Metaplanet's Q1 loss highlights the volatility of bitcoin holdings, underscoring the risks and potential rewards of crypto-centric strategies.
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Physicist Giovanni Santostasi says Bitcoin’s long-term price trajectory is not best understood as an S-curve, speculative bubble, or simple exponential trend, but as a power law similar to patterns found in cities, biology and other natural systems. Speaking with Nathalie Brunell on the May 12 episode of the Coin Stories podcast, the director of the Scientific Bitcoin Institute argued that Bitcoin’s historical data points to roughly $1 million per coin in about eight years and $10 million in roughly 20 years. Santostasi explained his Bitcoin Power Law thesis in detail. His core claim is that Bitcoin’s price has followed a nonlinear mathematical relationship with time since the network’s early trading history. In his formulation, Bitcoin’s price is proportional to time raised to a power of roughly 5.8 to 5.9, often rounded to six. That exponent, he said, is not just a curve-fitting artifact but a “fingerprint” of the system. “With bitcoin we found a similar relationship where the price
Quantum computing's rapid advancements pose an urgent threat to the security of digital assets and financial systems.
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Bitcoin's anticipated rise amid AI-driven economic shifts positions it as a key hedge against inflation.
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Schwab's crypto trading launch could normalize digital assets in traditional portfolios, potentially sparking fee wars and reshaping market dynamics.
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XRP’s futures open interest has climbed 23% so far in May, a sign that traders are betting bigger on the token even as its price trades roughly 6% below a recent high of $1.50. At $1.46 at the time of writing, XRP is down just nearly a percent in the last 24 hours — yet the money flowing into XRP investment products tells a different story. Related Reading: Strategy Boosts Bitcoin Position With Fresh $206M STRC Injection Institutional Appetite Keeps Growing Spot XRP exchange-traded funds recorded close to $26 million in inflows on Monday alone, the largest single-day figure since January 5. That pushed cumulative net inflows into a new all-time high of $1.35 billion, with total assets under management across spot XRP ETFs now sitting at $1.18 billion. The streak covers five straight days of net inflows. Broader XRP exchange-traded products — a category that includes ETFs and similar investment vehicles — pulled in nearly $40 million during the week ending May 8, according to data from
KLP ($110B fund) raised MSTR shares 10% to 104,680. Stake now worth $20.5M at $196/share. Prefers indirect BTC via listed firms like MSTR. KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS just announced a major institutional change. The largest pension fund in Norway increased its exposure to the main global Bitcoin treasury proxy. The decision signals increased demand for digital […]
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