PANews, August 16th - Julio Moreno, research director at CryptoQuant, shared his expectations on X, stating that BTC is very likely to experience an increase in the fourth quarter of this year. After a deep study of BTC's price performance in the halving years, Moreno found that BTC's performance so far this year is very similar to that of 2016 and 2020. Moreno said: 'If the price is to increase, it will be in the fourth quarter.'

A Golden Finance report stated that Swell, in a post on X, stated that the rswETH withdrawal upgrade has undergone audits by sigpio and NethermindEth and is testing the rswETH withdrawal process. If no issues are found, it is expected to go live this week.

As for the information released by the Security Media Center under the Iraqi Joint Operations Command on July 20, the Iraqi military launched an airstrike on a location in the northern mountainous area of Iraq, killing three armed members of the extremist organization 'Islamic State'. The statement mentioned that the Iraqi Air Force conducted the airstrike at a hideout of the 'Islamic State' militants located in the Hamrin mountainous area between Kirkuk and Salahaddin provinces based on intelligence received on July 19 at 5:00 local time. The security forces dispatched to the scene for ground search found the bodies of three militants, as well as some weapons and communication equipment. An Iraqi security official, who declined to be named, told Xinhua News Agency that one of the militants was a senior member of the 'Islamic State' who was on the wanted list of the Iraqi security forces.

Odaily Planet Daily News, co-founder and CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, said in an interview with CNBC: 'I used to be a BTC skeptic, but after researching and understanding BTC, I found that my views over the past five years were wrong. I'm not saying that BTC won't be abused like other things, but it is a legitimate financial instrument that can provide you with potentially unrelated returns.' (theblock)

Odaily Star Daily News, Bloomberg ETF senior analyst Eric Balchunas wrote on the X platform that he found that Bitcoin ETF achieved net positive flow in single day, single week, and single month. He originally thought that the situation would be earlier during the market downturn, but during this period, the net flow since the beginning of the year has remained stable at +14.6 billion, which is a good sign for Bitcoin ETF.

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