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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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ECP NetHappenings Bitcoin is a Done Deal

You don’t understand
how much of a
done deal Bitcoin is.

Jurrien Timmer, Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro, predicts a Bitcoin rally driven by a shift in investor capital from gold into Bitcoin. He points to Bitcoin’s rebound from the low $60,000s to around $78,000 as a sign of strength.

EPSTEIN CLASS — HOW TO BECOME A BILLIONAIRE
One might think it takes skill and talent to become a Billionaire
But the only skill and talent is to have zero empathy and the ability to lie, cheat and steal.
WHEN YOU CAN SELL BILLIONS OF SECURITIES YOU DON’T OWN AND ARE ALLOWED TO FAIL TO DELIVER IT’S NOT HARD TO BECOME A BILLIONAIRE

 

U.S. Army sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke was arrested for allegedly using classified information to place about $33,000 in bets on Polymarket tied to the capture of Nicolás Maduro, netting $410,000 in profit.

Peter Girnus 🦅
@gothburz
A soldier used classified intel to make $409K on Polymarket. Arrested. 5 federal charges. Assets seized.

Congress traded $635 million last year. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions in 14 years. Maximum fine: $200. Routinely waived.

The STOCK Act was signed with 14 pens in 2012. Its searchable database was repealed 11 months later by voice vote on a Friday evening. No cameras. No podium. It took 4 pages to remove the only part of the law that worked.

This is not new. The pattern is 60 years old.

Abu Ghraib: 11 enlisted soldiers convicted. The Secretary of Defense who authorized the techniques was never charged. The lawyer who wrote the torture memo got a federal judgeship.

The 2008 financial crisis: 1 banker went to prison. 10 million families lost their homes. The CEO whose bank paid $13 billion in fraud settlements got a 74% raise.

Iran-Contra: A Lieutenant Colonel took the fall. The President pardoned the witnesses 11 days before his own trial testimony.

The institution prosecutes at the lowest rank, at the lowest cost, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists.

The $409K is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised.

I wrote the full investigation. 33 footnotes. 60 years of receipts.

 

Matthew Goldstein @MattGoldstein26
Business reporter @nytimes
Only contact me via email or mobile not on DMs. My mobile is Signal is: mattgoldstein.22
It’s taken a long time but it appears Congress may finally recognize that mobile homes aren’t mobile any more and that could mean good news for affordable housing advocates.
Congress May Finally Recognize That Mobile Homes Aren’t Really That Mobile
An obscure federal rule requires manufactured homes to be built on a chassis, making them more costly. A bill in Congress would remove the mandate, enacted five decades ago.

BlackRock is now the 4th largest holder of crypto
5 years ago this would’ve sounded insane
One year from now this list probably looks completely different
Top 10 crypto holders
1. Binance (Exchange): $142B
2. Coinbase (Exchange): $99B
3. Satoshi Nakamoto (Creator): $83B
4. BlackRock (Investment management company): $68B
5. Strategy. (BTC treasury company): $59B*
6. Lido (DeFi protocol): $46B
7. U.S. Government (National government): $25B
8. Upbit (Exchange): $23B
9. Robinhood (Exchange): $22B
10. OKX (Exchange): $20B

TWO TIER JUSTICE SYSTEM
Insider trading for me but not for thee.
Most of Congress should be arrested with
Federal charges for Insider trading.
INSIDER TRADING IS ILLEGAL EVEN FOR CONGRESS

D.R. Horton: Impact of institutional home buying ban hinges on 7-year selloff rule
During the Tuesday earnings call, Alan Ratner at Zelman and Associates asked how an institutional homebuying “ban” could impact D.R. Horton’s business?
D.R. Horton CEO’s response
“If it does come to fruition [the institutional homebuying ban], we still see interest out there [for build-to-rent]-but there is uncertainty around the legislation, and I think, a little bit of a cause in terms of people waiting to see how that plays out, specifically as it relates to the seven year potential sale requirements. Generally speaking, we have underwritten our built for rent communities as for sale. So if need be as we go forward, we can move those if needed. We also have focused the majority of our forward business on forward sales.
In other words, we aren’t starting those unless we have a contract and firm commitments and so feel good about our positioning. They’re not overly reliant at all on having that business continue to be able to hit certainly our guide and feel good about our positioning in the space.”
– Paul Romanowski, CEO of D.R. Horton, said during their April 21, 2026 earnings call

NEW: Trump’s $10B suit against IRS hits static as judge questions whether it’s a sham since Trump controls decisions of both sides. Judge Kathleen Williams (Obama/FLSD) cites Trump order requiring all exec branch employees adhere to his legal positions
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/24/trump-lawsuit-irs-00891894

Judge Imposes Sanctions on Woman and Her Lawyer in Suit Against Leon Black
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/business/lawsuit-leon-black-plaintiff-sanctions-epstein.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share