Bitcoin (BTC) miners' first-quarter results may disappoint because the hashprice, a measure of daily mining profitability, fell further and trade tariffs weighed on the market, asset manager CoinShares (CS) said in a blog post on Friday. "Q2 results may show deterioration, as tariffs on imported mining rigs range from 24% [...]
Strategy (MSTR) added another 15,355 BTC to its balance sheet over the past week, spending about $1.42 billion on the purchase, or an average price of $92,737 per bitcoin, according to a filing published on Monday. The company's bitcoin holdings have now risen to 553,555 BTC worth more than $52 [...]
April has been a month of extreme volatility and tumultuous times for traders. From conflicting headlines about President Donald Trump's tariffs against other nations to total confusion about which assets to seek shelter in, it has been one for the record books. Amid all the confusion, when traditional "haven assets" [...]
The Swiss National Bank has rejected holding bitcoin reserves, citing concerns over cryptocurrency market liquidity and volatility. "For cryptocurrencies, market liquidity, even if it may seem ok at times, is especially during crises naturally called into question,” said SNB President Martin Schlegel at the bank’s General Assembly meeting Friday. “Cryptocurrencies [...]
Semler Scientific (SMLR) bought an additional 111 bitcoin (BTC) for an average purchase price of $90,124, using proceeds from at-the-market offering and cash on hand, it announced in a press release. This brings the medical device maker’s total bitcoin holdings to 3,303 BTC, which were purchased at a total cost [...]
ARK Invest raised its decade-end bitcoin (BTC) price target to as high as $2.4 million apiece after revising its assumptions on active supply, which excludes lost or long-held coins. The largest cryptocurrency by market value was recently trading around $94,000. The bull-projection figure, 60% more than its January 2024 estimate, [...]
Japanese investment giant SoftBank is dipping its toes back into crypto by backing a new bitcoin (BTC) investment vehicle, Twenty One Capital, in conjunction with Tether, Bitfinex, and Cantor Fitzgerald. For some, the SoftBank Group—which has $308.7 billion assets under management—taking an interest in bitcoin is a welcome development and [...]
Michael Saylor's bitcoin buying strategy had both believers and skeptics. But a new rival just emerged, already holding nearly $4 billion BTC on its balance sheet—and it's a bullish sign, according to at least one Wall Street analyst. When SoftBank, Tether, and Cantor Fitzgerald unveiled plans to launch a new [...]
This is a daily technical analysis by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. Bitcoin (BTC) has finally surpassed a key resistance that limited recovery rallies earlier this year, after rising over 5% to $93,500 in 24 hours. The leading digital asset by market value has topped the "Ichimoku [...]
Brandon Lutnick, son of U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and chair of Cantor Fitzgerald, is launching a listed bitcoin investment vehicle backed by SoftBank, Tether, and Bitfinex, the Financial Times first reported. The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), dubbed Cantor Equity Partners, raised $200 million in January and will help [...]