Bitcoin (BTC) has leapt from chat rooms and code repos into graduate syllabi. At the University of the Cumberlands (UC), students recently completed the eight-week course “Bitcoin: Fundamentals, Technology, and Applications.” This graduate course grappled with Rothbard’s monetary theory, Mises’ critiques and technology overviews from classic Bitcoin works. It asked not whether Bitcoin matters but…
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Opinion by: Michael Tabone, Senior Economist at Cointelegraph On Saturday, June 21, 2025, the US hit Iranian nuclear facilities, causing a short-lived dip in the price action of Bitcoin (BTC). Bitcoin rebounded before its Sunday close to just under 1.27% of its price before the US military effort. For 10 days in June, missiles flew…
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Bitcoin Knots, first released by developer Luke Dashjr in the early 2010s, has long offered a more configurable and policy-agnostic alternative to Core. Currently, most nodes use the Bitcoin Core client to support the Bitcoin network. However, Bitcoin Knots has grown an impressive 638% since the start of the year, jumping from only 394 nodes…
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) will turn Bitcoin from a passive store of value into an asset that can challenge traditional finance, prominent figures in the Bitcoin space say. At the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, speakers shared a conviction that Bitcoin’s infrastructure will power the next generation of DeFi applications in the network’s next chapter,…
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Crypto is getting more normal, from the number of people who use it to the type of people who use it, according to a new report. While Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto news have concentrated on politics and institutions as of late, showing governmental policy becoming more accepting and traditional finance avenues like ETFs being the…
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In the annals of financial history, few institutions have faced the tempests of competition with the steadfast resolve of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). Born in 2013 as a private placement, GBTC pioneered regulated Bitcoin investment, granting investors access to Bitcoin’s (BTC) meteoric rise without the perils of digital wallets or unregulated exchanges. On Jan. 11,…
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The tide of capital once destined for raw spot Bitcoin has begun to flow through institutional canals, spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs), structured products and wrapped exposure, and while the water is rising fast, the waves aren’t quite the same. Bloomberg’s senior ETF analyst, Eric Balchunas, pointed out on X that there is a large movement…
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Strategy Inc., formerly MicroStrategy, has discarded its core product, assumed a new identity, swallowed over half a million BTC, spawned equity classes with double-digit yields, and inspired an arsenal of leveraged ETFs — a unique and significant market phenomenon. Michael Saylor’s firm has constructed a comprehensive financial framework based around Bitcoin, tying its corporate performance…
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Strategy Inc, formerly MicroStrategy, has discarded its core product, assumed a new identity, swallowed over half a million Bitcoin, spawned equity classes with double-digit yields, and inspired an arsenal of leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) — a unique and significant market phenomenon. Michael Saylor’s firm has constructed a comprehensive financial framework based around Bitcoin (BTC), tying…
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Opinion by: Dr. Michael Tabone, senior economist for Cointelegraph Bitcoin (BTC) has long been hailed as unbreakable and untouchable, a digital stronghold against the forces of change. Bitcoin’s bedrock of security is facing its first true test with quantum computing, which should be addressed sooner rather than later. Its cryptographic armor will crack if not…
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