Heavy trading volume ahead of the ex-dividend date pushed STRC to its busiest session on record.
Crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe says Bitcoin could rally to a four-month high in the coming weeks as momentum continues to build across the crypto market.
May 15, 2026, 9:15 amPublic Bitcoin miners spent years racing to add more hashrate to the network. In the first quarter of 2026, many of them did the opposite. This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocksbridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute, infrastructure, and data analysis from The Energy Mag.
May 15, 2026, 8:30 am
Bitcoin dipped to $79,200 during the Trump-Xi summit on Taiwan tensions and a scorching inflation print before recovering to reclaim $81,000 as U.S. President Donald Trump wrapped his Beijing visit. A Summit Between the World’s Two Largest Economies Trump arrived in Beijing accompanied by a delegation of U.S.
Humans love to tell stories. A good story explains something about the world we experience, while remaining accessible and easy to understand. And so it should not be surprising that the story of Bitcoin’s rise inside institutions has been told as neat and linear.
Jane Street slashed its Bitcoin ETF holdings in Q1 2026 while loading up on Ether funds, according to a 13F filing published Tuesday. The firm’s position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust dropped 71% to roughly 5.9 million shares worth $225 million.
Metaplanet ended the first quarter of 2026 holding 40,177 Bitcoin — up from 35,102 at the close of December 2025 — after buying roughly 5,075 BTC during the period to become the third-largest publicly listed Bitcoin treasury company in the world. That aggressive accumulation came at a cost.
Given the ongoing outflows from Ethereum ETFs, why did Wells Fargo boost its ETH ETF holdings?
Rising yields may act as a headwind for assets like bitcoin and gold while potentially benefiting tokenized Treasury markets.
Crypto majors bid higher Friday after the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee in a 15-9 bipartisan vote, with XRP and dogecoin leading the cohort even as broader risk assets sold off on Trump's comments that the US does not need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Bitcoin is once again trading at a critical technical level as traders assess whether the recent pullback is a pause within a broader uptrend or the beginning of another deeper correction.
XRP price started a steady increase above $1.50. The price is now consolidating gains and might aim for more gains above the $1.520 zone. XRP price started a steady increase above the $1.50 zone. The price is now trading above $1.480 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average.
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