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Bitcoin and Ethereum surged above $69,500 and $2,000 on Wednesday after the US Treasury doubled planned buybacks of long-dated government debt.

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Bitcoin(CRYPTO: BTC) jumped 6% after the US Treasury announced it would double its long-term bond buyback operations, sending gold surging and crypto sharply higher across the board.

Bitcoin (BTC) is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator. It can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer Bitcoin network without intermediaries.

According to Wintermute’s latest market update, Bitcoin’s breakout above the June range appears to be fading as spot ETF withdrawals are exerting selling pressure on Bitcoin in addition to new miner selling, despite a softer US interest rate outlook.

A Bitcoin stash that had sat frozen since the network’s earliest days has moved for the first time in more than 15 years, the latest in a string of ancient wallets flickering back to life.

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WGMI surged 97% while bitcoin dropped 46%, as CORZ and RIOT pivoted from mining to signing multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure leases.

Cboe BZX is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an exception to its own generic listing rules so it can list funds targeting three times the daily performance of Bitcoin and Ethereum futures.