Bitcoin-native crowdfunding platform Geyser introduced a Bitcoin Launchpad, a new mechanism designed to gate campaign access through community engagement thresholds rather than immediate fundraising. The update was announced on April 25 via X, targeting early-stage Bitcoin projects seeking visibility prior to launch. Community attention as a new gate to capital The Launchpad mechanism modifies how…

Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor claims that they are now free to begin supporting Bitcoin.  On Thursday, the Federal Reserve announced that it had withdrawn guidance for banks related to assets and token activities.  Prior to this, banking institutions were supposed to notify the Fed if they intended to dabble in the nascent asset class.  From now…

In the beginning of April at the MIT Bitcoin Expo I was able to sit down with Jameson Lopp to discuss the current state of and future of Bitcoin.  Jameson co-founded Casa, a multisig self-custody service, with Jeremy Welch in 2017 after a long stint as a software engineer at Bitgo, another multisig service based…

Bitcoin advanced above $90,000 for the first time since early March, fueling optimism that the biggest digital token is finally breaking free of a longstanding tendency to move in the same direction as US tech stocks. After briefly succumbing to the risk-asset selloff that followed US President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs on geopolitical…

Today, approximately $8.05 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) options expire, prompting crypto market participants to brace for volatility. Traders and investors should be particularly attentive to today’s options expiry due to its volume and notional value, increasing the odds of potential influence on short-term trends. However, the put-to-call ratios and maximum pain…

A fresh wave of excitement among retail traders has been triggered by Bitcoin’s rise above $94,000, but there are fears of a possible retracement. According to on-chain analytics firm Santiment, fear of missing out among smaller traders spiked soon after the Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent price jump. In a post published on Apr. 25 via X,…

To break into the cryptocurrency mining industry, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are teaming up with executives who previously founded a miner with the backing of investors implicated in an illegal penny-stock pump-and-dump operation. The Trump sons and other investors created a new company and merged it with publicly-traded miner Hut 8 Corp., led…

Bitcoin miners’ earnings power and stocks have diverged from the asset they help produce, a stark reminder of the deteriorating economics of an industry US President Donald Trump has championed. CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF is down more than 50% from its December 2024 peak, a far steeper drop than in the price of Bitcoin.…

The basic situation is that US public equity markets will pay about $2 for $1 worth of Bitcoin. I don’t know why this is, and I am not especially happy about it, but it’s true. If you have one Bitcoin, you can sell it on a crypto exchange for about $93,000, or you can sell…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin (BTC) has surged more than 10% over the past seven days and is currently trading in the low $90,000 range. Crypto analyst Titan of Crypto suggests that further gains may be on the horizon based on Fibonacci extension levels. Bitcoin May…