Bitcoin

This article explains the basic concepts and market performance of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Filecoin (FB), analyzing why assets closely linked to Bitcoin’s price surge haven’t mirrored its performance. It covers BCH's origins, FB's technical features, and the price trends, highlighting potential reasons for the underperformance of these correlated assets.

Over the past decade, Bitcoin has flowed into centralized exchanges, publicly listed and private companies, governments, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), and derivative token projects like WBTC. This article will deeply analyze the top 20 entities that currently hold the most Bitcoin and explore their positions and influence in the Bitcoin market.

This article explores the relationship between Bitcoin spot and futures prices, highlighting key differences and reasons for price discrepancies. It also analyzes investment behaviors and key indicators, using examples to provide readers with a deeper understanding of market dynamics and investment strategies.

In 2024, blockchain technology achieved breakthroughs in various fields. This annual summary focuses on blockchain security, stablecoin payment solutions, AI applications, exchanges, and the BTCFi space.

This article provides a detailed analysis of Bitcoin market dynamics after breaking through $100,000, examining key indicators such as capital flows trending towards equilibrium and weakening supply-side pressure. Through reviewing metrics like realized market cap, net realized profit/loss, and coin days destroyed, it reveals that the market is transitioning from intense profit-taking to a new supply-demand equilibrium, while accumulating volatility may signal the start of a new market phase.

On-chain analysis indicators provide transparency and real-time access to blockchain transaction information. This data reflects market participants' actual behavior while enabling investors to track large transactions, fund flows, and position changes. Through detailed analysis of on-chain data, investors can spot market trends, assess risks, identify opportunities, and monitor the behavior patterns of institutions and major players. The value of on-chain indicators stems from their immutable and transparent nature, offering reliable market insights for more informed decision-making in the volatile cryptocurrency market. This analysis method, grounded in actual transaction data, proves more compelling and valuable than traditional technical analysis.

This article explores the development of Bitcoin Finance (BTCFi), with a focus on how Bitcoin is driving its financialization process through integration with traditional finance (TradFi), centralized finance (CeFi), and decentralized finance (DeFi). It also introduces how Solv protocol, through innovative services like wrapped Bitcoin, staking, and liquidity pools, is promoting the growth of BTCFi and helping it progress toward a trillion-dollar market.

The 2024-2025 Crypto Market Yearbook (Yearbook) released by CoinMarketCap sorts out the major innovations, market-shaking moments and unforgettable milestones of the past year, while also looking forward to 2025.

As the first Bitcoin unified asset protocol contributed by Domo, the creator of BRC20, Goldinals might usher Bitcoin's ecosystem into a new unified and explosive era led by technical innovators. Goldinals provides a unified standard for Bitcoin assets, is compatible with existing protocols, and supports more efficient asset creation, management, and interaction functions. It will be an important step for Bitcoin’s ecosystem toward the field of asset programming.

PumpBTC is an innovative DeFi protocol tailored for Babylon's liquidity re-staking solution. Unlike conventional staking methods, PumpBTC lets users stake Bitcoin in just one step and instantly receive liquidity tokens without the need for long-term locking. This streamlined approach not only simplifies the staking process but also strengthens the stability of the DeFi ecosystem and promotes sustainable market growth.

As the value of Bitcoin continues to rise, countries that initially accumulated it at lower levels have gained significant unrealized profits. At the same time, as major economies such as the United States shift towards a more positive and open stance on Bitcoin, an increasing number of countries are starting to pay attention to and prioritize crypto assets. It is expected that more countries may include Bitcoin as part of their national reserves in the future.

In building a successful crypto portfolio in 2025, the author recommends dividing funds into four strategic categories: long-term holdings, cycle conviction assets, short-term trades, and stablecoins.

Bitcoin will not live forever. From its birth to its death, or from a period of boom to a time of decline, it will follow at most a full Kondratieff cycle. This is related to the global development process, where history is accelerating, not replacing itself.

It’s not just MicroStrategy; it’s a bona fide megatrend, and it’s big enough to tilt the bitcoin market significantly upward this year. My prediction: We’ll see hundreds of companies buy bitcoin for their treasuries over the next 12-18 months, and their purchases will lift the entire bitcoin market substantially higher.

This article will delve into the development of Bitcoin’s expanding ecosystem, the security incidents it faces, and prospects for improving security. By analyzing current technological solutions and security challenges, the aim is to provide valuable insights and recommendations for the continued development of the Bitcoin ecosystem, ensuring that it remains highly secure and reliable as it expands.