Peter Schiff, a staunch opponent of Bitcoin, claimed that a sharp sell-off would occur if US President Donald Trump did not mention Bitcoin in his speech. He said that the recent recovery in Bitcoin stemmed from expectations that President Donald Trump would mention $BTC in his speech. Gold advocate Schiff said, “If the President makes
Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm to secure a U.S. banking charter, said Wednesday that its holding perpetual preferred stock in bitcoin treasury firm Strategy on its balance sheet. Anchorage’s CEO Nathan McCauley called it “conviction compounding.” “Institutions don’t just talk about Bitcoin, they structure around it. When the company that operationalizes Bitcoin infrastructure puts
PayPal jumped nearly 7% on Tuesday after Bloomberg reported that Stripe is weighing a possible acquisition of the payments company. The report cited people familiar with the matter and said talks are still in early stages. Stripe is considering buying all of PayPal or only certain parts of the business. The market reacted fast with
Market expectations for the Fed’s interest rate decision in March have been updated. Pricing on the forecasting platform Polymarket revealed that investors are largely focused on the scenario where interest rates will remain unchanged. According to platform data, the probability of no change in interest rates at the March meeting is priced at 96 percent.
Bitcoin saw a small rise ahead of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, as markets reacted to the administration’s economic messaging and broader risk-on sentiment ahead of Nvidia earnings. The leading crypto climbed more than $2,000, moving from approximately $64,000 to $66,000 just before Trump’s speech at 9 pm ET, according
Mastercard is hiring a Director of Crypto Flows to lead stablecoin-linked card issuance, scale DeFi payment flows, and rewrite network rules for Web3 transactions. The job posting, first surfaced by crypto journalist Frank Chaparro on Feb. 24, signals a structural push beyond the pilot-stage experiments the payments giant has run so far. The Timing That
TL;DR: On-chain data reveals that nearly half of the circulating $BTC supply was acquired at prices higher than the current market value. Every recovery attempt is thwarted by investors seeking to “break even” as soon as they reach their entry price. A lack of new buyers and institutional disinterest are prolonging the digital asset’s stagnation.
Large US investors reduced their Bitcoin ETF holdings in late 2025, and new breakdowns show the selling came mainly from a few specific groups rather than the entire market. Bloomberg Intelligence data shared by analysts shows that 13F filers — large institutions that report quarterly holdings to the US SEC — were net sellers of
Despite the sharp pullback in cryptocurrency markets, Ryan Rasmussen, Research Director at Bitwise, one of the world’s leading crypto asset managers, remains optimistic about the future of Bitcoin. Speaking to Bloomberg, Rasmussen argued that the current price fluctuations are temporary and that Bitcoin’s long-term bullish scenario is stronger than ever. Rasmussen, recalling that Bitcoin has