Author: NBTC

Bitcoin’s price will more than double within the next six months, swelling to $250,000, according to Bitcoin billionaire and BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, as U.S. President Donald Trump moves away from the market-rattling impact of tariffs toward other fiscal policies. “Midterm elections are coming up in the U.S.,” he told Decrypt at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas. “While the Trump administration went hard on tariffs and was taking this market pain for the last three months, that narrative has to shift.” Instead of pursuing trade policies that could weigh on economic growth and potentially hurt Americans’ ability to afford everyday…

Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. This week: Circle’s stock surged again to end the week while GameStop shares swoon after another bond offering—but SharpLink Gaming’s fall takes the cake. Circle stays hot The euphoria started to ebb, but the glossy announcements kept coming—and CRCL is surging again. After last week’s massive launch, USDC issuer Circle has seen its stock reach new highs and then start to settle over the course of the week as the stablecoin was added to Sam Altman’s World Chain. By late Thursday, it looked as…

President Donald Trump is hosting a crypto dinner tomorrow for the top 220 holders of his official meme coin, leading to considerable political outrage from a growing group of critics. Four U.S. lawmakers—along with representatives of watchdog groups Public Citizen, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, and End Citizens United—plan to hold a press conference on Thursday to demand a full release of dinner attendees’ names and “what favors they’re getting.” Prior, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) had demanded a probe into the event, citing risks of foreign influence given the pseudonymous nature of crypto transactions. While no…

Michael Saylor, one of the biggest Bitcoin bulls, hinted in his statement that he will buy BTC again tomorrow, as a Sunday classic. In this post, which he posts almost every Sunday, Saylor pointed to the “orange dots” that mark each purchase on a chart showing his company Strategy’s Bitcoin purchases, and said that “orange is his favorite color,” meaning that Strategy will likely be buying BTC tomorrow. On the other hand, with the BTC price repeatedly breaking the all-time high price level record and the Strategy’s assets also increasing, the company’s current Bitcoin assets are a matter of curiosity.…

A former Ripple director suggests that Ripple’s potential initial public offering (IPO) could be a landmark event, given its estimated valuation. In an X post yesterday, Sean McBride speculated that Ripple’s recent tender offer indicates that the company is valued at $30 billion. Largest IPO in History McBride derived the estimate after Ripple disclosed plans to repurchase $700 million worth of its own shares at a fixed price of $175 each. Sources revealed that Ripple announced the buyback initiative in an emailed statement to existing stockholders. Notably, McBride derived the $30 billion estimate by multiplying Ripple’s offer of $175 per…

It’s a historic day in the cryptocurrency markets. According to market data, Bitcoin broke its all-time high price record today, reaching $109,496 on Coinbase. This new high comes 121 days after the previous record of $109,353. Bitcoin has risen 47% since bottoming at $74,508 on April 9. As a result of this rise, Bitcoin’s market dominance increased to 64.25%, while the total market value of altcoins decreased by 26.67% from its current peak. With this jump in Bitcoin price, whale activity also increased significantly: According to on-chain data, three different wallets thought to belong to the same organization or whale…

Bitcoin miner CleanSpark has reportedly received approval to build a new mining facility in Mountain City, Tennessee, local media outlet WCYB reported on July 2. According to the report, the Mountain City Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved the mine’s development after a 3-1 vote to rezone the targeted 50-acre site. The land will shift from B3 to B4 zoning, allowing for higher-capacity infrastructure and energy-intensive operations. CleanSpark plans to construct a 30-megawatt Bitcoin mining facility on the site. Mountain City Mayor Jerry Jordan has previously voiced cautious optimism, stating that while the mine may offer economic benefits and job…

Bitcoin price had a big finish to May 2025, hitting a record high of $104,591, the highest it’s ever been in a single month. Even better, it hit an incredible all-time high of $111,980 — totally smashing previous records and making its spot as this year’s top performer clear. Now that history has been made, everyone’s looking to what comes next. The chart speaks for itself. After dropping in the $70,000 to $90,000 range earlier this year, BTC broke through with conviction in Q2 and never looked back. The $100,000 level was once seen as a sort of speculative milestone,…

In June 2025, blockchain and Web3 startups collectively pulled in a generous total of $1.15 billion across 140 deals, a 3% uptick in capital raised and 9% improvement on deal count from May, according to data from Messari’s latest funding update on X. One name dominated headlines: Kalshi. The predictions market with Donald Trump Jr on its advisory board closed a $185 million funding round at a $2 billion valuation, backed by heavyweights Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, Multicoin Capital, Neo, Bond Capital, and Citadel Securities CEO, Peng Zhao. Blockchain and Web3 startups pulled in $1.15 billion across 140 deals in June…

Art Blocks, the leading generative art NFT platform, unveiled its new PostParams feature last week, enabling artists and collectors to dynamically transform their collections over time. While some collectors have raised doubts about the new feature, Art Blocks founder Erick Calderon, who goes by Snowfro, clarified that PostParams simply offer a new mechanism for artists and collectors to express themselves on-chain. PostParams enable several customization options, allowing the collector or artist to modify pre-specified properties of the artwork. The feature can be applied across a number of properties in the collections, from “changing a color palette to completely modifying the…