Thirty-four thousand one hundred sixty-four Bitcoin. That was the Strategy Bitcoin haul in a single week. Michael Saylor’s firm (formerly MicroStrategy) executed a $2.54 billion buying spree between April 13 and April 19, 2026, scooping up 34,164 BTC at an average of $74,395 per coin. Read more »
$9.5 million. Six days. A fake Ledger Live clone on Apple’s App Store. Read more »
$12.22 trillion. That is the client-asset base now pointed at the spot Bitcoin and Ethereum market by Charles Schwab. The new Schwab Bitcoin and Ethereum direct-trading product, marketed as Schwab Crypto, puts a gigantic traditional brokerage pipeline head-to-head with crypto-native platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood. Read more »
Fear Index 8. The last time this number appeared, the world was shutting down. On April 8, the Crypto Fear & Greed Index collapsed to 8 out of 100 — a reading so extreme it matches only the darkest days of the COVID pandemic crash in March 2020. Read more »
Thirteen million accounts. Five trillion yen. That is the size of Japan’s stake in cryptocurrency, and on April 10, 2026, Tokyo rewrote the rules governing every last yen of it. Read more »
0.14% — the lowest fee ever attached to a U.S. Bitcoin ETF. On April 8, Morgan Stanley MSBT (Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust ETP) began trading on NYSE Arca, igniting a fee war in a market now worth more than $128 billion in total assets. This is not just another ETF launch — it marks the first time a major U.S. bank has manufactured its own spot Bitcoin product. Read more »
$657 million. That is how much evaporated from the crypto futures market in a single day. When President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran on the evening of April 7, the most extreme fear environment since the conflict began snapped into a violent Bitcoin short squeeze that caught 121,416 traders on the wrong side. Read more »
Twenty million qubits. That was the estimated cost of breaking RSA-2048 encryption with a quantum computer back in 2019. Three papers, published over three months, just slashed that number by 200x. Read more »
500,000 qubits. Nine minutes. Those are the numbers Google Quantum AI dropped on the blockchain industry in March 2026. The resources required to crack the 256-bit elliptic curve cryptography that secures virtually every major cryptocurrency have fallen to that level. Read more »
$12 trillion. That is the size of the American 401(k) market — retirement money belonging to more than 150 million people. On March 30, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor published a rule that cracks open the door for 401(k) Bitcoin and crypto asset inclusion in that vast pool of retirement savings. Read more »