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- The market is increasingly turning against the US dollar, with short positions at their highest level since January 2012, according to Bank of America’s foreign exchange and rates sentiment survey. This shift in sentiment comes as the US Dollar Index, which tracks the value of the greenback against a weighted basket of six major currencies, has declined 1.3% year to date. Record Bearish Positioning Reflects Deep Skepticism About the Dollar The latest Bank of America survey finds dollar positioning in February reached its most negative level in more than 14 years. Moreover, overall dollar exposure has fallen below the lows of April 2025, signaling continued loss of confidence among fund managers. Despite efforts to restore...

- Kevin O’Leary Warns Bitcoin’s Quantum Problem May Be Bigger Than Expected Kevin O’Leary, Canadian businessman and Shark Tank investor, said that concerns over quantum computing are preventing institutions from increasing Bitcoin (BTC) allocations. This latest statement comes as experts continue to raise alarms that the impact of quantum computing risks may already be starting to show, though not in the way many expected. Quantum Risk Keeps Institutions From Expanding Bitcoin Exposure, O’Leary Warns O’Leary described quantum computing as a “new concern floating around now.” According to him, the theoretical risk that a powerful quantum system could eventually compromise blockchain cryptography is enough to keep large investors...

- Why Bitcoin Could Face Another Dump in February Bitcoin has entered its fifth consecutive month of red candles, yet it still shows no clear signs of a long lower wick that would suggest strong buying support. At the same time, whale data indicates persistent selling pressure. A fresh dump could emerge if demand fails to absorb the supply. Short-term traders should closely monitor several warning signals in February. The following analysis highlights the most critical factors. Whale Inflow Ratio on Binance Surges in February The Whale Inflow Ratio measures the proportion of BTC inflows from the top 10 largest transactions relative to total exchange inflows. A higher ratio suggests stronger potential selling pressure from large...

- Nine months ago, Steak ’n Shake began accepting Bitcoin. Now, the company says the move has driven a sharp rise in its sales. Its same-store sales have risen “dramatically,” the company tweeted Monday, adding that it now routes Bitcoin payments into a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which it has previously said is used to fund employee bonuses. “We have combined a decentralized, cash-producing operating business with the transformative power of Bitcoin,” the company said. It first teased its pivot last May and began accepting payments in the world’s largest crypto. The company did not disclose exactly how much of its Bitcoin activity has helped lift its bottom line. Therein lies the difference “between strategy and speculation,”...

- Metaplanet Reports FY2025 Results as Bitcoin Unrealized Losses Top $1 Billion Tokyo-based Metaplanet released its fiscal year 2025 results, reporting a 738% year-over-year increase in revenue. Despite the revenue surge, Bitcoin’s drawdown weighed heavily on the firm, as a non-cash valuation loss of 102.2 billion yen ($667.52 million) pushed the company into a net loss for the year. Revenue Soars, Net Loss Follows: Inside Metaplanet’s FY2025 Results Metaplanet’s FY2025 earnings report revealed revenue climbed to 8.9 billion yen ($58.12 million), up from 1.06 billion yen ($6.92 million) a year earlier. The company’s Bitcoin income business generated roughly 95% of total revenue. Operating profit rose sharply to 6.28 billion yen...

- Crypto’s AI Pivot: Hype, Infrastructure, and a Two-Year Countdown If Consensus Hong Kong 2026 had an unofficial theme, it wasn't Bitcoin or regulation. It was artificial intelligence — and the scramble to figure out what it actually means for crypto. AI surfaced in almost every context: main-stage keynotes, side-event panels, venture capital meetings, and even the post-conference mood. But the conversations weren't uniform. They ranged from Hong Kong government officials endorsing the machine economy to venture capitalists declaring the AI hype cycle in crypto already over. Enterprise AI Agents Are Already Deployed At the Gate's side event, Sophia Jin, Hong Kong Tech Director at Byteplus — ByteDance's enterprise technology arm —...

- Bitcoin's long-term holders are buckling under pressure following this month’s sell-off, amid signs of a relatively weaker accumulation trend that could trigger a deeper correction. February 6’s dip to $62,800 imposed overhead pressure on long-term holders comparable to the May 2022 LUNA crash, marking a “rare shift in conviction typically seen in deeper stages of bear markets,” Glassnode wrote in a Telegram note on Monday. Meanwhile, the 7-day exponential moving average of the Long-Term Holder Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) fell below 1, a sign that veteran investors are now realizing losses. Long-term holders are the market's strongest hands and have typically served as the last line of defense in previous cycles, helping form...

- Bitcoin (BTC), the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, was launched in 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008. The goal was to give financial autonomy to the people and liberate them from the clutches of Wall Street. But the way Bitcoin has increasingly become integrated into the mainstream financial system, macroeconomic forces now tend to affect King Crypto's price trajectory. That is exactly what happened when U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threat against China led to a massive liquidation in the crypto market on Oct. 10 last year. Bitcoin had hit its all-time high (ATH) of $126,080 only a few days earlier on Oct. 6 and it is currently trading 45% lower. Investor identifies 6 factors behind...

- Jeffrey Epstein Emails Show Plans to Meet Gary Gensler To Talk Crypto The Epstein files show he discussed meeting Gary Gensler to talk about digital currencies, offering fresh insight into the financier’s efforts to engage with early crypto leaders and policy figures. Emails from May 2018 show Epstein telling former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers that “Gary Gensler [is] coming earlier… wants to talk digital currencies.” Summers replied that he knew Gensler from government service and described him as “pretty smart.” The exchange suggests Epstein expected Gensler to participate in discussions involving cryptocurrency. Epstein Files Reveal More Crypto Stories Separately, internal messages show Epstein referencing...

- Bitcoin Boom-Bust Era Ends as Institutions Steady BTC If you have been watching your portfolio fluctuate wildly and waiting for the rollercoaster to stop, we might finally have good news for Bitcoin price. WisdomTree, a major asset manager with over $100 billion in assets under management, says the notorious days of extreme Bitcoin boom-and-bust cycles are largely behind us. According to their latest analysis, the entry of major institutions has fundamentally stabilized the market, turning the Bitcoin USD trading environment from a “Wild West” into a disciplined asset class. Why This Matters for Bitcoin Investors For years, Bitcoin lived on extremes. Huge rallies. Brutal crashes. 80% drops were not rare; they were normal. That is...

- Bitcoin is trading around $68,700, down nearly 22% year to date and on pace for its weakest first quarter since 2018. After starting the year near $87,700, BTC has shed almost $20,000 in just a few weeks, putting pressure on the broader crypto market. While early-year weakness is not unusual for Bitcoin, the scale of the decline has raised concerns that the current correction may not be over yet. Worst First Quarter in 8 Years? Historically, Bitcoin has posted a negative first quarter in 7 of the past 13 years. However, a 22% drawdown would mark its worst Q1 performance since the 2018 bear market, when BTC plunged nearly 50% in the opening months of the year. January and February both closed in the red, increasing the likelihood...

- Popular crypto lending platform shuts down amid market pressures Crypto lending began gaining traction around the 2020-2021 bull market. The idea of borrowing or lending against cryptocurrency with speed and accessibility that traditional finance couldn't guarantee increased its appeal. Among the many early entrants in the space was ZeroLend, a multi-chain decentralized crypto lending protocol. It is built on zkSync, a Layer-2 (L2) scaling protocol for Ethereum (ETH). But today it has announced it will wind down operations, citing sustainability challenges and prolonged operating losses. The closure adds to a growing list of DeFi lending platforms that have struggled to maintain profitability in a fragmented, security-challenged...

- Dogecoin and Two Other Tokens Spark Meme Coin Season Hopes Dogecoin price may still hold the clues to whether meme coin season returns. Between February 6 and February 15, Dogecoin rallied about 47%. During the same period, the total meme coin market cap climbed by around 43%. This shows Dogecoin is still moving in step with the broader sector and continues to lead it. Now, two of the most closely aligned meme coins, BONK and Shiba Inu, are already forming breakout patterns. Their next move may depend on whether Dogecoin confirms its own bullish structure. Together, correlation, holder behavior, and price structure suggest Dogecoin still remains the key signal for the meme coin cycle. BONK and Shiba Inu Are Already Showing...

- In 2025, SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) showed that its momentum is not letting up. Adjusted net revenue jumped 38% year over year, and the business added 1 million new customers just in the last three months of the year, bringing the total to 13.7 million. The company's success can at least partly be attributed to its intense focus on innovation and product development. In fact, the fintech stock just proved that the ultimate cryptocurrency has a clear use case. SoFi is tapping into a huge market opportunity SoFi's latest move shows that it wants to enter the market for remittances. In August, the business announced an exciting partnership with Lightspark to provide fast and cheap cross-border payments directly within the SoFi...

- Bitcoin to $50M: A Bold Prediction Back in 2009, when Bitcoin (BTC) first launched, few could have imagined it would ever approach $100,000. Today, it might be trading around the $67,000 mark, but just last year, King Crypto climbed to a record $124,000 in October. Still, one hedge fund manager believes that even six-figure prices barely scratch the surface of Bitcoin’s long-term potential. Hedge fund manager’s wild Bitcoin prediction In an interview, EMJ Capital CEO Eric Jackson has projected that Bitcoin could reach $50 million per coin by 2041. At current prices, that would represent roughly a 74,527% increase. His thesis is based on what he describes as a long-term collateral transformation in global finance. He argued that...

- MicroStrategy Stock Price Flashes a 10% Warning as Bitcoin Link Tightens The MicroStrategy stock price closed around $133 on February 13, rising 8.85% in one day. The weekly gain reached nearly 5%, showing strength despite broader uncertainty. But this rally comes at a strange time. Bitcoin fell about 2.2% over the same period, creating a gap between the two assets that rarely lasts long. New data shows that MicroStrategy and Bitcoin are moving almost identically again. The 7-day rolling correlation has surged to 0.98, near perfect alignment. This tight link means the MicroStrategy price prediction going forward may depend heavily on Bitcoin’s next move. At the same time, momentum indicators and volume signals show early warning...

- Crypto Trading Isn’t Coming to Elon Musk's X (Yet), Says Product Head Elon Musk’s X is eyeing crypto users with its introduction of “Smart Cashtags,” but the company isn’t getting its hands dirty with digital assets yet, according to Head of Product Nikita Bier. The feature, which was teased last month, will allow users to better specify which digital assets they post about, but it won’t facilitate users' crypto trades, Bier clarified on Saturday. Since Musk’s acquisition of the platform in 2022, speculation has abounded that the Dogecoin fan could fold crypto into his “everything app.” However, Bier signaled Smart Cashtags’ rollout is limited within the company's broader vision for combining social media with financial services...

- Several Crypto Media Remove Scam Study, Sources Allege External Pressure Crypto news stories are vanishing without a trace. Articles questioning the influence of paid press releases have quietly disappeared from major crypto websites, leaving little evidence they were ever published. At the same time, thousands of promotional announcements continue to flood the industry, shaping narratives, moving markets, and blurring the line between journalism and advertising. The Shadow Pipeline That Fuels FOMO Chainstory analyzed 2,893 press releases distributed between June 16 and November 1, 2025. Using AI-driven sentiment tagging and risk classification, cross-referenced with blacklists like CryptoLegal.uk, Trustpilot, and scam alert...

- MicroStrategy claims it can survive Bitcoin crash to $8,000 There seems to be no stop for MicroStrategy's Bitcoin (BTC) shopping. Every week, there is at least one purchase. In fact, at press time, MicroStrategy, now better known as Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), has 714,644 Bitcoin in its coffers. That is 3.4% of the total 21 million Bitcoin supply. But with great Bitcoin exposure comes great risks. During its fourth quarter earnings call, the company addressed the ongoing cryptocurrency market downtrends. At that time, Bitcoin prices had crashed to new lows. Crypto-heavy companies like Strategy could see the valuation of their assets drop below their purchase rates. CEO Phong Le assured that while the current market situation was...

- Bitcoin on Pace for Longest Losing Streak Since 2018 Bear Market The crypto market is bleeding, and the wounds keep deepening. Bitcoin trades at $67,621 today, down 1.70% in the last 24 hours. It isn't just another bad day—it could potentially mark one of the most prolonged bear runs in Bitcoin history. If February closes red, Bitcoin will complete five consecutive months of losses, the longest streak since June 2018, when Bitcoin was down for six months. With February already down 13.98%, the signs aren't promising. The accumulated losses from October 2025's all-time high now reach 52.4% over 123 days. For perspective, the previous longest losing streak—that 2018 nightmare—registered a 56.26% drop over 153 days. Bitcoin is just...