In a recent interview, Brandt said there is a “very good chance” Bitcoin reaches around $500,000 in the next major bull cycle, while outlining a broader potential peak range of roughly $300,000 to $600,000 by late 2029. At today’s price near $84,700, a move to $500,000 would represent almost a 6x increase, while the top
Capital B is converting traditional capital-market funding into direct Bitcoin purchases, including through ATM equity issuance. The U.S. reserve primarily changes potential sell-side supply because its initial $BTC came from government forfeitures rather than market purchases. Corporate $BTC can look structurally scarce until financing conditions change, making dilution, conversion terms and refinancing risk part of
Bitcoin’s BIP138 wallet-backup proposal was merged into the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository on Sept. 21, but the specification remains Draft. It aims to preserve information that a seed phrase may not restore in a complex wallet. The tradeoff is that a third party could read that information if it already holds an eligible extended public
In brief A quantum computer could someday derive private keys from exposed public keys and drain Bitcoin wallets—the hypothetical “Q-Day”—though no such machine exists and timelines vary widely. Fixes fall into three buckets, all in the news this week: quantum-safe transactions under current rules, protocol upgrades like a soft fork, and custody-layer defenses. Nothing shipped
Saylor’s Orange Chart Puts Another Bitcoin Buy in Focus Another bitcoin purchase may be coming from Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR), after Executive Chairman Michael Saylor shared a chart of the company’s holdings on Sept. 27. His message about adding more orange accompanied a graphic that marks Strategy’s bitcoin purchases with orange circles. Saylor wrote: “Even
One-Hour Chart: Bitcoin Takes Another Crack at $85,000 The one-hour chart shows bitcoin’s price steadily clawing back ground following its Sept. 23 retreat into the low-$83,000s. After spending Sept. 24-25 trading between approximately $83,300 and $85,300, $BTC has worked its way toward $84,870, putting the $85,000 threshold squarely in the spotlight. $BTC/USD 1-hour chart via
Crypto analyst and former FTX community partner Benson Sun stated that Bitcoin’s current bull cycle may unfold differently than past bull markets, suggesting that $BTC could reach new highs slowly and steadily. According to Sun, unlike the rapid, culminating rallies in the Bitcoin market in 2013 and 2017, the current cycle may be more gradual.
Bitcoin has been climbing steadily since July, but one chart analyst thinks October could finally bring the pullback traders have been waiting for. After a rally that began in July and has continued through late September, a technical analyst says Bitcoin may be due for a healthier cooling-off period, and October could be the month
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have attracted about $5.3 billion since the Treasury announced larger long-dated bond buybacks, according to ETF analyst Nate Geraci. Geraci said on Sept. 26 that the funds collected $2.4 billion during the latest week alone, while Monday’s roughly $1 billion intake ranked as the ninth-largest single-day inflow since U.S. spot Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) could climb to an average price of $94,000 by the end of October 2026, according to a forecast generated by ChatGPT as traders prepare for the annual “Uptober” period. For October 2026, ChatGPT outlined three possible outcomes for the maiden cryptocurrency. The bearish scenario assigned a 25% probability to a decline toward the