Yes. I think the 4-year cycle bottom is already in. Bitcoin topped at roughly $126,000 on October 6, 2025. It then bled for eight months and printed its bear market low near $60,000 in June 2026. Today it trades around $85,000. That is a bounce of...
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How Many Bitcoin Does Satoshi Own, and Is He Still Alive?
Everyone argues about who Satoshi Nakamoto is. Almost nobody asks the more practical question: how big is his stack? Here is the short answer. Satoshi Nakamoto owns an estimated 1.096 million BTC, roughly 5.5% of all Bitcoin in circulation. At...
Trump’s “Annihilate Iran” Threat: Crypto Knee-Jerks, Then Settles
President Trump told Axios on Thursday that he is close to a "big decision" on whether to "annihilate" the Iranian regime. One day later, US embassies across nine Middle East countries issued security alerts for Americans. Crypto Twitter spent the...
Bitcoin 80K: The Relief Rally Nobody Positioned For
Bitcoin reclaimed $80,000 on September 18, 2026, printing $80,800 just days after a Fed rate hike, a BoJ rate hike, and a failed crypto bill. That combination should have sent price down, not up. Instead, we got a relief rally. The market ate three...
Fed Rate Hike 2026: The First Hike in Three Years Lands on Crypto
The waiting is over. Today the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points, lifting the target range to 3.75%–4.00%. This is the first Fed rate hike since 2023, and the vote was unanimous. Two weeks ago I wrote in my Bitcoin and the...
Liquid Network Hack: “Whitehats” Pull $320 Million in Bitcoin From Blockstream’s Sidechain
Bitcoin's oldest sidechain just watched 95% of its reserves walk out the door in a single transaction. On September 6, someone drained roughly 4,000 BTC, worth about $320 million, from the federation wallet backing Blockstream's Liquid Network. The...
My First Bitcoin Buy: $44, a Stranger on Skype, and a Handshake
It's Sunday again, which means throwback time. In the poker throwback a few weeks ago, I ended on a cliffhanger: my roommate mentioning some magic internet money called Bitcoin, back in 2012. Today I'm paying that story off — how the tip reached...
Bitcoin Fed September: One Date Decides the Month
A month ago I wrote that August and September form crypto's worst two-month window. I laid out the data, set my buy orders, and went back to the pool with the kids. Bitcoin read my blog and did the exact opposite. BTC closed August up 25%, one of...
Bitcoin Fork History: Every Fork and What Holders Got
Bitcoin has been forked, copied, split, and spun off more times than any asset in history. Some forks made holders serious money for doing nothing. Others were outright scams designed to steal private keys. Most landed somewhere in between: a brief...
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