When Germany offloaded approximately 50,000 Bitcoin during summer 2024, the backlash was swift and severe. Today, following Bitcoin’s dramatic retreat from recent highs, that controversial move appears significantly more prudent. Authorities in Saxony confiscated roughly 50,000 BTC in January 2024 during enforcement actions against individuals operating ...

Sunday marks 100 days since the war in the Middle East began, and the conflict continues to drive substantial volatility across all asset classes in every region of the world as a lasting peace deal remains elusive. Negotiations between the U.S. and Iran have stagnated, with Washington and Tehran sending mixed messages on the state of peace talks and both ...

Crypto has spent more than a decade trying to design financial systems from scratch. In that time the space has tried, in order, four distinct economic philosophies. Each was promoted by serious people as the path to a fairer system. Each produced systems whose dominant strategy was extraction. The first was pure libertarian permissionlessness. The premise ...

It’s not been a good week for bitcoin bulls, and many traders think it’s going to get a lot worse in 2026. Kalshi’s market for Bitcoin's yearly low predicts the cryptocurrency will bottom out at $44,000 sometime before year's end. This would represent a decline of roughly 31% from the current price near $62,300. Traders also assign a 56% chance of falling ...

In one very small, and at least to date obscure, corner of the crypto market, investors are rushing in rather than heading for the exits. So-called HYPE exchange-traded funds are taking in new assets from investors at a time when the leading crypto bets, including bitcoin and ether , are tanking. In May, Bitwise and 21shares launched spot ETFs tracking ...

There was a time when I wrote about the debasement trade constantly. But a lot has changed since last year’s massive run-up in precious metals prices and - as I flagged in a series of posts this week - gold has stopped trading like a safe haven asset ever since war with Iran began. It falls when risk aversion spikes and rallies when risk appetite recovers. ...

The Bitcoin ($BTC) ecosystem is going through a wider decline amid growing market uncertainty. In the 1st quarter of 2026, institutional $BTC holdings plunged by 17%. As per CoinShares’ latest report, this comes at a time when hedge funds are significantly exiting the market. This increased selling pressure on Bitcoin which recorded 24.6% decline from ...

On Saturday, Bitcoin failed to halt its selling pressure and dropped even below $60,000. It is hitting the intra-day low of $59,192 level, which was seen as the weakest performance since October 2024. At the time we are writing this article, Bitcoin is trading at the $60,886 level, showing 1.79 percent losses in the last 24 hours and a 20 percent crash so ...

Cardano has fallen by 24% in the past week, taking it to a five-year low of $0.16. Sure, cryptocurrency prices have taken a dive across the board, but Cardano has dropped more than 75% in a year, and what's happening goes beyond its price: Cardano's model is failing. In an emotional video, Cardano's founder Charles Hoskinson described the ecosystem as a ...

Bitcoin continued massive losses on Friday after an already painful week for cryptocurrency investors, falling to lows set in October 2024. The flagship cryptocurrency was last down to $59,099.25. Over the course of the week, it was down 16%. After Michael Saylor’s company, Strategy, sold a small portion of its bitcoin holdings, the decline started. As a ...

U.S. forces struck Iranian coastal radar sites on Saturday after shooting down drones launched by Iran toward the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said, in the latest escalation complicating efforts to end the war between the two countries. The U.S. military believes the four Iranian drones were targeting regional maritime traffic, a U.S. official told ...

Options traders are storming into bets against crypto’s most vocal evangelist Michael Saylor. Call it mutiny on Strategy. Flows around Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) and the company’s variable-rate preferred stock STRC are turning bearish this week after traders had been more balanced in the preceding month despite a steady decline in bitcoin that began in ...