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JUST IN: 🇮🇱 Israel's largest bank is entering Bitcoin.

Bank Leumi will allow customers to buy, hold and sell Bitcoin directly through its banking app.

The service is expected to launch in early 2027 👀

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2088239261640278296

🟢 Tether completed its first full financial audit, which it called the largest inaugural audit in history. KPMG issued an unqualified opinion, with the 2025 statements showing reserves exceeded liabilities by $6.814 billion.

📰 https://btctimes.com/tether-completes-largest-ever-inaugural-financial-audit

📣 https://x.com/BTCTimescom/status/2088256574670180562

ANALYSIS: Michael Saylor says digital assets now compete across four markets, capital, credit, money, and currency, against traditional stocks, bonds, savings, and cash.

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BREAKING: Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model releases its next Q3 GDP growth estimate today.

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JUST IN: 🇮🇱 Bank Leumi, Israel's largest bank, has partnered with Galaxy Digital to let customers trade Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana through its Leumi Trade app starting early 2027.

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Citibank CEO says Clarity Act could promote financial crime 👀

"We have not given up on making improvements to the bill."

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinArchive/status/2088268922856358112

SAGA LONG 20x

➡️Enter - market

📌Target - 0.013312 - 0.013558 - 0.013823 - 0.014520

❌ Stop - 0.012530

JUST IN: 🇪🇺 EU bans transactions with 14 crypto platforms, including HTX and EXMO, under new Russia sanctions, effective Aug. 23.

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BREAKING: 🇮🇪 Ireland now requires crypto exchanges to run enhanced ID checks on transfers to self-custody wallets.

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BREAKING: 🇮🇪 Ireland MANDATES ID-checks on self-custody crypto wallets❗️

• Exchanges must indentify transfers.

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinArchive/status/2088283205392543888

TODAY: Telegram turns 13, marking over a decade among the world's most downloaded apps.

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MICHAEL SAYLOR: "Spread Bitcoin with love"

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JUST IN: 🟠 MSCI could REMOVE Michael Saylor's Strategy and Metaplanet from indexes 👀

• Study looks cash flow & 'real business'

• Hits firms that raise cash to buy assets

• Still under review, decision due in October

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinArchive/status/2087964978628243857

JUST IN: Kalshi's prediction market gives Bitcoin a 56% chance of hitting $50,000 before $100,000.

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STRATEGY: 🟠 “Bitcoin doesn’t need MSCI. Neither does Strategy”

Source: https://x.com/BitcoinArchive/status/2088248495345967119

OPINION: Peter Schiff says sell Bitcoin and MSTR, calling Saylor's selling to prop up STRC a failure.

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NEW: Netflix's FTX series "The Altruists," starring Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle, premieres November 19.

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GEORGE BODINE: 🟠 "It means a lot to me to get Bitcoin. That's what I want in life. That's what you should want, not some f***ing stock or or STRC or any other damn thing."

"One of the worst ads that they ever put out was from that same company that said 'we turned Bitcoin into money.' What a bunch of crap. Bitcoin is money."

Source: https://x.com/SimplyBitcoin/status/2088249284131246546

NEW: CLARITY Act passage odds crash to under 20% on Polymarket, down from an 82% February peak, as the Senate delays its vote to September 15.

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