Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is entering uncharted waters. As the legendary “Oracle of Omaha” steps down at the age of 95, the conglomerate now holds a record $382 billion in cash. According to Barchart, this is enough to acquire nearly 480 S&P 500 companies. The massive cash hoard, combined with 12 consecutive quarters of net
Economist Peter Schiff has renewed his criticism of Bitcoin-linked corporate strategies. This time, his focus is Strategy, the software firm best known for its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation under executive chairman Michael Saylor. Strategy isn’t in the S&P 500. But if it were, its 47.5% decline in 2025 would make it the 6th worst-performing stock in
US investors poured over $31.77 billion into US crypto exchange-traded funds in 2025 despite the crypto markets stumbling towards the final months of the year. US spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs took the lion’s share of investor interest, accumulating $21.4 billion in net inflows in 2025, according to Farside Investors data. However, it marks a fall
Investment banking company Keefe, Bruyette & Woods has turned more bullish on Bitcoin miner TeraWulf, citing what it sees as a looming shift in the company’s business mix that investors have yet to fully price in. In a Wednesday report, KBW said it upgraded TeraWulf (WULF) to “outperform” from “market perform” and raised the company’s
Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor and other prominent cryptocurrency executives lost billions of dollars in 2025, partially as a result of losses in an October flash crash. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index released on Wednesday, Saylor lost $2.6 billion over the previous 12 months, reducing his net worth to $3.8 billion. Gemini co-founders Cameron
In 2025, the market sent a clear message: it wants the power, the chips, and the anonymity. Here is the breakdown of the winners and losers from a year that defied correlation. The winners AI demand swallowed global energy capacity, and some crypto miners and infrastructure firms that successfully pivoted to High-Performance Computing (HPC) or
China has once again captured global financial attention with a decisive digital currency policy shift. Following the People’s Bank of China’s announcement that digital yuan wallets may accrue interest, investor sentiment changed rapidly. Capital flowed into companies aligned with the digital yuan ecosystem within days. According to Securities Times, investors poured over $188 million into
In the coming year, crypto will potentially extend its influence on fintech as crypto companies seek to get licensed as national banks in the US market. A long list of crypto startups has lined up for a banking license, creating a crossover between traditional finance and decentralized assets. Crypto adoption may resemble fintech in 2026,
Stablecoins just had their biggest year on record. The total stablecoin market capitalization has grown by 49% in 2025, going from $205 billion in January to $306 billion at the end of November, according to data on crypto analytics platform DeFi Llama. The ballooning of the stablecoin category has been driven by very strong catalysts.
BitMine, the U.S.-listed Ether hoarder backed by Peter Thiel and run by former Wall Street strategist Tom Lee, has become South Korea’s second most bought overseas stock in 2025. That’s despite the fact that its BNMR stock collapsed by 82% since early July. According to the Financial Times, South Korean retail traders poured a net