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Most family offices continue to avoid crypto, citing volatility and uncertain portfolio relevance. AI dominates future investment priorities, though portfolios lag stated ambitions. Private equity interest is rising, while traditional hedges remain underused. Family offices continue to avoid cryptocurrency exposure, even as digital assets remain a prominent market talking point, according to JPMorgan Private Bank’s 2026 Global Family Office Report. The study found that 89% of surveyed family offices currently hold no cryptocurrencies, despite heightened geopolitical risk and ongoing debate around portfolio diversification. The report attributes this reluctance to concerns over volatility and uncertainty around how digital assets fit within…
Matt Hougan says crypto has been in a prolonged downturn since early 2025. Institutional flows masked losses, while regulatory uncertainty weighs on sentiment. Hougan believes the cycle is advanced, bringing a potential recovery closer. Crypto markets have been in a sustained downturn since January 2025, according to Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan, despite ongoing signs of institutional engagement. Hougan describes the period as a full crypto winter rather than a short-term pullback, citing broad-based price weakness across the market. Bitcoin has fallen 39% from its October 2025 peak, while Ethereum has declined 53%, with many other digital assets recording…
Carlos Alcaraz won the 2026 Australian Open, defeating Novak Djokovic to become the youngest man to complete a career Grand Slam. Nexo secured high-visibility branding as the tournament’s first-ever crypto partner, with its logo prominently featured on the new on-court “coaching pods.” The partnership follows $45 million in penalties Nexo has faced since 2018, as the firm uses major sports sponsorships to seek mainstream financial credibility. Carlos Alcaraz’s victory over Novak Djokovic at the 2026 Australian Open marked a milestone for tennis, but equally a timely showcase for Nexo, the digital wealth platform whose branding dominated the new coaching pods. …
Donald Trump nominated Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair on January 30, 2026, to succeed Jerome Powell when his term expires in May. Warsh is a “pro-Bitcoin hawk,” viewing BTC as a legitimate store of value and “policy watchdog” while simultaneously favouring tighter liquidity and a leaner Fed balance sheet. The market reaction was rather strange, with Bitcoin slipping 2% to $81,000 as investors weighed his crypto-friendly personal investments against his reputation for monetary discipline. US President Donald Trump has nominated former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve in May. This is…
On January 15, 2026, Christopher Wood rocked the Bitcoin boat with his weekly GREED & fear report. As the Global Head of Equity Strategy at Jefferies, Wood eliminated 10% Bitcoin allocation from his outlook, diverting it to 5% gold and 5% gold-mining stocks instead. Wood’s reasoning for this decision revolves around future quantum computing breakthroughs: “While GREED & fear does not believe that the quantum issue is about to hit the Bitcoin price dramatically in the near term, the store of value concept is clearly on less solid foundation from the standpoint of a long-term pension portfolio,” Most recently at…
A decade-old email is reviving questions about whether projects like Ripple posed a threat to Bitcoin’s development or merely served as competitors that some BTC backers sought to exclude.The email, dated July 31, 2014, appears to show Austin Hill, then described as Blockstream’s chief executive, telling the late Jeffrey Epstein and other recipients that “Ripple, and Jed McCaleb’s new Stellar [were] bad for the ecosystem.” Blockstream is a Bitcoin-focused blockchain technology firm.The correspondence resurfaced after the US Department of Justice published millions of pages of records under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a disclosure that includes emails, files, images, and…
From left to right: James Sego and Jeff Garrett of PNG, and Jacob Acosta and Rebecca Tran of eBay at the PNG’s 2026 FUN symposium. (Photo by Tamara Collett.) A YouTube video of the Professional Numismatist Guild’s (www.PNGdealers.org) recent one-hour educational symposium on selling coins online is available for free. Presented in conjunction with the 2026 Florida United Numismatists convention, the dealer forum featured expert advice from PNG and representatives of online platforms eBay (www.eBay.com) and Whatnot (www.Whatnot.com). The video is available at PNG Executive Director John Feigenbaum, President James Sego, and Jeff Garrett, former President of the PNG and…
New reports says Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, or investors tied to him, agreed in January 2025 to invest $500 million into Trump-linked World Liberty Financial for about a 49% stake.WLFI, the governance token of World Liberty Financial, has currently decoupled from Bitcoin price, up around 8% today amid a flat market still attempting to recover from the weekend dip. Market Cap $3.56B 24h Volume $311.09M All-Time High $0.60 According to The Wall Street Journal, the arrangement has become public only now as scrutiny grows over how stablecoin issuers can sit at the intersection of cross-border capital,…
Groundhog Day for Bitcoin: six more weeks of macro winter?Bitcoin got its own Groundhog Day moment today as Punxsutawney Phil “saw his shadow” on the 140th Anniversary of the celebration and signaled six more weeks of winter, just after BTC slid to $74,000 in a sharp risk-off move.The coincidence was fitting: a cocktail of forced liquidations, ETF outflows, and rising real yields suggested crypto could be facing an extended stretch of macro chill and elevated volatility heading into the March FOMC.Satirical Bitcoin Groundhog Day announcement framed with verified Bitcoin metrics Related ReadingBitcoin price today starts to rally after 11% weekend…
Bitcoin’s slide below $80,000 has pushed a significant portion of US spot BTC exchange-traded fund (ETF) buyers into $7 billion in paper losses.According to CryptoSlate’s data, the world’s largest digital asset fell to as low as $74,609 over the weekend amid liquidity concerns and a risk-off tone in global markets. BTC has recovered to approximately $77,649 as of press time.Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital’s head of research, noted that this price performance indicates that Bitcoin is trading below the average cost basis of US ETFs. Notably, spot Bitcoin ETF investors are holding average paper losses of approximately 15%, implying an average entry price of…