For those (still) beyond Nostr—friends, family, and colleagues—the complete Weekly Recap will be accessible on my Bitcoin Friday page on Habla. (next note)
Enriched with detailed charts, illustrative images, and comprehensive macroeconomic news to provide context and clarity.
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The Latest Bitcoin & Macro news: Weekly Recap 16.04.2025
🧠Quote(s) of the week:
'Let me understand…
I saved 30% of my income in Bitcoin over the last five years at an average price of $30,000. I now have 4.25 years of my income in savings.
Within 5 years, bitcoin goes to $500,000. I now have 25 years of my income in savings. I stop saving at this point and simply live off 100% of my income, avoiding selling any Bitcoin.
Within 15 years, Bitcoin goes to $15,000,000. I now have 750 years of my income in savings. I retire and live on >10x my yearly income for the rest of my life, and pass on generational wealth to my children.
Let me understand… why you didn’t listen to the maxis.' - Bit Paine
🧡Bitcoin news🧡
On the 7th of April:
➡️'Bitcoin has retraced to the 350DMA at ~$76,000! Historically, one of the strongest levels of support for Bitcoin during bull cycles...' - Bitcoin Magazine Pro
➡️ 'Tuttle just filed for a first-of-its-kind ETF: a Double Short MicroStrategy ETF. It aims to profit by shorting both the 2x long ($MSTU) and 2x short ($MSTZ) MSTR ETFs, betting on their decay from daily resets.' - Bitcoin News
➡️3$ billion community bank Union Savings discloses first Bitcoin exposure.
➡️The Rational Root: Bitcoin would have to fall below $64K by next week for the spiral chart to cross the 2021 cycle's first peak (~$64K on Apr 13) Well, that didn't happen. So for now the chart is still valid.
Meanwhile, PlanB was only off by about $320k so far for his April price prediction. Yikes! (I have to admit I fully bought into three S2F models when he came out with it back in 2018)
Personally, I am not fixed on the short-term price, listening to any crypto influencer's "prediction" is like believing in Santa Claus. (Almost) all TA is wrong, very little is useful in the end, and nobody knows shit..including myself.
➡️WHITE HOUSE: “The reserve function of the dollar has caused persistent currency distortions” We’re moving toward a global, distributed, neutral reserve asset for all. You have never needed Bitcoin more than at this moment.
On the 8th of April:
➡️'Bitcoin's hashrate surpassed 1 zetahash for the first time earlier this week. This means that, in aggregate, miners around the world produced 10^21 hashes per second for some time. 1 sextillion hashes. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.' -TFTC
➡️'Strategy paused Bitcoin buys last week and clarified that shareholders don’t own its BTC. Not your keys, not your coins.' -TFCT Which isn't really news. Common sense: holding exposure, not ownership. "We may be required to sell bitcoin to satisfy our financial obligations, and we may be required to make such sales at prices below our cost basis or that are otherwise unfavorable."
➡️BlackRock expands Bitcoin custody beyond Coinbase. SEC filings reveal Anchorage Digital will safeguard a portion of BTC for BlackRock’s $45B iShares Bitcoin Trust. BlackRock cites the move as part of its “ongoing risk management” and growing presence in digital assets.
➡️Phoenix Wallet is back in the USA. Why are they back?
'We welcome the "Ending Regulation By Prosecution" memo by the US DAG, and the clarity it provides for developers and operators of Bitcoin software. This is consistent with Executive Order 14178 which recognized the importance of "protecting and promoting the ability of individual citizens and private-sector entities alike to [...] develop and deploy software [and] transact with other persons [...] and to maintain self-custody". We are happy to make our products available again in the USA.'
➡️The World Food Program USA now accepts bitcoin! WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian organization and part of the United Nations. Chief Philanthropy Officer says, “Embracing new technologies like cryptocurrency isn’t just a choice—it’s necessary.”
➡️Mastercard partners with Kraken to allow European users to spend Bitcoin at over 150 million merchants worldwide.
On the 9th of April:
➡️VanEck confirms that China and Russia are settling energy trades in Bitcoin. On top of that, the $115 billion VanEck stated on President Trump's tariffs the following: "Bitcoin is evolving from a speculative asset into a functional monetary tool—particularly in economies looking to bypass the dollar and reduce exposure to U.S.-led financial systems."
Meanwhile on the same day...
➡️The United States Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent just ended his speech this morning by saying, “We will take a close look at regulatory impediments to the blockchain, stablecoins, and new payment systems”
➡️Pakistan plans to allocate part of its surplus electricity to Bitcoin mining, Reuters reports.
➡️'In the Swedish Parliament: “No plans for a national Bitcoin reserve – that wouldn’t be wise. We will focus on safe assets that can help us in times of crisis.” A “safe” asset—or an asset to control? Bitcoin is neutral, borderless, and unconfiscatable. It’s the hedge modern nations need.' - BT-Chick
Watch the video here
What are safe assets? Does the S&P have more volatility? US treasuries? haha How can something be more liquid than Bitcoin which trades 24/7/365 on a global scale? What is "safe" is keywords for centralized and controlled. I am not surprised though, they are one of the most conservative countries in the world, HFSP! Tack!
On a side note, Christian Ander on X: "Meeting with an MP on Monday to push the idea of a Swedish Bitcoin reserve. Interest is growing across parties—but still a "no" for now. This has never been discussed this much in Parliament. Clear trend: younger MPs are driving it, and older ones blocking it. Vote accordingly."
➡️The world’s largest credit ratings agency, S&P Global Ratings says, ‘We are focused on Bitcoin. We are focused on its characteristics as an alternative form of money, and the fact it’s decentralized and geopolitically neutral. We are starting to see adoption’ - Reuters Business
➡️Laurastacksats gave a lesson about Bitcoin to an economics class at the University of Bologna, in Italy: the oldest university in the world.
➡️ On this day, Bitcoin accumulation addresses received 48,575 BTC, the largest single-day inflow since February 2022, per CryptoQuant.
On the 10th of April:
➡️'After utterly massive outperformance in the years and decades prior, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is about even with simply owning gold since 1998, or about 27 years ago.' - Lyn Alden
if you want to understand what interest rates do to investors, this tweet and graph would be a good immediate transmission on the nature of fake economies. Just be like Warren Buffet, without all the work. Just buy and hold a store of value. Bitcoin!
➡️The $30 billion public company founded by Jack Dorsey, Blocks, just released an open-source dashboard to make Bitcoin more accessible and transparent for corporate treasuries, helping lower the operational barriers for companies looking to add Bitcoin to their balance sheets.
➡️'The S&P 500 is as volatile as Bitcoin now, (and a day later) the S&P 500 is now more volatile than Bitcoin. A 77% standard deviation is NUTS, it's normally 10-15%.' - Eric Balchunas
Stocks merely adopted the volatility. Bitcoin was born in it. No more excuses for TradFi for saying Bitcoin is too volatile.
For those who think Bitcoin is too volatile.
➡️'One of these things is not like the others. Change in currency supply (updated through 2024): bitcoin vs. global reserve currencies.' -Peter Parker
➡️S&P Global: “Bitcoin holdings may provide a hedge against long-term debasement of fiat currency through inflation, due to bitcoin's finite supply. Its value may also be driven by geopolitical factors if its security and decentralized nature lead to its increasing adoption as a reserve asset.”
➡️Parker Lewis: With or without Bessent, the Fed is functionally leveraging the US financial system by draining the system of dollar liquidity. Taking out dollars doesn't make the debt go away. Eventually, it breaks and the Fed will have to print even more money. It goes on and on until...Bitcoin.
➡️Florida's House Bill 487 unanimously passed the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee, proposing to allow the investment of up to 10% of key public funds in Bitcoin. The bill must now clear three more committees before reaching the full House and Senate for a vote.
➡️US investors are increasingly buying Bitcoin as a hedge against a weakening dollar, reflecting broader concerns about capital exodus from US financial markets, per 10x Research. "it remains premature to adopt a bullish stance."
On the 11th of April:
➡️Pakistan plans to leverage part of its 10,000 megawatts in surplus electricity for Bitcoin mining, per News Desk.
➡️Arizona PASSES Bitcoin Mining Rights Bill! The bill protects anyone running a node or mining digital assets from zoning or usage bans. Voted 17 - 12 in favor!
➡️'Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss says Bitcoin is “a tool for taking power away from government.” “The bureaucracy knows perfectly well that it is an antidote to their power which is why they hate it.” - Simply Bitcoin
On the 12th of April:
➡️The White House official says. The U.S. may tap gold reserves to buy Bitcoin. If there is any gold in reserve of course! And this is only one senior White House official hinting...
On the 13th of April:
➡️Bitcoin outperforms the NASDAQ in every single timeframe. Bear in mind, that the NASDAQ outperforms the S&P 500, Dow Jones, and Gold. Outperforming short-term in a correction is impressive. Outperforming long-term is simply expected. In the end, everything is going to zero against Bitcoin.
➡️'Trump’s exemption of phones, laptops, and chips from his 145% China tariffs spares HS code 8471, which covers Bitcoin miners. This is a major win for US Bitcoin mining companies, who were staring down crippling price hikes on new rigs.' -Bitcoin News
➡️'The Bitcoin Network just broke ONE SEXTILLION HASHES (1k EH/s) for the first time in history!! 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one thousand million million million)
FOR COMPARISON:
There are 1 sextillion grains of sand on Earth.
You could fit 615 earths in a flat layer with an area of one sextillion square centimeters.
There are about 6 sextillion cups of water in all the oceans of the world.
Bitcoin mining power is f* INSANE!' - CarlBMenger
On the 14th of April:
➡️Strategy has acquired 3,459 BTC for ~$285.8 million at ~$82,618 per Bitcoin and has achieved a BTC Yield of 11.4% YTD 2025. As of 4/13/2025, Strategy holds 531,644 Bitcoin acquired for ~$35.92 billion at ~$67,556 per bitcoin.
➡️On the same day, Japanese public company Metaplanet buys 319 Bitcoin for $26.3 million.
➡️'Tether will deploy its existing and future Bitcoin hashrate to OCEAN, the mining pool launched by Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr. Tether says supporting decentralized mining is key to protecting Bitcoin’s long-term integrity.' - Bitcoin News
➡️Publicly traded HK Asia Holdings bought 10 Bitcoin worth $806,671 for its balance sheet.
➡️Public companies added 95,431 BTC to their balance sheets in Q1 2025. 12 new firms joined. Holdings now total 688K BTC worth $57B. - Bitwise
🎁If you have made it this far I would like to give you a little gift, well in this case two gifts:
In April 2023, Tuur Demeester of Adamant Research published what has become another legendary entry in his line of Bitcoin bear market reports dating back to 2012. These pages aged like wine—as important today as they were 2 years ago. Download it here:
https://www.unchained.com/how-to-position-bitcoin-boom
Lyn Alden of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy explains the connection between the capital and financial imbalances the U.S. has with the rest of the world and its trade imbalances which are under so much scrutiny by the current U.S. administration. Alden argues that turbulence in markets, particularly U.S. assets, could continue, and warns listeners not to be exposed beyond their risk limits at a juncture that could be a historic time for markets and the global economy. Recorded April 10, 2025.
https://youtu.be/TZN_eL_wubQ
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