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Bitcoin just notched another all-time high, flirting with $118k on Friday, yet Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan is still eyeing a far bigger print: $200,000 before the end of 2025. That’s a cool 70 % rally from today’s price.
Bitcoin’s new all-time high came in hot at $116,553 via the Brave New Coin Bitcoin Liquid Index. The move means Bitcoin is now in “price discovery” territory, an area where technical resistance is mostly psychological and social-media driven. That means we have a green light, now is a good time to buy Bitcoin and crypto assets with more upside ahead.
No longer a fringe interest for niche fan clubs or midnight marathons, anime has exploded into mainstream pop culture, with a surge in popularity. Netflix has revealed that over half its global user base, 150+ million households, representing around 300 million viewers, now regularly watch anime on its platform. That's triple the audience from five years ago.
Tesla once wore the crown jewel of the car business: top-shelf tech, sky-high multiples, and customers who treated every Elon tweet as gospel. Today, that halo’s slipped. Vehicle deliveries tumbled 14 % in Q2, the worst year-on-year slide since the Model 3 ramp-up days. The safety net that kept the profit sheet green – U.S. regulatory credit sales – is about to vanish, thanks to President Trump’s freshly signed “Big Beautiful Bill.” Analysts project the loss of those credits chops as much as $2 billion out of annual earnings.
Trump screwed the pooch, again. After Bitcoin spent Sunday strutting toward $109,700, and potentially new all-time highs, Trump’s tariff letters spoiled the party as the U.S. workweek began.
“Fiat is hopeless, so yes.” With that five-word mic-drop reply on X, Elon Musk confirmed that his freshly hatched America Party will champion Bitcoin as a core policy—because apparently rearranging the two-party furniture isn’t enough; he wants to orange-pill Capitol Hill.
Capitol Hill pulled an all-nighter on July 3, ramming through Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” by a razor-thin 218-214 House vote. The president signed the package — a $5 trillion expansion of the federal borrowing limit wrapped in eye-watering tax cuts — on Independence Day, teeing up the most radical shift in U.S. fiscal policy since LBJ.
On the Fourth of July, eight ancient Bitcoin wallets lit up the on-chain alert nerds. In total, 80,000 BTC (roughly US $8.6 billion) that had been sleeping since April 2011 suddenly moved. The transfer erased about 1.6 percent from Bitcoin’s price, knocking it briefly below the psychologically important US $108,000 level. Traders instantly started whispering the name “Satoshi Nakamoto,” because why waste a perfectly good panic?
Sam Altman didn’t sugar-coat it. “We are past the event horizon; the take-off has started,” he wrote in a June blog post, warning that whole categories of work are about to be vaporized by super-human machines. When the guy who built ChatGPT says the pink-slips are coming, HR departments pay attention. If you want to secure place in an uncertain future, this might be the right time to buy Bitcoin.
Troy Miller here, filing from the steps of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan courthouse, where the aroma of café lattes is now fighting a slick new fragrance: Costco-sized tubs of baby oil. Yes, you read that right. Moments after the verdict in U.S. v. Sean “Diddy” Combs dropped, a knot of Bad Boy die-hards celebrated by hurling palm-sized bottles of Johnson’s finest into the summer air, coating bystanders, TikTokers, and at least one furious TV cameraman in a glistening sheen—but hey, it’s on-brand when the trial evidence included literally a thousand bottles of the stuff.
