SALT Lending CRO Hunter Albright predicts that more Bitcoin owners will borrow against their holdings instead of selling over the next three to five years, integrating stablecoins for liquidity.
Dan Hillery of UTXO predicts that the rapidly growing Bitcoin-backed digital credit market, which has expanded to roughly $16 billion, could eventually match Bitcoin's own valuation as financialization layers evolve.
The US Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the Iranian cryptocurrency exchange BitBank and financier Babak Zanjani for facilitating Bitcoin transfers to bypass economic restrictions.
Grayscale research suggests that the Federal Reserve's recent interest rate hike will likely have little impact on the price of bitcoin, viewing the move as a mid-cycle adjustment rather than a cyclical change.
Financial advisor Ric Edelman compared buying bitcoin today to investing in Amazon in 1999, predicting the cryptocurrency will reach $500,000 by 2030 based on a 1% global asset allocation model.
Peter Schiff argues the bond market broke in 2020, warns rising rates could crush Bitcoin, and debates tokenized gold versus cryptocurrency with Grace Remington and Sean Hagan.
MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor claims the failure of the Clarity Act is a positive outcome for the cryptocurrency sector, arguing that independent regulatory rulemaking allows for rapid innovation in a free market.
Gen Z is increasingly favoring Bitcoin over traditional housing for wealth building, as high affordability barriers lead young buyers to utilize crypto as collateral for down payments instead of long-term mortgages.
T. Rowe Price digital assets head Blue Macellari discusses the bond vigilantes, U.S. debt comparisons, and why bitcoin has become central to the currency debasement debate among institutional investors.
Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad analyzes the outlook for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill following the Clarity Act vote failure, highlighting upcoming regulatory shifts and a three-track policy approach.
MicroStrategy CEO Phong Le envisions transforming the firm into the JPMorgan of Bitcoin by building markets, supplying liquidity, and expanding a fifteen billion dollar digital credit ecosystem.