Crypto is increasingly appearing in the world of geopolitics. For years, cynical rumors claimed that Bitcoin is primarily used by criminals to make anonymous payments. However, this is untrue, as the latest Chainalysis report shows a 694% increase in the amount of cryptocurrency being traded by sanctioned countries last year. Russia and Iran in particular, […]
Arthur Hayes, arguably the best crypto forecaster of recent years, has entered 2026 with a bang. He explained why he thinks Bitcoin will rise in 2026 (citing the US midterms as a primary reason) and why Zcash is his primary investment this year. Here’s an overview. Dollar printer In a long substack called “Suavemente,” Bitcoin savant Arthur […]
According to unconfirmed rumors, the Bitcoin price is rising this week partly because the Venezuelan government holds a secret Bitcoin stash worth around $60 billion. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading for $92,500. Official figures indicate that Venezuela holds only 240 Bitcoins, but rumors suggest that Venezuela has converted all gold and oil […]
While Bitcoin is having a very strong start to the year, it was announced that Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin (of the same name), has entered the top 5 of largest Bitcoin hodlers. Gold also remains very high on Tether’s shopping list. Tether currently has some $140 billion worth of USDT tokens […]
With anti-government protests in Iran and a military incursion into Venezuela, 2026 is putting geopolitics back on the front pages. Major market players are returning this week as the Christmas holidays end and so we’ll finally see the effects of this operation on stock exchanges and crypto markets. Trump’s crypto company, World Liberty Financial, has […]
The first investment asset to react to the US military action in Venezuela this weekend was, of course, Bitcoin, which dipped when news of the explosions in Caracas broke and then recovered strongly afterwards. That other geopolitical battleground, Iran, also made headlines this weekend in connection with crypto. Venezuela The United States launched a military […]
With a profit of some 50% in the past week, Canton is the first crypto winner of the new year. The small cryptocurrency is attracting increasing attention from Wall Street, which is searching for new blockchains to trade well-known financial investment products as digital tokens. Canton appears ideally suited for this and will soon trade […]
With a price of some $88,000, Bitcoin is starting the new year slightly lower than it was at the start of the second Trump presidency. This suggests that President Donald Trump, who promised to make the United States the capital of the crypto world, hasn’t quite succeeded yet for cryptofans. Alternatively, Bitcoin may simply have […]
Every Bitcoin bull run has in the past decade happened in the following manner: two years of strong growth, one transition year, and one year of decline. For Bitcoin, 2025 was a year with a new all-time high and a lower close hence a transition year (after two years of growth in 2023 and 2024). […]
On this last day of the year, a quick story about an incredible crypto scam that made headlines across the United States this week. A 23-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, posed as a Coinbase employee to steal approximately $16 million in cryptocurrency from around a hundred investors in the span of a year. The vast […]
