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Bitcoin is back above $78,000
THE UNITED STATES is still the world’s leading Bitcoin holder by government.
The U.S. holds 328,372 $BTC worth over $25.5 BILLION.
SAYLOR: “The ₿eat Goes On.” Saylor teases another BTC buy.
Bitcoin is about to close its 4th consecutive green weekly candle, up +5.64% this week alone to $78K.
This marks BTC’s longest weekly winning streak since May 2025, nearly a full year ago.
Bitcoin has now rallied +25% from its “Iran War” low of $62K.
The “Ceasefire Rally” has added roughly $15K in just 4 weeks.
From peak to trough, $BTC lost ~53% of its value in roughly 4 months.
Tom Lee in 2019 on Bitcoin:
“We think the best approach for most people is to put 1% maybe 2% into BTC.”
CNBC: “I still think that’s CRAZY.”
Morgan Stanley 2026: “We recommend 7% allocation into BTC.”
Strategy has more $BTC than Blackrock’s IBIT.
“BITCOIN IS FUEL FOR A POTENTIAL NEW INTERNET.”
Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder of Reddit, on why $BTC is the most important invention of the digital age.
“It gives us the opportunity to have a store of value that’s not backed by a country.”
History:
Analyst predicts Bitcoin will hit $500,000 and be the world’s reserve currency, at $100, 11 years ago “3,000 $BTC and you’re a billionaire.”
Willy Woo @willywoo Apr 24, 2026
Most Bitcoiners think BTC is a safe haven asset but the truth is nuanced.
It has the properties of a safe haven asset. In times of war you can take your seed phrase, cross borders and start afresh without losing your wealth.
It should be independent of the system and thrive if it collapses. These are the properties you’d expect of a safe haven.
BTC has the properties of a safe haven but to this day, in times of uncertainty and war it trades like a risk asset, very sensitive to uncertainty.
This is because the large capital pools don’t acknowledge BTC’s properties as it’s considered too new and untested. Hence it trades like the NASDAQ.
It’ll take another decade for it to gain market acceptance as a safe haven, maybe longer. When it does, it’ll give gold market cap a run for its money.
Capital flows into BTC just flipped positive, first time since January.
Liquidity is repairing… spot remains stable while derivatives after being destroyed 10 Oct is now making its second attempt at rebounding.
80k remains key test level.
“BTC uses too much energy.”
There’s only 3 ways to secure a monetary ledger.
– with atoms (gold)
– with energy (BTC)
– with social / political consensus (fiat)
Energy is the only path to unbreakable hard money. There’s no scarcity of atoms.
ESSAY Smart Money Crypto @Smart_Money
100 MILLION GONE. CEO FLEES TO ISRAEL.
Poland is stunned. A crypto exchange collapses, hundreds of millions of dollars vanish, thousands of families are left facing locked accounts. And the man who could have the answers is sitting in Tel Aviv. With a new passport.
Zondacrypto was one of Poland’s largest crypto exchanges. Thousands of ordinary Poles held #Bitcoin and altcoins there. Hard-earned money, in the hope of joining what was likely the biggest wealth-building trend of this generation. Then withdrawals were frozen. First partially. Then completely.
What followed was no explanation. It was a silence that grew more expensive with each passing day.
Founder Sylwester Suszek vanished. He’s said to have taken the critical private keys with him. CEO Przemysław Kral now speaks of a “bank run” plus technical issues, triggered by the missing founder. No theft, he says. The Bitcoin still exists. You just can’t get to it.
The evidence tells a different story. Reserves have plummeted. Suspicious transactions are on the table. Polish prosecutors are investigating for fraud, embezzlement, and possible theft. So far, confirmed losses stand at 350 million zloty, around 100 million US dollars. In total, about 4,500 BTC are affected. At $BTC around $77,000, that’s nearly 350 million dollars in market value. The Polish authorities confirm a third of that. The rest hangs in the air, without an address, without an answer.
While Polish families fight for their savings, Kral has emigrated to Israel. He recently obtained citizenship there. That makes him practically no longer extraditable. Reports speak of a comfortable life beyond the reach of Polish authorities.
And that’s the point that won’t let me go. It’s not the first scandal of this kind to end this way.
Poland knows this story already. Amber Gold, 2009 to 2012. A Ponzi scheme in golden wrapping. 18,000 Poles lost around 850 million zloty. Homes, life savings, livelihoods. The main culprits ended up in prison, but the structural gaps that made it all possible remained wide open.
The pattern fits beyond Poland’s borders, too. In Ukraine, investigations are currently underway against Timur Mindich, a former close confidant of Zelenskyy. The charge: a 100-million-dollar corruption network around the nuclear giant Energoatom. Before his arrest, he fled to Israel. The trial is proceeding in absentia.
In Poland, the Tusk government is currently trying to frame the Zondacrypto affair politically through donation flows and lobby connections. Roman Giertych, a politician with a quirky past, plays a central role in that. It changes nothing for the victims. They’re waiting for something that rarely arrives in this setup: accountability.
The honest lesson is harsh, but it stands. If you park Bitcoin on an exchange, in the end you own a database row with a number on it. Self-custody is cumbersome, labor-intensive, and off-putting for many newcomers. At the same time, it’s the only protection that holds up in exactly this scenario.
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