A Fresh Ethereum Bet From Tom Lee Is Turning Heads Across Crypto Markets

Just when many traders were starting to believe the market had gone quiet, veteran crypto bull Tom Lee stepped in with another massive bet on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH). 

Through his firm Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Lee purchased 60,976 ETH worth roughly $120 million. The purchase pushed the company’s total holdings to more than 4.5 million ETH, valued at close to $9 billion at current prices.

This is a bold move as traditional investors’ sentiment around Ethereum remains weak. On the other hand, some traders think this could be an early sign for the next leg of a massive crypto bull run.

Ethereum’s Quiet Rebound Is Turning Heads Across Crypto Markets

Ethereum recently climbed back toward…

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Outrunning Entropy, Why Bitcoin Can’t Stand Still

The IBD Process

Synchronizing a new node to the network tip involves several distinct stages:

Peer discovery and chain selection where the node connects to random peers and determines the most-work chain. Header download when block headers are fetched and connected to form the full header chain. Block download when the node requests blocks belonging to that chain from multiple peers simultaneously. Block and transaction validation where each block’s transactions are verified before the next one is processed.

While block validation itself is inherently sequential, each block depends on the state produced by the previous one, much of the surrounding work runs in parallel. Header…

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Why Bitcoin Is About To Enter The ‘Most Frustrating Phase’ Of Its Cycle

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is trading sideways, with investors’ weakening conviction conviction pointing to a psychologically difficult phase of the market cycle.

Why Investors Are Getting Jittery

Data from CryptoQuant suggests the market is currently in a highly uncertain phase marked more by hesitation than conviction.

Several on-chain indicators point to weakening investor confidence:

Apparent demand briefly improved following the latest sell-off but quickly turned negative again, indicating buyers remain cautious.

The CryptoQuant Bull Market Cycle Indicator currently signals a bear-market consolidation phase, typically associated with sideways price action and frustrating… Read more on Benzinga

Mastercard Launches Crypto Partner Program With 85+ Firms

Mastercard has unveiled a new global initiative aimed at bringing crypto into the mainstream of financial services. 

The Crypto Partner Program, announced Wednesday, gathers more than 85 companies across the blockchain, fintech, and traditional banking sectors, including Binance, Circle, Gemini, PayPal, Paxos, Ripple, BitGo, and Crypto.com. 

The program is designed to explore practical applications for on-chain technology within existing payment infrastructure, focusing on areas such as cross-border transfers, business-to-business payments, and global payouts.

Executives at Mastercard, including Raj Dhamodharan, executive vice president of Digital Asset Blockchain Products…

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Strive (ASST) Adds Bitcoin And Strategy (MSTR) Stock To Balance Sheet

Strive, Inc. said Wednesday it raised the dividend rate on its preferred equity product while adding more bitcoin and a new credit instrument to its balance sheet, moves the firm said are designed to stabilize its digital credit strategy.

The Dallas-based company increased the dividend rate on its SATA preferred stock by 25 basis points to 12.75% and declared a dividend of $1.0625 per share payable April 15 to shareholders of record on April 1. 

At the same time, Strive narrowed its targeted trading range for SATA to $99–$101 from the previous $95–$105 and updated guidance to avoid issuing new shares below $100 through at-the-market or follow-on offerings.

The firm also disclosed…

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Binance Sues Wall Street Journal Over Alleged False Reporting

Binance has filed a lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over a February 23 article alleging $1.7 billion flowed to Iran-backed terror groups, claiming the false reporting triggered baseless government inquiries including a DOJ probe announced Tuesday.

The Lawsuit Claims

Binance filed the complaint on Wednesday to defend its reputation and prevent misinformation from driving unnecessary confusion across the ecosystem. 

Global Head of Litigation Dugan Bliss said the lawsuit is “a necessary step to defend ourselves against misinformation, hold The WSJ accountable for prioritizing clicks over journalistic integrity, and address the significant reputational harm and business consequences…

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Binance Sues Wall Street Journal Over February Article

Crypto-exchange Binance has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over a February article that alleged the exchange dismantled an internal investigation into cryptocurrency transactions tied to Iranian networks.

In a complaint announced Wednesday, Binance said the Feb. 23 report falsely claimed the company halted a compliance probe after investigators flagged more than $1 billion in crypto flows linked to entities connected to Iran-backed militant groups.

According to the newspaper’s reporting, internal investigators at Binance traced transactions through intermediaries, including a Hong Kong trading firm that allegedly moved hundreds of millions of dollars in…

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Iran War Means Fed Prints—’That’s When I Buy Bitcoin’

The ‘Wait For The Fed’ Strategy

Hayes explained his timing on the Coin Stories podcast. “If I had $1 to invest right now, would I be putting it into Bitcoin? No. I would wait,” Hayes said. 

“I think that the longer that this conflict goes on, the higher the likelihood that the Fed has to print money to support the American war machine. And that’s when I’m going to buy Bitcoin when the central banks start printing money,” he added.

Hayes distinguished between war itself and the monetary response. War isn’t inherently bullish for Bitcoin. Rather, wars force governments to print money to fund military operations, and that money printing drives Bitcoin higher. 

Trying to buy…

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The Math Behind Bitcoin To $1 Million In 10 Years

The Store-of-Value Market Growth

The current store-of-value market stands at just under $38 trillion: $36 trillion for gold and $1.4 trillion for Bitcoin. 

On this basis, Bitcoin currently represents just under 4% of the market.

The mistake most people make is assuming the store-of-value market is static, the report states.

Gold’s market cap was about $2.5 trillion when the first gold ETF launched in 2004. It has grown to almost $40 trillion, a compound annual growth rate of 13% per year.

If this 13% growth rate continues, the global store-of-value market will reach approximately $121 trillion in 10 years. 

At that level, Bitcoin only needs to capture 17% of the market to reach $1 million…

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A Record $409M Day Shows How Strategy Is Rapidly Scaling Bitcoin Accumulation With STRC

On March 10, Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Preferred ($STRC) delivered its most significant trading session since launch.

The headline figures are straightforward:

$409 million in daily traded volume — the highest on record 3% 30-day volatility — the lowest since issuance $99.78 one-month VWAP — the highest sustained trading average to date

At first glance, these appear to be the sort of milestones any new financial instrument might post as it matures. Markets discover a product, liquidity improves, volatility compresses, and price behavior begins to stabilize.

But taken together, the data suggests something more interesting may be happening.

STRC is beginning to behave…

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