Global asset manager BlackRock files for a U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) (from Bloomberg on June 20)…

BlackRock Inc.’s surprise filing for a US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund last week has led to a flurry of similar applications from rival issuers and speculation that the asset manager has key insights that will lead to approval of its application. Bitcoin has jumped more than 20% since the filing to more than $30,000. On

The first-ever 2x leveraged Bitcoin futures ETF is about to start trading (from CoinDesk on June 23)…

Volatility Shares’ 2x Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITX) will become the first leveraged crypto ETF available in the United States after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) let it go effective on Friday, an executive at the company told CoinDesk. The regulator has not denied the application for the 2x ETF, Volatility Shares Chief Investment

Joe Consorti, analyst for The Bitcoin Layer, and Dylan LeClair, analyst for Bitcoin Magazine, share a Bitcoin-centric perspective on the recent banking crisis and explain why they’re more bullish on Bitcoin than ever (from the Swan Signal podcast on March 16).

You can listen here, or watch on Youtube via the timestamps below: 00:00:00 “Swan Signal” Intro 00:01:26 Introducing Dylan and Joe  00:02:36 Silvergate Banking Collapse 00:07:00 Chokepoint 2.0  00:09:23 Issues with Liquidity/Settlement Time in Crypto Trading due to Signet Failure  00:15:30 Is This an Attack on Crypto Banks? 00:19:55 Who’s to Blame? 00:31:24 Problems with

Why Bitcoin deserves a spot in every investor’s portfolio (from Bloomberg on April 5)…

Financial advisers’ takes on whether to invest in Bitcoin yield answers ranging from “Don’t mistake several months of positive performance with a long-term trend. (Remember Enron?)” to “It represents a wealth creation opportunity that we haven’t seen in 35 years.” The question takes on even more significance following the disastrous performance last year of the

Bitcoin-mining firm Riot Platforms responds to the New York Times’ “politically driven” attack on Bitcoin mining (from Riot Platforms on April 10)…

Amid yet another banking crisis, Bitcoin offers consumers and businesses much-needed optionality for storing value, and the ability to take custody of their own assets. Bitcoin mining operations are also providing jobs, tax revenues, and many other benefits to rural communities, including grid stability and incentives for alternative energy production. That is why we were

Preston Pysh – host of the Bitcoin Fundamentals podcast – explains “why everything’s changing” in the global economy today, and why those changes are super bullish for Bitcoin (via Twitter on April 14)…

When building an economy on top of a global settlement layer, that currency or bedrock cannot deflect. For the past 40 years, that bedrock has been the US treasury market (it’s massive – tens of trillions of dollars). And for 40 years, anyone who saved their retained earnings in that bedrock saw the value continue