MARA posted a $1.71 billion Q4 2025 loss driven by $1.5 billion in bitcoin fair-value markdowns and outlined a push into AI and high-performance compute data centers.

Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles has proposed a Bitcoin hard fork to move 79,956 BTC from a long-dormant hack wallet, drawing sharp criticism over immutability and precedent.

Bitcoin climbed more than 5% toward $70,000 after a stronger-than-expected US manufacturing PMI print helped offset fresh geopolitical jitters.

Trump-backed American Bitcoin said it bought 11,298 ASIC miners to lift owned hashrate to about 28.1 EH/s as it continues a strategy of accumulating bitcoin below spot prices.

Africa Bitcoin Corporation chair Stafford Masie said bitcoin is used as everyday money in parts of Africa, where some merchants prefer satoshis over dollars amid rapid inflation and currency debasement.

Ray Dalio argued that gold remains the top safe-haven asset, citing limited central bank support for Bitcoin and concerns about privacy and quantum risks.

Kraken said its Wyoming-chartered bank, Kraken Financial, received a Federal Reserve master account, giving it direct access to U.S. payment rails such as Fedwire for phased institutional use.

Hut 8-backed American Bitcoin said it has grown its treasury to about 6,500 BTC after adding more than 500 BTC in 21 days as it expands its mining fleet and disclosed fresh insider share buys.

On-chain analyst Willy Woo said Bitcoin may stage a short-lived rally into late April before the broader bear-market downtrend resumes, citing liquidity and investor-flow signals.

Bitcoin has mined 20 million coins, leaving roughly 1 million BTC to be issued through 2140 as executives debated whether the milestone matters for price.

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson labeled Bitcoin a “Ponzi scheme” in a Daily Mail opinion piece, prompting pushback from Michael Saylor and other Bitcoin industry figures.

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson labeled Bitcoin a “Ponzi scheme” in a Daily Mail opinion piece, prompting pushback from Michael Saylor and other Bitcoin industry figures.

Luxor's Hashrate Index said oil shocks tied to the Iran conflict are more likely to pressure miners through bitcoin price volatility and hashprice than through electricity costs, since most hashrate sits in power markets with little crude correlation.

A Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance study found Bitcoin would likely withstand random subsea cable outages unless 72% to 92% of inter-country links fail, though targeted chokepoint attacks could be far more disruptive.

HIVE said it is scaling back ASIC-based bitcoin mining in Sweden amid tax-related uncertainty while expanding liquid-cooled AI data center capacity in Canada through its BUZZ HPC unit.

Bitcoin slipped after failing to hold above $76,000, with analysts flagging weak US spot demand and open interest divergence as risks for a bull trap while resistance sits around $78,300 to $82,500.

A 2013-era bitcoin whale sold another 1,000 BTC as large holders continued to dominate exchange deposits during bitcoin's sharp pullback.

VanEck's Matthew Sigel said bitcoin has stabilized after a 19% drawdown as leverage cooled, options hedging surged, onchain activity weakened, and miner selling remained restrained.

Bitcoin mining difficulty fell 7.7% on March 20 after block production slowed, offering temporary relief to miners facing tighter margins and rising competition from AI data centers.

Jimmy Song and Samson Mow have launched ProductionReady, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit aimed at funding a new conservative Bitcoin client and developer education to reduce reliance on a single dominant implementation.