Hood River County, Oregon – December 16th, 2025 – This month last year, Abundant Mines quietly began to launch a feature that would go on to change how the bitcoin mining industry defines performance. Today, the company is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Hashrate Redirect™, a pioneering system that ensures clients continue earning bitcoin even when their machines are offline.

For too long, mining providers have misled customers with uptime metrics that measure whether a facility has power, not whether a machine is actually hashing. A rig could be powered off, broken, or awaiting repairs and still count toward a provider’s claimed “98% uptime.” The result is lost…

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Bitcoin price hovered above $87,000 today as market sentiment and the Crypto Fear and Greed Index plunged to 11 out of 100, a level signaling extreme fear among investors.

At the time of writing, the bitcoin price is trading at $87,696, up roughly 2% over the past 24 hours, according to market data. Despite the modest rebound, BTC remains trapped in a choppy consolidation range, sitting just 0.2% below its seven-day high of $87,918 and 2% above its weekly low near $85,575.

Yesterday, the bitcoin price cratered from close to $90,000 to the mid $85,000s.

Trading volume over the past day totaled approximately $51 billion, suggesting continued participation but little conviction on either…

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Asset manager Bitwise released a new report that argues that bitcoin is poised to break from its historical four-year market cycle, setting new all-time highs in 2026 while becoming less volatile and less correlated with equities.

Bitwise’s Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougen outlined three forecasts he says matter most for crypto investors: the end of the four-year cycle, continued volatility compression, and declining correlation between BTC and traditional stock markets.

The four-year cycle is ‘significantly weaker’

Bitcoin has historically followed a four-year pattern tied to the halving cycle, typically marked by three years of gains followed by a sharp pullback. Under that…

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Metamask, the popular Ethereum and DeFi wallet, announces Bitcoin integration as the company continues its expansion into multiple chains other than Ethereum. The wallet boasts 143 million downloads and over 30 million monthly active users, making it one of the most popular crypto wallets in the world.

Developed by Consensys, an Ethereum-born software development arm, Metamask has become a beast of its own, achieving massive success and adoption in the crypto industry. Having operated for over a decade, Metamask defined the user experience of in-browser wallets, copied by many of its competitors. Up until recently, Metamask was an Ethereum-only wallet, focusing on helping users move…

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Over the last two months, the broader bitcoin market has bled to semi-surprising lows and it seems like fear has crept into the forefront of market sentiment. But Strategy’s Michael Saylor, in true Saylor fashion, just put his head down and bought more bitcoin. 

Over the past two weeks, Strategy has spent nearly $2 billion just on Bitcoin.

Michael Saylor and his company Strategy have steadily expanded their Bitcoin treasury over the years, now holding 671,268 BTC — equivalent to 3.2% of all Bitcoin ever expected to exist, the company says.

The firm’s average purchase price for its holdings sits at roughly $75,000 per BTC, with a total acquisition cost of $50 billion…

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Michael Saylor company Strategy now controls 671,268 BTC—equivalent to roughly 3.2% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist. According to a company update shared on social media, Strategy has added Bitcoin to its balance sheet every quarter since Q3 2020, completing 90 separate acquisitions over that period. The firm reports a total acquisition cost of about $50 billion, with an average purchase price near $75,000 per Bitcoin, and a current Bitcoin net asset value estimated at $60 billion.

The accompanying data shows a steady and accelerating rise in holdings, particularly from late 2023 onward, reflecting Strategy’s long-term conviction in Bitcoin as a strategic treasury reserve asset. Quarterly holdings have grown from just over 38,000 BTC in 2020 to more than 671,000 BTC by mid-December 2025. This aggressive accumulation strategy has made Strategy a bellwether for institutional Bitcoin adoption, reinforcing its role as a key player shaping corporate attitudes toward digital assets and long-term crypto investment strategies.

Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, announced a strategic investment in Speed1, Inc. (“Speed”), a payments infrastructure company leveraging the Bitcoin Lightning Network and stablecoins to build instant, global settlement rails.

Tether led the company’s $8 million funding round alongside ego death capital, signaling a strong push to expand Bitcoin-aligned financial infrastructure and increase the real-world utility of USDT.

Speed provides payment solutions for a diverse range of users, including consumers, creators, platforms, and enterprise merchants. The company processes over $1.5 billion in annual payment volume and serves roughly 1.2 million users…

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