Analysts say the US dollar hasn’t shown its usual safe-haven strength during the recent Iran-Israel conflict, while Bitcoin is rising in another attempt to reach its $111,970 all-time high. “The dollar index is dabbling in new cycle lows today,” macroeconomist Lyn Alden said in a post on Wednesday. “Barely got any flight-to-safety bid in the…
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Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy (MSTR), which trades as Strategy, has a high chance of qualifying for the S&P 500 as long as Bitcoin doesn’t drop more than 10% before the end of the second quarter, an analyst says. “I believe there is about a 91% chance of MSTR qualifying for the S&P 500 in Q2,” financial…
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US crypto stocks surged alongside the broader market on Tuesday after a shaky ceasefire between Iran and Israel brokered by US President Donald Trump largely held. Trump declared the ceasefire on social media on Monday, claiming it would “go on forever,” but both nations reportedly launched missile strikes shortly after the ceasefire went into effect,…
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Blockstream CEO Adam Back says Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) stock premium is within reason, considering how fast the firm’s market net asset value (mNAV) has historically reduced risk exposure for investors. “It turns out in the case of MicroStrategy it’s been 16 months, 18 months,” he told Bitcoin podcaster Stephan Livera at BTC Prague on…
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Jan3 founder Samson Mow is setting his sights on ramping up Bitcoin nation-state adoption in Europe following a positive meeting with pro-Bitcoin French lawmaker Sarah Knafo. “Looking forward to starting a nation-state Bitcoin adoption wave in France and perhaps all of Europe,” Mow said in an X post on Saturday, following his meeting with Sarah…
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The current crypto market is mirroring the pattern seen in 2017 when Bitcoin posted a steady uptrend throughout the year before skyrocketing in December, says crypto research platform Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal. “It’s spookily similar to 2017,” Pal said in a video on Thursday. Pal said he is starting to forecast a longer crypto…
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CoinMarketCap, a price-tracking website for cryptocurrencies, has reportedly removed a malicious popup notification on its website prompting users to verify their cryptocurrency wallets, according to a post on its official X account. “We’ve identified and removed the malicious code from our site,” CoinMarketCap said in a post on Friday. CoinMarketCap has not finished investigating the…
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Eric Semler, chairman of healthcare tech firm Semler Scientific Inc., says many of his hedge fund peers are skeptical about Bitcoin’s future once US President Donald Trump leaves office. “I think that they think it is a fly-by-night concept and that it is probably going to, after the Trump administration, go back down a lot,”…
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A county sheriff in Texas has taken a power-cutting tool to a local crypto ATM after a family was reportedly scammed out of $25,000, sparking debate among crypto users over the sense of his actions. According to local reports on Tuesday, a scammer had tricked a family in Jasper County, northwest of Houston, into depositing…
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Crypto users are divided on whether Bitcoin will surge to an all-time high or again drop below the key $100,000 mark as the broader market is trading sideways, according to a recent poll on X. Crypto pundits asked what’s next for Bitcoin (BTC) — $94,000 or $114,000 — split nearly evenly, with 50.2% predicting a…
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