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For the better part of the last two years, spot Bitcoin ETFs were treated like a one-way door. They took Bitcoin out of keys and operational hassle and turned it into a ticker that fit inside every normal portfolio. Money came in, shares got created, and Bitcoin had a steady, legitimate source of demand.
Across five straight weeks leading into late February, investors pulled close to $3.8 billion...
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Bitcoin defends $64K after U.S., Israel strikes on Iran as ETF flows return to center stage
Bitcoin traded through a weekend macro shock after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran sparked regional retaliation.
The largest price swings occurred during low-liquidity hours, leaving spot BTC back near the mid-$64,000 area.
The move reinforced a pattern that has become more visible in the ETF era: Bitcoin...
Bitcoin is turning into multi-generational wealth, and a large share of holders still run it with a single point of failure. One accident, illness, or a stretch of incapacity can be the difference between inheriting generational wealth and losing everything.
That's the inheritance crisis the market will have to face.
A recent report from the Gannett Trust framed 2026 as the moment early adopters...
President Donald Trump has pulled the United States into military action against Iran, and the first consequence for crypto markets was another wave of selling rather than a rush into Bitcoin as a haven.
According to CryptoSlate’s data, BTC price dumped around 7%, erasing some of its weeklong gains to trade as low as $63,000 before recovering slightly.
This price action negates the popular...
The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs under IEEPA on Feb. 20, and markets immediately inherited a large cash flow question. The amount at stake was more than $175 billion in tariff collections that could be subject to refunds, with the Court offering no step-by-step plan for how refunds should be processed.
The first clean market tell came from an asset that...
Since it's pretty clear we've now seen this cycle's bull market high, I've created an updated halving-cycle model built on four Bitcoin cycles.
The model projects a cycle low near $35,000 in December 2026 after a 72.5% drawdown from a $126,219 cycle high.
Inside the halving-cycle framework
My last model correctly marked both the 2021 and 2025 top timeframes. The new framework, “Akiba Cycle Model...
A security flaw in a proposed XRP Ledger (XRPL) upgrade could have enabled unauthorized transactions, but researchers flagged the issue before it could reach the blockchain’s main network.
The XRPL Foundation said Feb. 26 that the vulnerability was found in the proposed “Batch” amendment, a feature intended to let users bundle multiple actions into a single atomic transaction.
Security researcher...
Japan's SBI Holdings will issue a ¥10 billion retail bond on March 24, but the story is the XRP perk dangled in front of buyers, conditional on opening an account at SBI VC Trade and completing receipt procedures by noon on May 11.
Pricing drops on March 10, subscription runs from March 11-23, and secondary trading launches on March 25 on Osaka Digital Exchange's START platform.
The timeline...
Japan's SBI Holdings will issue a ¥10 billion retail bond on March 24, but the story is the XRP perk dangled in front of buyers, conditional on opening an account at SBI VC Trade and completing receipt procedures by noon on May 11.
Pricing drops on March 10, subscription runs from March 11-23, and secondary trading launches on March 25 on Osaka Digital Exchange's START platform.
The timeline...