Ethereum's struggling. Its competitive landscape is evaporating, its best projects are jumping ship and the price forecasts are terrifying—to put it mildly. Let's be brutally honest: are we really surprised? This isn’t simply a market correction, this is a reckoning. It’s a painful reminder of what can occur when innovation...
The sheer audacity is breathtaking. $110 million riding on Ethereum's impending doom. This is not merely a trader’s warning — it is an alarm bell. It just yells “moral hazard” in the wild west of crypto.Is Crypto Repeating History's Mistakes?Think back to the South Sea Bubble. Or the Tulip Mania....
China’s ever-evolving relationship with cryptocurrency has been turbulent, the country regularly accepting and then recoiling from the practice with an iron fist. It’s a good problem to have, but now a new chapter is unfolding as the nation finally starts to sell off seized crypto assets. This move presents both...
China banned crypto. We get it. So concerns about capital flight, financial instability are all totally understandable. What happens after you ban it? Supposedly, you take federal property, you liquidate it, and you use the revenues to fund shortfalls in state and local government budgets. Fine, but is that all...
Under the terms of the proposal, Panama City’s municipal government would begin to accept payments in cryptocurrency for taxes, permits, fees, and other municipal services. This historic move makes Panama City the very first governmental public institution to adopt cryptocurrencies. Although citizens can pay their taxes with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and...
Panama City is taking a pro-cryptocurrency approach, with a different, more localized focus. The city’s government will be able to accept Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoins for payments of taxes and other city-issued fees. There's a catch: all crypto payments will be immediately converted to U.S. dollars. This approach to cryptocurrency...
The idea of Panama City accepting crypto for taxes and fees isn’t quite as far-fetched as it seems. Bitcoin, Ethereum, even stablecoins like USDC – it’s a headline grabber. Before we uncork the champagne and declare Panama the new El Salvador – hold on a second. Unsurprisingly, this action does...
We know the first quarter of 2025 was the worst for crypto. Put aside the late 2024 hype. Market cap disintegrated, trading volumes cratered, and even Bitcoin, the perennial darling of all things crypto, didn’t hold up—underperforming gold and USTs. While the crypto-evangelists will scream "volatility" and "buying opportunity," I...
Unfortunately, the first quarter of 2025 has already injected disorder into the cryptocurrency marketplace. Many investors today are unsure whether this correction marks a simple cycle hitch or the beginning of a more profound retreat. This year’s analysis digs further into the factors behind markets’ stellar performance. It explores Bitcoin’s...
The cryptocurrency market experienced a significant downturn in the first quarter of 2025, with the total market capitalization dropping by -18.6% to $2.8 trillion. Bitcoin’s dominance almost hit 59.1%. Its price, though, fell 11.8% to end at $82,514 although it hit an all-time high of $106,182 in January. Ethereum’s market...
