Tag: Bitcoin ETF
The Most Consequential Day in Crypto History Has Arrived: The SEC's Absolute Final Deadline on 91 Altcoin ETF Applications Collides With a $17 Billion Options Expiry on Deribit — XRP, Solana, Litecoin, and Dogecoin's Regulated US Future Gets Decided Today
The SEC faces its absolute final deadline today for rulings on 91 crypto ETF applications covering XRP, SOL, LTC, DOGE, ADA, and 19 other tokens from Grayscale, 21Shares, Bitwise, WisdomTree, and Canary Capital. Simultaneously, $17 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum options expire on Deribit at 08:00 UTC — $14.16 billion in Bitcoin alone, representing ~40% of all Deribit open interest. Max pain: $75,000. Bitcoin is trading near $68,604. Put-call ratio: 0.84 — the highest since June 2021. Deribit CCO Jean-David Pequignot: max pain creates 'a gravitational pull.' DL News/ZeroStack CEO Daniel Reis-Faria: 'large enough to influence spot prices.' No single day in crypto history has seen these two catalysts collide.
95% Mined, One Century Left: Bitcoin's 20 Millionth Coin Is About to Be Mined — The Most Consequential Supply Event in Monetary History Since Gold Hit Peak Production
Sometime around March 11–14, 2026, Bitcoin will mine its 20 millionth coin — the moment when 95.24% of all BTC that will ever exist crosses into permanent circulation. As of March 3, 19,996,994 BTC had been confirmed at block height 939,111 by the Clark Moody Dashboard. The remaining 1 million coins will take 114 years to mine. Between 2.3 and 3.7 million BTC are already permanently lost. ETFs and corporate treasuries hold millions more in long-term lockup. Daily new issuance has collapsed to 450 BTC. This is the inflection point where Bitcoin's scarcity transitions from a design principle into an irreversible mathematical reality.