Gold is losing the luster it had built up last year. While the price of Bitcoin remained above $70,000 for most of the now protracted conflict in Iran, precious metals in general have declined in value since the start of the bombings in the Middle East. The price of an ounce of gold saw the […]
Just before Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States would ‘pause’ attacks against Iran for five days as peace talks were underway, various traders, including via the crypto platform Polymarket, bet approximately 500 million dollars on a drop of the oil price. The U.S. judiciary will therefore launch an investigation into insider trading. […]
The White House won’t admit it, but by now it has become stock market science: TACO, or Trump Always Chickens Out, means you can count on Donald Trump changing his plans if the markets force him to. By announcing a 5-day war pause (or the length of the trading week), President Donald Trump caused a […]
About two years into his prison sentence, Sam Bankman-Fried, the former founder and CEO of the defunct crypto platform FTX, believes it is time for a presidential pardon. He is therefore increasingly trying to appease Trump on social media. The White House granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road (the first […]
Risk aversion dominated the market in the second part of the week following Iran’s attack on Qatar’s massive gas field. Bitcoin gave up its gains from the first part of the week to close virtually unchanged. Since the start of the Iran-US war, Bitcoin is still showing gains, but it is becoming clear that if […]
Thanks to investors’ desire to trade 24 hours a day while geopolitics continues unabated, Hyperliquid’s crypto platform and its associated cryptocurrency are one of the big winners of the Iran war. Crypto investments in oil futures, in particular, give them an incredible edge over the competition. Privacy coins The big crypto winners in 2025 were […]
An attack by Israel and the United States on Iran led to a retaliatory action from Tehran, which shelled the major Ras Laffan’s gas installations in Qatar. This, in turn, caused an immediate spike in gas and oil prices, pushing just about everything down yesterday: stocks, gold, and crypto alike plummeted. Bitcoin was once again […]
Risk appetite among investors remains low as long as uncertainty prevails regarding the duration of the war between the United States and Iran. With oil prices hovering around $100, stock markets dropping (they have now seen 3 weeks of slight declines), and Bitcoin struggling to clear the $75,000 mark, that appears to be the conclusion […]
The largest digital currency had been rising for 8 consecutive days before a wall of sellers put an end to the small bull run. Bitcoin’s rise, which comes after five months of decline, began on March 9 at a price of $68,000 and ended (thus far) on March 17 at a price of $75,000, a […]
Bitcoin rose sharply after the war between Iran and the United States entered its third week. The prices of most altcoins are also going up. Meanwhile, oil is still trading around $100 per barrel and gold appears to be falling. Safe haven Gold, the ultimate ‘safe haven’ that normally always rises during geopolitical uncertainty, is […]
