Bitcoin remains stuck in a tightening range just above the $80K mark. Despite the recent bounce from sub-$85K levels, the overall market tone still leans cautious. There’s been no meaningful breakout, and sentiment hasn’t shifted bullish yet. BTC Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, the price is still trapped inside
Itaú, Brazil’s largest private bank, has recommended in a new research report that investors allocate 1% to 3% of their portfolios to Bitcoin by 2026. The bank cited the need for risk diversification and protection against currency fluctuations as the primary rationale for this recommendation. The report states that despite Bitcoin’s recent price decline, it
The US banking industry has mounted a coordinated challenge to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) approach. The pushback targets the regulator’s efforts to integrate cryptocurrency firms into the federal banking system. On December 12, OCC issued conditional approval of national trust charters for five digital asset firms, including Ripple, Fidelity, Paxos,
Bitcoin BTC$90,174.13 has so far bounced above $90,000, 15% higher from its Nov. 21 low of around $80,000, with price finding confluence support across three important cost basis metrics: the 2024 yearly volume weighted cost basis, the True Market Mean, and the average U.S. spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) cost basis. These metrics help to identify
While Bitcoin’s weak price performance throughout 2025 may have disappointed some investors, according to Katherine Dowling, President of Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company, the picture will change radically next year. Dowling argues that a shift in the regulatory environment, monetary expansion, and inflows of institutional capital will propel Bitcoin to much higher levels by 2026. Dowling
Vanguard’s global head of quantitative equity, John Ameriks, said bitcoin BTC$90,061.19 still resembles a speculative collectible more than an asset meant to build long-term wealth, comparing it to a “digital Labubu,” the plush toy that has become a popular collectible. Ameriks’ words came during Bloomberg’s ETFs in Depth conference in New York on Thursday, where
Bitcoin-heavy firm Strategy (MSTR) will remain in the Nasdaq 100 index, surviving the annual reshuffle that saw several household names dropped. The firm, which began as business software provider MicroStrategy, pivoted in 2020 to stockpiling bitcoin as its core strategy. It has since then accumulated 660,624 BTC worth $59.55 billion, and it was added to
Laura Katherine Mann, a partner at global law firm White & Case, sees 2025 as the “test-case year” for crypto initial public offerings, but says 2026 is the real proof point: the year the market finds out whether digital asset IPOs are a “durable asset class” or just a cyclical trade that only works when
Stablecoin issuer Tether’s dreams of a full takeover of Italian soccer club Juventus appear to have been dashed. Majority shareholder Exor’s board of directors has unanimously rejected Tether’s binding, all-cash bid to purchase the firm’s 65.4% stake in Juventus, stating in a Saturday press release that it has “no intention of selling any of its
The news that MSCI — one of the world’s “Big Three” index providers — is looking to potentially exclude digital asset treasuries (DATs) from its indexes has absolutely scandalized the crypto community. JP Morgan mentioning this in their research note on Strategy only added fuel to the fire, with the term “Operation Chokepoint” coming back