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The Latest Bitcoin & Macro news: Weekly Recap 26.05.2025
🧠Quote(s) of the week:
Fred Krueger: 'Generally, people overanalyze too much. Bitcoin is amazing tech. It works. It has been the top-performing asset in 13 of the last 15 years. Stop with the analysis. Buy it. Don't trade it. Don't look for "entry points". And don't do a 1% allocation either. Grow a pair.'
🧡Bitcoin news🧡
Money. Time. Energy. You only get to pick two… Unless you’re a Bitcoiner.
On the 19th of May.
➡️ El Salvador is $357 million in profit on Bitcoin holdings.
➡️Metaplanet ended Monday as Japan's 9th most traded stock, with ¥61.69B ( $425M) daily volume, surpassing Toyota, SoftBank, and Nintendo.
➡️Circle $USDC in "informal talks" to sell itself to Coinbase or Ripple, Fortune reports. WhalePanda: "Imagine running a $60 billion stablecoin in such an incompetent way you can't even turn a decent profit and desperately have to sell."
➡️Panama introduces a bill to allow citizens to buy, sell, and accept Bitcoin freely anywhere in the country.
On the 20th of May:
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Tick Tock next block, but it seems like we are right on schedule. Bitcoin is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
➡️BTC just hit a new ATH in Argentina Weak currencies first. Then all of them.
➡️ThumzUp Media officially files to raise $500m to buy Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset.
➡️Indonesian fintech DigiAsia's stock surges over 90% after announcing plans to raise $100M for a Bitcoin treasury.
➡️River: America’s story began with sound money. Hard-working Americans saved their wealth in gold-backed money. Today, Bitcoin carries that torch forward.
Insane stat! Bitcoin is now the people's money. Imagine the price when nation-states get on board.
The US government is outpacing global rivals like China by embracing Bitcoin. The federal government's Bitcoin holdings now represent twice its global market share of gold reserves.
Worth the read: https://blog.river.com/american-bitcoin-advantage/
'In this report, you'll learn about:
Why Bitcoin is an underestimated pillar of American dominance.
America’s lead in Bitcoin businesses, institutions, development, and policy.
Bitcoin's emergence as America’s reserve asset.'
Ergo: America is the dominant Bitcoin player in just about every dimension: investment, government reserves, development, institutional embrace, supportive policy, and mining.
➡️Texas Bitcoin Reserve bill SB 21 will be considered on the second reading in the House this morning. Note: the Texas Constitution requires that second and third readings be conducted on separate days. If it passes today, then the final vote could be tomorrow
➡️Bitcoin accumulation trends signal bullishness with smallholders (<1 BTC) accelerating accumulation (score ~0.55), and whales (100-10K BTC) aggressively buying. Source: Glassnode
➡️French company The Blockchain Group raises €8.6 million to buy more Bitcoin. Press release
➡️Chinese printer manufacturer Procolored unknowingly distributed Bitcoin-stealing malware through its official device drivers, resulting in 9.3 BTC ($950K) stolen from users.
https://x.com/MistTrack_io/status/1924411803540590728
➡️Bitmine launches its Bitcoin Treasury Advisory Practice with a $4M deal, including $3.2M for leasing 3K Bitcoin miners and an $800K consulting agreement
➡️Bitcoin's correlation to gold is at its lowest since February 2025, per Glassnode data.
➡️UK-listed Smarter Web Company adds 16.42 BTC to its treasury at an average price of $104,202. Total Holdings: 35.62 BTC The Smarter Web Company is stacking with conviction—building a treasury designed for the long term.
On the 21st of May:
➡️Vivek's Strive Asset Management looking to buy up to 75,000 Bitcoin from Mt. Gox claims at a discount to build a Bitcoin treasury.
➡️Bitcoin is $1k from an all-time high and the Google Trends chart looks like this.
On the 22nd of May:
Happy Pizza Day! 15 years ago today Laszlo Hanyecz bought 2 pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoin. That Bitcoin is now worth $1.2 BILLION.
Will Baxter: "But how did he get that much bitcoin? Well, there’s a lot more to Laszlo's story than those pizzas. Here are four facts about him most people don’t know (the last one blew my mind):
Laszlo, a Mac developer, discovered bitcoin in 2010. After realizing that Bitcoin only ran on Windows, he took it upon himself to port it to Mac OS. He built and released the first bitcoin client for Mac making it accessible to more users.
In its earliest days, bitcoin could be mined with just a CPU, something that every computer has. But Laszlo had other plans. In mid-2010, he released a solution that would allow users to mine with their GPUs. Laszlo is single-handedly responsible for ushering in the era of GPU mining which massively increased Bitcoin’s total hashrate.
By being one of the early adopters of GPU mining, Laszlo enjoyed a massive jump in mining efficiency and hashrate, which meant that he was able to mine a lot of blocks. In total, Laszlo’s Bitcoin wallets received more than 80,000 BTC over the first few months of the GPU mining era. It’s estimated that Laszlo mined well over 100,000 BTC in Bitcoin’s early days.
Laszlo has single-handedly mined more Bitcoin than any publicly listed Bitcoin mining company. As an example, MARA, the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner by market capitalization, has mined an estimated 48,000 BTC since 2018. Laszlo and his GPUs managed to mine more than twice that amount! Incredible. (foto)
➡️Pizza slice inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain forever! Block #897813
➡️Strategy: 'Bitcoin Pizza Day at Strategy. Paid for with USD.'
Kinda disgusting. The largest Bitcoin Treasury Company is not even able to pay for pizza in Bitcoin on Bitcoin Pizza Day? Why did they even bother to buy pizza today? They show zero understanding of the meaning of Pizza Day and Bitcoin history.
Plebs all around the world are celebrating Pizza Day by "spend and replace" Bitcoin for some lovely pizzas. What is Saylor doing? He decides to use his giant megaphone to stomp all over it. "Pay with Dollars. Eat the Pizza. Keep the Bitcoin." That post rubbed me the wrong way. That’s because they are not bullish on the payment use case of Bitcoin. I have been saying all the time: that he has an agenda against the medium of exchange. This is plausible as Saylor never minced words as far as I know. His model is HODL. Spending would contradict.
Not sure if I am overreacting because of store of value for several more years will eventually lead to a Medium of Exchange Bitcoin world.
As you might already know I am not particularly a fan of the whole Bitcoin treasury - public companies.
Read the following thread why, an excellent thread on the risks of Bitcoin treasury companies by a bitcoiner.
https://x.com/lowstrife/status/1925717037915005357
➡️For the first time in history, Bitcoin is now trading above $111,000 and just surpassed $2.2 TRILLION in market cap for the first time in history. $3 Billion worth of Bitcoin shorts to be liquidated at $120,000 Small, tiny reminder. In 2021 dollars, Bitcoin hasn’t broken $100K yet. We need to hit $118K to meet that milestone. Celebrating $1 million (eventually) might not be as much fun as you think.
➡️H100 Group buys 4.39 BTC and becomes Sweden's first publicly listed #Bitcoin treasury company. After announcing its first Bitcoin purchase shares surged 37%. A small stack, big signal.
➡️Bitcoin has now surpassed both Amazon and Google to become the 5th largest asset in the world, and Bitcoin just surpassed the Taiwan Dollar and is now the 8 largest currency in the world. Nothing stops this train.
➡️Michael Saylor's 'Strategy' now has a $23.8 billion unrealized profit on its Bitcoin portfolio. Meanwhile, Strategy is to sell up to $2.1 billion of 10% preferred stock.
➡️'Traditional finance consensus: "What's the use case for BTC?" Allowing Millennials to afford a home despite Boomer policymakers actively pursuing policies to prevent them from doing so Median US home price, price in BTC, 2020-today IMO, this chart is going <1 in coming yrs.' - Luke Gromen
Just to give you one more perspective on this topic:
➡️Joe Consorti: US real estate has been in a 15-year bull market. But guess what? Priced in bitcoin, the average US home price has dropped from ~3 million BTC to just 4.38 BTC in 15 years. All assets are deflationary in Bitcoin terms.
➡️Taiwanese Legislator has proposed a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve at 0.1% of GDP = $780m
➡️Chinese automaker Jiuzi Holdings to buy 1,000 Bitcoin for treasury.
➡️ 'Singapore's Genius Group buys another 24.5 Bitcoin. Now holds 85.5 Bitcoin, 1,000 BTC target confirmed.' - Bitcoin Archive
➡️Standard Chartered expects Bitcoin to hit: - Q2: $120,000 by the end of Q2 - Q4: $200,000 by late 2025 - 2028: $500,000
➡️On-Chain college: 'New ATH for Bitcoin yet realized profit is significantly lower than the last two local tops and prior cycle tops. HIGHER'
Not sure about that. Could be a double top.
On the 23rd of May:
➡️The Blockchain Group confirms the acquisition of 227 BTC for ~€21.2 million, the holding of a total of 847 BTC, and a ‘BTC Yield’ of 861.0% YTD Press release.
➡️The 8th largest economy in the world will start to buy Bitcoin. No one is bullish enough! Governor Abbot to sign Bitcoin Reserve bill into law! Texas to become the 3rd US state to enact an SBR!
➡️Publicly traded The Smarter Web Company bought 23.09 Bitcoin for £1.85 million for its treasury.
➡️For the love of god. Delate Coinbase or any other shitcoin casino/exchange (for example here in the Netherlands Bitvavo) and cold-Storage your Bitcoin and don’t touch them.
Not your keys, not your coins.
➡️'The Russian Bitcoin mining sector now ranks first in growth rates and second in mining volume globally. The country's largest Bitcoin miners, BitRiver and Intelion, controlling over 50% of the market, generated $200M in revenue for FY2024, per RBC.' -Bitcoin News
➡️Alex Gladstein: 'Absolutely crazy Hundreds of millions of people saw their wage and savings technology lose 15%, 30%, 50%, 75%, even 90% (!) of its value last year Fiat is broken, time for a Plan ₿'
➡️Bitwise predicts nation-states and institutions will hold 4,269,000 BTC—worth $426.9B.
➡️'Metaplanet is now the #4 most traded stock in Japan, moving nearly $1B in a day—just a year after adopting #Bitcoin. From obscurity to 300x returns, this is what happens when a company runs on hard money.' -Bitcoin for Corporation
➡️TFTC: "Scammers are mailing fake "Ledger Security" letters demanding wallet validation via QR code. They spoof official branding and ask users to visit fraudulent sites."
On the 24th of May:
➡️Bitcoin has the same number of users as the Internet had in 1999.
Now talking about that Bitcoin Adoption S-curve...
➡️Thomas Fahrer: 'Holding Bitcoin means getting rich while feeling frustrated 90% of the time. Deflationary money - designed to increase in value - forever. It's difficult for the human mind to comprehend. Most still don't get it.'
On the 25th of May:
➡️Pakistan allocates 2,000mw of electricity to Bitcoin mining and Ai - Bloomberg Daniel Batten: Pakistan announced 2000 MW for Bitcoin mining & AI. That's potentially ~17,000 BTC per year for an SBR. Plus, India will now have to follow. Game theory playing out. *Assuming that 50% of this is for Bitcoin mining, using latest-gen machines, 95% uptime, network hashrate is on average 1200 EH/s by the time they are complete
➡️Normally, I would write this in the segment below 🌎Macro/Geopolitics... "First signpost: DOGE failed to reduce the deficit.
Second signpost: Pushing for SLR changes to boost demand for Treasuries from domestic banks.
Third signpost: Pushing for legislation to boost demand for Treasuries from stablecoin issuers.
Fourth signpost: New spending bill estimated to increase deficit by 33% by 2027.
Fifth signpost: Bessent: "We'll grow GDP faster than the debt to stabilize debt-to-GDP."
Read below (segment 🌎Macro/Geopolitics) his full statement and my view on it.
TL;DR: Keep spending. Pass new laws and tweak regs to suppress long-end yields. Boost nominal GDP (mostly via inflation). Debase the currency. Bondholders and cash savers lose in real terms. Got Bitcoin?" -Sam Callahan nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6v3w0fjkyetyv4jjucmvda6kgqpqfpewuyx9rekj9487v2uawmg2any7tm7hpfw9at4q2r42u9jk792qnxt2yg
➡️Sminston With: 'There is a myth that 100% of the returns in Bitcoin only happen if you buy at the bottoms and then sell at the tops during one of the cycles. Power law quantile analysis shows otherwise; in fact, there are nearly identical growth rates (CAGR) whether you buy/sell at the bottoms (support) or around the middle (median) 52% vs 53% as of this year! Whichever trendline is followed, even if you only trade at the bottoms, the compounded annual returns of Bitcoin will be >7x of what you'd ever expect from the S&P. Ignore or try to time Bitcoin at your own risk!'
On the 26th of May:
➡️Bitcoin made another weekly record close at $109,004.
➡️When BlackRock holds 1M Bitcoin and the price hits $1M... They’ll be earning $2.5B a year in fees. Every year. Forever.
➡️Florida proposes eliminating Capital Gains Tax on Bitcoin. If passed, it would make Florida the first U.S. state to offer this kind of tax relief.
➡️Strategy acquires 4,020 BTC for $427.1 million at $106,237 per Bitcoin. They now HODL 580,250 BTC acquired for $40.61 billion at $69,979 per Bitcoin.
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