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SOL hovers at $79–$81 below the 50-day SMA for the third time since October 2025. History says this calm before a storm could send SOL toward $52. Solana is doing something it has done twice before. Price sits between $79 and $81. The 50-day simple moving average is at $85.79. SOL is below it, again. That gap is not random. According to @alicharts on X, this exact setup has played out three times since October 2025, and the structure keeps repeating. The Three-Step Trap Playing Out Again The pattern runs in three phases. First, SOL rallies and closes above the…
Sentiment in the bitcoin BTC$71,116.02 market appears to have flipped after a long time, suggesting an investor positioning for a potential rally to $80,000. On Deribit, which accounts for a majority share of the multi-billion dollar global crypto options market, the $80,000 call — a derivatives bet that prices will rise beyond that level — has emerged as the most popular trade. It has overtaken the $60,000 put, which dominated positioning in recent months as prices declined.As of writing, open interest at the $80,000 strike stands at over $1.6 billion, with each contract representing one bitcoin, according to Deribit data.…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) started buying Bitcoin back in 2020, kickstarted by founder and CEO at the time, Michael Saylor. What began as a small buying trend quickly exploded over the years, and now, the company has claimed the title of the public company with the largest Bitcoin holdings in the world. The company has now spent tens of billions of dollars buying Bitcoin, but with the price decline, the holdings have now moved into losses. Strategy’s Bitcoin Bet Records Billions Of Dollars In Losses Strategy recently filed…
NYT spent 18 months naming Adam Back as Satoshi Nakamoto. Crypto pushed back hard. Code analysis, community jokes, and a key Bitcoin figure who just went back to sleep. The New York Times just handed the world its “definitive answer” on Bitcoin’s greatest mystery. Crypto Twitter handed it back. Reporter John Carreyrou announced on X that his 18-month investigation had finally cracked the 17-year mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity. The NYT account followed shortly after, stating the trail led to a 55-year-old computer scientist in El Salvador named Adam Back. Back is the cryptographer behind Hashcash and current CEO of…
The crypto market remains pinned just below its early-February ceiling, with bitcoin BTC$71,377.41 hovering at $71,200 and ether (ETH) trading at $2,185. The sideways crawl comes despite a risk-on boost from the recent US-Iran ceasefire, leaving analysts sharply divided on the next leg.Bloomberg’s Mike McGlone said this week that BTC needs to reclaim $75,000 or risk a meltdown to $10,000. Fundstrat Tom Lee has taken a contrasting view, claiming that the “bottom is in” on Wednesday, although it’s worth noting that his fund holds $10.4 billion worth of ETH.BTC is up by around 0.3% since midnight UTC while ETH is…
Traders at JPMorgan Chase are laying out three scenarios for the US stock market that are tied to developments in the Middle East. Starting with a “status quo” scenario, JPMorgan’s trading desk says stocks would witness some stability in the short term if tensions de-escalate on a limited basis and vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz remain largely restricted, reports Bloomberg. “It would be a short-lived win if Trump were to back away from his threats on Iranian infra, seemingly keeping Iran from targeting Saudi oil production while keeping the Houthis from closing access to the Red Sea.” In…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has revealed that a significant transfer of wealth over the next two decades could transform the way global payments are made, with stablecoins likely to play a central role in this change for the broader crypto sector. In a new blog post, the company projects that between 2028 and 2048 as much as $100 trillion could pass from “Baby Boomers” to “Millennials” and “Generation Z, groups that are far more likely to view crypto as a standard part of their financial lives. That…
Eliminating stablecoin yield increases bank lending by just $2.1B, or 0.02%. Most stablecoin reserves remain in banks, limiting impact on credit creation. Consumer access to competitive returns would be lost if yield were prohibited. A new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) finds that banning stablecoin yield would have minimal effect on bank lending. The study shows that deposit flight concerns are smaller than expected. Eleanor Terrett, reporting on Twitter, noted that Senate Banking lawmakers had pressed for the report last month. The study is part of the GENIUS Act framework for regulating stablecoins. Stablecoin Yield…
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has asked a local court to freeze seven bitcoin BTC$71,320.04, worth roughly $8 million, that remain unreturned after a February payout error. The move escalates a dispute with a small group of users who refused to return the funds.The exchange said it began a provisional seizure, a pre-lawsuit step that blocks a debtor from moving assets, according to local media. A civil case is expected to follow. It all began on Feb. 6, when the exchange ran a promotion intended to pay 620,000 won (~$460) to 249 winners. Staff mistakenly entered “BTC” instead of “KRW,”…
The current downtrend has put the Bitcoin price in an increasingly difficult position as bears push back on every recovery. Even now, the price continues to struggle to maintain an uptrend, but it has not deterred bulls from predicting higher prices. The general consensus still remains that the Bitcoin price will cross $100,000 again and eventually reach new all-time highs. As these bullish predictions roll out, one analyst has given their opinion on how the cryptocurrency’s price will move from here. Bitcoin Could Rally To $90,000 First Before Crashing Pseudonymous crypto analyst Cyclop shared their expectations for the Bitcoin price…