MARA Holdings, Inc. shares edged up 0.1% to $9.34 in premarket trading on Wednesday after the bitcoin miner filed to register new shares for employee compensation. Investing.com+1
Bitcoin rose about 1.2% to $88,512 in early trade on Wednesday, holding near the $88,000 level. Ether gained 0.5% to $2,973, while U.S.-listed crypto proxies were mixed, with Coinbase down 0.9%, Strategy up 0.1%, and miners Marathon and Riot down 1.8% and 3.8%; iShares Bitcoin Trust was up about 0.9% in the latest available trade.
Bitcoin edged higher on Tuesday as investors weighed U.S. interest-rate signals and year-end positioning, with crypto-linked stocks trading mixed after Wall Street’s regular session ended. Reuters
Strategy Inc shares were up 0.1% at $155.61 in after-hours trading on Tuesday after moving between $154.25 and $159.32 during the regular session. Bitcoin rose 1.1% to $88,203 and other crypto-linked stocks were mixed, with Coinbase down 0.9%, Marathon Digital off 1.8% and Riot Platforms down 3.8%.
Hut 8 Corp shares fell 3.1% to $47.31 in afternoon trading on Tuesday, after moving between $47.18 and $49.26 earlier in the session. About 2.26 million shares had traded.
Strategy Inc shares rose 0.8% to $156.66 in morning trading on Tuesday, tracking a modest uptick in bitcoin a day after the company disclosed another round of share sales to fund crypto purchases.
Bitcoin rose on Tuesday, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency up about 1.4% at $88,709 in morning trade. Crypto-linked U.S. stocks were mixed, with Strategy edging up while Coinbase slipped, and the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF tracking higher alongside the token.
U.S.-listed spot XRP exchange-traded funds have attracted more than $1 billion of net inflows since launching in November, with no day of net outflows so far, SoSoValue data show. XRP was trading around $1.88 at the time of reporting, about 49% below its July record of $3.65, and Acheron Trading quantitative trader Jonathan Yark said: “We’re in a genuine adoption phase for crypto ETFs.” DL News
MARA Holdings Inc shares slipped 1.1% to $9.49 in the last session, after trading between $9.38 and $9.84 on volume of about 29.6 million shares. Bitcoin fell about 2% to $87,869.
Global macro analyst Luke Gromen is trimming his bitcoin exposure and warned the cryptocurrency could slide toward $40,000 in 2026, even as he still expects debt-heavy governments to lean on inflation and weaker currencies. “A move toward the $40,000 range in 2026 is possible,” Gromen said on the RiskReversal podcast. Bitbo
An 82-year-old and 84-year-old Nebraska couple were scammed out of $250,000 after imposters posing as Amazon and the FBI pushed them to pay through bitcoin ATMs, Western Union transfers and Apple cards, the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office said. The office said the couple began paying in August after being told they owed $200,000 on a compromised Amazon account and did not report the loss until Dec. 17. https://www.1011now.com
IREN Limited shares fell about 2.3% in after-hours trading — the session after the 4 p.m. close — and were last at $39.41. The stock traded between $38.55 and $42.25 on Monday, with volume near 21.9 million shares.
bitcoin eased on Monday, hovering near $87,330, down about 0.3% in afternoon trade. The token earlier touched $90,247 before sliding to a session low of $86,780.
Bitcoin was little changed near $87,500 on Monday afternoon, after briefly pushing above $90,000 earlier in the session, as traders navigated choppy year-end markets.