While Nostr was founded in 2020/2021, it only really gained initial traction once Will Caserin launched Damus and Jack Dorsey tweeted about it. A few months later, the first Nostr world conference was held in Costa Rica (Nostrica), and things really started to move. Over the next 18 months, many — myself included — were
Some Bitcoin treasury firms are losing their luster as share prices sag below a key threshold, TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza shared in a Tuesday note. Among 13 Bitcoin-buying firms tracked by the investment bank, four are trading “at meaningful discounts” against the value of their respective crypto holdings, he said. Among them were Semler
Google took its latest step Tuesday to hasten the arrival of the AI agent economy, announcing the creation of an open-source protocol for agent payments backed by some of crypto’s biggest companies. The Agent Payments protocol revealed today can be used as an extension of Google’s previously released Agent2Agent protocol, which attempted to create a
Bitcoin exchange-traded products globally logged net inflows of 20,685 BTC last week, the strongest weekly intake since July 22, according to digital assets firm K33 Research. The renewed momentum lifted U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs’ combined holdings to 1.32 million BTC, surpassing the previous peak set on July 30. U.S. Bitcoin ETF products contributed nearly 97%
Shares in the livestreaming and e-commerce company GD Culture Group fell 28% on Tuesday after announcing a share deal to acquire all the assets from Pallas Capital Holding, including 7,500 Bitcoin. GD Culture will issue nearly 39.2 million shares of its common stock in exchange for all Pallas Capital’s assets, including $875.4 million worth of
Bitcoin long-term holders (LTHs) are now distributing BTC back into the market for the third time in the current cycle. Their current behavior could define the trajectory of the ongoing cycle. Repeat 2021-Style Cycle Top? In the 2021 cycle, long-term holders began their main distribution phase between November 2020 and March 2021. In the process,
AxLabs recently launched Talk is Cheap, a new live series hosted on X Broadcast aimed at offering behind-the-scenes insights into its current development efforts, reflections on Web3 trends, and discussions about tools and infrastructure in progress. The inaugural episode aired on Sept. 9 and featured team members from across AxLabs, including founder Guil Sperb Machado.
The hangover from the paper bitcoin summer delusion has arrived, swiftly and painfully. We see it, not in the bitcoin price, which is once more calmly and unremarkably ticking upward — pushing up against $117,000 Tuesday evening — but in the stock prices of bitcoin treasury companies. They’re all getting slaughtered: Look at the graphs
Cryptocurrency analyst Alex Krüger shared his expectations for tomorrow’s Fed interest rate decision. “I expect a dovish rate cut tomorrow, even though interest rate markets have already priced in a significant portion of it,” Krüger said. The analyst stated that he will write articles on the FOMC and the economy, but emphasized that there has