03 March 2026
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Jake Simmons

Articles by Jake Simmons

Crypto Watchlist: 5 Things To Monitor This Week

CryptoMarch 3, 2026

Crypto heads into the week of March 2 with five clear catalysts on deck: a worsening US-Iran conflict under President Donald Trump, a privacy-focused Bitcoin wrapper from Starknet, Polygons March 4 aâ...

Crypto Clarity Act: No Deal in White House Yield Meeting

CryptoFebruary 12, 2026

A White House meeting aimed at breaking the logjam over stablecoin rewards under pending crypto market structure legislation aka Clarity Act ended without a compromise, even as both banking and crypt…...

BlockTower’s Ari Paul: Bitcoin May Never Hit Another All-Time High

CryptoFebruary 12, 2026

BlockTower Capital CIO and co-founder Ari Paul laid out a starkly bifurcated view of the Bitcoin and crypto market on X late Monday, arguing the current drawdown could either mark a permanent peak in…...

Bitcoin Chart Screams 2022 Bear Market, Until You Notice What’s Missing

CryptoFebruary 12, 2026

Bitcoins latest drawdown from its all-time high is being compared to 2022 across crypto Twitter (the similarities are obvious), but some technicians argue the similarity is mostly superficial. In a s…...

How Much Bitcoin Is Quantum-Vulnerable? Researcher Says 6.9 Million BTC

CryptoFebruary 12, 2026

Project 11 CEO Alex Pruden is challenging a CoinShares estimate that only 10,200 bitcoin sit in genuinely quantum-vulnerable legacy addresses, arguing instead that roughly 6.9 million BTC could be ex…...

Cardano Founder Reveals Leios Solves The Blockchain Trilemma

CryptoFebruary 11, 2026

Cardano is preparing a layer-1 upgrade it says will push mainnet throughput from roughly 1015 transactions per second to hundreds, while keeping the networks decentralization and security profile int…...

Dogecoin Bear Market Almost Over? Crypto Analyst Weighs In

CryptoFebruary 11, 2026

Dogecoins drawdown may be closer to its late-stage capitulation phase than a clean bottom, according to crypto YouTuber VisionPulsed, who argued in a Feb. 8 video that lingering bullishness across Cr…...

Ripple Joins Top 10 Global Private Companies With A $50B Valuation

CryptoFebruary 11, 2026

Ripple has been slotted into the global top 10 of the most valuable private companies at an estimated $50 billion valuation, according to a widely shared unicorn companies table circulating on X. Th…...

What Went Wrong With Crypto? A Postmortem

CryptoFebruary 7, 2026

Cryptos latest drawdown hit the majors in size: bitcoin fell about 8.1% over the past 24 hours and is down roughly 29.5% over the past 30 days, while Ether dropped about 9.4% on the day and about 41.…...

PlanB Lays Out Four Bitcoin Bear-Market Scenarios

CryptoFebruary 6, 2026

PlanB, the pseudonymous analyst behind the stock-to-flow model, says bitcoins drawdown has left markets staring at four plausible bear-market paths, ranging from a classic 80% drawdown to the possibi…...