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Bitcoin traders are betting the cryptocurrency has further to run this month, but few see a return to six figures, according to prediction market Polymarket.

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Eric Trump, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin Corp. (NASDAQ:ABTC), expressed excitement over Bitcoin’s(CRYPTO: BTC) dramatic surge on Wednesday.

Bitcoin $BTC$71,936.32 approached $72,000 during the European morning on Thursday, an increase of more than 3.5% over the past 24 hours and 15% higher since Monday.

Bitcoin Price Forecast: BTC extends gains above $71,000 as liquidity conditions improve InsightsNewsCryptocurrencies

Bitcoin (BTC) extends its gains, inching toward $72,000 at the time of writing on Thursday, as crypto markets continue to cheer the US Treasury’s decision to double its debt buyback operations. The move has sharply improved market sentiment and liquidity conditions, helped trigger a short squeeze, and overall provided a positive catalyst for the broader crypto…

Currencies38607 Market Cap$ 2.54T+11.6% 24h Spot Volume$ 61.21B+26.3% DominanceBTC56.61%+0.21%ETH10.83%+6.91% ETH Gas0.19 Gwei MarketEditor’s PickCryptocurrency Market NewsBitcoin (BTC) News Aug 20, 2026 3min read byKamina Bashir forBeInCrypto

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The issue matters because Luke Dashjr and other BIP-110 supporters are discussing a hard fork that would replace the minority chain’s SHA-256d mining algorithm with BLAKE2b. Such a move would permanently create a whole new design, but the two networks would still share their transaction history from before the split.