11 Aug 2025: 🟠 Daily Crypto Brief: Bitcoin Pushes Toward ATH as Ethereum & Altcoins Heat Up

11 Aug 2025: 🟠 Daily Crypto Brief: Bitcoin Pushes Toward ATH as Ethereum & Altcoins Heat Up

By theinspired | Bitcoin Inspired | 11 Aug 2025


"You can attract luck simply by telling people what you are working on."
— James Clear

BITCOIN

  • Crypto Inflows Surge to $578 Million After Trump’s 401(k) Shock Put Bitcoin on Ethereum’s Heels (BeInCrypto, The Block)
  • Is the four-year crypto cycle dead? Believers are growing louder (Cointelegraph)
  • Bitcoin surge to $122K was ‘just a matter of time,’ Analyst says (Cointelegraph)
  • BTC price to fill $117K CME gap? (Cointelegraph, CoinDesk)
  • Bitcoin Price Nears Golden Cross That Could Spark All-Time High Push (UToday)
  • Bitcoin’s Next All-Time High Could Be Close (BeInCrypto)
  • Calm Before the Storm Expected as Bitcoin Volatility Wakes Up (CoinDesk)
  • Bitcoin hits $2.4 TRILLION market cap (@BTC_Archive)
  • Bitcoin’s new addresses hit record surge in 2025 (Finbold)
  • Elevated BTC and ETH options open interest signals cautious positioning ahead of Tuesday’s CPI data: analysts (The Block)
  • Strategy adds $18M in Bitcoin on fifth anniversary of BTC strategy (Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, The Block, CryptoPotato)
  • 🇲🇽 Mexico's 3rd richest man's portfolio is 80% Bitcoin. He's considering boosting it to 100% Bitcoin 🔥 (@BTC_Archive)

BITCOIN MININIG

  • Tether-backed Rumble eyes $1.17 billion Northern Data acquisition pending bitcoin mining division selloff, stock jumps 20% (The Block, Cointelegraph)
  • JUST IN: Bitcoin difficulty just hit a new high 📈. More miners are securing the network and betting on higher prices 🐂 (@BTC_Archive)

CORPORATE TREASURY

  • Bitcoin’s corporate boom raises ‘Fort Knox’ nationalization concerns (Cointelegraph)
  • JUST IN: Bitcoin treasury companies now hold 1.85 MILLION Bitcoin worth $219 BILLION 🤯. Supply is drying up fast. (@BTC_Archive)
  • Top 100 Bitcoin treasury companies hold almost 1 MILLION Bitcoin 🤯 (@BTC_Archive)
  • Ether treasuries climb to $13B as price breaks $4,300 (Cointelegraph)
  • Largest Ethereum treasury firm BitMine adds 317,000 ETH to push holdings worth nearly $4.9 billion (The Block)
  • CEA Industries Becomes Largest Corporate Holder of BNB With $160M Buy (CoinDesk)

ETHEREUM

  • ‘Mysterious institution’ buys almost $1B worth of Ether in week (Cointelegraph)
  • Unknown Whales Abruptly Accumulate $4,167,000,000 in Ethereum via Exchanges (The Daily Hodl)
  • Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum Holdings Top $1 Billion as Whales Fight For Limited ETH Supply (BeInCrypto)
  • Ethereum Nears $4,400 Resistance As Binance Inflows Spark Short-Term Caution (NewsBTC)

ALTCOINS

  • Altcoins Set To Ignite ‘Major, Major’ Moves After Ethereum Breakout, Predicts Analyst Kevin Svenson (The Daily Hodl)
  • XRP Rallies Above $3.25 After Ripple-SEC Settlement as Institutional Interest Surges (CoinDesk)
  • XRP Price Could Explode To $3.8 Amid Trend Continuation (NewsBTC)
  • BNB Tracks Bitcoin’s Playbook, Eyes Breakout Toward $1,200 (NewsBTC)
  • Solana flashes a clear signal to hit $1,315 target (Finbold)

ETFs

  • Crypto ETP inflows hit $572M as Bitcoin and Ether rebound (Cointelegraph)
  • Ivy League Universities Betting on Bitcoin As Harvard and Brown Buy $140,000,000 Worth BTC ETF Shares (The Daily Hodl)
  • Trump Media inches closer to Bitcoin ETF launch with new SEC filing (Finbold)

POLITICS

  • Trump-Appointed Crypto Council Bo Hines Head to Step Down (CryptoPotato, Decrypt)

REGULATION

  • Senator Warren: 'We Need Crypto Regulation' (UToday)
  • Crypto debanking is ‘still occurring’ as banks stick to Chokepoint policies (Cointelegraph)
  • El Salvador passes law letting investment banks hold bitcoin, serve qualified clients (The Block, UToday)

VOICES

  • MICHAEL SAYLOR: “Inflation is worse than you think, and Bitcoin is better than you know.” (@BTC_Archive)
  • MICHAEL SAYLOR: "By the time banks recommend Bitcoin, it'll cost you $10 million per Bitcoin." 👀 
  • (@BTC_Archive)
  • STEVE WOZNIAK: “Bitcoin is the most amazing mathematical miracle. It's better than gold.” (@BTC_Archive)
  • Analysts: Ethereum bulls make a strong case for an ETH price rally toward $10,000 or above in the next six to eight months. (Cointelegraph)
  • Henrik Zeberg: Economist Predicts 60% Surge for Bitcoin, Says ‘Extreme Rallies’ for Ethereum, Altcoins and Memecoins in Sight
  • Samson Mow: Ethereum bag holders will rotate back to Bitcoin (Cointelegraph)
  • Willy Woo: Bitcoin is the ‘perfect asset’ for the next 1,000 years (Cointelegraph)

THE BAD

  • At least 1 Bitcoiner gets kidnapped every week — Crypto exec (Cointelegraph)
  • Bank Customers Warned As Scammers Drain Over $100,000 From Accounts – Police Say Zelle, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, US Bank and Bitcoin Targeted (The Daily Hodl)
  • $34 million in crypto payments traced to Embargo ransomware group: report (The Block)

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