Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Block Inc., believes Bitcoin could lose relevance if it doesn't evolve into a practical payment method.
Strategy revealed in a recent 8-K filing with the SEC that it may be forced to sell its Bitcoin to meet debt obligations if BTC prices continue to drop.
In an X post shared earlier today, crypto analyst Ali Martinez noted that Bitcoin (BTC) is flashing a buy signal. Another analyst, Titan Of Crypto, highlighted that BTC is currently trading in a reversal zone – suggesting that the leading cryptocurrency may soon experience a shift in price momentum.
Digital assets exhibit significant bearishness, as the latest Trump tariff waves triggered massive crypto liquidations. As fear dominated the sector, Binance CEO Richard Teng weighed in on the escalating trade tensions and their effect on the cryptocurrency market.
Murphy has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He's demanding the agency come clean about who it believes is Bitcoin's creator.
A crypto strategist who nailed Bitcoin's 2021 market meltdown believes BTC is still on track to spark rallies en route to new all-time highs this year.
Bitcoin spot ETFs saw $326M in outflows on April 8, the fourth straight day of losses as investor sentiment weakened due to global uncertainty. The post Bitcoin Spot ETFs See $326M in Outflows, Marking Fourth Straight Day of Losses appeared first on Cryptonews.
Bitcoin (BTC) is up 0.24% today and trades around at $76,481 in the early Asian session after crashing 3.71% on Tuesday. While Bitcoin price slides lower, the US Treasury market is spiraling into chaos, with the 10-year yield rocketing to 4.5% and the 30-year yield hitting 5%.
Michael Saylor's software company, Strategy, which is heavily invested in Bitcoin, may soon have to sell some of its Bitcoin holdings to meet financial obligations. In an Apr.
Institutional investors are increasingly risk-averse, shifting capital away from Bitcoin ETF products. This shift in sentiment has led to a sharp spike in capital exit, with US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs recording another day of outflows on Tuesday.
Bitcoin and Ethereum plunge as the trade war intensifies, triggering $411 million in total liquidations over the past 24 hours.
The trade war orchestrated by Donald Trump has reached an unprecedented level, with record tariffs of 104% imposed on Chinese products. This sudden, almost surreal escalation has caught the crypto markets off guard, immediately plunging bitcoin into a downward spiral.
The lingering fears triggered by US President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs have analysts increasingly convinced that Bitcoin is now more likely than ever to challenge the US dollar in the years ahead.“Higher chance Bitcoin survives over the dollar in our lifetime after today,” Bitwise Invest head of alpha strategies Jeff Parks said in an April 9 X post.
Bitcoin is continuing to face downward pressure in the market, with the cryptocurrency falling below $80,000 on Sunday for the first time since last year. Despite a 4.1% recovery in the past 24 hours bringing it back to $79,825, Bitcoin remains down 26% from its all-time high of over $109,000 recorded in January 2025.
The sharp rise in Treasury yields likely stems from the unwinding of basis trades and could trigger liquidity crisis, deepening the sell-off in risk assets.
Bitcoin has tumbled below the $75,000 mark for the second time this week, bringing its total weekly losses to over 11%. While the broader crypto market is also bleeding, the catalyst for this correction appears to be rooted in geopolitics and mounting fears of a recession.
According to a recent report, President Trump's new tariffs may fundamentally shift the dynamics of global Bitcoin (BTC) mining, making the US less competitive than other countries.
The very first Bitcoin acquisition of MicroStrategy back in September 2020 triggered a strong Bitcoin bull run, which surged high, marking a new ATH of $64,000. This was the first time that the institutional interest in the token received massive support from the bulls.
“For investors, the short-term outlook calls for caution, while a further drop to $70,000–$75,000 for Bitcoin is possible if trade tensions escalate,” one trader said.
Tensions between the US and China prompted a sharp drop in the yuan and renewed interest in Bitcoin as a safe haven.
The cryptocurrency market, along with traditional stock markets, experienced a significant downturn in the first quarter of 2025. This market downturn is attributed to both trade war fears and diminished user sentiment, as indicated by the declining net unrealized profit/loss.
Ethereum has only outperformed Bitcoin for 15% of all trading days since its launch almost a decade ago, according to analysts.Since Ether (ETH) began trading in mid-2015, it has underperformed against Bitcoin (BTC) 85% of the time, analyst James Check said in an April 8 X post. Data shared by Check shows that Ether significantly outperformed Bitcoin in its early years from mid-2015 to around mid-2017, and it had two short periods in late 2019 and early 2020 when the ETH to BTC ratio was in Ether's favor.
The wider Asian major stock indexes opened Wednesday in jitters following the United States bid to impose a 104 percent tariff against China. The Asia Dow, Nikkei 225, and Hang Seng had dropped around 2 percent during the late eastern financial trading session.
The corporate world's biggest Bitcoin holder has stopped buying more of the cryptocurrency as prices fell sharply last week. According to recent filings, Strategy reported a massive $5.91 billion unrealized loss for the first quarter of 2025, though this blow was softened by a $1.69 billion tax benefit.
The 10-year US Treasury yield has spiked, which is unusual in a bearish equity market. Typically, long-term yields fall in such conditions as the Fed prepares to cut rates to support the economy.
In a thread on X, business cycle analyst Tomas (@TomasOnMarkets) explains where the global economy currently stands and what that means for risk assets, including Bitcoin. Describing what he terms a “short and shallow” full business cycle that started in 2023, faded in 2024, and bottomed out in early 2025, Tomas believes this fleeting cycle was masked in part by a weak Chinese economy and a rapidly strengthening dollar.
Bitcoin and Ether extended losses on Wednesday as renewed US-China trade tensions and looming tariffs drove a broader 7% drop in the crypto market. The post Bitcoin, Ether Extend Losses as Investors Brace for Prolonged Tariff Impact appeared first on Cryptonews.
Bitcoin price came crashing down under $75,000 for the second time in the past week as Donald Trump's 104% tariff on China went into effect. Riskier assets like equities and crypto have been facing the most heat in this tariff war, with BTC extending its weekly losses to 11%, with altcoins led by Ethereum (ETH)
A shift to easing by the Fed could spark a crypto rally, while a hawkish stance may suppress risk assets.
Bitcoin price started a fresh decline below the $78,000 zone. BTC is now consolidating losses and might face resistance near the $77,800 zone.
Bitcoin has bounced back from its latest low as on-chain data shows the Whale Transaction Count has witnessed a spike on the network. Bitcoin Whale Transaction Count Has Just Seen A Large Spike As pointed out by analyst Ali Martinez in a new post on X, whales notably upped their activity during the recent price surge.
This pause highlights a cautious approach, with a $5.91 billion unrealized loss reported for Q1 2025.
Bitcoin sharply fell below $75,000 as Asian and Pacific stock markets opened on Wednesday morning, shedding 6% in a single day. Global financial markets are sinking under pressure from the US imposing a 104% tariff on Chinese imports.
Tim Draper is all in on Trump's trade offensive, calling it a powerful reset to end global freeloading, crush weak leadership, and spark massive U.S. innovation.
The Trump administration's sweeping tariffs could collapse US demand for Bitcoin mining rigs, which would benefit mining operations outside the country as manufacturers will look outside the US to sell their surplus inventory for cheaper, says Hashlabs Mining CEO Jaran Mellerud.“As machine prices rise in the U.S., they could paradoxically decrease in the rest of the world,” Mellerud said in an April 8 report.
The Bitcoin (BTC) price crash to $74,000 has left traders speculating whether the cryptocurrency has finally hit a bottom. However, a CMT-certified analyst suggests that Bitcoin's price correction is far from over.
Bitcoin could challenge gold as a hedge against inflation over the next decade, according to Blockstream CEO Adam Back.
A Bitcoin user accidentally paid nearly 0.75 BTC in transaction fees, worth around $60,000, after making a panic-driven error on April 8, 2025.
Bitcoin (BTC) futures saw a dramatic surge in trading activity over the past few days, revealing a hyper-reactive, highly leveraged, and structurally cautious market. Across all major derivatives exchanges, daily futures volume soared from $109.39 billion on April 4 to $227.53 billion by April 8, a 108% increase in just four days.
After a daily loss of 1.83% Stellar's price is currently at $0.22, aggravating the bearish state of the asset. As a result of the overall decline in the market, XLM is now in danger of a death cross, a bearish technical signal that appears when the 50-day moving average falls below the 200-day moving average.
Billionaire and Block CEO Jack Dorsey says that Bitcoin (BTC) is at risk of failure if it doesn't manage to tackle one critical use case. In a new interview on the Presidio Bitcoin YouTube channel, Dorsey is asked to imagine that he fast-forwarded to the future where Bitcoin has failed.
Arthur Hayes is calling it: China's yuan devaluation is setting the stage for a tidal wave of capital to rocket into bitcoin and ignite a historic bull run.
U.S. President Donald Trump escalated tariffs on China to 104%, shaking global markets. Bitcoin dropped over 3% alongside declines in the Nasdaq, S&P, and Dow, as investors reacted to mounting economic pressure. The post White House to Increase Tariffs on China by 104%, BTC Down 3% appeared first on Cryptonews.
The executive power in Moscow has imposed a total ban on crypto mining in parts of Irkutsk oblast. With its cheap energy, the Siberian region, sometimes called “the mining capital of Russia,” has attracted a significant number of miners in the past few years.
Crypto and equities traders were hopeful for a last-minute solution that would prevent the US from enacting 104% tariffs on Chinese goods entering the United States, but in a press conference, the White House confirmed that the tariffs would start on April 9. Markets deteriorated when Peter Navarro, trade adviser to US President Donald Trump, stated that tariffs were “not a negotiation.
Sats Terminal, a Bitcoin-native decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregation protocol, has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding to streamline fragmented services across the Bitcoin ecosystem. Sats Terminal Secures $1.7M The funding round, announced April 8, was co-led by Coinbase Ventures and Draper Associates, with participation from Draper Dragon, BitcoinFi Accelerator, and others.
Bitcoin Magazine Kraken Partners with Mastercard to Bring Bitcoin Payments to Over 150 Million Merchants Kraken teams up with Mastercard to launch crypto payment solutions in the UK and Europe, enabling customers to spend bitcoin at millions of retailers. This post Kraken Partners with Mastercard to Bring Bitcoin Payments to Over 150 Million Merchants first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Nik.
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Core Maintainer Gloria Zhao: Why Mempools Are Important For Censorship Resistance A talk with Bitcoin Core Maintainer Gloria Zhao on the importance of Bitcoin's open and decentralized mempool for its use as a censorship resistant money. This post Bitcoin Core Maintainer Gloria Zhao: Why Mempools Are Important For Censorship Resistance first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Shinobi.