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The crypto Fear and Greed Index slipped to 66 from 69 and 71 across three sessions while bitcoin barely moved, showing momentum decay rather than fear.
Bitcoin hashprice rose 22% to $39.63 per PH/s per day as difficulty hit 127.45T, but hashrate stalled at 934 EH/s and fees were 0.43% of block rewards.
IBIT inflows of over $117 million on Friday extended a bitcoin ETF run of three consecutive positive weeks and $103 billion in total assets.
The CLARITY Act vote on 15 September needs sixty Senate votes, but crypto is trading Fed hike odds above 60% rather than the legislation.
Bitcoin dominance stands at 56.9% and ether at 11%, leaving every other token to share the remaining 32% of a $2.78 trillion market.
Bitcoin resistance at $82,000 has turned price back three times since late August, with the $80,000 level failing to hold on each retreat.
Bitcoin ETF weekly inflows reached $986.85m in the week to 4 September, with ether funds adding $218.41m for a combined $1.2bn and a three-week streak.
Fed hike odds passed 60% on the CME FedWatch tool as bitcoin held $78,893 and the Fear and Greed Index slipped to 66 from 69.
Liquid Network attackers returned 3,400 BTC of the roughly 4,000 taken, keeping about $47 million they describe as a bounty nobody offered.
Bitcoin held near $79,350 on 7 September as traders waited on the August CPI report, which economists say could swing the Fed between a hike and a hold.
The Liquid Network hack drained about 3,996 BTC worth $320m on 6 September, roughly 95% of reserves, through the peg-out authorisation mechanism.
Twelve addresses holding March 2010 block rewards moved 600 BTC worth about $48m on 5-6 September. Whale Alert found no connection to Satoshi Nakamoto.
Russia's digital-asset framework took effect 1 September 2026. Sberbank plans bitcoin-backed loans, with ETH and USDT pending central bank approval.
Bitcoin ETF assets under management reached $103bn after $3.8bn of three-week inflows, but daily flows swung from -$236m to +$731m within three sessions.
The 30-year Treasury yield reached a cycle high of 5.26% and US sovereign debt passed $40 trillion, with Brent above $98. What it means for crypto.
Bitcoin mining yields roughly $113-179 per MWh while full-stack AI operators earn $807-1,213. Miners unplugged 23% of hashrate in H1 2026.
Bitcoin's 90-day correlation with gold has risen above 0.50, a six-year high, while its Nasdaq 100 correlation has fallen from over 60% to about 33%.
Strategy bought 4,603 BTC at an average $80,318 between 24 and 30 August, lifting holdings to 845,050 BTC. The tranche is already down about $9m.
Bitcoin peaked at $82,281 on 3 September and closed the week at $77,024, back below its 50-week moving average of $80,300 after the jobs report.
The FHFA told Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to count crypto as mortgage reserves without converting to dollars. Bitcoin and USDC qualify at launch.
US spot bitcoin ETFs drew $730.9m on 3 September, the largest single day since 14 January. BlackRock's IBIT took about $454m of it.
US payrolls rose 162,000 in August against a 53,000 forecast. Hike odds moved to 59% from 52%, reversing the dovish read crypto rallied on hours earlier.
Bitcoin jumped about 5% to $81,240 on 4 September after Fed Governor Waller's remarks, with more than $400m of short positions liquidated in 24 hours.
The ten largest corporate bitcoin holders own about 992,000 BTC. At $76,597 Strategy is near breakeven while Metaplanet sits roughly 29% underwater.
Bitcoin's hashrate sits near 914 EH/s, about 20% under its October 2025 peak and 316 days below it, as miners redirect power to AI data centres.
US spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $3.5bn in August 2026, the strongest month since October 2025. Then September opened with a $201.8m outflow.
Bitcoin fell to $76,597 and ether to $2,373 on 2 September as US-Iran strikes lifted oil and revived rate-hike fears before the Fed meets.