Charles Schwab operates 38.9 million active brokerage accounts and holds $12.22 trillion in client assets. For years, investors in those accounts could reach Bitcoin and Ethereum through ETFs, crypto-related equities, and futures.
Michael Saylor's latest claim arrives at a pivotal intersection of market structure and global risk.
Rising Japanese bond yields are emerging as a new macro risk for Bitcoin, threatening the yen carry trade, global liquidity, and leveraged crypto bets.
The rise of quantum computing has emerged as a critical challenge to Bitcoin's cryptographic foundation, prompting developers to accelerate their defensive strategies. Though today's quantum computers lack the capability to compromise Bitcoin, fresh research has elevated this concern from academic speculation to an urgent priority for the cryptocurrency community.
Bitcoin is showing signs of quiet strategic accumulation despite risk-off markets, with steady dip buying and resilient price action hinting at strong hands.
Bitcoin experienced significant downward pressure throughout the week. Following President Trump's aggressive statements threatening to send Iran “back to the stone age,” cryptocurrency markets swiftly entered risk-off territory.
Global crises reshuffle the market cards, but rarely in the expected direction. While investors instinctively turn to gold or defensive assets, a Mercado Bitcoin study reveals a counterintuitive reality: bitcoin outperforms after major shocks.
In a recent QuickTake post on CryptoQuant, XWIN Research Japan explains how the rising Japanese bond yields are currently affecting Bitcoin's price action.
Bitcoin is entering the new week under a cloud of doubt, with social sentiment tilting to fear just as price action continues to stall below $66,800. Data from Santiment shows a noticeable change in crowd behavior, hinting that the market's mood may be reaching an inflection point.
Palihapitiya emphasized that while all encryption would be vulnerable to a quantum computer, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies would be the prime targets of non-state actors, who would attack them as honeypots instead of banking and financial institutions.
The Bitcoin network has just recorded its third difficulty increase since the beginning of the year. Good news on the surface?
Bitcoin's price is still trading far above the depths of past bear markets, and that distance is now making the current moment feel pretty disorienting. Under the surface, a huge share of the market is already back in pain.