Bitcoin’s rally in 2026 has not gone as many investors expected. After hitting a record high of $126,000 in October 2025, $BTC has now fallen below $82,000, leaving traders wondering why the expected mega bull run never arrived. Many believed 2026 would become Bitcoin’s biggest year yet. Due to a crypto-friendly U.S. president, spot Bitcoin
Grant Cardone, a multibillionaire real estate investor, said Wednesday he added another $100 million in bitcoin as part of a strategy combining the asset with income-producing real estate, during a Fireside chat at Consensus Miami 2026. “We just simply added another $100 million of bitcoin,” Cardone said, describing a recent property deal where $BTC was
Bitcoin’s developer community should stop waiting for certainty about quantum-computing timelines and focus on getting a post-quantum signature scheme into production, Alex Pruden, CEO of Project Eleven, told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference on Wednesday. Pruden said the asymmetry between acting now and waiting favors action. “We added some new cryptography, we kind of built in
Spot bitcoin ETFs cleared crypto’s long-standing access hurdle by placing bitcoin inside brokerage and advisor accounts already used for stocks and bonds. Two and a half years in, panelists at CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference agreed that part had worked. However, they said custody concentration, modest advisor uptake and back-office plumbing all remain unresolved. Christopher Russell,
Bitcoin surges above $81K — and this time, the global stock market is watching. Bitcoin broke through the $81,000 threshold during Tuesday’s Asian trading window, posting its strongest performance since the closing days of January. The digital asset climbed from approximately $79,000 at Monday’s U.S. market close — a 5.3% weekly gain. Global stock indexes
An announcement about the long-anticipated U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) is coming “in the next few weeks,” Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference on Wednesday. The federal effort to inventory, centralize and secure U.S.-held bitcoin and other digital assets has been running in
Bitcoin is trading above $82,000 on May 6, while oil, Treasury yields, the dollar, and US stocks shift around the same volatile geopolitical and macro backdrop that has left investors exhausted after the last few months. The move reopens the inflation-hedge debate while leaving it unresolved. It also puts pressure on the claim that $BTC
Cryptocurrency market analyst Michael Nadeau stated that Bitcoin is once again approaching a critical technical level, and that the price is preparing to move towards the 200-day moving average at $84,000. According to Nadeau, such movements have been frequently seen in past bear markets, and all previous examples have resulted in lower levels. However, the
On last night’s earnings call for Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), Michael Saylor and CEO Phong Le finally admitted that they’re considering selling the company’s bitcoin ($BTC). This sudden change undoes years of guidance and explicit assurances that Strategy would never sell. Specifically, Saylor and Le told analysts on the company’s first-quarter earnings webinar that Strategy will
A new analysis by Project Eleven warns that “Q-Day,” the hypothetical point when quantum computers can break widely used public-key cryptography, could arrive as early as 2030, potentially putting millions of bitcoins at risk. The estimate builds on recent demonstrations and academic work showing rapid progress in quantum attacks against elliptic curve cryptography, the mathematical