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XRP is more likely to see profit taking than a price surge, while Polymarket odds favor SOL, BTC and ETH hitting new highs this year. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. Theres a decent chance that Bitcoin will end the year above $173,000, according to economist Timothy Peterson, citing BTCs closing price on Sunday and historical data since 2017. September 21 marks the date after which Bitcoin finishes the year higher 70% of the time, economist Peterson said on X. The median gain is over 50%, he added. Read more

XRP is more likely to see profit taking than a price surge, while Polymarket odds favor SOL, BTC and ETH hitting new highs this year. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. Theres a decent chance that Bitcoin will end the year above $173,000, according to economist Timothy Peterson, citing BTCs closing price on Sunday and historical data since 2017. September 21 marks the date after which Bitcoin finishes the year higher 70% of the time, economist Peterson said on X. The median gain is over 50%, he added. Read more

Bitcoin (BTC) traded at $112,623 as of press time, setting up a potential retest of the $105,500 support zone after losing the critical $115,000 level following the Federal Reserve’s Sept. 17 rate cut. BTC briefly touched $118,000 in the immediate aftermath of the Fed’s 25 basis point cut. However, a profit-taking movement triggered a pullback […] The post Bitcoin risks a $105k retest after losing key support following Fed rate cut appeared first on CryptoSlate.

South Africa’s Sygnia Ltd., a $20 billion asset manager, is urging clients to avoid concentrating their portfolios in Bitcoin (BTC) despite strong demand for its recently launched crypto fund, Bloomberg News reported on Sept. 22. The Cape Town-based firm has advised investors not to commit more than 5% of their discretionary assets or retirement annuities […] The post South African asset management giant advises clients against over exposure to Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Strive’s $675 million Bitcoin buy and Semler merger create a 10,900 BTC treasury company, making it one of the world’s top corporate BTC holders. Strive Inc., the asset manager turned Bitcoin treasury company led by former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, has agreed to acquire Semler Scientific — a move that positions the combined entity as one of the largest corporate holders of Bitcoin. In a Monday announcement, the companies said the all-stock transaction will grant Semler shareholders Strive shares instead of cash. Each Semler share will be exchanged for 21.05 shares of Strive Class A stock, representing a 210% premium over Semler’s pre-deal price. Alongside the merger, Strive disclosed it had purchased 5,816 Bitcoin (BTC) for about $675 million, boosting its total holdings to 5,886 BTC. Before the acquisition, Strive was a relatively minor player in the Bitcoin treasury space, with just 70 BTC on its books. Read more

Bitcoin slips under $111,500 as $280 million in leverage long positions are liquidated, but key support levels may decide if BTC rebounds or risks a deeper breakdown. Key takeaways: Bitcoin dipped below $111,500, testing a major daily demand zone. Spot demand remains strong, keeping the market structure broadly in favor of bulls. Read more

Social interest in Bitcoin crashes, and Wedson predicts retail excitement will return only through emerging altcoin rallies.

The Bitcoin treasury firm had been trading at a discount to its Bitcoin holdings.

Asset manager Strive has reached an agreement to purchase Bitcoin-focused Semler Scientific in a fully equity-based rather than cash-based deal. Under the terms announced Sept. 22, each Semler Scientific share will convert into 21.05 Strive Class A common shares, valuing the target at $90.52 per share. That price represents a premium of more than 200% […] The post Strive bets $675 million to acquire Bitcoin treasury company at 200% premium to stock price appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs surged on Fed optimism but the funds faced a Monday reality check as liquidations hit $1.7 billion.

Strategy’s latest $99.7 million Bitcoin acquisition brought its total Bitcoin holdings to 639,835 BTC, acquired for about $47.3 billion. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder, added more BTC to its balance sheet last week as the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time this year. Strategy acquired 850 Bitcoin (BTC) for $99.7 million during the week ending Sunday, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The purchase was made at an average price of $117,344 per coin as BTC briefly surged to multi-week highs above $117,000 on Thursday following the Fed’s 25 basis point interest rate cut, according to CoinGecko data. Read more

Metaplanet became the world’s fifth-largest corporate Bitcoin holder after buying 5,419 BTC, bringing its total to 25,555 BTC worth nearly $3 billion. Japan’s Metaplanet expanded its Bitcoin treasury with a 5,419 BTC purchase, making it the fifth-largest corporate holder of the cryptocurrency globally. The company said Monday it acquired 5,419 Bitcoin (BTC) at an average price of 17,281,012 Japanese yen (about $117,000) per Bitcoin. With this latest $633 million purchase, the company’s holdings reached 25,555 BTC, making it the fifth-largest corporate Bitcoin treasury, according to BitcoinTreasuries.NET. The purchase price of its latest tranche of Bitcoin, just short of $117,000, put the investment at a loss of almost 3.9% at the time of writing, with a current market price of about $112,500. With the purchase, Metaplanet’s Bitcoin yield — the percentage change in the ratio of total BTC per fully diluted share — reached 10.3% from July 1 to Sept. 22. Read more

Bitcoin’s drop to $112,000 saw significant liquidations of late longs, with onchain metrics suggesting that BTC’s bullish conviction was fading. Key takeaways: Bitcoin dropped 4% to $112,000 in a marketwide correction, liquidating $1.6 billion in longs. Analysts say the BTC bull market may have run its course, based on several bearish onchain signals. Read more

Bitcoin dipped to $112,000 to start the week, and crypto traders suffered $1 billion of liquidations in a bearish new record for 2025. Bitcoin (BTC) spooked the market into the final week of September with a return to $112,000. Bitcoin price action left much to be desired as traders forecast a retest of support closer to $100,000 next. The dip liquidated over $1 billion of crypto longs in the largest single liquidation event of the year. Read more

If you’ve been following the latest news from 1984, you’ll know that Vietnam has permanently closed over 86 million bank accounts. For a country with an estimated 200 million bank accounts, that’s around 43% being frozen or deleted to “prevent fraud and cybercrime.” The account closures follow sweeping new regulations requiring users’ biometric authentication, and […] The post Vietnam’s bank account purge is the best publicity for Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The rapid decline of the U.S. dollar has reignited dreams of “hyperbitcoinization” among Bitcoin proponents. But there is little evidence that the dollar dying means Bitcoin’s victory; and plenty that points toward widespread chaos instead. The dollar dying: lessons from currency collapse Fernando Nikolic, ex-VP at Blockstream and a veteran of Argentina’s financial turmoil, cautions […] The post The dollar dying doesn’t make Bitcoin win appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin market participants saw the area at $117,200 and above as particularly important heading into the weekly close and fresh US macro data. Key points: Key Bitcoin price levels above and below spot price are here as BTC is about to start a new week. A quiet weekend is slated to give way to volatility as fresh macro catalysts appear. Read more

Welcome to Slate Sundays, CryptoSlate’s new weekly feature showcasing in-depth interviews, expert analysis, and thought-provoking op-eds that go beyond the headlines to explore the ideas and voices shaping the future of crypto. On Wall Street and Crypto Twitter, few names spark debate like Michael Saylor and his Bitcoin-hungry software company, Strategy. Gone are the days when […] The post Strategy and the centralization question: what happens when one firm holds 3% (or 7%) of all Bitcoin? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

BTC will continue to appreciate and gain adoption as the global financial and geopolitical system is reshaped in the coming decades. Bitcoin (BTC) is poised to grow in price and adoption regardless of the macroeconomic scenarios that will unfold in the coming years and decades, as the global financial system heads for a Fourth Turning-style reset, according to market analyst Jordi Visser. Visser told Anthony Pompliano that the average person has lost confidence in all legacy institutions, which should drive investment into BTC — a neutral, permissionless, global asset not tied to governments or traditional organizations. The Fourth Turning is a reference to a book written by William Strauss and Neil Howe that describes the cyclical rise and fall of nations due to predictable intergenerational patterns. Read more

The rising network difficulty and the need to pay for energy are pushing out smaller players and even publicly traded corporations. The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, a metric that tracks the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the ledger, climbed to a new all-time high of 142.3 trillion on Friday. Mining difficulty hit successive all-time highs in August and September, driven by an influx of freshly deployed computing power over the last several weeks. Bitcoin’s hashrate, the average of the total computing power securing the decentralized monetary protocol, also hit an all-time high of over 1.1 trillion hashes per second on Friday, according to CryptoQuant. Read more