Cryptocurrency

Benjamin Cowen

Benjamin Cowen analyzes current market conditions as a 'rolling down the risk curve' environment where restrictive monetary policy favors conservative assets, with the dollar poised to rise, Bitcoin grinding lower on apathy rather than panic, Ethereum underperforming historical midterm year patterns, and gold positioned to outperform silver through 2026.

DataDash

Following Bitcoin's 52% collapse, technical indicators suggest a short-term relief rally toward $80,000-$85,000 is possible, but deteriorating institutional ETF flows and MicroStrategy's fading price support signal the potential end of the multi-year secular bull run in risk assets.

Altcoin Daily

Financial planning legend Rick Edelman predicts Bitcoin will reach $500,000 by 2030 based on institutional adoption math, with Ethereum hitting $4,000-$10,000 driven by stablecoin growth, while recommending investors allocate 10-40% of portfolios to diversified digital assets despite current market volatility.

Benjamin Cowen

Benjamin Cowen analyzes Bitcoin's ongoing bear market drawdown through historical cycle comparisons, warning of potential lower lows despite possible short-term bounces, while assessing gold's resilience, expectations for stock market corrections, and demonstrating chess opening traps.

Coin Bureau

Community banks have launched an aggressive lobbying campaign targeting Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong as 'public enemy number one,' claiming stablecoin yields threaten to drain $1.3 trillion in deposits, while the real motivation appears to be protecting the massive profit spread between what banks pay savers (0.39%) and what they earn from the Federal Reserve (5%).

Benjamin Cowen

Bitcoin is following its historical four-year cycle with a Q4 2025 top, and the current decline is driven by market apathy and low social interest rather than speculation, suggesting continued bearish conditions through the first half of 2026.

Coin Bureau

Tether has launched USAT, a US-compliant stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank to challenge Circle's USDC in American institutional markets while maintaining USDT's global dominance, as the company simultaneously accumulates over $17 billion in physical gold and diversifies into commodities trading and venture investing.

Benjamin Cowen

Benjamin Cowen argues that Ethereum has returned to its regression band "home" around $2,000, but unlike the brief 2025 visit that preceded an all-time high, ETH will likely consolidate here through most of 2026 before potentially dipping to the "basement" (~$1,400) to complete an ETH/BTC double bottom, ultimately setting up the next bull market for 2027-2028.

Coin Bureau

Bitcoin crashed below $70k, hitting a yearly low and breaking through the previous cycle's all-time high, as crypto markets endured their worst week in months amid complex positioning and options-driven selling pressure.

Altcoin Daily

Investing expert Mark Yusko warns that crypto is entering a winter cycle with Bitcoin likely to bottom in 2026, while predicting a major shift from US market dominance to Chinese and emerging market outperformance as global economic power restructures.

Coin Bureau

Newly released Epstein files reveal the financier's early awareness of Bitcoin dating back to 2011 and his indirect funding of Bitcoin Core developers through MIT Media Lab, alongside investments in Blockstream and Coinbase, though no evidence suggests he influenced Bitcoin's code or was Satoshi Nakamoto.

Benjamin Cowen

Benjamin Cowen argues Bitcoin is following historical cyclical patterns with eerie precision, suggesting the current bear market likely continues with potential relief rallies into March followed by lower lows, despite current extreme fear levels mirroring past cycle bottoms.