Key Takeaways Eric Trump plans to attend Metaplanet’s key shareholder vote in Tokyo focused on Bitcoin capital strategy. Metaplanet has accumulated over $2 billion in Bitcoin, with its shares surging 140% this year. Eric Trump, a member of Metaplanet’s Strategic Board of Advisors, plans to visit Tokyo next month to attend the company’s key shareholder
Top Win International changed its corporate name to AsiaStrategy on Aug. 22 in Hong Kong, kept its Nasdaq ticker SORA, and began accepting Bitcoin for watch sales, the company said. The move follows a months-long restructuring that brought Sora Ventures into Top Win’s public company structure in May, a path that avoided a separate listing
Mike McGlone, the senior commodity strategist at Bitcoin Intelligence, has returned to the X platform after a break, posting a tweet about Bitcoin, the Federal Reserve, and inflation. He believes that a further Bitcoin price increase would indicate one thing, which the Fed will definitely not like. Meanwhile, BTC continues to drop and has shed
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Bitcoin has recently set new all-time highs, yet many of the leading Bitcoin treasury companies have been underperforming significantly. Despite Bitcoin itself recently pushing well above $120,000, the share prices of firms such as (Micro)Strategy remain far from their peaks. Are these companies likely to see a sustained recovery, or has their period of outperformance
Perhaps surprising markets which had expected a hawkish tone, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell firmly put a September rate cut on the table on Friday. Speaking at the Kansas City Fed’s Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, Powell said the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting policy. “Downside risks to employment are rising,” said Powell.
Story Highlights Powell’s Jackson Hole speech could decide whether Bitcoin rallies or dips further this week. Rising unemployment and weak job data fuel hopes for September interest rate cut speculation. Even hawkish remarks may already be priced, potentially limiting Bitcoin’s downside risk today. All eyes in the crypto market are locked on the Jackson Hole
The downward trend that began last week in Bitcoin, Ethereum and altcoins continues ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech. While analysts noted that the tone of Powell’s speech will be important for the course of Bitcoin and altcoins, analyst XWIN Research shared their expectations. Accordingly, the analyst said that BTC may face
Michael Saylor, a vocal Bitcoin evangelist and executive chairman of the Strategy BTC giant, has taken to his official social media account to convey another important message to the global crypto community. His tweet hints at his firm, ultra-bullish belief in the long-term potential of Bitcoin and could even hint at an upcoming price surge.
A group of developers that manages the world’s most popular full node software, Bitcoin Core, continues to assert their view that the OP_RETURN war of 2025 is over, they’ve won, and their dissidents are unserious people following a hillbilly leader. Their latest jeers include a new nickname for their opposition, “Knotzis,” and cackling at a