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Markets

Bitcoin Drops Below $79K as Cryptos Plunge, Stock Futures Fall Another 5%

Hedge funder Bill Ackman called President Trump's tariff plan "economic nuclear war" and urged a Monday pause.

Bitcoin plunges below $40K (Eva Blue/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Posts Worst Q1 in a Decade, Raising Questions About Where the Cycle Stands


BTC fell 11.7% in Q1 2025, its weakest first quarter since 2015, as investors sold into economic uncertainty.

Where in the cycle is bitcoin price? (Emily Morter/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin's Price Stability at Risk From Potential 'Basis Trade Blowup' That Catalyzed the COVID Crash

Market volatility poses risk to $1 trillion Treasury basis trades. A potential blowup could trigger a global dash for cash.

BTC's stability at risk from a potential bond market blowup. (SD-Pictures/Pixabay)

Tech

Bitcoin Developer Proposes Hard Fork to Protect BTC From Quantum Computing Threats

The proposal outlines a plan to enforce a network-wide migration of BTC from legacy wallets to ones secured by post-quantum cryptography.

Scientific equation close-up (Bozhin Karaivanov / Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Outperforms Nasdaq as BTC Becomes 'U.S. Isolation Hedge' Amid $5T Equities Carnage

The cryptocurrency market is showing resilience as U.S. equities plunge and investors look to bitcoin as a potential hedge

Bear and bull (Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Begins to Decouple From Nasdaq as U.S. Stocks Crumble

Is the long-awaited "decoupling" finally here? Bitcoin bulls hope so.

Bitcoin begins to go its own direction as stocks tumble (Caleb Jones/Unsplash)

Markets

Jerome Powell Makes No Promise to Ease Policy; Fed to Stay Focused on Inflation

The Fed chair spoke Friday with markets in full blown panic following the Trump tariff announcement.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Markets

Riot Platforms Hits Post-Halving Bitcoin Production High as It Expands AI Capacity

Feasibility study confirms Corsicana Facility’s potential for AI/HPC growth as Riot delivers strong mining performance in March 2025.

A 30MW mining facility (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Markets

GameStop CEO Cohen Buys $10M of GME Shares Following Bitcoin Acquisition Plan

The company earlier this week closed on a $1.5 billion capital raise, with the funds to be mostly used to buy bitcoin.

(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Markets

U.S. March Jobs Growth of 228K Blows Through 135K Forecast

Bitcoin has been showing very faint signs of resilience as markets tumble in response to tariffs.

The U.S. released January jobs numbers Friday morning (Ernie Journeys/Unsplash)