Key Highlights: Historically, Bitcoin has established major bear-market bottoms shortly following U.S. midterm elections, reaching cyclical lows in January 2015, December 2018, and November 2022. Unlike previous cycles where bottoms occurred 13 to 71 days post-election, Bitcoin’s lowest level so far in 2024 arrived on July 1 at $57,850—around 125 days ahead of the vote—before ...
Key Highlights: Bitcoin proposal BIP-360 alters Taproot spend paths to conceal public keys, but explicitly does not introduce post-quantum signatures or protect exposed keys during transaction broadcast. Ethereum smart accounts can already verify hash-based signatures like SPHINCS+ via the EVM, though native solutions like EIP-8141 frame transactions remain in early draft and testnet stages. Hardware ...
Key Highlights: Bitcoin rebounded toward $82,000, testing its 50-day simple moving average after sliding beneath $81,000 overnight. Gold climbed back to $4,020 per ounce, recovering from a session low of $3,986, alongside broader gains across Asian equities and US equity futures. Crypto liquidations surpassed $435 million within 24 hours, heavily driven by $385 million in ...
Key Highlights: Over $417.93 million in crypto long positions were forcibly liquidated as sudden price declines triggered cascading losses for bullish traders. Bitcoin and Ethereum led derivatives market wipeouts, with Bitcoin liquidations reaching $140.62 million and Ethereum recording $93.12 million. Institutional sentiment showed resilience against the sell-off, with U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs drawing $528.40 million ...
Key Highlights: Gulf International Bank (UK) maintained an unchanged position in Strategy during the third quarter of 2026, holding steady at 19,842 shares. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), owns 97.2% of Gulf International Bank, providing the kingdom with indirect exposure to Bitcoin via equity. MicroStrategy, led by Executive Chairman Michael ...
Key Highlights: Analyst Benjamin Cowen highlights $83,000 as a pivotal support zone for Bitcoin, cautioning that losing this threshold could lead to a drop into the early to mid-$70,000 range. Anticipated tightening in monetary policy continues to elevate Bitcoin dominance as investors rotate out of altcoins into comparatively lower-risk digital assets. Cowen points to historical ...
Key Highlights: The Winklevoss brothers view Zcash ($ZEC) as a complementary asset that functions as an encrypted Bitcoin by addressing privacy limitations in public blockchains. They project that if Zcash achieves a market capitalization equal to 10% of Bitcoin’s value, the price of $ZEC could multiply fivefold and surpass $5,000. Winklevoss Asset Services has submitted ...
Key Highlights: Large crypto investors deployed substantial capital within a 24-hour window, including one whale who acquired roughly $7.22 million across Ethereum and eight selected altcoins. Major Ethereum holders orchestrated large-scale exchange withdrawals, transferring tens of millions of dollars in ETH from Binance and Kraken for staking and decentralized lending. Institutional or high-net-worth flows extended ...
Key Highlights: The TD Sequential indicator has flashed buy signals for Bitcoin ($BTC), Hype ($HYPE), and Zcash ($ZEC) after recent corrective pullbacks. Bitcoin dropped approximately 2.80% to around $82,000 following a prior sell signal near $85,000, but technicals now point to an approaching end to the correction. Key support thresholds have been identified across the ...
Key Highlights: Chinese authorities are moving to confiscate 61,896 Bitcoins valued at billions of dollars. The cryptocurrency assets are connected to a massive fraudulent fundraising scheme that defrauded investors of roughly 20 billion yuan. Legal proceedings regarding the case and the disposition of the seized funds are currently underway in a Tianjin court. Tianjin Court ...
Key Highlights: Bitcoin’s market dominance rate reached 60% on Wednesday, hitting its highest level since May. Smaller digital assets and niche sectors bore the brunt of recent weakness, with the CoinDesk Memecoin Index falling over 5%. Market participants note crypto is increasingly tracking equity markets while waiting for an industry-specific catalyst. Bitcoin Market Dominance Touches ...
Key Highlights: China’s benchmark CSI 300 index fell 2%, crossing the threshold into a bear market with a 20% decline from its June peak. Asian markets tumbled broadly, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 down roughly 3%, South Korea’s Kospi sinking 3.5%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropping 3%. Surging oil prices and mixed third-quarter earnings from ...