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SEC Approves Spot Bitcoin ETFs, Opening Wall Street's Door
After a decade of rejections, US regulators cleared eleven spot Bitcoin ETFs, letting ordinary brokerage accounts hold the asset directly for the first time.
Jan 14, 2024
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The 2024 Bitcoin Halving: Hype Versus What Actually Happened
Bitcoin's fourth halving cut miner rewards in half overnight. Months of doomsday and moonshot forecasts met a much quieter, messier reality.
Apr 23, 2024
Crypto
Bitcoin Hits $100,000 as the Trump Trade Takes Over Crypto
Bitcoin crossed six figures for the first time this week, capping a rally that started at the ballot box and accelerated with every crypto-friendly appointment.
Dec 9, 2024
Crypto
Bitcoin Reclaimed 81,000 Dollars on a Rate Signal, Which Is Not What an Inflation Hedge Does
Bitcoin rose 5.5 percent to 81,491 dollars on Thursday after a Federal Reserve governor signalled a hold, with the total crypto market up 4.7 percent to 2.82 trillion. The rally came from lower rate expectations while oil sat near 96 dollars.
Sep 4, 2026
Crypto
Bitcoin Near $64,000 Shows Why Regulation Cannot Remove Market Risk
Bitcoin is trading near $64,000 as clearer US rules meet a difficult macro environment, proving that legitimacy and price stability are different things.
Jul 31, 2026
Crypto
You Can Buy a House Without Selling Your Bitcoin Now, and the Collateral Terms Tell You What It Is Really Worth
The first crypto backed conforming mortgages are being written in the United States. Pledge bitcoin, keep the coins, skip the taxable sale. The catch is not a margin call. It is that you must post 250 dollars of bitcoin for every 100 dollars you borrow.
Aug 28, 2026
Crypto
Bitcoin Is Having Its Best August Since 2017. It Is Also Still a Third Below Its Record.
August has closed red for bitcoin every year since 2022. This one is up about a quarter, spot ETFs took nearly two billion dollars in five sessions, and the price is back near eighty thousand. It peaked at a hundred and twenty six.
Aug 25, 2026
Crypto
Stablecoins Have Reached $320 Billion. The Hard Part Is Becoming Money
Stablecoins are expanding as payment and settlement tools, but BIS and IMF research warns that redemption pressure can connect token risk to traditional financial markets.
Jul 25, 2026
Crypto
Bitcoin Went From $64,000 to Almost $80,000 in Three Sessions, and the Trigger Was a Treasury Announcement
From Wednesday to Friday the price rose more than twenty two per cent, the strongest week in over three years, helped by a record short squeeze of about 2.7 billion dollars. Very little of the explanation is about cryptocurrency.
Aug 22, 2026
Crypto
The Exchange Has Built a Crypto Index That Deliberately Leaves Out Bitcoin and Ether
CME and CF Benchmarks switched on two indices on Monday. One is a broad market benchmark built around bitcoin and ether. The other excludes both of them and tracks ten other assets, which is a statement about what the rest of the market is for.
Sep 1, 2026
Crypto
Bitcoin Is Holding Near 77,000 Dollars as Rate Rise Odds Climb, Which Is Better Than the Textbook Says It Should
Down 4 per cent on the week and 34 per cent on the year, but up 21 per cent on the month, with the Fed about to raise rates and oil up eleven per cent in five days. Ether is at 2,500. What the price is telling you, and what it is not.
Sep 15, 2026
Crypto
Crypto in 2025: The Year the Cycle Stopped Looking Like a Cycle
Bitcoin hit a record near $126,000, stablecoins topped $290 billion, and then Q4 delivered the sharpest reset in years. Here is what actually happened.
Jan 6, 2026
Crypto
Binance Stops Processing Transactions With Eleven Platforms From 23 August
The exchange is cutting off transaction processing with HTX and ten other trading platforms, citing regulatory mandates and sanctions enforcement. Users of those venues have a week to move.
Aug 17, 2026
Crypto
The State of Crypto at Mid-Year 2026: Quieter, Sturdier, Divided
Six months in, institutional Bitcoin holdings are near record highs even as ETF assets slip, and Wall Street forecasts for the rest of the year could not be more split.
Jun 18, 2026
Crypto
Crypto's Big Rulebook Is Stuck, and the Delay Now Costs Money
The bill meant to divide SEC and CFTC authority cleared the House and a Senate committee, then stopped. No floor vote, no cloture motion, no date, and firms are compliance planning into a vacuum.
Aug 4, 2026
Crypto
Stablecoins Are Quietly Becoming a Bond-Market Variable
IMF research finds stablecoin demand shocks can lower short-term Treasury yields and spill into currencies, crypto and equities. Digital dollars now matter beyond crypto trading.
Aug 2, 2026
Crypto
Wall Street's First Active Multi-Token Crypto ETF Changes the Access Question
T. Rowe Price's new actively managed crypto ETF moves regulated access beyond single-asset Bitcoin and Ether products, but delegation introduces a different set of risks.
Jul 25, 2026
Crypto
Ether Rose Seventeen Per Cent in a Day on a Piece of Legislation That Has Not Passed
The SEC proposed a framework, the president pushed the Senate on the Clarity Act, and the market moved before either was settled. What the bill would actually decide is the oldest unanswered question in the industry.
Aug 21, 2026
