News with the tag "XMR-USD"

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 ...

Summary Amid growing optimism around crypto regulations in the United States, a US Court overturned OFAC sanctions on privacy protocol/mixer Tornado Cash. Privacy protocols have been a dubious wager in the digital asset space, but there are positive signs. The shielded pool on ZCash has grown by nea...

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. ...

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...

Summary We believe the crypto bull market will persist through 2025, reaching its first peak in the first quarter. We expect this pro-Bitcoin stance to ripple across the broader U.S. crypto ecosystem. Crypto rails promise a better financial system through improved efficiency, decentralization, and g...

Summary November 2024 will be remembered as a pivotal month in digital asset history after the re-election of Donald Trump and his proposed appointment of a half dozen pro-crypto cabinet members. M. Ethereum and Bitcoin continued to climb on the back of increased on-chain activity and evolving techn...