One week after U.S. President Trump announced a strategic Bitcoin reserve, the asset is trading down—mostly thanks to wider macroeconomic uncertainties stemming from the new commander in chief's dramatic and unpredictable policies.
Bitcoin was priced at a little over $84,000 per coin as of late Friday evening after dipping nearly 4% over a seven-day period, CoinGecko shows.
But despite dipping more than 20% from its record high in January, the slump could be brief, analysts toldDecrypt.
A White House official told a room of crypto big wigs on Thursday that the new administration wants to acquire as much Bitcoin as possible.
This week had no shortage of Bitcoin news.
ETF action
American crypto investors continued to cash out of Bitcoin ETFs this week, with nearly $900 million leaving the investment vehicles as of Thursday, according to the latest data from Farside Investors.
Now, Bitcoin ETFs are lagging behind their gold counterparts, after having briefly overtaken them back in December.
Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. This week: It’s spring time for Coinbase and on-chain assets. The company is going after its tokenized security white whale. CEO Brian Armstrong and his founders have been wanting to offer tokenized stocks since before the company even went public in 2021. Will they do it this time? Meanwhile: What’s that in the sky? An IPO, a new ETF? Turns out it’s both.
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Still, not to worry: Experts toldDecrypt that the products have room to run this year, with Bloomberg's ETF analyst Eric Balchunas adding that he thought Bitcoin was likely to win the ETF war over the long-term.
Bitwise launches another BTC-related ETF
Speaking of ETFs, asset managers still don't think the market's crowded: Bitwise on Tuesday launched a new fund giving investors exposure to publicly traded companies with the biggest Bitcoin stashes.
The new Bitwise Bitcoin Standard Corporations ETF—OWNB—tracks 21 firms that hold 1,000 Bitcoins or more, including Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), Bitcoin miner MARA, America's biggest crypto exchange, Coinbase, and even electric car company Tesla.
Today we’re launching the Bitwise Bitcoin Standard Corporations ETF, now trading with ticker OWNB.
Over 70 companies today have adopted MSTR’s playbook of holding bitcoin as a corporate treasury asset. The Bitwise Bitcoin Standard Corporations Index holds the largest, those with… pic.twitter.com/Z7pqLGGx27
YouTube rival Rumble wasn't included in Bitwise's index, but the company is a good example of a smaller firm stacking sats: The media firm last year said it would allocate $20 million of its excess cash reserves to Bitcoin.
And on Wednesday, the Nasdaq-listed platform announced it had bought roughly 188 orange coins for its treasury at an average price of $91,000 per token.
Is Strategy done buying?
Bitcoin treasury Strategy, which came up with the blueprint Rumble is now following, has slowed down its BTC buys after a manic shopping spree.
Decryptspoke to experts who said it was unlikely the company—previously known as MicroStrategy—was giving up its long-term plan, and rather focusing on its new stock offering, STRK.
White House going orange
Perhaps most dramatically for Bitcoiners this week, news dropped that the White House does indeed want to buy more Bitcoin.
Attendees at a closed-door roundtable hosted by the Bitcoin Policy Institute on Tuesday confirmed to Decrypt that the new administration is planning to buy as much of the cryptocurrency as possible. That's at least what Bo Hines, the executive director of the Presidential Working Group on Digital Assets, reportedly said.
A White House official told a room of crypto industry leaders this week that the Trump administration wants to acquire as much Bitcoin as possible.
At a closed-door roundtable hosted by the Bitcoin Policy Institute on Tuesday, Bo Hines, executive director of the Presidential Working Group on Digital Assets, told participants the White House is intent on acquiring as much Bitcoin as it can, according to multiple attendees.
When asked by someone in the room exactly how much Bitcoin the U.S. gover...
The news comes after President Trump last week followed through with his campaign promise and signed an order to establish a Bitcoin strategic reserve.
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Gold exchange-traded funds in the U.S. are leading in assets under management again after briefly being dethroned by the new American Bitcoin ETFs, a result of the traditional risk-off asset’s surge to a record high and BTC’s recent slump.
American ETFs giving investors exposure to gold’s price are collectively managing close to $150 billion in assets, VettaFi data shows. The 11 Bitcoin ETFs—approved by the SEC last year—now have over $93 billion in managed assets.
In December, Bitcoin ETFs bri...
Bitcoin was up more than 4% over the past 24 hours shortly after U.S. equity markets closed as risk-on assets rallied a day after the U.S. government seemed to avert a shutdown, and despite the latest evidence of a brewing recession.
The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was trading above $84,000, according to crypto data provider CoinGecko. BTC topped $85,000 for the first time in five days earlier in the day before retreating.
"Some renewed macro stability is seeing Bitcoin and c...
Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. This week: It’s spring time for Coinbase and on-chain assets. The company is going after its tokenized security white whale. CEO Brian Armstrong and his founders have been wanting to offer tokenized stocks since before the company even went public in 2021. Will they do it this time? Meanwhile: What’s that in the sky? An IPO, a new ETF? Turns out it’s both.
Real world wins for Coinbase
Things keep f...