Published August 18, 2026
Bitcoin holds above sixty-four thousand dollars as thirty-year Treasury yields hit five point three three percent and oil tops ninety-one dollars per barrel amid escalating U.S.-Iran tensions. A critical firmware flaw in Coldcard hardware wallets enabled the theft of one hundred fourteen million dollars in Bitcoin from over seven hundred addresses, exposing a five-year vulnerability that went undetected despite open-source code availability. Strategy builds a four point eight billion dollar cash reserve as Saylor rules out share buybacks unless M S F T trades at deep discounts to net asset value. Tom Lee's Bitmine nears five percent of Ethereum's supply with a purchase bringing total holdings to five point eight one five million E T H. Plus Treasury proposes GENIUS Act stablecoin rules, X R P sinks below one dollar despite Korean bank adoption, and Goldman acquires L C N Capital for four hundred ten million dollars.