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$86,636

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Jan 3rd, 2009

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$1.73T

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19,963,375

Total

21,000,000

Created On

Jan 3rd, 2009

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$126.08k

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-31.08%

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Oct 6th, 2025

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Dec 17, 2025

Long Reads

Decrypt's 2025 Story of the Year: Crypto Treasury Firms Flood Wall Street

Are crypto-buying firms destined to become a pillar of Wall Street, or will they be remembered as just another fad, echoing the booms and busts of previous market cycles? That question has bubbled to the surface in recent months, as a long line of firms that collectively raised billions of dollars to stockpile digital assets have seen share prices plunge, following a frenzy of pivots and mergers earlier this year. Whether it’s NFTs or meme coins, pockets of speculation emerge with each bull run,...

by André Beganski · 8 min read

Dec 17, 2025

Markets

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8's Stock Soars After Inking $7 Billion Google-Backed AI Deal

Shares in publicly traded Bitcoin miner Hut8 (HUT) are soaring after the firm booked a new $7 billion, 15-year deal with Fluidstack—backstopped by Google—to provide power for high-performance computing via a 245MW data center at its River Bend campus in Louisiana. HUT was recently changing hands at $42.55 shortly after the opening bell on Wednesday, a gain of more than 15%. HUT is up nearly 13% in the last month, and better than 150% in the last six months. “This agreement is the result of disc...

by Logan Hitchcock · 2 min read

Dec 17, 2025

Law and Order

Gavin Newsom Singles Out CZ, Ross Ulbricht, Arthur Hayes as Trump's 'Criminal Cronies'

California Governor Gavin Newsom has launched a website tracking what he calls President Donald Trump's "criminal cronies,” a list that includes Trump himself alongside convicted drug lords, January 6 insurrectionists, and several prominent crypto figures who have received presidential pardons. The tracker, unveiled Tuesday, spotlights Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, and BitMEX co-founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, Gregory Dwyer, and Samuel Reed, among the rec...

by Vismaya V · 4 min read

Dec 17, 2025

Coins

Bitcoin Traders Brace for Bank of Japan Rate Hike Amid Crypto Sell-Off

Bitcoin faces a key macroeconomic test this week as the Bank of Japan signals a more definitive pivot away from its long-held ultra-loose monetary policy, a shift that could tighten global liquidity and pressure risk assets. The price of Bitcoin is down nearly 30% from its October 6 peak of $126,080, with Bitcoin currently trading at $87,800 according to CoinGecko data, up 1% over the past 24 hours. The Japanese central bank is set to conclude a critical two-day policy meeting on Friday, with m...

by Akash Girimath · 3 min read

Dec 17, 2025

Coins

Bitcoin in Focus as Stock and Options Contracts Expire on Friday

Bitcoin traders are gauging the potential ripple effects from the U.S. stock market's quarterly “Witching Friday,” a major derivatives expiry that could influence risk appetite across asset classes during a week packed with macro catalysts. Bitcoin is trading flat over the past 24 hours, and remains under $90,000 for the third consecutive day, according to CoinGecko data. “Global markets are indeed facing multiple overlapping variables this week,” Tim Sun, senior researcher at HashKey Group, to...

by Akash Girimath · 3 min read

Dec 16, 2025

Markets

Why Bitwise Expects New Bitcoin Highs in 2026—And the End of the 4-Year Cycle

Crypto investment firm and index fund manager Bitwise thinks Bitcoin will hit new all-time highs again in 2026, even after falling into a rut over the last two months. The firm is predicting that the leading crypto asset will buck the trend of previous four-year cycles thanks to the diminishing strength of previous cycle indicators, and burst through to a new high mark above $126,080—its current all-time high set in early October. “Bitcoin has historically moved in a four-year cycle, with three...

by Logan Hitchcock · 3 min read

Dec 16, 2025

Markets

Bitcoin Treasury KindlyMD Faces Nasdaq Delisting With Stock Down 99%

Bitcoin treasury company KindlyMD is at risk of being delisted from Nasdaq. According to the exchange’s rule, the company has until June 8, 2026 to regain compliance. To do that, the company’s share price has to close at $1 or more for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days. The company's shares—which trade on Nasdaq under the NAKA ticker—closed at $0.38 on Tuesday. The shares have consistently closed below $1 through October and November, with NAKA falling nearly 99% from its yearly peak pri...

by Stacy Jones · 2 min read

Dec 16, 2025

Coins

Tether Invests in Crypto Startup Powering Stablecoin Use via Bitcoin Lightning Network

Prominent stablecoin issuer Tether has announced a strategic investment in Speed, a payments infrastructure firm utilizing the Bitcoin Lightning Network and stablecoins for instant global settlements. Tether said Tuesday that it co-led Speed's $8 million funding round alongside Ego Death Capital. Via products like Speed Wallet and Speed Merchant, Tether said that Speed currently processes over $1.5 billion in annual payment volume, serving 1.2 million users and businesses. The platform offers in...

by Andrew Hayward · 3 min read

Dec 16, 2025

Markets

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Buys the Dip on Coinbase, Circle and Tom Lee’s Ethereum Giant BitMine

Ark Invest, the investment firm of noted tech investor Cathie Wood, added shares of popular crypto-related equities like Coinbase, Circle, and BitMine Immersion Technologies amid falling share prices on Monday. The firm’s largest additions were in Tom Lee’s Ethereum treasury firm BitMine (BMNR) and American crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN). Across three of its actively managed ETFs it added more than 550,000 shares of BMNR valued around $17 million and nearly 65,000 shares of COIN valued at $16.5...

by Logan Hitchcock · 2 min read

Dec 16, 2025

Law and Order

Hong Kong Court Adjourns $206M JPEX Fraud Case Until March: Report

Prosecutors in the JPEX fraud case in Hong Kong received permission to adjourn the case until next year so that they can organise the case files at a hearing on Monday at the city’s Eastern Magistrate’s Court, according to local media reports. The next hearing will take place on March 16 for the group of social media influencers accused of promoting JPEX and acting as the public face of its over-the-counter cryptocurrency trading shops. They face charges including conspiracy to defraud, fraud,...

by Callan Quinn · 3 min read

Dec 16, 2025

Markets

Bitcoin and Ethereum Wobble as US Reports Highest Unemployment Rate Since 2021

Bitcoin and Ethereum dipped and then began rising as the U.S. unemployment rate hit a four-year high of 4.6%, following the release of nonfarm payroll data from both October and November from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading for $87,152 after having lost 0.5% in the past day, according to crypto price aggregator CoinGecko. Bitcoin's price was recently at its highest point in the last 24 hours after diving to nearly $85,000 on early Monday. Meanwhile, Et...

by Stacy Jones · 3 min read

Dec 16, 2025

Coins

Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs Shed $582M in a Day as Institutions Trim Risk

Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs saw their largest daily net outflows in roughly two weeks, shedding a combined $582.4 million Monday as institutional investors pared exposure amid renewed volatility in U.S. equities and uncertainty over the direction of global monetary policy. Net daily outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs reached $357.6 million at their peak on Monday, the largest single-day redemption since early December, per data from Farside Investors. Selling was spread across Fidelity’s FBTC, A...

by Vince Dioquino · 3 min read

Dec 16, 2025

Opinion

Morning Minute: Decrypt Names Trump as Crypto Person of the Year

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors fall hard to start the week; BTC at $87,200 JPMorgan launches new tokenized money market fund on Ethereum Decrypt names Trump as Crypto Person of the Year The Senate punted the crypto market structure bill to 2026 MetaMask added native Bitcoin support with...

by Tyler Warner · 6 min read

Dec 16, 2025

Coins

Crypto Market Liquidity Shrinks Ahead of Holidays

Cryptocurrency market liquidity is tightening as a key measure of capital inflows shows a pronounced slowdown ahead of the holiday season. The 60-day market cap change of Tether’s USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin, has dropped from $15.38 billion on November 1 to $4.83 billion as of Monday, according to on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant. This sharp deceleration in new stablecoin issuance reflects a broader contraction of available capital, signaling that the market is entering a low-vol...

by Akash Girimath · 3 min read

Dec 15, 2025

Technology

Quantum Computing Unlikely to Impact Bitcoin, Crypto Prices in 2026: Grayscale

Fears that quantum computers could undermine Bitcoin’s security are unlikely to affect crypto markets in 2026, investment firm Grayscale said in a new report that dismissed the technology’s near-term risk. In its 2026 Digital Asset Outlook, the asset manager called quantum computing a “red herring” for the year ahead, saying the technology posed a long-term cryptographic challenge but was not expected to influence the price of the crypto market in the coming year. “We believe that research and p...

by Jason Nelson · 2 min read

Dec 15, 2025

Law and Order

Trump Says He Will 'Look At' Pardon for Samourai Bitcoin App Dev

President Donald Trump said Monday he was open to exploring a pardon for convicted Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez, and noted he was already familiar with the case. “I’ve heard about it, I’ll look at it,” Trump said of Rodriguez’s case, in response to a question from Decrypt during an afternoon event in the Oval Office. “We’ll look at that, Pam,” the president then commented to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was also present in the room. Bondi then appeared to write something do...

by Sander Lutz · 3 min read

Dec 15, 2025

Law and Order

UK Supreme Court Shuts Down $13 Billion Bitcoin SV Case Appeal

An appeal from Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) investors in a case seeking more than $13 billion in damages from prominent crypto exchanges was rejected by the UK Supreme Court last week. The appeal stems from losses that mounted in the BSV token following its delisting by major crypto exchanges like Binance and Kraken in 2019. The latest proceedings and permission to appeal fell to three court justices who ultimately refused the appeal, as spotted by Protos. “The application does not raise an a...

by Logan Hitchcock · 3 min read

Dec 15, 2025

Law and Order

Financial Stability Oversight Council Softens Crypto Stance in 2025 Report

The Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) 2025 annual report, released last week, has taken a significantly softer approach to crypto assets than previous editions following years of warning that digital assets posed systemic risks to financial stability. The 2025 report adopts a more measured tone, reflecting regulatory changes that have brought parts of the industry under federal supervision and a shift in political attitudes to crypto brought about by President Trump’s embrace of the...

by Callan Quinn · 5 min read

Dec 15, 2025

Technology

Crypto Wallet MetaMask Expands From Ethereum and Solana to Bitcoin

Popular Ethereum wallet MetaMask now supports Bitcoin, allowing users to buy, send, and receive the top crypto asset by market cap. The rollout comes nearly a year after the wallet first announced it would introduce support for Bitcoin as it began its expansion beyond Ethereum. “We’re excited to announce that Bitcoin is now supported on MetaMask. This means you can trade and manage BTC alongside Ethereum, Solana, Monad, and Sei assets, all inside your MetaMask wallet,” a statement from the comp...

by Logan Hitchcock · 2 min read

Dec 15, 2025

Long Reads

Decrypt’s 2025 Person of the Year: President Donald Trump

A year ago, America’s top crypto executives had never stepped foot inside the White House. They had never mingled with the Treasury Secretary, or hosted top DOJ officials at swanky offsite summits—or passed a major federal law. They also had never seen the digital assets they helped create climb so high in value, or so quickly. These victories have many authors. But they all would have likely been impossible without the support of the president of the United States. In the last twelve months, P...

by Sander Lutz · 15 min read