Overview
- U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded roughly $853 million to $865 million of net inflows for the week ended Aug. 7 with BlackRock’s IBIT supplying about $693–694 million of that total.
- Bitcoin briefly rose above $65,000 on Aug. 10 after weaker July payrolls reduced odds of more Fed tightening and then pulled back into the $62,000–$66,000 trading range.
- BTCPay Server was actively exploited on Aug. 8–9 in a flaw that let attackers copy LND “macaroon” credential files and drain Lightning nodes, and the project urged operators to update or take servers offline.
- A late‑July Coldcard hardware‑wallet incident removed roughly 1,700–1,816 BTC from users’ devices, triggered wide custody rotations and helped drive a spike in new wallets, according to Santiment.
- The BIP‑110 proposal carries a minority‑fork and replay‑attack risk because miner signaling sat near 2.6%, and analysts warn ETF flows may reflect concentrated institutional reallocations rather than broad retail demand while U.S. CPI on Aug. 12 will be the next market test.