Mastercard’s rumored $2-billion crypto deals could bring 24/7 settlement to traditional finance, but liquidity, risk and compliance may slow it down.
The companies saw profits and Bitcoin reserves increase in the third quarter of 2025 as they moved further into high-performance computing and energy development.
Columbia Business School adjunct professor Omid Malekan claimed there are a few crypto buying companies that tried to “create sustainable value. But I can count them on one hand.”
Crypto analyst Willy Woo says it would need to be “one hell of a sustained bear market” to force Strategy to liquidate any of its Bitcoin.
In early October, Tom Lee and Arthur Hayes were confident that Bitcoin could still reach $250,000 by year-end, but analysts say half that figure is now unlikely.
Sequans shares fell 16% on Tuesday after the chip maker said it sold 970 Bitcoin to redeem half of its $189 million outstanding convertible debt.
Stablecoins, tokenized money market funds and tokenized treasuries could become a common treasury asset in the future, Fireblocks’ John Hallahan told Cointelegraph.
Bitcoin’s fall below $106,000 sent crypto sentiment into “Extreme Fear,” with the Fear & Greed Index plunging to its lowest level in nearly seven months.
Fellow miner IREN also signed a multi-year GPU cloud services contract with Microsoft worth $9.7 billion on Monday.
HyperUnit, the whale that made $200 million from the US-China tariff crash last month, is now betting on a rebound in Bitcoin and Ether, opening $55 million in long positions.