Katie Martin is the long-time stock market columnist for the Financial Times, the European standard of financial business newspapers (with all due respect to La Tribune, L’Echo de la Bourse, the Tijd, the Financieel Dagblad and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, but there is no better financial newspaper than the FT, even though I am not […]
After four weeks of rising Bitcoin prices, the largest digital coin is facing some pretty strong resistance around the $105,000 to $106,000 level, just below the All Time High of $109,000. Is this just a short break before we set a new record or are we due a correction? Yearly peak The largest digital currency […]
After a week-long rally by Bitcoin and altcoins, investors took some profits off the table on Thursday. Bitcoin tested a new support line, which was quite high already. The possible inclusion of Coinbase in the S&P500 could give the crypto market a new boost. Dollar The geopolitical agenda at the moment revolves around a possible […]
Bruno Retailleau, the French Minister of the Interior, has scheduled an urgent meeting with a number of crypto CEOs. He wants to explore how France can prevent the growing threat of crypto kidnappings in the future. Family members of crypto millionaires are being kidnapped and forced to contact their son, daughter or brother in order […]
On March 31st of this year, major crypto mining company Hut 8 announced the launch of a subsidiary called “American Bitcoin”. It now turns out that this new Bitcoin mining company is backed by the family of President Donald Trump. Specifically, the sons of US President Donald Trump (Eric and Donald Jr.) will participate in […]
Good news from Geneva reaches stock and crypto markets on Monday. Apparently the United States has agreed to reduce import tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to (only) 30%, while China is reducing their import tariffs on American goods from 125% to 10%. Still a whole lot more than before this whole debacle started, but […]
For some politicians, the MiCa regulation for crypto in the European Union does not go far enough. After it became known this week that the EU wants to ban all anonymous cryptocurrencies such as Monero (XMR) or Zcash (ZEC), some European ministers are now also asking to be allowed to see every crypto transaction (as […]
Just as memecoins were the biggest losers during the months of February and March, they were the biggest winners during the second half of April (except for that terrible first week) and certainly during the first week of May. In the past seven days, Pepe gained some 60%. Ether also significantly outperformed Bitcoin in recent […]
Geopolitical tensions between China and the United States are calming. An upcoming meeting by Trade Minister Scott Bessent with his Chinese counterpart in neutral Switzerland provides a sea of tranquility for markets. At least, that’s what you can hope for as a Bitcoin investor, because it was mainly this news that pushed the largest digital […]
Several Democratic senators have voiced strong opposition to crypto legislation that they say would allow political regimes in other countries to pay US President Trump for favors. In the midst of all the furor is a company called World Liberty Financial. Genius For months, the crypto bill seemed headed for easy passage in the U.S. […]
