Your day-ahead look for Aug. 17, 2026 This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here , if you haven't already. Bitcoin BTC $ 63,588.88 continues to trade in a narrow price band, and two of its biggest corporate believers aren't blinking. Simon Gerovich, CEO of Metaplanet, and Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, two of the cryptocurrency’s biggest corporate holders, have doubled down on their argument that BTC’s maximum issuance of 21 million…
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