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- "Where Next for Bitcoin After Worst Quarter Since 2018?" Bitcoin closed the first quarter of 2026 with its worst performance since early 2018, shedding nearly a quarter of its value as war, tariffs, and a hawkish Federal Reserve battered risk assets. The cryptocurrency fell from around $95,000 in February to roughly $66,700 by quarter's end, a decline of about 22% year-to-date, according to a report from institutional trading firm Talos citing data from its financial intelligence arm, Coin Metrics. Losses reached as much as 34.6% at the quarter's lowest point, per the firm. Bitcoin remains pinned in a $66,000-$70,000 range with whale transfers at multi-year lows and no meaningful bid defending levels, according to a Wintermute...

- BlackRock Is Paying $350,000 for Crypto Executives: Is Wall Street Digital Asset Takeover Just Getting Started? Leading Wall Street firms BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup are actively posting crypto jobs, not for experimental blockchain labs, but for permanent digital asset desks running live revenue operations. This is a structural build, not a pilot program. The numbers confirm the scale. Crypto companies listed 5,154 open positions in early 2025, a 40%+ rise from late 2023. BlackRock alone posted a New York Managing Director role for crypto at $270,000–$350,000. Goldman Sachs has disclosed $2 billion in crypto exposure. The ETF approval wasn’t a catalyst – it was the starting gun. What the Shift Actually...

- The U.S. stock market is staying shut today due to the Good Friday holiday. However, the crypto market never sleeps, unlike Wall Street. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at $66,849.74 at the time of writing, up 1% in 24 hours. Ethereum (ETH) was up 1.4%, trading at $2,058.39. XRP was trading 2.3% higher at $1.32. BNB was also up 1.5% over the last 24 hours, trading at $586.01. Solana (SOL) was trading at $79.82, up 2.1%. Related: Goldman Sachs predicts new low for gold On Apr. 2, the U.S. spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) linked to Bitcoin pulled in a modest $8.99 million, after a net outflow of $173.73 million on Apr. 1. But spot Ether ETFs witnessed two consecutive days of net outflows, $71.17 million on Apr. 2 and $7.10 million on...

- Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms Sells Over $250 Million Worth of BTC Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms parted ways with more than $250 million worth of BTC during the first quarter of the year, the firm announced on Thursday. The firm sold 3,778 Bitcoin at an average price of more than $76,000, decreasing its total holdings to 15,680 BTC at the end of Q1—now valued around $1.04 billion as Bitcoin changes hands at $66,844. The Colorado-based miner has now sold Bitcoin in consecutive quarters, after netting proceeds of nearly $200 million from sales of the top cryptocurrency during November and December. At that time, speculation was that the funds would be used to fund capital expenditures for its entry into the AI...

- Riot Platforms Sold 3,778 Bitcoin In First Quarter Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: $RIOT) sold 3,778 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: $BTC) in this year’s first quarter, netting $289.5 million U.S. in the process. The number of Bitcoin sold by Riot Platforms during the quarter dwarfed the 1,473 BTC that the company produced through its mining operations in the first three months of this year. The company ended March with 15,680 Bitcoin on its books, down 18% from the 18,005 coins it held at the end of 2025. Riot Platforms’ current BTC holdings are worth $1.04 billion U.S. based on Bitcoin’s current price of $66,596 U.S. Data from blockchain intelligence platform Arkham shows that another 500 BTC exited a Riot Platforms’ crypto wallet on April 2...

- Riot Platforms Sells 3,778 Bitcoin in Q1 as Miner Strategy Shifts Riot Platforms sold 3,778 Bitcoin in Q1 2026, netting $289.5 million—a volume that dwarfs its 1,473 BTC production for the same period by 2.6x. The company ended Q1 with 15,680 BTC on its books, down 18% from the 18,005 coins it held at the close of 2025. That gap between what Riot mined and what it sold is the number that demands explanation. Blockchain intelligence platform Arkham flagged a separate 500 BTC outflow from a wallet attributed to Riot on Thursday, suggesting the selling didn’t stop when Q1 closed. The company is also pushing deeper into high-performance computing colocation, shifting its business model beyond pure mining toward infrastructure...

- The Beginner's Guide to Buying Your First Cryptocurrency When you're ready to buy your first cryptocurrency, it's basically a two-step process. To start, you'll need an account with either a broker that sells crypto or a crypto exchange, such as Coinbase or Gemini. That's the easy part. The next part is more challenging: picking a cryptocurrency and deciding how much to invest. My recommendation, especially for beginners, is to start with Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). It may look expensive -- even after the recent downturn, its price is still about $66,000 as of March 29 -- but you can buy small portions of one Bitcoin. If you want to put in $100 or less, you can. You also have the option of investing in a Bitcoin ETF if you want to...

- Bitcoin Just Had Its First Green Month Since September — Can April Build on the Momentum? Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) closed March at roughly $68,000—up just 1.8% for the month—and somehow that counts as BTC’s best month since September 2025. The five months before March were relentless, with November alone wiping $610 billion from the total crypto market and February dropping the Bitcoin price to within striking distance of $60,000. The Fear and Greed Index hit an all-time low of 5 in early February, and the market has remained in extreme fear for the past five months. March finally broke Bitcoin’s monthly losing streak, but the gain was so thin that it barely registered. A 1.8% gain after five months of losses isn't exactly a rally...

- Cathie Wood's flagship Ark Innovation ETF (ARKK) has been on a rather bumpy ride over the past six months. With tech falling out of favor and geopolitical pressures dragging down the entire market, it should be no surprise to see shares of the Ark Innovation ETF back in a bear market, now down close to 26% from its 52-week high just shy of $93 per share. As usual, though, Cathie Wood has been busy, not panicking as some other investors might be, but buying the dip, which, I think, could give her line of exchange-traded funds a massive jolt once tech is viewed favorably again. Cathie Wood isn't giving up on the top crypto infrastructure plays Of late, Ark Invest has really warmed up to mega-cap tech, and while some chips may have...

- Circle Unveils New Token Aimed at Expanding Bitcoin Utility Circle has launched cirBTC, a wrapped Bitcoin token backed 1:1 with native on-chain BTC reserves, deploying first on Ethereum mainnet and its own Arc blockchain. The move is direct: Bitcoin holds over $1.7 trillion in market cap but generates almost no DeFi activity, and Circle is positioning itself as the infrastructure layer that changes that. The institutional implication is immediate. With Bitcoin ETFs reversing months of outflows and fresh capital flowing into BTC exposure, the demand for yield-bearing Bitcoin products is structurally rising – and Circle is moving to own that pipeline before a competitor does. cirBTC: What It Actually Changes for Bitcoin Liquidity...

- Bitcoin fell from nearly $87,500 at the end of 2025 to around $66,800 today, a drop of roughly 24% year-to-date. That is the environment FBTC investors are sitting in right now. The question every prospective buyer should answer first: do you actually want this kind of exposure, and can you hold through it? What FBTC Is Built to Do Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (CBOE:FBTC) is a spot Bitcoin ETF. That means it holds actual Bitcoin, custodied by Fidelity Digital Assets, and its price tracks BTC directly. There is no options overlay, no leverage, no income distribution. The fund launched on January 10, 2024, and has accumulated $12.3 billion in net assets. The portfolio role FBTC fills is narrow and deliberate: pure Bitcoin price...

- Key Takeaways Renewed warnings from Google about the pace of quantum computing development have reignited debate over whether Bitcoin could face future security risks, prompting industry figures to revisit longstanding arguments about where the real vulnerabilities lie. Among them, Bitcoin’s famed $1 million advocate Samson Mow has pushed back against what he sees as a disproportionate focus on crypto. He argues that traditional financial infrastructure and even military systems would face greater and more immediate risks from quantum breakthroughs. Quantum Poses Bigger Threats To Banks Than Bitcoin, Says Mow As concerns about quantum computing intensify, social media has revived Mow’s argument from December. He argued that...

- Bitcoin To $10,000 Theory Reignites as Analysts Debate Trump Speech Impact Key Takeaways Bitcoin fell on Thursday, extending losses alongside global risk assets, as some analysts revived long-term bearish price targets. At the same time, others cautioned against tying the latest decline too closely to geopolitical headlines. Bitcoin was last down about 3% over 24 hours at roughly $66,200, tracking a broader pullback in digital assets and equities amid heightened tensions following U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest address on Iran. Analyst Revives $10,000 Bitcoin Reversion Thesis Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mike McGlone renewed his long-standing view that Bitcoin could eventually retrace toward $10,000. He argued that the...

- Few blockchains are reinventing themselves as aggressively as Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) is right now. The chain that was most recently famous in 2024 for its rowdy meme coin casino is now pitching itself as financial infrastructure for tokenized stocks, and, if the early data are to be believed, it's already seeing some success on that front. Does this coin offer a good balance of risk and reward for an investment of $500? Let's check it out. This asset is a mixed bag at the moment There's plenty to be excited about with Solana -- and one big thing to be anxious about, too. Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) -- which are traditional assets like stocks and bonds that are represented on a blockchain as tokens -- hit a record value of...

- Goldman Sachs predicts new low for Bitcoin Gold has had a pretty intense time for the past month, ever since the United States-Israel-Iran conflict began. But Goldman Sachs is standing by its gold bull thesis, even as the precious metal absorbs one of its sharpest pullbacks in recent memory. In a note to clients, analysts Lina Thomas and Daan Struyven reiterated their year-end target of $5,400 an ounce. They pointed to continued central bank buying and two expected U.S. rate cuts before December as the key drivers of a medium-term recovery. Gold and Bitcoin: one month of war-driven volatility Since the U.S.-Iran conflict erupted in late February 2026, both gold and Bitcoin have traded in sharp, sentiment-driven swings. After the...

- H.C. Wainwright Lowers BitFuFu Inc. (FUFU) PT on Weaker Bitcoin Mining Backdrop TheFly reported on March 23 that H.C. Wainwright reduced its price target for FUFU to $4 from $7 while maintaining a Buy rating on the stock. The adjustment reflects the company’s recent share price movements as well as a significantly weaker environment for bitcoin mining. Earlier on March 20, BitFuFu Inc. (NASDAQ:FUFU) released its unaudited financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025. The company reported total revenue of $475.8 million, up 2.7% from $463.3 million in 2024, supported by stronger contributions from cloud mining, mining equipment sales, and hosting-related business, while self-mining revenue declined. FUFU posted a net loss...

- U.S. bans crypto operator after Dubai cease and desist On March 5, Dubai’s crypto regulator issued a cease-and-desist order against cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin, including its entities Peken Global Limited, Phoenixfin, MEK Global, and KuCoin Exchange EU GmbH. The regulator warned that the company may be providing crypto services to Dubai residents without the necessary regulatory approvals and misrepresenting its licensing status. Even a month hasn't passed since then, and now a U.S. court has taken action against the KuCoin operator. U.S. court permanently bars KuCoin operator On March 30, the District Court for the Southern District of New York approved a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) consent order that...

- USDC Stablecoin Issuer Circle Unveils New Token to Give Bitcoin More Utility Publicly traded stablecoin issuer Circle wants to unlock utility for the world’s largest crypto asset. Its solution? A new wrapped Bitcoin token—cirBTC—backed 1:1 with native on-chain Bitcoin reserves. “Bitcoin is sitting on the sidelines of DeFi. Not because people don't want yield or liquidity—it's because they don't trust the wrapper,” Rachel Mayer, VP of product at Circle and the Arc blockchain, posted on X. “cirBTC is Circle's answer: 1:1 backed, on-chain-verifiable, and built on infrastructure the market already trusts,” she added. Circle claims its “proven credibility” and “full-stack flexibility” will make cirBTC an attractive alternative for...

- 1inch legal chief says Clarity Act is ‘very DeFi-friendly’ Congress and federal regulators have spent several years debating how DeFi and other digital-asset activity should be regulated. Now, as the Clarity Act remains pending in the Senate, some industry executives believe lawmakers may be moving toward a middle ground that keeps DeFi alive while formalizing the kinds of safeguards larger platforms already use. In an interview with TheStreet Roundtable, Orest Gavryliak, chief legal officer at 1inch, said that the Clarity Act does exactly that. The Clarity Act's journey through Congress As of April 2, 2026, H.R. 3633 passed the House on July 17, 2025, and was referred to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban...

- Circle Announces New 'Wrapped Bitcoin' Product Circle Internet Group (NYSE: $CRCL) has announced that it is issuing a new wrapped Bitcoin (CRYPO: $BTC) product. Wrapped Bitcoin is a digital token pegged 1:1 to Bitcoin that brings the cryptocurrency’s liquidity to the Ethereum (CRYPTO: $ETH) blockchain. Wrapped Bitcoin allows holders to use their assets in Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem for lending, borrowing, and trading without selling their underlying BTC. In Circle’s case, its wrapped Bitcoin is called “cirBTC” and it is backed 1:1 by native BTC. It is designed to give institutional users verifiable onchain exposure to Bitcoin across both decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance (TradFi)...