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⚡ Bitcoin News Daily | September 28, 2026

🌙 Eight AI Chatbots Weigh Bitcoin's Future

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🇪🇺 The Eurosystem is seeking expressions of interest from stakeholders for a new wave of digital euro innovation activities.

Experimentation and Exploration, will run Jan-Jun 2027, covering e-receipts, conditional payments, AI in payments, and public sector use cases.

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🔹Vitalik Buterin published "The cryptographic world computer," calling next year's Hegota fork Ethereum's last "normal" upgrade.

Everything after will rely on recursive STARKs, formal verification, and quantum-safe cryptography. ⏱️ Finality would drop to 8-32 seconds.

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🟠 Michael Saylor announces Strategy has acquired 1,665 BTC and repurchased $152M of STRC.

The company currently holds 847,666 Bitcoin and $6.02B in USD assets.

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Bitcoin mempool fees dropped to 2 sat/vB for next-block confirmation, marking one of the quietest periods of on-chain activity.

📊 The crypto market cap surged to $2.99T this week, with BCH and NEAR each climbing 34% 🌊📊

Total capitalization rose 4% from $2.87T to $2.99T, even as bitcoin dipped from $87,000 to $84,000 mid-week.

🤖 We asked 8 AI chatbots where Bitcoin goes from here — the answers may surprise you.

Bitcoin has gained 26% over the past six months, with its price currently hovering just below $85,000.

🛡️ Thorchain is pushing back after Bitget's CEO asked it to block addresses tied to a $387.5M hack.

Thorchain compared the request to asking Bitcoin miners to stop mining, rejecting the CEX's appeal outright.

⚡ Bitcoin News Daily | September 27, 2026

📉 Veteran Trader Identifies XRP Chart Setup

✅ Coinbase Launches IPO Share Trading

💯 Riot Repays $200M Coinbase Bitcoin Loan

📺 Peirce Backs Zero-knowledge Proofs for KYC

💠 Bitcoin Gains 44% in Strong Q3

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📊 Veteran trader Peter Brandt spots a potential XRP bet in its long-term price pattern.

Brandt referenced a Sept. 26 chart image while distancing himself from blind loyalty to the token.

Coinbase opened IPO allocations this week alongside analyst predictions of $8,600 ETH, Trump-linked MSTR purchases that rebounded 80%, and estimates placing Satoshi's holdings at 1.17M BTC.

🟠 Weekly Net Realized Profit/Loss during the current #Bitcoin rally is a fraction of what it was at the 2024 and 2025 tops. 📈 The pace resembles early uptrend conditions from late 2023.

If profit taking stays low, the rally has room to continue, per Glassnode data.

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✔️ Riot Platforms has cleared its debt and closed a $200M Bitcoin-backed credit line with Coinbase Credit. 💸🔓

Riot's bitcoin collateral pledged under the facility has been released following full repayment of all outstanding borrowings.

🏦 Banks Reopened. Withdrawals Were Capped. Bitcoin Hit $1 Billion.

On March 28, 2013, Cyprus reopened its banks under strict capital controls, with withdrawals limited to €300.

That same day, Bitcoin’s market cap crossed $1 billion for the first time.

BTC had been around $47 before the Cyprus bailout deal. By March 28, it was above $88, and weeks later it would surge past $200.

While traditional safe havens barely moved, Bitcoin was having a historic run.

Coincidence, or an early sign of how people were starting to rethink financial risk?

▶️ Watch the full Cyprus documentary: https://youtu.be/jwiN62iyGC4

Bitcoin is trading at ~$84,770, leaving a 32.8% gap between its current price and its all-time high of ~$126,080.

⚖️ SEC's Hester Peirce says zero-knowledge proofs could modernize the broken KYC surveillance system.

Peirce argued that mandatory, continuous personal data collection is costly and largely ineffective at catching criminals.