News with the tag "BITQ"

Summary Once riding high on Bitcoin ETF approvals, institutional interest, and political optimism, the crypto market has suffered an $800 billion wipeout, record ETF outflows, and a sharp decline in investor confidence. Hopes for a crypto-friendly Trump administration have faded, with little regulat...

Summary TLT is a proxy for long-term US Treasury bonds. How many stories have you read about ballooning US government deficits, the potential for President Trump’s tariffs to drive inflation higher? Yet, bond prices are going up and bond yields are going down. Many analysts have said Trump’s lighter...

Summary Senator Cynthia Lummis’s leadership of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets marks a pivotal shift in U.S. financial policy, signaling Washington’s commitment to integrating cryptocurrency and blockchain into the mainstream economy. The SEC's formation of a new digital asset task...

Summary We have reached the "Fartcoin" stage of the market cycle - Fartcoin is only the latest memecoin; there have been other memecoins before. We have thought quite a bit about cryptocurrencies, and for the most part, they resemble collectibles. We are leaving the Fartcoin stage of the market and ...

More on Bitcoin USD: Cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin Down 5% This Week Bitcoin And 'Strategic Reserve' Progress VanEck Mid-January Bitcoin ChainCheck CME Group to launch options on bitcoin Friday futures DeepSeek's rise triggers 'overdone' selloff in bitcoin mining stocks, analyst says

More on Trump and cryptocurrency Donald And Melania Trump's 'Meme Coins': Don't Overthink It Why TRUMP's Memecoin Could Hurt Solana Trump-And-Dump Or Paradigm Shift? Why You Should Closely Watch Crypto Financial information for Official Trump

Summary Trump's presidency could bring significant regulatory changes. Key appointments, such as the newly appointed SEC Chair Paul Atkins, known for his deregulatory stance, may end the "regulation by enforcement" era. Policies like SAB 121 - which restricts banks from holding crypto assets off-bal...

Summary The S&P 500 had a 2.39% return in Q4, outperforming bonds, with large caps and growth stocks leading over small caps and value stocks. Bitcoin is viewed as a compelling value opportunity due to its stable creation process, first-mover advantage, and low correlation with traditional markets. ...

Can one be a staunch crypto backer and a supporter of U.S. dollar supremacy? That stance could become a dilemma for President-elect Donald Trump, who has touted both goals for his next administration. Case in point: As U.S. sanctions complicate Russia's international trade, the country is turning to...

Summary There has been a spate of proposals out there by Bitcoiners, but also by some prominent politicians, including Donald Trump, for having the US government accumulate Bitcoin. US government stocking up on Bitcoin is not the same thing as getting Bitcoin more widely used – you’d have to have tr...