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TL;DR: Strive purchased another 1,223 Bitcoin over two days, taking its reported holdings to 36,818 BTC in a fresh SEC filing.

ByOlivier Acuna|Edited byJamie Crawley Oct 9, 2026, 5:20 a.m. EDT 2min readMake preferred onShare this article Make preferred on

Bitcoin-focused life insurer Meanwhile raised $37.5 million in a Bain Capital Crypto-led investment round, bringing its total funding to $180 million. The Bermuda-based company offers life insurance with premiums and death benefits denominated in bitcoin, including a product that accepts a single bitcoin premium. Meanwhile has signed 15 brokers serving wealthy clients in Switzerland, Singapore,…

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor and analyst on CoinDesk’s Markets team. He has been covering crypto options and futures, as well as macro and cross-asset activity, since 2019, leveraging his prior experience in directional and non-directional derivative strategies at brokerage firms. His extensive background also encompasses the FX markets, having served as a fundamental…

The crypto bull run debate just got a hard number behind it. Bitcoin printed a golden cross for the first time this year, with the 50 day average crossing above the 200 day line. BTC hit $87,000 on September 24, its best price in eight months, per KuCoin. That kind of signal brings fresh money…

Bitcoin volatility may hinge on how Fed and BOJ decisions affect rate gaps, the yen and carry trades as traders assess possible policy convergence.

The top crypto story today starts with a move that has never happened on a major chain. Cronos rolled back its own blockchain on September 8 to recover $111 million stolen in a lending hack, per CoinDesk. The same day, Tom Lee’s Bitmine bought another $69 million of ETH, making it one of the largest…