itself.  Related Company Ledger Crypto hardware wallets  Cosmos Hub recovered before Ledger Wallet  QuickNode reported that Cosmos Mainnet stalled at block 32,878,318 at 18:12 UTC on Sept. 8. The infrastructure provider said its nodes had returned to the chain tip by 14:26 UTC on Sept. 9, then marked its incident resolved at 00:24 UTC on Sept. 12.  The Cosmos Hub RPC

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MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Guide Issues a 93% Crash Warning to Investors

MicroStrategy, now Strategy, has published a Bitcoin guide that warns buyers that the asset has already crashed 93.1% once.  Executive Chairman Michael Saylor shared it over the weekend. The document devotes more space to losses, custody failures, and position sizing than to upside.  Sponsored  Sponsored  What the MicroStrategy Bitcoin Guide Warns About  That 93.1% drop, which occurred at the 2011 low, is the deepest in Bitcoins trading history. The guide adds a worst one-year return of minus 83.6%. Its point is not about direction. It is about survival.  Being right about Bitcoin over 10 years does not protect anyone over 10 months.  High long-term Bitcoin returns with severe interim losses. Source: MicroStrategy Bitcoin Guide  “An investor can be correct that Bitcoin appreciates and still lose money through leverage, option decay, an unfavorable capital structure, corporate risks, counterparty failure, excessive fees or forced liquidation,” the company says.  Saylor Has Already Lived a Crash Like This  The warning carries weight because Saylor watched one wreck his own company. On March 20, 2000, MicroStrategy restated three years of revenue. The stock fell 62% in a single day from a peak of $333.  Sponsored  Sponsored  MicroStrategy 2000 Stock Crash. Source: TradingView  The SEC then charged him with fraud. He paid $8.28 million in disgorgement and a $350,000 penalty,

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XPR Network suffers $9M proton.swaps exploit – Can confidence recover?

XPR Network, a layer 1 blockchain, was exploited after the attacker drained about 1.56 billion XPR, worth roughly $4.03 million, from proton.swaps.  The attacker exploited a flaw in its withdrawal function, which accepted negative amounts. This enabled the attacker to manipulate internal balances before withdrawing real tokens.  The attacker then applied this technique across multiple asset pools, including XUSDC, XMD, METAL, LOAN, and bridged assets. Within just 11 minutes of the launch of the attack, the attacker stole more than $9 million in liquidity.  Source: X  Meanwhile, 563 million XPR worth roughly $1.46 million moved through the LOAN protocol after the attacker borrowed against stolen stablecoins. That raised the total XPR touched to roughly 2.12 billion, or 6.5% of the circulating supply.  Discover more  Track Market Trends  Choose POS Systems  NEWS  Later on, the attacker moved 764 million XPR, worth roughly $1.98 million, and 150,000 METAL, worth approximately $195,000, to another account.  Network producers later identified the exploit and patched the contract. Ultimately, the incident shows how weak input validation can quickly amplify losses across interconnected liquidity pools.  XPR sell-off tests market confidence  The on-chain drain quickly spilled into XPRs price action, with sellers taking control as confidence weakened. On the 11th of September, the XPR traded near $0.00276 before falling sharply

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