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Bitcoin sliding to a record low against gold in January dragged an old argument back into the open. Again. Is Bitcoin actually “digital gold”?Or is it just a high-beta liquidity…
One year after Gary Gensler walked out of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the impact isn’t theoretical anymore. You can see it. In the court docket. In the cases…
For much of the past decade, large banks approached cryptocurrency as a problem to be managed rather than an opportunity to be pursued. Compliance teams framed it as a source…
By 2025, cryptocurrency trading had entered an unfamiliar phase. Volatility remained elevated by historical standards, yet sustained directional trends were rare. Price action oscillated within broad ranges, repeatedly frustrating traders…
By 2026, scarcity has stopped behaving like a static property and started functioning more like a variable shaped by access, narrative, and financial infrastructure. Markets no longer price scarcity purely…
Transaction counts are one of the most cited — and most misunderstood — metrics in crypto. They are easy to compare, visually compelling, and often used as shorthand for “adoption.”…
Speculation that Bitcoin “whales” are quietly reaccumulating ahead of another major leg higher has become one of the most persistent narratives in recent months. Across social media and trading desks,…
Is the Bitcoin 4-Year Cycle Finally Breaking? For more than a decade, the crypto market has leaned on a single, powerful mental model: the 4-year cycle. Traders, analysts, miners, and…
Blockchain Privacy Returns: From Ideals to Infrastructure For most of crypto’s history, privacy lived in an uncomfortable middle ground: essential in theory, marginal in practice. Early narratives treated decentralization and…
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty is approaching another historic milestone. Following the latest adjustment at the end of 2025, network difficulty climbed to approximately 148.2 trillion, with forward projections indicating the next…