Your gas bill just became a Bitcoin story Fresh March data tied one household pressure point to one market trade. The preliminary survey from the University of Michigan put consumer sentiment at 55.5, the lowest reading of 2026, and said gasoline prices had exerted the most immediate impact felt by consumers. The same release showed
Representatives from central banks, multilateral institutions and the private financial sector met yesterday (19) in São Paulo, during the MERGE São Paulo event , to discuss the advances and challenges of asset tokenization and digital money in the region. The panel “Tokenization of Money: CBDCs, Tokenized Deposits and the Future of Digital Liquidity” brought together
Bitcoin investors are buying protection around $50,000 even as the flagship digital asset holds near $70,000 and has recently outperformed gold, the S&P 500, and the US dollar during the ongoing Iran war. According to CryptoSlate’s data, Bitcoin was trading at about $70,688 at press time, which means hedging around the $50,000 level means investors
Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) surged from its 52-week low of $49.90 on Feb. 5 to roughly $129 by mid-March, gaining approximately 160% while broader crypto markets continued to fall. The rally followed five simultaneous catalysts that prompted Wall Street to stop treating CRCL as a crypto proxy and start modeling it as payments infrastructure.
Bitcoin showed typical volatility on March 20, swinging between $69,500 and $71,356 before closing nearly flat with a 0.1% gain and a $1.39 trillion market cap. Market Resilience and Equity Parallels Bitcoin’s trademark volatility was once again on display Friday, March 20, as the cryptocurrency swung from $69,500 to an intraday peak of $71,356 before
The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging Super Micro Computer (SMCI) co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw and two associates with smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia (NVDA) AI servers to China. SMCI shares plunged 28% while Nvidia fell 4.8% as the highest-profile U.S. AI chip export enforcement case rattled markets. How the Alleged Scheme Worked
The Fed kept rates unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% on Mar. 18, lifted its 2026 inflation projections to 2.7% for both headline and core PCE, and held to a median year-end fed-funds path of 3.4%. Chair Jerome Powell said higher energy prices will push up overall inflation in the near term and that the implications of events
The World Trade Center in São Paulo hosted today (18) the first day of MERGE São Paulo 2026 open to the public, an event that brought together leaders from the financial and crypto-asset sectors to discuss the future of digital assets. The dominant theme of the day was unequivocal: stablecoins have ceased to be a
When Vanity Fair published “Crypto’s True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously” on Mar. 17, the backlash arrived within hours. Hayden Adams said he had passed on the shoot after being asked to pose in a bathrobe in a sauna. Camila Russo called the framing “so off.” Nic Carter compared the group photograph to the
As the technical outlook for cryptocurrency markets becomes a subject of renewed debate, a notable warning has come from analysts. Licensed market technical analyst (CMT) Aksel Kibar stated that the Bitcoin price is approaching a critical support level and that a break below this level could trigger a sharp correction. According to Kibar, the lower