According to @KookCapitalLLC, the U.S. government sold 668 BTC on Oct 14, 2025. Source: @KookCapitalLLC on X. The U.S. Marshals Service has historically disposed of seized Bitcoin via auctions and broker-assisted sales, including a publicly documented sale of 9,861 BTC from Silk Road seizures in March 2023. Source: U.S. Marshals Service; United States v. James Zhong, SDNY filing (Mar 2023). Traders typically verify such claims by tracking movements from government-labeled wallets to exchanges or brokers on on-chain analytics platforms before adjusting positions. Source: Arkham Intelligence platform documentation. For trade setup, monitor government-labeled wallet outflows, exchange inflow spikes, and the BTC spot-perp basis to assess short-term supply impact when such disposals occur. Source: Arkham Intelligence for wallet labels; CME CF Benchmarks methodology for spot-perpetual dynamics.

According to @Andre_Dragosch, market participants are questioning the need to upgrade to Bitcoin Core v30 or Bitcoin Knots, citing concerns about both spamming and censorship on the BTC network. Source: @Andre_Dragosch on X, Oct 5, 2025. This highlights an active debate over node policy and relay rules in different Bitcoin implementations, which define which transactions are relayed or accepted into mempools and thereby shape fee formation and confirmation latency. Source: Bitcoin Core documentation on mempool policy and transaction relay rules. For trading, divergences or shifts in these policies can change network congestion and fee volatility, influencing on-chain liquidity, exchange deposit and withdrawal costs, and the BTC spot-futures basis. Source: Bitcoin Core fee estimation documentation and Bitcoin on-chain data. Actionable focus: monitor mempool size, effective feerates, and confirmation times via Bitcoin Core RPC (getmempoolinfo, estimatesmartfee), and track miner fee share of block rewards to assess potential tailwinds or headwinds for BTC transaction costs. Source: Bitcoin Core documentation and Bitcoin blockchain data.