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- Signal: Crypto Mining Stock Could Have Room to Run When we last covered Cipher Mining Inc (NASDAQ:CIFR), the crypto mining stock was trading at all-time highs around $25.52 in early November. Fast forward five months, and despite a trendline of lower highs, CIFR is up 9.1% to trade at $16.83 today, as Bitcoin (BTC) builds separation past $72,000. This breakout has cleared a trendline that could signal it's time to buy back in, if past is precedent. The trendline in question is the stock's 50-day moving average. Per Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White, this "crossover" event happened seven other times over the last 10 years, after which the security was higher one month later 71% of the time, averaging a 13.1% gain...

- On April 9, CoreWeave (Nasdaq: CRWV) announced a new agreement with Meta Platforms (Nasdaq: META) to provide AI cloud capacity through December 2032. The deal is valued at approximately $21 billion. It builds on an existing relationship. CoreWeave had already signed a $14 billion agreement with Meta in September 2025 to supply computing power through 2031, with an option to expand through 2032. The new capacity will be deployed across multiple locations and will include some of the first deployments of NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform. The distributed setup is designed to optimize performance, resilience, and scalability for Meta's AI operations as the social media giant continues to deepen its AI infrastructure investments. The Meta...

- Adam Back explains why he's not bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto A lengthy New York Times investigation published this week suggested that British computer scientist Adam Back is bitcoin’s alleged creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Back, who immediately denied the claims (and has done so before), explained to Yahoo Finance on Thursday why the theory doesn’t make sense. “I think the most probable situation is that Satoshi is somebody who's not talking to documentary film crews, to investigative journalists, who is not participating in the forums or at conferences with his real name,” Back, the CEO of blockchain technology company Blockstream, said in an interview on Yahoo Finance. The story suggesting that Back invented bitcoin came from...

- A solo Bitcoin miner scored a major victory on Thursday, earning a BTC reward valued at more than $225,000 after solving a Bitcoin block. The block win came just a week after the last reported solo score, demonstrating that individual miners can still succeed despite very long odds. The miner had roughly 0.001% odds of achieving the feat based on their mining hash power of 70TH, the amount of computational power they deployed attempting to solve a Bitcoin block. At that level, the solo miner’s computational power represented just 0.00000667% of the entire Bitcoin network. “A miner of this size has only a 1 in ~100,000 chance of solving a block per day, or once every 300 years!” pseudonymous CKPool developer Dr-ck posted. Bitcoin...

- Is Iran Collecting Hormuz Tolls in Bitcoin? This Crypto Intelligence Firm Is Skeptical Iran is reportedly putting a Bitcoin-based price tag on the world’s most vital oil artery, but experts are questioning whether a revolution has taken place or if it is just a game of telephone. The cryptosphere was abuzz on Wednesday after The Financial Times reported that Iran would demand shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the maritime chokepoint through which 20% of the world’s oil flows. Negotiations reportedly start at $1 per barrel. Some Bitcoiners appeared to welcome the news. Iran’s purported acceptance of Bitcoin underscores the asset’s censorship-resistant...

- Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) just pulled off something that looked very unlikely just a few hours before the clock ran out in the month of March. After five consecutive months of price declines, the coin closed the month 1.8% higher, breaking the downtrend's streak and barely avoiding a run that has been seen only once in its entire history. That precedent, a six-month losing streak from August 2018 through January 2019, ended with one of the most ferocious recoveries Bitcoin has ever produced. Does that mean the same coiled energy is present now, or will things be different this time? The streak that almost was Between October 2025 and February 2026, Bitcoin fell every single month, shedding roughly 45% from its all-time high near...

- BlackRock Crypto Cuts Ethereum Staking Fee to 18%: Too Cheap to Ignore? BlackRock crypto just moved on Ethereum staking fees, and the number is 18%. The world’s largest asset manager has set its commission on gross staking rewards at 18% inside its iShares Staked Ethereum Trust, a fresh product that launched March 12 under the ticker ETHB, layered on top of a 0.25% annual management fee. That dual-fee structure is already attracting fire from advisors and institutional allocators who built their models around simpler cost assumptions. The trust holds $318 million in staked ETH as of publication, with the 18% staking commission split with Coinbase as custodian and validator operator. At current ETH staking yields of roughly 2.74%...

- Treasury Secretary Bessent Slams Crypto Industry 'Nihilists' as Clarity Act Remains in Limbo U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lashed out against crypto leaders still resisting the passage of the industry’s long-coveted Clarity Act, dubbing them “nihilists” who must be overcome to ensure the stalled bill’s passage. “A growing share of crypto development relocated to places with clear rules, such as Abu Dhabi and Singapore,” Bessent said in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal. “Though industry nihilists may argue otherwise, there is one way to give developers and entrepreneurs the comfort to reshore: durable law.” The Treasury Secretary’s comments come as the Clarity Act—a crypto market structure bill that would...

- One of Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) very few existential risks is suddenly looming a lot closer. On March 30, Google Research's Quantum AI division published a whitepaper arguing that the encryption protecting Bitcoin and virtually every other major cryptocurrency on the market today can be broken with a dramatically less complex quantum computer than what was previously believed. That doesn't mean that someone can steal your coins tomorrow, but it does mean that the risk posed by quantum computers could be arriving a lot faster than nearly all investors assumed, so anyone holding the asset needs to understand what just changed. Some might even want to consider selling it. Here's what's going on and why. What the new paper says, and why...

- Bithumb Files to Seize Bitcoin From Holdouts After $43B Blunder South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has filed for provisional seizure orders to recover 7 BTC worth $496,000 from users who refused to return Bitcoin mistakenly distributed in a massive February trading error, according to local media outlet Chosun. The provisional seizure orders—a legal procedure that temporarily freezes a debtor's assets to secure a claim before final judgment—target specific accounts still holding the disputed Bitcoin. Some recipients argued they bore no obligation to return the funds since the distribution resulted from Bithumb's operational error, according to a senior industry official. Under South Korean law, mistakenly received assets...

- Circle Internet (NYSE:CRCL) stock just picked up its first Sell rating on Wall Street. Compass Point initiated coverage on April 9, 2026, with a Sell rating and a price target of $77, implying meaningful downside from recent trading levels. For a company that's become the poster child of crypto finance, that's a sobering first impression. The call lands at a complicated moment. Circle Internet shares have risen 12% year-to-date, yet the stock sits well below its 52-week high of $298.99. The market is still sorting out what this business is worth. The Analyst's Case Compass Point's bearish thesis centers on valuation and structural risks. Circle Internet's revenue is overwhelmingly driven by reserve income on assets backing USDC...

- How DeFi lender Sky plans to bump up its B- credit rating and entice institutions Sky will repackage its products, minimize exposure to risky sources of yield, and launch a new capital vault in a bid to shore up its credit rating for prospective institutional investors. In August, S&P Global Ratings gave the decentralized finance lender a B- credit rating, putting the protocol’s USDS and DAI stablecoins on par with government bonds from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As Sky looks to attract more institutions, it’s aiming to improve that rating. “We’ve reached this dominant position within the current market. We need to grow into TradFi,” Sam MacPherson, CEO of Phoenix Labs, a core contributor to Sky, told DL News in an...

- American Bitcoin (ABTC) Earnings Call Transcript DATE: Thursday, February 26, 2026, at 8 a.m. ET CALL PARTICIPANTS Full Conference Call Transcript Operator: Good morning. Welcome to American Bitcoin's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 financial results conference call. Speaking on today's call are Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Eric Trump, and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Ho. Executive Chairman, Asher Genoot, and President and Interim Chief Financial Officer, Matt Prusak, will be available during the question and answer session. Following prepared remarks, we will open the line for questions. This call is being recorded. A transcript will be made available on American Bitcoin's website. Certain statements made...

- Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF Attracts $34 Million On First Day Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE: $MS) new spot Bitcoin (CRYPTO: $BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) saw more than 1.6 million shares traded and $34 million U.S. of inflows on its first day. Analysts agree the day one inflows were strong and that the fund’s low expense ratio of 0.14% likely appeals to investors. Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF offers the lowest expense ratio among a dozen such funds currently on the market. The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust ETP (NASDAQ: $MSBT) also benefits from the investment bank’s large wealth management unit that oversees trillions of dollars in client assets. Morgan Stanley’s wealth management reach could help the fund gain traction as more...

Iran Wants Bitcoin to Let Oil Tankers Through the Strait Per the Financial Times, Iran is charging oil tankers $1 per barrel to transit the Strait of Hormuz during the two-week window, with payments demanded in crypto (Bitcoin specifically). Tankers must email Iranian authorities with their cargo details before attempting passage. Tehran will then calculate the fee and instruct ships on how to settle, with Bitcoin specifically cited as an accepted payment method. A fully loaded supertanker could face a bill approaching $2M. This is a tricky one to interpret. On one hand, it’s incredibly bullish that a nation state would be willing to accept Bitcoin as payment for oil transit. In fact, it could be deemed a blow to the US petrodollar...

- Bittensor’s TAO crypto is trading at $334 after the successful completion of Covenant-72B – a 72.7-billion-parameter model trained across more than 70 anonymous, distributed nodes without a single data center or nine-figure budget behind it. The 90% rally TAO posted through March 2026 is not a narrative trade; it’s a direct market response to a technical milestone that decentralized AI has been chasing for years. But the milestone deserves precise framing. Covenant-72B proves that permissionless networks can coordinate large-scale model training. It does not dissolve the hardware physics that still favor centralized clusters for frontier pretraining. The more commercially urgent story – and the one worth watching for TAO price –...

- Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Today, Thursday, April 9, 2026: Crypto Rally Slows as Ceasefire Wavers Bitcoin (BTC-USD) opened at $71,093.76 on Thursday, down 1.2% from Wednesday’s opening price of $71,950.15. The value of bitcoin was $71,199.52 as of 7:23 a.m. ET. Ethereum (ETH-USD) opened at $2,189.73 on Thursday, 2.3% lower than Wednesday’s starting price of $2,242.28. The value of ethereum at 7:23 a.m. ET was $2,184.15. Reports of continued fighting in the Middle East and disagreement over Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz shortened a brief, ceasefire-sparked crypto rally. Traders are continuing to watch war headlines closely to determine their risk appetite. While bitcoin and ethereum prices have been more resilient during...

- Morgan Stanley Investment Management rolls out bitcoin-tracking ETP Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has launched a new exchange-traded product (ETP) designed to track the performance of bitcoin. The product, called the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), is intended to mirror bitcoin returns. Morgan Stanley Investment Management head Ben Huneke said: “MSBT is an example of how leveraging Morgan Stanley’s collective strength and deep expertise across asset classes and market segments can add value for existing clients, unlock new investor opportunities and continue to pursue compelling and innovative investment ideas that solve investor challenges.” MSIM said it is the first US bank-affiliated asset manager to offer a...

- Now is the time to be bargain-hunting in the crypto sector. Top cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are down anywhere from 20% to 40% for the year, and that means top crypto stocks are also on deep-discount sale. Once the next crypto boom begins, these are the stocks that are going to skyrocket in value. There is no such thing as a guarantee in the crypto market, but here are three stocks that could help make you a fortune when the inevitable market rebound begins. Circle Internet Group My top pick right now is Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the issuer of the popular USDC stablecoin. Right now, USDC ranks as the second-most-popular stablecoin in the world, with a massive $77 billion market cap. According to...

- Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF Draws In $31M on First Trading Day Morgan Stanley became the first major U.S. commercial bank to launch a spot Bitcoin ETF on Wednesday, with its MSBT product posting inflows of $30.6 million in its first trading day according to data from Farside Investors. Despite the newcomer’s first-day performance, Wednesday marked a second day of net outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs, with the funds shedding $124.5 million. Nevertheless, the investment products remain in the black for the week, thanks to Monday’s $471 million one-day haul, their biggest since February. MSBT’s 0.14% expense ratio makes it the cheapest Bitcoin ETF available, undercutting category leader BlackRock's IBIT by 11 basis points. The launch...