What we know is this: Trump did one of his "I'm raising tariffs on China" Truth Social posts after the stock markets closed on Friday October 10th 2025. So far, so normal. He likes doing those

In January 2026, it'll be seventeen years since Satoshi mined the Genesis block of Bitcoin. After lots of ups and downs, as well as lots of innovation and experimentation in the altcoin space, it's now

Here is the chart: source The carry trade (where people borrow at low interest rates in Yen and invest in dollar-denominated assets) is only profitable when the dollar is strengthening against the Yen.

The GENIUS Act was supposed to provide "clarity" for stablecoins and crypto in general. They've now clarified that stablecoins won't be able to pay interest to holders of stablecoins, unlike

President Trump has just issued an Executive Order about setting up a Presidential Working Group to investigate setting up a Crypto Strategic Reserve. Here is what it said: source It's going to have Ripple

The new Crypto Czar David Sacks gave a press conference where he announced that he was setting up an "internal working group" to look at the "feasibility of a Bitcoin Reserve". Here

By now everyone and their dog knows that Trump created a sh$tcoin called TRUMP which got instantly listed on Coinbase and got pumped into the multi billion market cap range. What is not well known is that

Bitcoin ETFs started trading approximately one year ago on 11th January 2024. They started with $29 billion due to the GBTC (Greyscale BTC Trust) conversion into an ETF. Total assets are $114 billion -

Bitcoin is back down to about $94,000 and the major altcoins naturally crashed by about 10% to 15%. (Hive is an outlier in that it is mostly holding on to recent gains). I think it's down to institutional

The Russian finance minister confirmed to Reuters that they were using bitcoin to settle payments in foreign trade: source Of course, some of us suspected this and wrote about it two months ago: Once the

This is the fourth attempt to get lift-off since 13th November. Here is the chart: source I've been trying to work out why it's pumping at such odd intervals. Searching twitter aka X, I found the following:

I can't be the only one feeling a little uneasy. Here are the facts: Microstrategy (MSTR) has 331,000 bitcoins. At the current price of $94,380 at the time of writing, this is worth $31.239 billion. But

We've known about El Salvador 🇸🇻 mining and buying bitcoin for some years. They've been very open about it, and made Bitcoin legal tender to encourage citizens to use it. According to the following article

Litecoin was created on 13th October 2011 and it's the longest running ever blockchain, as it has had 100% uptime. (By contrast, bitcoin has had two downtimes in 2010 and 2013. In 2013, versions 0.7 and

Here is a video of the IMF press conference: From about 42 seconds in, she says bitcoin is a "key risk", she wants El Salvador's law on bitcoin to be "narrowed" and "public sector

In the last few days there have been a series of posts from senior Hivers expressing outrage, Outrage! at the fact that some of the people they've voted for have had the temerity to sell their coins. We've

It's broken past $64,000. Here is the chart: source The trigger for the move were comments by Jay Powell, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. He was responding to the revisions in data by the Bureau of

Now that Ionomy is dead, Blurt trading has moved to Hive-Engine. See the following screenshot: source This is a really positive development in my opinion. I believe the people who sell Blurt for Hive,

Bitcoin's liquidity is it's achilles heel. On Sunday at 9 p.m. when you need to liquidate something to meet a margin call in the morning, bitcoin/crypto is the only thing you can sell. So crypto gets sold

Bitcoin ETFs were the worst thing to happen to crypto. Because the people who invest in them don't believe in crypto as a payment system. They don't believe in bitcoin as a hedge against inflation. They