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Key takeaways: Based on power curve trends, Bitcoin may hit $200,000 in Q4 2025.Bitcoin follows gold’s price trend with a 100-150 day lag.Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has rallied 11% this week, its best weekly return in 2025 and its highest seven-day growth since early November 2024. Bitcoin also reached $95,000 on April 25 for the first time since Feb. 24. Bitcoin 1-week chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView21st Capital co-founder Sina mentioned that Bitcoin reclaimed the power-law price. The power law’s predictive accuracy stems from Bitcoin’s network growth following Metcalfe’s Law, where value scales with the square of users. Based on Sina’s Bitcoin Quantile Model, reclaiming…

Fresh from successfully convincing game retailer GameStop to add Bitcoin to its balance sheet, Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole has now set his sights on fintech firm Intuit to do the same.Cole said in an April 14 open letter to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi that Intuit’s growth is admirable, but Bitcoin (BTC) is the best way to ensure the company’s long-term success and hedge against any potential disruption caused by artificial intelligence.Intuit’s flagship products are its tax preparation app TurboTax and the small business accounting software Quickbooks. The company laid off 10% of its staff in July to pursue…

Markets jump on US-China optimism, New Tether-Softbank funded BTC treasury firm, Bitcoin ETFs attract nearly $1 Billion in new capital, and more in this Week in Review. Week in Review Crypto-related stocks rallied alongside digital assets amid renewed U.S.-China optimism. Jack Mallers was announced as the head of a new Bitcoin treasury company backed by […]

This is a segment from the Empire newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Let’s talk about tokens.  It’s been a fairly big debate on CT (sorry, Elon, CX just doesn’t have the same ring to it). But let me back up for those of you who have managed to spare yourselves from the takes across social media: Basically, in light of ZORA, folks are debating the overall appetite for tokens.  “$ZORA is for fun only and does not entitle its holders to any governance rights or a claim on any equity ownership in Zora or its products,” Zora said on…

This is a segment from the Supply Shock newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. We all know halvings double the cost of production, a fact the media tends to dress up as an existential threat to Bitcoin every four years. Miners seeking profit must also contend with fluctuating difficulty and energy costs. But if the price goes up, at least they’d get more money for every coin they mine. At $88,500, bitcoin is ahead by 36% since the halving. More importantly, it’s up 130% on the average price during the last phase of the prior halving cycle (more than double!) As…

13h05 ▪ 3 min read ▪ by Eddy S. Nike is in turmoil. Accused of abandoning its NFT investors after the sudden shutdown of its crypto division RTFKT, the sports giant faces a class action lawsuit in the United States. More than $5 million is being claimed for deceptive practices and sale of unregistered securities. In Brief Nike is being sued for abruptly shutting down RTFKT, causing significant losses to NFT investors. The case reignites debate on the legal classification of NFTs as securities in the United States. This lawsuit could mark a turning point for digital asset regulation in…

This is a segment from the 0xResearch newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Michael Egorov is no stranger to token incentive mechanisms. As the founder of Curve, he pioneered vote-escrow (ve) tokenomics to juice the growth of the stablecoin AMM. But his new protocol, Yield Basis, is built for a different kind of user: “people who want to earn something on mostly Bitcoin,” as Egorov told Blockworks. At its core, Yield Basis is an attempt to eliminate LP impermanent loss by leveraging liquidity. Egorov explains: “If you leverage liquidity by a factor of two and keep this leverage, then the…

Several bitcoiners are concerned about the direction bitcoin adoption has taken and how institutions are now dominating the narrative. This new breed of users, the “suitcoiners,” does not share the same vision as the crypto founding fathers. ‘Suitcoiners Are Not Led by Libertarian or Cypherpunk Ideologies’ Since its inception in 2009, when bitcoin was developed […]

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Without Privacy Is A Surveillance System Builder: Yuval Kogman (nothingmuch) Language(s): Rust, C#, Go, Python Contribute(s/ed) To: rust-payjoin, WabiSabi/Wasabi 2.0, General Privacy Research Work(s/ed) At: Spiral (currently), zkSNACKS (formerly) Yuval had an interest in subjects related to Bitcoin far before it was actually birthed into the world. A lifetime software developer and technology enthusiast, as well as a general purpose autist, he first became interested in cryptographic technology around 2002. His father attended a talk by Adi Shamir, the famous cryptographer who co-invented the RSA signature scheme, on ecash. A father-son conversation later and Yuval was now…

This is a segment from The Drop newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Immutable co-founder Robbie Ferguson wrote on Tuesday morning: “Tomorrow we announce the outcome of a multibillion dollar partnership that’s been in the works for 2+ years.”  While we didn’t hear anything from Immutable by publication time, it could be about their game with Ubisoft. Immutable’s partnership with Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab was first announced in November 2023. During an on-record interview at the Game Developers Conference in March, Immutable Chief Studio Officer Justin Hulog told Blockworks that he has been “working on co-developing a game with Ubisoft…