Matt Cole, CEO of Strive Asset Management, has projected that Bitcoin could exceed $500,000 within the next four to five years. In a recent interview, Cole argued that the U.S. dollar’s purchasing power will decline more rapidly in the coming years than it has over the past decade and a half, a trend he believes […]
BlackRock cut the minimum for converting privately held Bitcoin into IBIT shares from $25 million to $1 million, while Bitwise lowered its floor from $100 million to $3 million. While this might sound like a niche development for a small number of institutional users, it signals that custody is no longer just a slogan for […]
Jurrien Timmer, Global Macro Director at Fidelity Investments, said that the US Treasury Department’s increase in long-term bond buybacks and its focus on issuing short-term Treasury bills is putting pressure on the dollar while supporting Bitcoin and gold. Timmer pointed out that the dollar weakened last week after the US Treasury Department repurchased more long-term […]
Gold and Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew roughly $7 billion over five US trading sessions, a record combined haul that puts both assets at the center of a renewed investor push for protection against currency weakness and mounting fiscal pressure. About $3.4 billion of this capital went into SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) while BlackRock’s iShares […]
As Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) led the broader cryptocurrency industry in bullish sentiment so far in August, BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) has seen its crypto portfolio climb by over $15 billion in the same period. BlackRock’s crypto portfolio has increased by $15.11 billion, up from $53.36 billion on August 1, 2026, to $68.48 billion […]
JAN3 CEO Samson Mow has sparked a fresh debate over cryptocurrency terminology, arguing that the industry should replace the term “hardware wallet” with “Bitcoin Signing Device.” Mow, a well-known Bitcoin advocate, contends that the common label misrepresents what these devices actually do and leads to confusion about how Bitcoin ownership works. The case for renaming […]
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) network, which uses XRP as its native token, has crossed the 5 billion transactions mark for the first time since its inception. The XRP Ledger has recorded a total of 5,016,297,013 transactions between June 2, 2012 and August 27, 2026, according to data from XRPSCAN. XRPL’s total transactions. Source: XRPSCAN As […]
Bitcoin has rallied approximately 40% from its July low near $57,800, renewing expectations that the cryptocurrency may have established a market bottom after several months of consolidation. $BTC was trading near $80,200 on Aug. 27. However, the recovery has brought the cryptocurrency back into a major resistance zone that previously preceded a sharp sell-off. Technical […]