₿ Cryptocurrency

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.

Coin Bureau

President Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve Chair triggered historic crashes in gold, silver, and Bitcoin as markets priced in his hawkish monetary philosophy, despite his history of positive comments about cryptocurrency technology.

Benjamin Cowen

Benjamin Cowen analyzes Bitcoin's 50% drawdown through historical bear market cycles, predicting a potential relief rally into March that forms a lower high before further decline, while warning that bear markets structurally punish both bullish and bearish excesses.

Benjamin Cowen

Silver has likely topped for the year with a 37% drawdown, while gold—currently down only 13%—has a 60-65% probability of hitting new all-time highs before stocks recover, based on historical gold-silver ratio cycles and sequential topping patterns seen in 1973 and 2011.

Benjamin Cowen

Bitcoin has officially reached a 50% drawdown to $63,000, entering what analyst Benjamin Cowen identifies as "Phase 2" of the bear market with historical patterns suggesting a bottom may form in either May or October 2025.