HBD Interest Payments for May 2025

What an amazing month May has been! It will go into history as one the best months in bitcoin and crypto's history. Bitcoin had a blast in May. I had no doubt bitcoin was going to have a good month leading into May, but I didn't expect it would be this good. I knew it was time to break $100k price point, and May does it best. In early days of May $100k bitcoin was achieved fast. Many were doubtful and predicted drop back to below $100k. Impressively that didn't happen. Instead bitcoin made a new all time high of $112k. Making a new all time high above 100k levels is important and is a significant milestone. What amazed me the most is after $100k was achieved, bitcoin did not drop below this level. Now we are in June and bitcoin's price is still above $100k. That doesn't mean tomorrow or sometime in the near future we won't see below $100k prices. Just to see the price hold above $100k for almost entire month is something we haven't seen before.

What this means is, it is guaranteed that bitcoin will reclaim the previous all time high of $112k sometime in near future. It also means, $100k price point for bitcoin has broken psychological barriers and it is a norm. Remember there was time when bitcoin kept trading around $30k levels, then the same happened with $60k levels. At those time those levels felt to be the norm, and no matter what happened with the price action in the market, this price would serve as a bottom value. Today, we can say this with certainty, bitcoin's value for 2025 and onward is at least $100k. Many have predicted this to happen years ago, many waited for this moment years ago. Today this is a reality. New targets like $500k, or $1 million seem within reach and no longer a wild dream. Many today predict with strong convictions that bitcoin will reach $1 million price point, in the same manner they predicted $100k. I have no doubt there will come a time we will be celebrating another milestone when bitcoin reaches $1 million per coin valuation. The question is when.

When bitcoin does well, altcoins do well as well. We haven't seen the alt coin season in a very long time. In May though, it felt like alt coins are back and we may see interesting developments in the markets. However, towards the end of May things cooled down a bit, and prices dropped both for bitcoin and alts. I have no idea how the rest of the summer or rest of the year will play out. But I am certain we are due an alt season. If you ask me, alt season won't happen until after bitcoin breaks $120k price point. I don't know why, but it feels like an important price point and decent areas to take profits and move funds into alts. It was still great to see alts perform in May. Perhaps it is time for bitcoin to rest, and alts do some action this summer.

Towards the end of May we had a Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas. If you followed what was happening in the Bitcoin Conference, you would see so many possessive news and outlook for the future of bitcoin and crypto. It has definitely been the best conference and a lot to look forward too. We have seen politicians and companies presenting positive outlook for bitcoin as a technology and investment. Michael Saylor as usual gave the best speech and participated in the best panels. There was a little bit of controversy regarding Strategy's verifiable proof of their bitcoin holdings. It doesn't seem like Strategy will be showing their bitcoin addresses, sign it or share where they hold their bitcoin for security reasons. However, others argue that this goes against bitcoin standards. It is great to see debates on what path bitcoin hodlers take. Overall, Bitcoin Conference has been another success. Bitcoin holding $100k made the conference even more interesting.

May has shown that the future is great for decentralized systems. I am looking forward to see many more months like this May. Let's take a look how things been going with HBD.

Ok. There isn't huge gains or drops here. It looks like the total monthly payments remain just under $100k. However, we see more accounts claiming in May. Almost 100 more accounts received HBD interest payments. Just like HBD itself things seem to be stable here. I am really interested to see total payments regain $100k levels and above. These were the levels when HBD paid 20% APR. Even with 15% APR it seems like interest to hodl HBD is there and has a potential to grow. I currently do not hold any HBD in Savings and not taking advantage of this amazing APR. This may change soon, I may consider converting my Hive into HBD or bitcoin. Bitcoin has outperformed Hive for years now. I am not sure if it will still be the case. But any serious investor should consider all options. Everybody's financial situations and circumstances are different. For some bitcoin may be a good fit, for other HBD, and for others HP. That's the beauty of market. It offers options for all walks of like for many different situations.

Let's look at the top payments for the month of May now.

Lazy-panda is leading the board again. Congrats!