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Every four years, Bitcoin’s block reward gets cut in half. History shows the real price action tends to unfold 6–18 months after the event, not immediately.
Three things I’m watching:
1. Miner economics — Lower rewards squeeze less efficient miners. Watch hash rate for signs of capitulation or consolidation.
2. Supply shock — Fewer new coins entering circulation against steady or rising demand has historically been a tailwind. ETFs add a new dimension this cycle.
3. Macro backdrop — Interest rates and liquidity matter more than ever. Bitcoin doesn’t trade in a vacuum.
My take: patience beats hype. The investors who do best aren’t the ones chasing green candles — they’re the ones with a plan before volatility hits.
What’s your strategy for this cycle? 👇
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🚨Binance Futures is expanding its trading options with two new USDⓈ-M perpetual contracts:
🔥 $POND Perpetual
⏰ Launch: 06:45 UTC
⚡ Up to 20x leverage
💰 USDT settlement
📊 Minimum notional: 5 USDT
🐱 哈基米USDT (Hajimi) Perpetual
⏰ Launch: 07:15 UTC
⚡ Up to 3x leverage
💰 USDT settlement
📊 Minimum notional: 5 USDT
Both contracts will trade 24/7, with funding fees settled every 4 hours and a funding-rate cap of +2% / -2%.
Binance also stated that both contracts are expected to become available for Futures Copy Trading within 24 hours of launch.
⚠️ Trade carefully. High leverage increases both potential profits and losses. Always manage your risk.
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Strategy's $1.59 billion discretionary pool can fund Bitcoin, buybacks, debt or reserve growth, leaving MSTR holders financing the choice.
trategy, the Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, raised $2.0065 billion by selling common shares from Aug. 17 through Aug. 23 and bought no Bitcoin. The transaction left its $1.59 billion USD Cash balance at the center of a wider capital-allocation contest.
The company sold 18,261,118 shares of MSTR, its common stock, then used $136.4 million to repurchase 1,431,212 shares of STRC, a variable-rate preferred stock. It transferred another $300 million to its separately designated USD Reserve. The remainder, $1.5701 billion, went into USD Cash, according to Strategy's Aug. 24 filing.
Strategy reported ending balances of $5.10 billion in the reserve and $1.59 billion in USD Cash. Those balances included expected proceeds from ATM shares that had not yet settled. The company held 840,447 BTC after making no Bitcoin purchase or sale during the week, with an aggregate cost of $63.36 billion and an average cost of $75,385 per coin.
The two dollar accounts serve different purposes. The USD Reserve remains designated for preferred dividends and interest on outstanding debt. USD Cash is flexible: Strategy may use it to acquire Bitcoin, cover those obligations, repurchase MSTR or preferred stock, repay, repurchase or redeem convertible notes, increase the reserve, or pursue similar Bitcoin Treasury Company purposes.
The flexibility came with a measurable common-share cost. Strategy's share dashboard reported 415.929 million basic shares outstanding on Aug. 23. Subtracting the 18.261 million shares issued during the week produces an implied pre-week basic count of 397.668 million, meaning the issuance increased that count by about 4.59%. The calculation uses reported and rounded share totals and is not a GAAP diluted-earnings measure. The filed sale totals also imply average net proceeds of about $109.88 per share.
MSTR holders are financing several potential uses at once. Strategy retained $516.6 million of preferred-security repurchase authorization and $1 billion of MSTR repurchase authorization after the latest transactions. Neither authorization commits USD Cash, but both compete with Bitcoin and debt actions as possible uses.
STRC offers one visible test. Its Aug. 25 close of $97.15 and after-hours quote of $97.10 placed it about 2.9% below its $100 stated amount. In recent remarks reported by CryptoSlate, management used STRC prices of $95 or $90 as examples of levels that could warrant support and said it would consider MSTR repurchases at a sufficiently deep discount to net asset value. Those were guideposts, not binding rules.
The next deployment will show which use management prioritizes: Bitcoin, discounted preferred or common shares, convertible debt, or additional protection for dollar obligations. Until then, the $1.59 billion is optionality rather than a Bitcoin order waiting to be filled.
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April 24 (Reuters) - Pop artist Robert Indiana's former agent has won a $102 million verdict in Manhattan federal court against another ​entity it accused of exploiting Indiana during his final days, forging thousands of his ‌works and selling them for millions of dollars.
A jury found on Thursday that art publisher American Image Art and its founder Michael McKenzie must pay Morgan Art Foundation for interfering with its contracts and violating its rights ​in Indiana's works including his iconic "Love" image, according to a verdict sheet, opens new tab made public on Friday
American ​Image's trial attorney, Nicole Brenecki of Jodre Brenecki, said that McKenzie disagrees with ⁠the verdict and "will carefully evaluate his post-trial options."
This verdict restores trust to the Robert Indiana ​market," Morgan's attorney, Luke Nikas of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, said in a statement on Friday. "We ​exposed these forgeries, held Michael McKenzie accountable, and protected the integrity of the artist’s legacy.”
Indiana was best known for his image of the letters L, O, V and E arranged in a square with the O tilted ​diagonally to the right, which he created in 1965 for a Christmas card by the ​Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. The image appeared on a U.S. postage stamp in 1973.
Morgan Art Foundation, ‌which began ⁠working with Indiana in the 1990s, said in a 2018 lawsuit that the then-89-year-old Indiana had become isolated and bedridden since giving Jamie Thomas – whom he had allegedly hired to run errands around his Maine home – power of attorney, enabling American Image Art and McKenzie to profit at the ​artist's expense.
Indiana died the ​day after the ⁠lawsuit was filed.
The lawsuit accused Thomas of conspiring with McKenzie to sell forgeries of Indiana's art to galleries. Morgan's attorney said in a closing ​statement at trial on Wednesday that McKenzie had forged thousands of Indiana's ​works, according ⁠to a transcript.
Thomas could not immediately be reached for comment.
American Image denied the allegations and countersued Morgan in 2022, alleging it falsely claimed to own copyrights in Indiana's work. A Manhattan judge dismissed that ⁠case ​in 2024.
The case is Morgan Art Foundation Ltd v. McKenzie ​d/b/a American Image Art, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 1:18-cv-04438.
For Morgan: Luke Nikas of ​Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
For American Image: Nicole Brenecki of Jodre Brenecki
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Also: North Korea’s 6-month plot with Drift, Solana Foundation’s new ad and Alchemy AI.
SOLANA FOUNDATION NEW AD ‘DONT WASTE TIME ON CRYPTO’: The Solana Foundation is taking a deliberately contrarian approach to crypto marketing in San Francisco, rolling out a billboard campaign that reads: “Don’t waste time with crypto.” At first glance, the message may seem a bit confusing as a crypto foundation is saying not to waste time with crypto. But according to the Solana Foundation, it is a bullish bet on the future of crypto that intersects with agentic AI. Essentially, what this means is that rather than wasting your time executing transactions with crypto, which might be cumbersome and time-consuming, let your AI agents do the hard work. The ad directs passersby to the x402 account on X, a nod to a growing push within the Solana ecosystem to position blockchain not as a consumer-facing product, but as invisible infrastructure for the next phase of the internet.
Polymarket removed a betting market tied to the rescue of U.S. service members in Iran, after intense backlash and criticism from lawmakers this weekend. The market allowed users to wager on when the U.S. would confirm the rescue of two airmen after an F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran. The crew members have since been rescued. Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, criticized the listing in a post on X, calling it “disgusting” and arguing it reduced a military rescue effort to a financial trade. Moulton has taken a hard line on prediction markets, recently banning his staff from using platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi over concerns that financial incentives could influence policy decisions. A Polymarket spokesperson said the listing did not meet its integrity standards and the contract was removed shortly after it appeared. The company added that it is reviewing how the market passed internal safeguards.
The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. formally proposed its approach to stablecoin issuers as one of the federal financial regulators required to write and oversee rules under last year's Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act. The FDIC's proposal —meant to align closely with what its sister banking agency, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, proposed in February — will be open for a 60-day public comment period on the lengthy list of 144 questions posed Tuesday by the agency. The FDIC's job is to police U.S. depository institutions, and under the GENIUS Act, its role is to regulate such institutions issuing stablecoins from their subsidiaries. To that end, it posed capital, liquidity and custody standards for those firms, though the details won't be set in stone until the rule is finalized — not likely to occur until the agency spends further months reviewing input and writing the final language. This is the second GENIUS Act proposal from the banking agency after its December pitch on the issuer application process. As expected under the law, stablecoins won't enjoy the deposit insurance that the banks maintain on traditional banking accounts, according to the proposal.
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Sandisk stock price continued its bull run this week, reaching its all-time high amid the ongoing AI boom. SNDK has already jumped by over 600% this year and by over 4,000% in the last 12 months. While this rally may continue, there are substantial risks that it will suffer a strong reversal over time.
The main reason why the SNDK stock price has surged this year is that the AI boom continues to accelerate this year. We have already seen some top AI companies like Dell and Marvell Technology go parabolic in the past few days after publishing strong earnings.
The same surge is also being seen across other assets. For example, the Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) has gained over $15 billion assets since its launch in April this year. It has become the fastest growing ETFs on record.
The ongoing AI traction has led to a substantial demand for its memory products, especially in the data center industry. This explains why other similar companies like Kioxia and SK Hynix have all jumped to their record highs.
The most recent numbers showed that the company continued growing in the third quarter. It made over $5.9 billion in revenue in the third quarter, up by 97% QoQ and by 251% YoY. This makes it one of the fastest growing companies in Wall Street.
Investors believe that the company has more room for growth. The average estimate among analysts is that its revenue will jump by 165% this year to $20 billion. It will then make over $42 billion next year and $55 billion a year later.
Sandisk is a high margin company, with its net profit margin being 35%. This margin will likely continue to grow as long as memory device prices continue rising. As such, if it hits an annual revenue of $50 billion, its net profit margin will be $17.5 billion.
There are signs that the company is not all that overvalued despite the ongoing surge. It has a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 26, slightly higher than the S&P 500 Index’s average of 21.
Sandisk stock faces some major risks. The first one is that there is a risk that the industry will move from a supply shortage to a surplus in the coming years. This is possible because the industry is nether a monopoly nor a duopoly. Instead, it has many large players like Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, Kioxiaand Western Digital. These firms will ultimately seek to boost their output to benefit from the soaing prices, a move that will lead to a reversal.
The other risk is that top AI companies are going public this year. This includes companies like OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic. AI stocks will likely jump ahead of the IPOs, and then drop after it happens as investors sell the news.
Technicals also pose some major risks. For one, the SNDK stock price has become highly overbought, with the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and the Stochastic Oscillator moving to their extreme levels.
Sandisk stock also remains above all moving averages, a sign that it may go through a mean reversion soon. These technicals suggest that, while the Sandisk stock rally may continue, there is a risk that it will ultimately plunge.
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