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The Era of Useful Tokens: What Survived 2025
Bitcointalk, the legendary forum launched by Satoshi Nakamoto and still frequented by early Bitcoin contributors, has wrapped up its annual "Altcoin Portfolio Contest." I've mentioned this competition before in one of my Medium deep-dives, highlighting a recurring trend: no matter how creative or diversified the submitted portfolios are, a simple 100% Bitcoin allocation tends to outperform most of them...
Bitcoin's 3-Up-1-Down "Pattern": Broken or Just Misread?
Market commentators kept repeating a popular idea this year: since 2011, Bitcoin tends to follow a clear pattern - three positive years, one negative year. If we extended that logic to 2025, the expectation would be a green year. Now the year is ending, and the yearly change is red. So... is the long-standing pattern officially broken? The thing is, 2011...
$3T Market Cap… Again? The Ultimate Altcoin Reality Check
AshCrypto is pointing out that the crypto market cap is sitting around $3T - roughly the peak of the previous bull cycle that ended in late 2021. Honestly, it's a surprising comparison to make. * Bitcoin, which accounts for about half of the total market cap, is trading at a much higher price now than it was back then. * There are also more bitcoins...
BlackRock: No Guarantee Bitcoin Supply Is Limited to 21M
Have you noticed how financial institutions can say one thing out loud, even put it in writing - and then quietly say something else in the fine print right next to it? Sometimes it's not just different - it's the exact opposite. I've noticed a great example of this in an educational Bitcoin video that BlackRock - the world's largest asset manager - released...
Bitcoin 2025 Year in Review
Back at the start of the year, I wrote that Bitcoin was attracting serious attention from developers and that we could expect new, interesting solutions to make a major contribution to its development. Now the year is coming to an end. So, what important innovations did it actually bring to Bitcoin? If you spent all of 2025 watching Bitcoin solely through...
A New Name for a New Era
Messari's annual report has become something of a New Year tradition for the crypto industry - it always feels like a gift to the whole space. It's always exciting to read, and even more fun to discuss it later with colleagues. The Crypto Theses 2026 report will clearly spark many conversations as well. I haven't finished it yet, but...
Why Trust Wallet Deserves Respect - Even After a Hack
I’ve never considered Trust Wallet a particularly solid choice for storing crypto. It’s hugely popular - and projects with that level of visibility inevitably become attractive targets for hackers. And a major hack did happen. The vulnerability was found in the second-to-last version of Trust Wallet’s Chrome extension for Chrome. Users lost around $8 million worth of crypto. But today’s...
USDT Freezes in the Billions, But Freeze Resistance Gets Zero Demand
AMLbot published a data-backed report comparing Tether and Circle stablecoin freezes between 2023 and 2025. Over that period, Tether froze roughly $3.3 billion worth of USDT - while Circle froze about 30 times less, around $109 million. That part didn’t surprise me. I’ve written about USDT freezes many times before. But another detail caught my attention. According...
Gnosis 2025 vs Ethereum 2016: A New Era of Community Intervention
I've been following the Gnosis Chain hard fork debate for the past 24 hours, and I want to share my takeaways. First, some quick context. * In November, the DeFi protocol Balancer suffered a major exploit, resulting in the theft of over $100 million in user assets. * Part of the stolen funds was sitting in...
On the IMF's New Statement About El Salvador
A year ago, when the IMF published a press release about its agreement with El Salvador, I honestly did not fully believe it. In that statement, the IMF claimed it had reached an agreement under which El Salvador would abandon the mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin as legal tender. Salvadoran authorities tried to look confident, with representatives of the...
