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More than 85,000 participants took part in the token sale.

Smart money may be accumulating as BTC tests the $80,500 zone. Read this Bitcoin price prediction to see whether a Q1 reversal is forming at key support. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Smart Money Buying Spot? What the $80,500 Support Level Signals for Q1 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Jan van Eck questioned whether Bitcoin offers enough encryption and privacy, saying some longtime holders are examining Zcash as the market reassesses long-term assumptions.

Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas says Zcash could dilute political and cultural support for Bitcoin, as critics accuse the privacy coin of manufactured hype. Bloomberg Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas has warned that Zcash may adversely impact Bitcoin at this crucial moment. In a recent post on X, Balchunas said Zcash (ZEC) has “third-party candidate vibes, like Gary Johnson or Jill Stein,” arguing that pushing a separate privacy coin risks “splitting the vote” when Bitcoin (BTC) needs unified political and cultural support. Balchunas’s comment comes as the Bitcoin vs Zcash debate intensifies. Arman Meguerian, founder and CEO of Timestamp, dismissed the idea that BTC supporters are pivoting to Zcash. “I don't know a single Bitcoin maxi that thinks about Zcash at all,” he wrote on X. Read more

For a while, owning Bitcoin was professionally awkward. Big asset managers couldn’t touch it, compliance teams didn’t know what to do with it, and internal mandates typically banned the direct custody of anything that looked like a bearer instrument. But equities? Equities were fine. That’s how MicroStrategy, a Virginia-based enterprise software firm, became the most […] The post Why did Wall Street just dump $5.4 billion in Strategy MSTR stock? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The two privacy coins are the top gainers today.

XRP is today's top performer from the larger-cap alts.

Bitcoin may inspire bold visions of a global payments network, but that’s not what is driving the bulk of institutional money into the asset today. The post Investors Focus on BTC as “Digital Gold,” Not Payments: BlackRock Exec appeared first on Cryptonews.

Lyn Alden says Bitcoin is unlikely to face a major crash because the market hasn’t reached euphoric conditions. The post No “Big Crash” in Sight for Bitcoin, Says Macro Analyst Lyn Alden appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin ETFs saw nearly $1.2 billion in weekly outflows, marking their third-largest withdrawal event since launch. The post Bitcoin ETFs See Third-Largest Weekly Outflow at $1.2B Despite Friday Rebound appeared first on Cryptonews.

In the meantime, investors continue to transfer BTC to exchanges.

Crypto Dispensers is weighing a $100 million sale as its CEO faces federal accusations of running a multimillion-dollar money laundering scheme. Crypto Dispensers, a Chicago-based operator of Bitcoin ATMs, is considering a potential $100 million sale as its founder faces federal money laundering charges. In a Friday press release, the company announced that it has hired advisors to conduct a “strategic review” and explore buyer interest. Crypto Dispensers mentioned its 2020 shift away from physical ATMs toward a software-driven model, a transition it says was meant to address rising fraud, compliance pressure and regulatory scrutiny. CEO Firas Isa described the sale review as part of the firm’s next growth phase. “Hardware showed us the ceiling. Software showed us the scale,” he said. Read more

In 2019, Rodolfo Novak sent a Bitcoin transaction from Toronto to Michigan without internet or satellite. He used a ham radio, the 40-meter band, and the ionosphere as his relay. Nick Szabo called it “Bitcoin sent over national border without internet or satellite, just nature’s ionosphere.” The transaction was tiny, the setup finicky, and the […] The post Did you know Bitcoin can stay alive without the internet? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The crypto market hasn’t reached “euphoric levels,” which means less reason to expect a major landslide, according to Lyn Alden. A significant crash for Bitcoin and the broader crypto market doesn’t look likely at this stage, according to macroeconomist Lyn Alden. “We haven’t hit euphoric levels in this cycle; therefore, there is less of a reason to expect a kind of major capitulation,” Alden said during a recent episode of the What Bitcoin Did podcast. “The cycle could go on for longer than people can expect, because it’s not driven by the halving, it’s driven by broader macro and interest in the asset itself,” Alden said, shutting down the idea that the four-year cycle is still intact. Read more

Bitcoin being widely used for daily payments in the future is just “out-of-the-money-option value upside,” according to BlackRock’s head of digital assets Robbie Mitchnick. BlackRock’s head of digital assets, Robbie Mitchnick, said that most of the world’s largest asset managers’ clients aren’t considering Bitcoin’s use for daily payments when deciding whether to invest in the asset. “I think for us, and most of our clients today, they’re not really underwriting to that global payment network case,” Mitchnick said during a podcast interview published to YouTube on Friday. “That’s sort of maybe out-of-the-money-option-value upside,” Mitchnick said. Read more

Grayscale's report comes shortly after it filed to convert its Chainlink Trust into an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would trade on NYSE Arca.

Veteran trader Peter Brandt predicts Bitcoin won’t tap $200,000 until 2029, Scott Bessent seen at Bitcoin bar: Hodler’s Digest The Bitcoin community lit up on Thursday after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made an unannounced appearance at the launch of Washingtons new Bitcoin-themed bar, Pubkey. Having the Secretary of the Treasury at the Pubkey DC launch seems like a moment I could easily look back on and say wow, it was all so obvious, Bitcoin treasury company Strives chief investment officer Ben Werkman said in an X post on Thursday. Steven Lubka, Nakamotos vice president of investor relations, called it the sign you have been waiting for. Read more

Coinbase spent 2025 positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for retail crypto access, absorbing teams and technology that could accelerate its “everything exchange” vision. A Nov. 21 announcement that it acquired Vector.fun, Solana’s fastest-moving DEX aggregator, fit the pattern: acquire the rails, sunset the product, integrate the speed. But the deal carved out an unusual […] The post Coinbase’s latest acquisition caused controversial 10X token boom – Who knew? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A lack of conviction among "weak" hands will cause new Bitcoin holders to dump at the first sign of trouble, worsening market drawdowns. The transfer of Bitcoin (BTC) from long-term holders, also known as “OGs,” to “weak” hands will cause future drawdowns to be more severe, according to gold investor and economist Peter Schiff. Bitcoin is “finally having its IPO moment,” Schiff said on Saturday, adding that there is now enough liquidity in the Bitcoin market for long-term holders to cash out.  “This much Bitcoin moving from strong to weak hands not only increases the float, but also means future selloffs will be bigger,” Schiff added. Read more

Chicago-based Crypto Dispensers says it’s considering a $100 million sale, just days after the firm and its founder were hit with money laundering charges.