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Market Momentum: Bitcoin (BTC) Soars Past $85K While AI Chip Giants Rally

Financial markets launched the week with strong bullish momentum on Monday, as Bitcoin climbed past the $85,000 threshold, artificial intelligence equities rallied significantly, and declining energy costs provided additional support to investor confidence throughout major exchanges. The trading session featured AMD‘s entrance into the exclusive trillion-dollar valuation club and Strategy’s renewed Bitcoin acquisition activity, marking some of the most significant developments across cryptocurrency and stock markets.　　Bitcoin Climbs Beyond $85,000 Milestone　　The leading cryptocurrency pushed above $85,000 for the first occasion since late January, continuing its impressive recovery from previous weeks lower levels and momentarily approaching $86,000. The digital asset registered gains exceeding 5% across a 24-hour period as enhanced risk appetite combined with substantial short position liquidations fueled the upward movement.　　Data from CoinGlass referenced by The Block indicates that leveraged cryptocurrency positions totaling over $750 million were liquidated during this 24-hour window, with approximately $648 million attributed to short sellers wagering on price declines. The price surge additionally propelled Bitcoin above the average acquisition cost of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF participants for the first instance since January.　　AMD Achieves Trillion-Dollar Market Capitalization　　The semiconductor manufacturer joined the elite group of companies with $1 trillion market valuations, experiencing a roughly 10% share price increase

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Apple, Google Hire Stablecoin Experts as Crypto Payments Grow

Key InsightsStablecoin expertise appears in new Big Tech payments and Web3 roles.Apple seeks payments strategy expertise spanning tokenized deposits and blockchain.Google targets institutional Web3 architecture across Asia-Pacific financial clients.　　Apple and Google are hiring specialists with stablecoin, blockchain and tokenization expertise as both companies expand work around digital payments and institutional financial infrastructure.　　Apple posted an Apple Pay Financial Product Strategy Lead role on Aug. 26 that lists stablecoins, tokenized deposits and blockchain technology among its preferred qualifications. Google separately opened a Hong Kong-based Web3 architecture role focused on institutional digital-asset infrastructure across Asia-Pacific.　　The postings show that established technology companies increasingly value expertise in tokenized financial systems.　　However, neither vacancy announces a company-issued stablecoin, cryptocurrency or token.　　Stablecoin Hiring Signals a Payments Strategy Shift　　Apples careers page said the Financial Product Strategy Lead will support Apple Card and Apple Cash. The position covers long-term strategy, new growth opportunities, business planning, market analysis, and partnership evaluations.　　Apple, Google Recruit for Stablecoin Payment Roles. Source: X　　Apple listed stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and blockchain technology among the roles preferred qualifications. The company also sought experience with peer-to-peer payments, credit cards, and major payment systems outside the U.S.　　Discover more　　Enterprise blockchain solutions　　Finance　　financial　　The Cupertino-based position carried a base-pay range between $149,700 and $280,000.

09-22Industry

Jordi Visser: Why AI Agents Make The BTC Bull Case

Crypto spent 15 years building rails — lending, tokenization, stablecoins — and Jordi Visser argues the users it was built for were never meant to be human. In this conversation with Grace Remington and Sean Hagan, Visser lays out his Ghost Rails thesis, comparing today‘s moment to the 14-year gap between Netscape going public and the App Store finally putting the internet in everyone’s hands. He explains why AI agents, not retail wallets, are the inflection point for the agentic economy, and why that‘s “extremely positive” for Bitcoin specifically. If you’ve wondered what actually breaks the liquidity-driven narrative around this asset class, start here.　　Chapters:　　00:00 — Betting on nominal growth: can AI outrun the U.S. debt load？　　02:06 — Why Bitcoin is the only asset surviving 20 years　　04:01 — Crypto built the plumbing, AI agents became the users　　07:33 — Tokenization turns $900 trillion of illiquid assets into money　　09:50 — What has to break before the top 10% finally buy Bitcoin　　12:18 — The Santa Claus effect and why belief beats innovation　　14:23 — Swarms working 24/7 and the exponential investors ignore　　16:47 — Debt-financed data centers, cancer breakthroughs, and the bond market scare　　19:19 — The AI doomsday soap opera　　23:09 — Bitcoin demand for 30 years

09-22Industry

Bitcoin mining vardiff can strand slowed miners

Some Bitcoin mining vardiff (variable difficulty) controllers can keep demanding work calibrated for a machines former speed after it cuts hashrate. The miner can keep hashing and consuming electricity while accepted shares become vanishingly rare.　　Bitcoin Optech highlighted the failure mode on Sept. 18, drawing wider attention to an analysis that mining engineer Eric Price published in July. The finding concerns pool-assigned share difficulty, not Bitcoins network difficulty, and it describes a testable controller weakness rather than evidence of widespread miner losses.　　How Bitcoin mining vardiff gets stuck　　Pools assign each connection a share difficulty that is easier than Bitcoins block difficulty. A higher assigned difficulty corresponds to a harder share target. The submitted shares let the pool estimate hashrate and account for contributed work, while a variable-difficulty, or vardiff, controller adjusts the assignment to keep shares arriving at a useful rate.　　Prices controller analysis describes a trap after a miner slows sharply. If the controller recalculates only when a share arrives, the old, harder assignment makes the next share less likely. With no fresh share to trigger an update, the controller can hold the wrong difficulty, which keeps the share stream sparse.　　Diagram showing how Bitcoin mining vardiff can trap a slowed miner, compared

09-22Industry

ALGO Price Prediction: The Quantum Breakout That Could Turn Into a Trap — $0.13 or Back to $0.09？

Felix Pinkston　　Sep 21, 2026 10:49　　ALGO has surged over 26% in the past seven days to print $0.11, touching overbought territory with RSI at 70 and price kissing the upper Bollinger Band. Smart money is piling in long, but the techn…　　The Surge Is Real — But So Is the Danger Zone　　ALGO doesn‘t do things quietly. After grinding through a multi-week consolidation base around $0.085–$0.09, the token has erupted over 26% in the past seven days, printing $0.11 at the time of writing. That kind of move in a Layer-1 with $980M+ in market cap is not noise — it’s a regime shift attempt. The question every serious trader needs to answer right now is whether this is the start of a structural re-rating or a textbook blow-off squeeze about to get faded hard.　　The catalyst mix is actually worth respecting. Algorand‘s v5.0.0 post-quantum upgrade went live on August 22, new CEO William Herkelrath (formerly of Chainlink) took the helm on September 9, and Google’s Quantum AI research has cited Algorand over 30 times — a quiet but meaningful institutional credibility signal. Layered on top of that, the SEC‘s September 17 Innovation Exemption — granting tokenized securities venues a five-year conditional framework to

09-22Industry

How cutting power to Bitcoin miners can actually burn more energy

Some Bitcoin mining vardiff (variable difficulty) controllers can keep demanding work calibrated for a machines former speed after it cuts hashrate. The miner can keep hashing and consuming electricity while accepted shares become vanishingly rare.　　Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $86,586.31 24-hour change: up 6.60% Loading price history… 24H Up 6.60% 7D Up 9.43% 30D Up 11.81%　　Bitcoin Optech highlighted the failure mode on Sept. 18, drawing wider attention to an analysis that mining engineer Eric Price published in July. The finding concerns pool-assigned share difficulty, not Bitcoins network difficulty, and it describes a testable controller weakness rather than evidence of widespread miner losses.　　How Bitcoin mining vardiff gets stuck　　Pools assign each connection a share difficulty that is easier than Bitcoins block difficulty. A higher assigned difficulty corresponds to a harder share target. The submitted shares let the pool estimate hashrate and account for contributed work, while a variable-difficulty, or vardiff, controller adjusts the assignment to keep shares arriving at a useful rate.　　Prices controller analysis describes a trap after a miner slows sharply. If the controller recalculates only when a share arrives, the old, harder assignment makes the next share less likely. With no fresh share to trigger an update, the controller

09-22Industry

Shiba Inu price jumps 9%—can SHIB hold Its 200-day breakout？

The Shiba Inu price climbed almost 9%today, September 21, breaking above a level that had restricted its recovery for several months.　　SHIB reached the $0.00000608price level before it eased to around $0.00000596level. The breakout gives buyers some encouragement, although its exchange activity suggests that the rally still faces a test.　　Shiba Inu price clears a major barrier　　SHIB started trading at around the $0.00000550level before moving by 8.56%, according to the daily chart. Trading activity also increased as the price moved towards the $0.00000600price level.　　More importantly, SHIB moved above its 200-day average at about $0.00000562, and this level had previously acted as a ceiling.　　Moving above it suggests that the market conditions are improving. But for the move to be confirmed, SHIB must remain above that level after the initial excitement it saw stops.　　Source: TradingView　　The next resistance sits around the $0.00000608level, which is the days high. If it moves beyond that level successfully, it could bring the August peak near $0.00000620back into view.　　But if buyers lose control of the level it could not go above, around the $0.00000562 price level could become the first area of support. The $0.00000545 to $0.00000550level will then be the next level to watch.　　Exchange flows temper the optimism　　Its exchange

09-22Industry

XRP Liquidity Map Shows Exactly Where The Next Move Points

XRP swept its stop-loss cluster near $1.24 overnight, then broke short-term structure on the hourly chart. Here is the liquidity map that matters next.　　A wick to $1.2369 on the hourly chart barely lasted twenty minutes, gone almost as fast as it showed up. By the time most traders even noticed the red candle, XRP had already turned the other way.　　The token is up more than 5% over the past day now, trading near $1.49 against the dollar. Not random noise, either. It followed a clean liquidity sweep below a multi-week low, more or less the exact move XRP traders wait around for before they trust a real shift in market structure.　　XRP/USD Daily chart. Source: TradingView Coinbase.　　A Sweep, Then A Reversal　　Zoom out to the daily chart and the picture gets clearer, or at least less noisy. XRP spent close to seven months grinding sideways between roughly $1.00 and $1.60. That range came out of a much bigger move down from the November 2025 high near $2.95, and honestly it dragged on longer than most people expected.　　Lower highs kept stacking on top of each other. Every rally into resistance got sold, over and over, until the pattern became almost boring to watch.

09-22Industry

SBF Bought Uniswap.com: How Did Uniswap Get the Domain for Free？

Hayden Adams recounts how the OG owners of Uniswap.com wanted seven figures, but “we” refused to pay.SBF bought the domain for seven figures and pointed it to a Uniswap fork, which Adams says was likely to “flex.”This raises a key question about how Uniswap Labs ultimately won control of the domain without buying it back.　　The revelation that Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) allegedly purchased Uniswap.com for a seven-figure sum to target Uniswap has revived attention on one of cryptos most unusual domain disputes.　　The key question is how Uniswap Labs ultimately won control of the domain without buying it back after SBF redirected it to a Uniswap fork.　　According to Uniswap protocol inventor Hayden Adams, SBF purchased Uniswap.com after Uniswap Labs declined to meet the original owners seven-figure asking price. In a post on X, Adams has stated, “the og owners of Uniswap.com wanted 7 figures, but we refused to pay that amount.”　　Meanwhile, SBF reportedly purchased the Uniswap.com domain name to redirect users away from the official Uniswap platform and toward a competing clone or “fork” project. In May 2021, when Uniswap Labs filed its WIPO complaint, uniswap.com redirected visitors to a SushiSwap subpage. Adams said that SBF directed the domain to a Uniswap

09-22Industry

USDC Issuer Circle Rolls Out Bitcoin-Backed Loans for Institutions

Circle has launched Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing for eligible Circle Mint customers, creating a new institutional use for Bitcoin and USDC. The service enables customers to deposit bitcoin-backed collateral and use USDC without selling their BTC holdings.　　Ad　　Ad　　Circle Mint Adds Bitcoin-Backed USDC Borrowing　　Under the new service, customers deposit BTC and mint Circle Wrapped Bitcoin, known as cirBTC. They can then supply cirBTC to supported third-party lending markets and borrow USDC into their Circle Mint accounts.　　The product is available for both Arc and Ethereum, Circle said, with Morpho being the first supported lending protocol. Circle plans to expand access to more lending markets and networks, with Aave support on its way soon. Customers control their positions via their own wallet that is linked to the Circle Mint workflow.　　Discover more　　Bitcoin price tracker　　News　　NEWS　　The borrowing positions are overcollateralized, meaning that access is based on the value of the collateral and market rules rather than unsecured credit checks. Rates, liquidation levels, liquidity, and collateral requirements are determined by the lending market chosen and may vary from time to time.　　Ad　　Ad　　cirBTC Connects Bitcoin Collateral With USDC Liquidity　　According to Circle, each cirBTC token is backed 1 to 1 with native BTC, and reserves can be verified on-chain. The underlying BTC

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