Gold had a 5,000-year head start. Bitcoin is 16 years old. And as Bitcoin crossed $77,000 this week, a striking data point is back in focus – more Americans own Bitcoin than gold. River’s US Bitcoin adoption report, drawing on data from The Nakamoto Project and the Gold IRA Guide, puts the number at 50
This week gave beaten-up stock names a strange new job. They stopped acting like laggards and started leading the screen. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) came into Friday on track for huge weekly gains, the kind that reset charts and force traders to stop laughing at names they had written
Bitcoin rallied hard after Iran said it was reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping. Bitcoin hit the highest level since February, oil prices dropped, Wall Street notched another record, and the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield slipped to 4.24%. But here’s the catch: markets acted as if the reopening had solved the core standoff
Global financial giant UBS has published a noteworthy assessment of US monetary policy. The bank stated that it maintains its expectation that the Fed will cut interest rates later in the year. A research note published by UBS emphasized that the Fed remains on a path of monetary policy easing under the current outlook. The
Bitcoin surged on April 17 after the US President Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuz was open again and shipping passage was being restored. In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that Iran had announced the strait was “fully open and ready for full passage.” He added that sea mines had been removed, or
OpenLedger, a renowned blockchain AI infrastructure entity, has announced an exclusive project, OctoClaw. OctoClaw serves as a cutting-edge and intuitive AI agent to streamline and organize complicated workflows. As OpenLedger disclosed in its official social media announcement, OctoClaw’s launch underscores a key move in connecting research, automation, execution, and generation within an inclusive platform. Additionally,
Bitcoin investors are suddenly confronting an uncomfortable math problem inside the $91.7 billion U.S. spot bitcoin ETF market. “Coinbase Custody holds 84% of all US spot Bitcoin ETF assets,” Marc Baumann, founder of research firm fiftyonexyz, posted on X on April 14. “That’s $77 billion with a single custodian. For an industry built on decentralization,
Netflix and Bitcoin moved in opposite directions on Friday, with weak corporate guidance dragging one lower while crowded short positioning and calmer geopolitics pushed the other sharply higher. Netflix shares dropped nearly 10% in Friday trading after the streaming company issued softer-than-expected second-quarter guidance and said co-founder Reed Hastings plans to leave the board in
Bitcoin is approaching a critical area where chart resistance near $79,000 to $80,000 meets a major short liquidation cluster around $76,500. That setup suggests $BTC could make one more push higher to clear nearby liquidity before facing renewed downside pressure. Bitcoin Eyes $79,000 as Trader Flags Repeat Top Pattern Bitcoin may be moving toward another
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