Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer, created history on May 22, 2010, when he spent 10,000 Bitcoin on two pizzas. The trade was valued at about $41(market cap under US$1M) at the time. According to Binance, the 10,000 Bitcoins would be valued well over $700m (market cap over US$1.5T) now. In August 2025, when $BTC price was
Strive’s Bitcoin linked preferred stock SATA is emerging as a key credit market instrument while its common equity ASST gains traction in public markets, reshaping how institutions finance large Bitcoin treasuries through yield bearing securities rather than straight spot purchases. In a post on X, MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor wrote that “the most interesting
Minnesota financial institutions can no longer afford to remain on the sidelines as Wall Street aggressively captures digital asset infrastructure, driving a state-level legislative push to halt deposit flight and insulate the local economy, a local legislator and a banker told CoinDesk. “Over the last several years, I’ve consistently heard concerns about the increasing amount
Trump Media & Technology Group completed its second largest Bitcoin transfer of 2026. According to data from the on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain, the company transferred 2,650 $BTC, worth approximately $205 million, to the CryptoCom exchange. According to the data, the company purchased a total of 11,542 $BTC at an average cost of $118,522. It was
The prolonged slump in crypto markets is increasing pressure on firms with digital asset exposure, including Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital, whose flagship fund posted another quarterly loss. SkyBridge’s $1.3 billion SkyBridge Opportunity Fund fell nearly 13% during the first quarter of 2026, according to investor disclosures. Around 64% of the fund remains tied to crypto
A tiny island territory with a population smaller than most college towns is attempting something no nation has pulled off: running its entire economy onchain. Bermuda’s Premier David Burt is working with Circle to turn that vision into reality, with $USDC, Circle’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, serving as the digital plumbing. The effort isn’t theoretical anymore. On
Walrus, the decentralized storage protocol built on the Sui blockchain, just launched something designed to fix that. The MemWal SDK is a developer toolkit that gives AI agents persistent, encrypted memory stored on Walrus’s decentralized infrastructure, complete with semantic search so agents can actually retrieve what they’ve learned. What MemWal actually does The SDK stores
US President Donald Trump made noteworthy remarks about the new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh at a ceremony held at the White House. Trump said Warsh “will be remembered as one of the best Fed chairmen in history.” In his speech, Trump argued that he wanted Warsh to act independently, saying, “Don’t look at me,
Strategy, the largest institutional Bitcoin ($BTC) investor, continues its $BTC buying strategy. Continuing its weekly purchases, Strategy maintains its belief that $BTC will rise. At this point, speaking to CNBC, Strategy founder Michael Saylor said that Bitcoin had fallen from a peak of around $125,000 to around $60,000, where it found solid support and bottomed
In this article we will develop a trading system with a very simple logic, based on the use of the daily range as a measure of market volatility. As will be seen, even an extremely simple and linear rule can give rise to interesting trading ideas, especially when applied to markets characterized by directional moves