Mostly Bitcoin — Daily Digest

Last 24 hours of mainstream crypto coverage

July 31, 2026

Bitcoin Slides Below $63,000 in Week of Volatile Risk Appetite — bloomberg.com

Bitcoin sank below $63,000 on Friday as fading momentum behind US crypto legislation and disappointing earnings from Coinbase Global Inc. and Strategy Inc. added to signs that speculative investors are pulling back from riskier trades.

Strategy swings to an $8.2 billion loss as bitcoin's slide batters its holdings — qz.com

The bitcoin treasury company reported an $8.32 billion unrealized markdown on its holdings as bitcoin traded well below its average purchase price

The rise of financial nihilism in retail traders — fortune.com

Over the past 30 years, the low-cost revolution has transformed finance as we know it. Investors not only now have access to near zero fee mutual funds/ETFs, but nearly every publicly traded firm around the world is available to a U.S. investor wrapped in

Review: When Banks Do the Government's Bidding — reason.com

Financial institutions have become a tool for suppressing speech. Rainey Reitman learned this in 2011, when PayPal froze the account of a group she was working with to help free whistleblower Chelsea Manning. After negative publicity, PayPal reinstated the

Democrats circulate anti-crypto poll ahead of vote — semafor.com

Senate Democrats are circulating previously unreported polling on their voters’ negative perceptions of cryptocurrency ahead of a key vote expected next week. The poll, conducted by the firm Normington Petts and viewed by Semafor, found that voters in