Gen Alpha will grow up with Bitcoin as a cultural and financial native, making it their default store of value over traditional gold investments. Opinion by: Darius Moukhtarzadeh, Research Strategist at 21Shares Gold has long been considered the ultimate store of value — shiny, scarce and time-tested. For Gen Alpha, however, the first generation truly born into a digital world, that shine is already starting to fade. Read more
Explore Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin playbook, Strategy’s debt-fueled purchases and the future outlook of corporate crypto investing. Michael Saylor transformed MicroStrategy from a business intelligence firm into the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder. Saylor’s conviction redefined corporate strategy, turning volatility into opportunity through long-term, dollar-cost averaging purchases. His approach set the standard for institutional Bitcoin adoption despite concerns over dilution and debt. Read more
Africa has its first Bitcoin treasury company, but its utility goes far deeper than publicly-listed stocks tied to BTC holdings on a balance sheet. Bitcoin treasury companies are in vogue, and Africa has its first trading on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. While the launch of Africa Bitcoin Corporation promises to attract billions of South African rand from capital markets, its founders believe Bitcoin’s impact on the continent remains in grassroots, retail adoption. South Africa’s Altvest Capital grabbed headlines as it rebranded to Africa Bitcoin Corporation (ABC), the first publicly-listed company actively building a Bitcoin (BTC)-based treasury on the continent. The company has a long-term goal to raise $210 million to buy Bitcoin using preferential share offerings and structured debt notes in the mould of the UK’s Smarter Web Company. Altvest announced its pivot into Bitcoin in February. Read more
Bitcoin’s short-term path hinges on a $4.3 billion options expiry. Bulls are favored, but weak jobs data and doubts over AI profitability could add uncertainty. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s $4.3 billion options expiry favors neutral-to-bullish bets, with a $175 million edge if prices stay above $113,000. Macroeconomic uncertainty, including weak US employment data and AI sector doubts, could determine Bitcoin’s short-term trajectory. Read more
Bitcoin price action gets lively as US CPI data conforms to expectations, but traders are anything but unified on short-term price targets. Key points: Bitcoin nears three-week highs as US CPI data matches expectations. Plenty of market participants see Bitcoin heading higher as aresult, perhaps after a dip to trap late longs. Read more
Bitcoin’s inverse head-and-shoulders pattern signalled the continuation of the uptrend toward $360,000, driven by institutional demand via spot BTC ETFs. Key takeaways: A classic BTC price chart pattern puts $170,000-$360,000 in play this cycle. Spot Bitcoin ETFs post the biggest inflows in two months as institutional demand rebounds. Read more
Which treasury strategy is gaining ground in 2025: Bitcoin as digital gold or Ether as a yield engine? In recent years, companies and countries have increasingly included cryptocurrencies in their treasury strategies. Traditionally, corporate treasuries relied on cash, gold or government bonds to maintain value, ensure liquidity and provide financial stability. Governments had gold reserves to back their currencies. However, cash loses purchasing power. Bonds carry rate and duration risk. Foreign exchange shocks hit balance sheets without warning. Ideally, you want a reserve that holds value, moves fast across borders and plugs into digital rails. That is why Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and, in some cases, stablecoins now sit beside cash, gold and T-bills. Read more
The lightweight zero-knowledge proof will allow Bitcoin users to verify payments without having to download the full blockchain history. StarkWare, a company specializing in zero-knowledge (ZK) technology, a way of verifying information without revealing the specific contents of that information, said it created a ZK verification of the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain that can run on mobile devices. The proof contains all the Bitcoin block headers from the genesis block until the present, but not the full and detailed Bitcoin blockchain history, which is over 680 gigabytes in size. Each block header includes the version number of the Bitcoin software used to mine the block, a reference to the previous block in the chain, a timestamp, the block size and the nonce — the random number the miner has to find to add the block to the ledger. Read more
Bitcoin bulls have reasons to eye new all-time highs as analysis shows a BTC price breakout and ongoing resistance showdown. Key points: Bitcoin has not peaked for this bull market, analysis argues after BTC revisits $114,000. History suggests that the bull market would be too short if $124,000 was the top. Read more
Bitcoin surged past $114,000 as softer-than-expected US PPI data reinforced Federal Reserve interest rate cut expectations. Key takeaways: Bitcoin broke $114,000 as data showed PPI inflation cooled sharply in August. Traders believe the data could push the Federal Reserve to cut rates in September. Read more
Asset Entities shares rose over 50% after-hours as its shareholders approved a merger with Strive to build a $1.5 billion Bitcoin treasury. Shares in the marketing firm Asset Entities (ASST) rose 52% in after-hours trading on Tuesday after its shareholders approved a merger with Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive Enterprises to form a Bitcoin treasury company. Asset Entities said on Tuesday that a “strong majority” of shareholders voted for the merger with plans to raise $1.5 billion to buy Bitcoin (BTC). The new company will be renamed to Strive, Inc. and continue trading under the ticker ASST. Asset Entities shares closed trading on Tuesday up 17.8% at $6.28 and rallied over 52% after-hours to $9.55 on the company’s merger announcement. Read more